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There is a truly good Megadeth song called “Wake up dead” (I´ll get to the point shortly), and that song would describe really well how I felt when I saw Randy Pitchford (Gearbox Software´s CEO and co-founder) sing an anti-GamerGate song live during Pax East 2016 (I know, I couldn´t believe it at first either). And that´s just the half of it, because during Pitchford´s grandiose PW 16 ranting song he pointed out very loud and clear that he owns the “Duke Nukem” IP. And Pitchford did so in such a way that it sounded like an open threat against the “Duke Nukem” community (that´s at least what it sounded like to me)…

The moment when Gearbox Software´s CEO and founder Randy Pitchford spent about six minutes to sing a rant song about #GamerGate live at Pax West 2016…

One single joke made Randy Pitchford lose his mind.

So yeah, I´m somewhat worried about the 20th Anniversary Edition of “Duke Nukem 3D”. As Pitchford “might” want to ruin the game somehow in-order to get back at that one #GamerGate person (CommanderPaul1, by the looks of it) who made a joke which pissed Pitchford off (as seen in the picture above). Furthermore, let´s keep in mind that Gearbox Software has released quite a few failures as of lately (“Battleborn” and ” Aliens: Colonial Marines”, for example). And now I also have to worry about what Randy Pitchford might do to “Duke Nukem World 3D Tour” as well…(Pitchford seems to have gone full SJW mode).

I´m not quite sure what I should feel about this game anymore…

I had a feeling that Totalbiscuit would drop some bombs over Pitchford´s lovely PW16 “song”.

And to make matters even more bizarre (well, at least in my case), I actually watched the reveal trailer for “Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary Edition World Tour” last night (the game is set for a release on the 11th of October for Windows, PS4 and Xbox One). And at the time I thought that the trailer was pretty cool. However, then I woke up 6-7 hours later, and saw all of this madness. So as you might imagine, it was a pretty surreal experience for me. As I went from “Yes! Duke Nukem is back again!” to “holy jumping mother of god no!”. And quite frankly, I think that Randy Pitchford´s anti-#GamerGate song even tops Tim Schafer´s GDC 2015 Sockpuppet scandal speech (yes, it´s that bad!). In the matter of fact, I have never EVER seen anything quite like it before. And in my opinion, if Randy Pitchford got this much butt-hurt from one single joke. Then he should seek help for mental problems asap.

And with all of this fresh in mind, maybe now people will understand why #GamerGate is still around and why they are needed. As it´s quite obvious that the games industry is very sick, and in deep need of a cure and some much needed cleansing. So let´s get together and clean up this mess asap so that we can get back to games and Gaming again!

With that said, what´s your take on this matter? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below!

Credit:
JeffTechnoWiz

Source:
CommanderPaul1
Ian Miles Cheong
Randy Pitchford ‏
Totalbiscuit

***Disclaimer***
This is a personal opinion of the writer, and it doesn’t necessarily represent the other writers (nor The Gaming Ground´s) opinions.

***Disclosure***
I´m a huge fan of Duke Nukem, so I´m seriously concerned about “Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary Edition”…

Robin “V-Act” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround

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Mr Silvio

This guy personifies very well why I don’t want any of the games I loved in the 90’s being rebooted *in the current year*, I’m still crossing my fingers for Square Enix not to butcher too much the controversial scenes from the original FFVII in the remake.
- Robin Ek
  
  True, as there is a very big risk of having people such as Randy Pitchford fu**ing everything up. Ah, yes, “that” scene *cough cough*
hurin

I can’t get exited about Duke Nukem anymore, and I doubt many Gamers do. Randi does not hold the leverage he thinks he does. The only way we will see a decent Nukem title at this point, is if the IP gets sold to Devolver.

In somewhat related news Shadow Warrior 2 releases soon, with promises of endless gore and bad puns.
- Robin Ek
  
  Nope, DNF has been haunting me (and others) for years. And Randy killed-off the “Duke Nukem” IP for sure with his butt-hurt PW 16 mangina song.
John Smith.

Fuck it, this week has been shit and this is just the turd on top of it. I will not buy the Duke Nukem Anniversary game, not even if it is the most male friendly game of the 21st century will I get it. My money will not be spent on anything or anyone that mocks and hates me simple for having been born white.
… you know, I’m getting to the point where gaming can go fuck itself in a quiet corner. From increasing prices, male hating game developers, increasingly dumbed down gameplay, toxic behavior and hatred towards casual players from the PC “master race” and crime promoting gamers who think pirating games is the best way to fight SJWs(Which is complete BS as they pirated games before SJWs showed up.)
Gaming used to be fun, now its all overrun by politic people who goes ape shit on anyone who doesn’t share their opinion.
I wanna go back to the 80ties/early 90ties, things were better back then, a hell of a lot better.
- Robin Ek
  
  I honestly couldn´t believe my eyes when I saw Randy Pitchford´s anti-GG song live at Pax West…But I soon realized that it was for real, and that Randy was dead serious as well. Exactly, and that´s what I thought about when I heard his SJW “I have sand in my mangina” tantrum song.
- David Heffron
  
  Is there not some irony here. The article mocks him for being butthurt over a joke.
  He sings a song and you get… well, kind of butthurt about it.
BuzzardZ

He could have stopped this but… he just kept playing… o God why?!?!
- Robin Ek
  
  I have no idea, and why did he even do this in the first place? He acts like the guy who never gets any action and then whines about it 24/7.
MusouTensei

You think it can’t get worse than Tim’s sock puppet and then Randy comes along… I would say I will never buy a Gearbox game again but tbh the last one I bought new was Borderlands on 360, my copy of DNF is from a flea market.
darksparda4

It sucks that Battleborn is considered a flop because I thought it was a pretty fun game. It seems to me the only reason it really flopped is that it had the unfortunate luck of dropping very closely to Overwatch which admittedly is a better game but Battleborn IMO wasn’t terrible by any means.
Dgnfly

Randy pitchford is the embodiment of why gamergate exists, considering he’s a lying scumbag that sells broken games and then pretends we are the ones screwing him over with telling him the truth that he needs to go fuck himself and his games..
- David Heffron
  
  Umm, no. Gamergate exists because a dude wrote a big ranting piece full of lies about his ex-girlfriend and then a whole bunch of assholes decided that it was true then started harassing her.
frank pik

More shot for me to boycott. At least I won’t be missing any good games and makes me I didn’t impulse buy the last flop they made. Keep being establishment sycophants and toadies and see how far it doesn’t get you, losers. Fuck gearbox
David Heffron

Quite funny. There’s a picture in this article that says: “One single joke made Randy Pitchford lose his mind”.

Should probably take a screenshot of some of the comments below and caption it “One single song made the man-babies loose their minds”. The irony.