Planet Pitchford: How One CEO Became the World’s Most Unkillable Magic Trick
**The Gearbox Emperor’s New Clothes: Randy Pitchford as a Global Cautionary Tale** DATELINE—PLANET EARTH, 2024—Somewhere between the mushrooming micro-transactions of Shenzhen and the loot-box arcades of Tokyo, Randy Pitchford has become the patron saint of spectacularly surviving your own hype. The name once synonymous with “Borderlands” is now a trans-continental punch line, whispered in Kyiv…