Army's 101st Airborne Division on and the days following the D-Day Normandy invasions. The game and its first sequel, Earned in Blood, follows a unit from the U.S.

The Brothers in Arms series is the oldest series in Gearbox's library, beginning in 2005 with Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. RELATED: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Board Game Reveals New Weapon Manufacturer Names He followed this by saying Gearbox is 'working on another Brothers Arms game' but he wouldn't say more until the game was far enough along in development. The subject came up while Pitchford was speaking on Gearbox waiting to announce Borderlands 3 until it was already in beta and development was nearly complete. Pitchford confirmed the game's development during an appearance on the AIAS Game Maker's Notebook podcast back in April, but was not released on YouTube and free podcast services until September. Gearbox recognizes this and is set to revisit the franchise, a fact Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford choose to share in the most casual manner possible earlier in 2021. That distinction belongs to a the Brothers in Arms series, a tactical-FPS set during the latter days of World War 2 during some of the most intense operations in the European front. While Gearbox is best known for the Borderlands series, it isn't the series serving as the studio's foundational piece.