Gearbox's Four-Player Co-Op Sci-Fi Shooter (Updated)

I'd really like a game described as "Diablo meets 3" to come out already.

Am I the only one who thinks Post-Apoc being the new "ww2" is a good thing?

as an aussie that lives near where mad max was made i find all this horribly offensive

Hi Shackers! Yes - "Borderlands", Gearbox Software's next original game, is being announced this week! I would expect a press release soon and I believe the Game Informer magazine is shipping this week to subscribers and showing up soon in GameStop stores and other places where magazines are sold.


We'll be demonstrating Borderlands behind closed doors at the Game Convention in Leipzig next week. There will also be a number of cover stories appearing soon about the game in various magazines throughout Europe. And I imagine that many more stories about what we demonstrate in Leipzig will start to appear on the internet after the event.

I expect that the magazine article in the September issue of Game Informer has a LOT of details. I strongly recommend checking it out because I expect it will be a really great issue with lots of other interesting exclusive stories to go with the exclusive Borderlands reveal. Game Informer always does such a great job and we're really excited to be on the cover.

Of course, Borderlands, Alien and Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway are three different projects with different teams all heavily in development at Gearbox Software. Our process motivates every game to innovate and iterate unique style, story and design, while the collective experience, talent and technology at Gearbox makes all of the games far better than any of them could be on their own. Yes, we've done a few neat things in the past, but we consider everything we've done as lessons and we're all riding a tremendous momentum to take all of our experience and really push boundaries.

- Randy Pitchford

any info on what engine?

Where does Diablo come in here?

So we got like Left 4 Dead, The Crossing, various console shooters pretty much all of which have co op (like GoW and Haze and Halo of course) - and now this. Good time for gaming I daresay my fine sirs *tophat*

Oh my fucking God, this seems cool.

I will only play this game if it has a midget named Master Blaster who runs around yelling "WHO RUN BARTER TOWN???"

Where is Prax War?

I wonder when the release date is set, if this game goes head to head with Rage, I can see it having a difficult time.

there was a series of short story collections called Borderland back in the mid 80's ...it dealt with what would happen if a fantasy world (elves in this case) collided with the real world ..Bordertowns were where the two worlds met ..the stories were kinda cyberpunkish with a dash of rock n roll sensibility

I guess this isnt gearbox's game ..too much to ask for huh ..ok road warrior sounds intriguing enough

I want someone to announce one of these games as "Diablo meets the California Love video with Tupac and Dr Dre"

I wish SciFi as in MassEffect / SpaceSiege would be the new WW2... :(

Ah well, at least MadMax offers some room for creativity, right? RIGHT?

Oh, and yay @ coop

I'm getting tired of people calling game x "Diablo meets _____" or "Diablo in space" or "Diablo meets Horse Breeding" because none of those games are anywhere near as good as Diablo in the aspect of the game that's supposed to be RPG-y and looty, and it just gets my hopes up. But unfortunately, 8 years later, Diablo is still the king of the hill in the action RPG arena, so it's the only stand out reference that people can make. You'd think that someone would come along and say, "Let's do that, only better." But no one has yet. Well, I'm sure lots of people have said it, but the execution falls down somewhere along the way.

sounds good to me

Shacknews has forums?! I knew you guys weren't telling me about something >:(

Actually that cover kinda looks like guys from Quake 4.

I welcome our Post-Apocalyptic lords as the new WW2.

Mad Max is the new WW2.

Why not change the settings from an monotonous desert like barren land, from let's say , a beautiful village in the european countryside, that you get to destroy with your guns? Kinda like one level from Serious Sam 2. Now that'd be awesome.

co-op RPG-ish game? sign me up!

lol Rage has competition already.

Yes Yes YES! It's what I wished Auto Assault was.. :/ More action.. less MMO

here come the RoadWarrior Racing/FPS games!

Sweet