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Victory Games and Electronic Arts seek to bring Command & Conquer back to its roots in the first Beyond the Battle developer diary.
Prance around the fiery Sims 3 expansion locale Dragon Valley on May 30, 2013.
The Flash makes a lightning-fast entrance into Infinite Crisis, Turbine's free to play MOBA for PC.
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We already knew that the Borderlands 2 Season Pass wouldn't include the Mechromancer. The extra character is a bonus for those who pre-ordered the game, but will cost $10 otherwise. Apparently Gearbox has plenty of DLC in the pipe, some of which also won't be included in the Season Pass.
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On this week's episode of Weekend Confirmed, Garnett Lee, Jeff Mattas, and Andrew Yoon are joined by Insomniac's James Stevenson. The show begins with some thoughts about the new PlayStation "Super Slim" console, and there are a number of games to talk about. Borderlands 2, FTL, Halo 4, and Black Mesa are just some of the titles the team discusses, and there's even some more pontificating about the upcoming Wii U launch lineup. And, of course, the crew's Finishing Moves bring it all home.
Like the original Borderlands before it, Borderlands 2 will have a number of lengthy DLC expansions. The first may be coming from The Workshop, developers of the recently-released PlayStation Move game, Sorcery.
Resumes from current and former employees of the developer indicate they are working on an expansion, currently named "Torgue"--the same name as one of the weapons manufacturers of Pandora.
Borderlands 2 is a game filled with secrets. And we have to admit, this easter egg is a pretty incredible nod to one of the most popular PC indie games around. If you don't mind spoilers, find out exactly what we're talking about after the break.
Now that you've read Steve Watts' review of Borderlands 2, see what tips and tricks John Keefer has for those journeying to Pandora.
I have about 38 hours invested in Borderlands 2 on PC so far, and make no mistake: It is an investment. Every time I die, I'm paying that stupid Hyperion terminal my hard earned cash to resurrect me. You see, I'm not that great at first-person shooters, but there is something mesmerizing about Gearbox's latest sequel in the Mad-Max-style world of Pandora. I die and keep coming back for more.
The original Borderlands was something of a quirky surprise. It combined first-person shooter and dungeon-crawler RPG tropes into a unique blend. It may not have mastered either genre as well as their purest examples, but the combination was fresh enough to make it a bona fide hit. Now that the surprise has worn off, Borderlands 2 is gambling on subtle refinements to the formula instead of packing the same punch. Gearbox has made a game that is in every way superior to the original, but has some trouble escaping its core weaknesses.
Borderlands 2 launches tomorrow but you may not want to watch the launch trailer if you're carefully avoiding any and all story spoilers. The previous sentence was, of course, a 'joke.' Come, watch the launch trailer, see how many men, monsters and robots are waiting for you to to shoot them in the face on Pandora.
Garnett Lee is joined by "Indie" Jeff Mattas and regular guest Andrea Rene for another round of Weekend Confirmed. On the docket this week are a number of topics surrounding the recent Wii U launch announcements, including some debate about pricing, the strength of its launch title lineup, and who Nintendo is courting as the console's core audience. Developer Klei's Mark of the Ninja gets some universal admiration from the crew, as well. Jeff has to skip out before the last segment, and Garnett and Andrea pull everything together with some early impressions of Borderlands 2 and, of course, Finishing Moves.
Borderlands 2 won't arrive on shelves until next week, but you can start planning your character builds right now as Gearbox has released skill calculators for its FPS-RPG for you to pore over. Vault hunters, start your min/maxing engines.
This week's episode of Weekend Confirmed hosted by Garnett Lee features Shacknews' Andrew Yoon and Ryan Calavano chatting with special guest Adam Sessler. Borderlands 2 lead writer Anthony Burch joins us, and we grill him on what Gearbox is doing to make the sequel bigger and better than before. Once Burch leaves the hot seat, the team talks about the surprisingly-good Sleeping Dogs, and reveals how the new "first touch" mechanic in FIFA 13 genuinely changes up the game.
The "Mechromancer" class in Borderlands 2 made its debut at PAX East in April, so it's only appropriate that Gearbox dropped new details at PAX Prime over the weekend. The character is tentatively scheduled for mid-October, but the date isn't finalized quite yet.
Borderlands 2, then. That's Borderlands with a 2 on the end, right? If you're a bit hazy on what exactly the sequel adds, you'll want to check out a new seven-minute trailer which employs an eccentric moustachioed gentleman by the name of Sir Hammerlock to explain it all. I think he's an actor, really.
At least four DLC "add-on content campaigns" will be released for Borderlands 2, publisher 2K Games announced today, sold individually or discounted together with a Season Pass. Knowing what you do about Gearbox and the DLC it released for the original Borderlands, would you be happy paying $30 in advance, sight unseen, for $40's worth of DLC for the sequel?
Just in case you're waiting Borderlands 2 to come out and pining for the simpler days of games that took place on a 2D plane, Gearbox has killed two birds with one stone. A Borderlands demake has launched as part of the campaign for the upcoming game, providing a fun throwback to a bygone era.
Borderlands 2 for PC will predictably come with fancy graphics effects not found in the console versions. Among them is support for Nvidia PhysX. Accompanying today's announcement that the GTX 660 Ti will include a free copy of the game is a brand new video showing off the various particle and cloth effects that will be available only with GTX cards. While these features have no gameplay ramifications, they are quite dramatic.
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