In what may be an attempt to divert attention from the Duke Nukem rumor, or just trying to clarify the info people dug up earlier, Gearbox have officially announced the next Borderlands DLC, called Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution.
As you may guess, the main enemy will be the otherwise charming robots, including the “Ninja Assassin” Claptrap hidden in the end-game. The press release promises new enemies, new loot and new skill points.
The add-on will be out in September, on all platforms.
You like a good cigar? Well, how about a bad woman? Does it look like it’s TIME TO KILL?
Hell yeah! Gearbox may even give you all that you need to kick ass and chew bubblegum (although, last I heard, they were out of gum). What does all this mean? Rumor has it that Gearbox, developers behind immensely successful co-op RPG/FPS game Borderlands, have taken up development of the infamous Duke Nukem Forever.
Take Two confirmed that Borderlands has hit the 2 million units sold mark and still climbing! Good news, because Borderlands is an awesome game and is only more awesome because of the multiplayer aspect.
Not only that, more DLC is on the way! What’s that? More DLC? After three new add-ons already?
You betcha!
If you haven’t gotten Borderlands yet, go get it! It’s a sweet game, and with The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, and Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot as add-ons, there’s plenty of hours to invest in the game.
Randy Pitchford stated that making Borderlands was a “labor of love” for Gearbox, so upon hearing famed video game analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities say the game was “sent to die,” he felt a little disheartened, but didn’t let that sway him.
Borderlands was a success, as he told Gamasutra, even with being released around the same time as Halo 3: ODST, Dragon Age, and Modern Warfare 2.
“We were sandwiched between the two biggest first-person shooter franchises ever and the guys at BioWare, who walk on water, were releasing Dragon Age around the same time,” Pitchford said. “It was tough for me, because it’s [Pachter's] job to analyze these things.”
Pitchford went on to call out Pachter by saying, ““You know what, Mike? I knew you were wrong.”
Borderlands went on to sell over 3 million copies across three platforms and became one of the best-selling intellectual properties of 2009.
Gearbox has sold over 20 million units and generated over $500 million in revenue – and that’s not including any figures from Borderlands.
Pitchford states that Borderlands is getting a third piece of DLC sometime this year to join the already available Zombie Island of Dr. Ned and Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot. The third installment of DLC will increase the level cap and offer new challenges to players, but no date or price have been officially announced.
The European PlayStation store has a pretty generous helping of content this week, with tons of ad-on content, lots and lots of downloadable games, and much more beside.
Don’t believe us? Check the list for yourself!
PS3 Content
Downloadable Games
Madden NFL Arcade (£9.99/€12.99)
PSone (emulated for PS3 and PSP)
Lilo and Stitch: Trouble in Paradise (£3.99/€4.99)
Demos (Free)
Comet Crash
Mushroom Wars
Gearbox has just released a patch for the PS3 and Xbox 360 version of Borderlands which fixes some major bugs that launched with the game. Most important amongst these is that is Lilith’s Phase Strike, which now… actually works.
Fixes for PS3
