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

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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

• Load times have been improved
• Lilith’s Phase Strike ability now works as intended
• The introductory quests with CL4P-TP should now always progress properly
• fixed a bug that caused the digger elevator to be unusable after completing the Find Tannis mission
• Weapon mapping to the D-pad should no longer reverse left and right
• Fixed a crash when ejecting the disc during the autosave warning splash screen
• Players in a lobby should no longer experience long loading when starting a game after one player leaves
• A bug which caused players and other things in the world to appear incorrectly on clients in networked games has been fixed
• Fixed a bug in which players gibbed in arena combat disappeared
• Changed how space required for saves is calculated
• Fixed a bug which caused the dollars counter to spin continuously
• Various localization and other text and tooltip correction

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