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One of the coolest Achievement / Trophies in Borderlands 2. A Tribute to a Vault Hunter honoring the memory of Michael Mamaril.

Borderlands 2 has around 300 enemies, and they're all in the image below, which we assume was torturously sketched, lined and colored by a Gearbox marketing artist. Borderlands 2 drops tomorrow, so click to make the pic bigger and study up.

#spoilers At a Borderlands 2 panel PAX Prime last month, Randy Pitchford teased attendees with an "accidental" glimpse of an easter egg paying homage to a super-successful indie game. Stop reading here if you don't want to get spoiled. More »

Hey Vault Hunters, the wait is nearly over! You’ve seen all the gameplay videos, you’ve read all the previews, you’ve possibly even played our demo at PAX, now it’s time for you to finally get your hands on Borderlands 2 for PlayStation 3 when it hits store shelves everywhere and PlayStation Network in North America Tuesday, September 18th! The development team at Gearbox Software has worked tirelessly over the last few years to make this game live up to the mantra “bigger, better, and more badass,” and we’re all so excited for you to experience the shooting and looting mayhem for yourself.

If you haven’t let Sir Hammerlock take you on a tour of Pandora yet, check out the video below to learn about some of the exciting things you’ll discover in the game. For example, Borderlands 2 has 870 bazillion guns! According to our team’s math wiz, that’s approximately 800 bazillion more guns than the 17,750,000 that the Guinness Book of World Records said was in the first game!

From everyone at Gearbox Software and 2K Games, we’d like to thank you for your support, enthusiasm and encouragement while we developed this game. It’s been a wild ride and this Tuesday the mayhem begins — bring some friends!

Follow Gearbox and 2K Games on Twitter, and check out Borderlands 2 on Facebook.

#borderlands As they should. More »

Borderlands 2 won't be available until tomorrow, despite what its trailer released this morning wants you to believe, which means there's still time to get the Mecromancer DLC as a bonus with pre-order.

We expect a stream of quality downloadable content post-launch for Borderlands 2, if DLC for the first game is anything to judge by. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford teased fans at a panel during Gearbox Software Community Day in Dallas, saying the team is channeling Star Wars: Return of the Jedi for one piece of content.

"I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a Sand Skiff," Pitchford said. "I've always wanted to do that, and we've got some cool stuff that's along those lines."

Borderlands 2 will have four pieces of DLC by June 2013, available for $10 each, or all together for $30 as part of the season pass.

#watchthis We've seen some swell Borderlands cosplay leading up to Tuesday's release of Borderlands 2, but those were in still photos. Here's a video tribute to the original characters from Gearbox Software's smash hit from three years ago. More »

We spent some time with Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford to discuss the future of the Duke Nukem series, and where it needs to go as well as Borderlands 2, and Gearbox History.

Peter Molyneux is building a cube that contains Powermonger 2*. Tap away to win! In what I assume is an intentional act of satirical imitation, 2K send word of a promotional webgame that bestows Borderlands 2 prizes on players. Instead of a cube, Mount Jackmore has players click on a sculpture of Handsome Jack’s head,which is divided into sections, each of which will turn gold after a certain amount of bullets have hit it. The player who fires a shot into a gold part of the head destroys that section and receives a prize. This is a spoof, right? Either way, it’s live now and prizes include badges, clothing, figurines and copies of the game. The game lasts four weeks, with the head regenerating every seven days.

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Borderlands 2 is all about the loot, and this limited edition does not disappoint if you're a fan.

Anthony takes a look at the Local Co-Op and multiplayer portion of Borderlands 2 and how it works.

Anthony takes a look at the Local Co-Op and multiplayer portion of Borderlands 2 and how it works.

Borderlands 2 will be downloadable on PlayStation Network in North America on its September 18 release date, the PlayStation Blogcast revealed. It's also available for pre-order on PSN in Europe right now, for release on September 21. That makes the PlayStation Plus release of Borderlands a really smart piece of marketing.

Unfortunately, since the American download version is not currently pre-orderable, it won't get you Premiere Club access.

#borderlands As we sit here waiting for the launch of Borderlands 2, it's easy to forget that a lot of people thought that the first game was going to be a huge flop. It was a new idea amid a flood of sequels, and a totally untested quantity—did we really need another first-person shooter? Why would anyone buy it? Analyst Michael Pachter famously said that the game was being "sent to die" amid the other big releases like Modern Warfare 2. It made sense at the time! More »

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Next week’s release of Borderlands 2 is weighing awfully heavily on our minds! In today’s very special interview, we invite Gearbox Software Creative Director Paul Hellquist to answer a battery of questions from Jeff, myself, and you. We touch on just about everything: the game’s vastly enhanced variety, co-op improvements, weapon manufacturers, questing, level caps, DLC, and much more. If you’re dying for next Tuesday, this is one interview you won’t want to miss.

Then we shift gears to another one of fall 2012’s hottest releases with Dishonored in our new interview with Arkane Studios Co-Director Raf Colantonio. Mr. Colantonio provides copious insight into the creative process behind this thinking-man’s FPS, whether it’s the importance of allowing players to choose between lethal and nonlethal tactics or how the game’s macabre atmosphere infests every square inch of its dark, dank world.

Of course, we also share next week’s upcoming North American PSN release lineup, answer a boatload of Player Queries™, and serve up another Mystery Theme stumper. Good stuff, I swear! Now click that succulent-looking play button up above.

Stuff We Talked About

• Borderlands 2
• Dishonored
• PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
• Tekken Tag Tournament 2
• New York City
• Persona 3 Portable
• Jet Set Radio

The Cast

• Sid Shuman – PlayStation Social Media Manager
• Jeff Rubenstein – PlayStation Sr. Social Media Manager

[Editor’s note: PSN game release dates are subject to change without notice. Game details are gathered from press releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]

• Thanks to Cory Schmitz for our beautiful logo and Dormilón for our rad theme song and show music. Special thanks to Astro Gaming headsets for providing audio gear.

Whether you're a vault hunter who picked up the loot chest edition of Borderlands 2 or pre-ordered it through a select retailer, you'll find yourself burdened by one golden key come launch day. This golden key unlocks a special treasure chest in the city of Sanctuary.

The chest (pictured above) will drop some very rare (see: purple) loot once open - loot that is scaled to your character, Gearbox says. So the potency of the loot within is dependent on the level of your character when you open it - and while we know how hard it is to not open a chest full of loot in a game where that is one of the primary goals, you may want to hold off as long as you can on this golden chest.

#borderlands It's always "Mechromancer this" or "Nerchromancer" that. Why does no one call the robot-riding downloadable character for Borderlands 2 by her real name? Oh, we didn't know it. Now we do. Hello, Gaige. Nice death machine you've got there. More »

Gearbox Software's final look for Borderlands 2's Mechromancer DLC was posted this morning. The character, available October 16, is the fifth playable class in the game and is still available with pre-order. Without the pre-order she'll cost $10.

At first glance, you wouldn’t expect a big loud shooty bang bang game such as Borderlands 2 to be the type who wears a pocket protector and hangs around for the after school mathlete competitions, and yet here it is, polishing up its statistics term paper. The Borderlands 2 character class skill tree is available online for your perusal, allowing you first to see exactly which class gets what abilities, and secondly to get down to the all-important task of minmaxing stats and specialisations.

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#borderlands Borderlands 2 hits store shelves September 18. That gives you eight days to build the perfect Assassin, Gunzerker, Commando or Siren in the official Skill Tree Calculator. More »

Posting about skill tree/talent calculators is really more of a Massively jam, what with such things typically being the fare of massively multiplayer online orc/spaceship simulators and everything, but in Borderlands 2's case, we'll have to make an exception.

Calculators like the one seen above are now available on the game's official site via each character's individual page, which can be accessed by surmounting the age gate and clicking on "Characters." We went ahead and spec'd out our siren, and we don't mean to brag or anything but that build up there is 100 percent guaranteed to be the most efficient, powerful build for the class.

Either that, or we randomly slapped it together in about 12 seconds.

Jeff and Paul from Gearbox grow weary of shooting robots, so they opt to THROW ROCKETS AT THEM.

Borderlands 2's Mechromancer DLC should be available October 16 for $10. Eurogamer reports Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford dropped the current date and price estimate this weekend at PAX Prime.

The Mechromancer will be the fifth playable class in Borderlands 2, which you can still get bundled at no extra cost with a pre-order of the game. Publisher 2K Games also recently announced there are four $10 DLC packs planned for the game by next June, which are also available through a $30 "Season Pass." Immediate upsell, upsell, upsell.

#borderlands The Mechromancer class DLC will be released on October 16, Gearbox revealed at their PAX Prime panel today. It will be free with pre-order, but $10 to those who do not. More »

#borderlands Four pieces of campaign DLC will add to your Borderlands 2 experience after the game's release on September 18. More »

#pax2012 At PAX 2012, attendees who braved the massive line at the Borderlands 2 booth were treated to a first look at the fifth character class for the game, the Mechromancer, which will now be given free to everyone who pre-orders the game. More »

Say what you will about Sir Hammerlock, he's nothing if not thorough.

If you're the type of person who has been avoiding details on Borderlands 2 as to not spoil the freshness of the experience... do not watch this trailer. At almost seven minutes, this introduction to Pandora covers a lot of ground. Those salivating for more? Enjoy!

#borderlands The charming and well-spoken Sir Hammerlock gives us a guided tour of the new Pandora, showing us what's changed (everything) and what's stayed the same (dying alot) in Borderlands 2. More »