Borderlands 2 is going to have all the guns. Hundreds of thousands of the things. 87 bazillion! Probably. Gearbox’s unabashed ode to all things projectile will – as it turns out – also have five character classes to wield them. There is, however, something of a catch: the Mechromancer (which I was crushed to discover in no way involves candle-lit dinners) won’t be working its robotic voodoo on day one. Instead, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford is estimating the robo-armed girl and her controllable robo-everything-ed sidekick will be finished “60 to 90 days” after launch. On the upside, she’ll be yours for free if you pre-order and join the shadowy Premiere Club. Otherwise, though, you’ll have to fork over 87 bazillion dollars. Or, you know, a fee “comparable to most DLC.”

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