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Borderlands gameplay ad flaunts art style

Borderlands is working its art style to the max — so strange to look back at the original design now — in this TV spot for the FPS-RPG lovechild. And how about all that actual gamepley footage, huh?

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Borderlands TV advert gets the job done

With Brütal Legend and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves out today, one could say the small avalanche of year-end quality releases is well on its way.

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“A lot of invention” in Borderlands made it a four-year-plus project

Gearbox’s Borderlands wrapped up development last week, but it’s been a long time coming; The company started working on the game way back in 2005 when they launched the first game in the now six-titles-strong Brothers in Arms series, CEO Randy Pitchford revealed in a recent chat , saying “there’s a lot of invention in the game and a lot of new things that we haven’t done before and no one’s done before.” Things that needed time so they could be done “properly and effectively and accessibly.” “We started the game with layering Diablo -style compulsion gameplay — like ‘Oh I want more loot’, or ‘I want to level up’, or ‘I want to develop my character and get more skills,’ the idea of choice, discovery and growth — we wanted to layer that on top of a shooter. That was the original design intent.” It was 2008 when they realized they’ve made it work and decided to “go all the way” with what they had, “We added a character class.

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Gold found by the borderlands

With the ever-growing list of delays, we couldn’t be more excited about our favorite RPS  Borderlands having reached gold status today. The game is ready for mass production, but most importantly, it means that it’s on track for its scheduled October 26th release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford, just recently updated his Twitter with a nice, comforting tweet , stating that Borderlands has gone gold on all platforms and we’re all safe to pre-order the game… like we haven’t done so already, Mr

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Borderlands will be “less boring” than Fallout 3

In a conversation with Official Xbox Magazine , Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford claimed wandering the blighted  wastelands of Borderlands will be “less boring” than Fallout 3 .

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