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Not that there was much doubt to begin with, but it looks as though Gearbox and 2K have a real winner on their hands with Borderlands 2. GI.biz reports the game has moved 1.4m copies at US retail, noting that figure omits digital numbers which includes Steam (all PC sales) …
Read More »Borderlands 2 Captain Scarlett DLC hits next week
Borderlands 2 will receive its first major piece of DLC next week with the release of Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty. The add-on is scheduled to arrive next Tuesday, October 16th – presumably across all available platforms though it wasn’t specifically addressed. It’s free to Season Pass owners and …
Read More »COMPETITION: Win Borderlands 2 Loot Chest Edition and XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Fancy getting your hands on the sold out Ultimate Loot Edition of Borderlands 2 on Xbox 360? Of course you do! And MCV is here to help. All you need do is pop over to our Facebook page and leave a hilarious caption on the chosen Borderlands 2 screenshot. Amuse …
Read More »Borderlands 2 Mechromancer DLC gets early release
Gearbox has announced that its Mechromancer DLC for Borderlands 2 will arrive a week earlier than expected. It had originally been scheduled to launch on October 16th. The download will go live on Xbox 360 and PC this afternoon, though it likely won’t arrive on PSN until Sony’s weekly store …
Read More »Borderlands 2 sparks market fight back
Sales of video games leapt up 125 per cent last week on the back of three blockbuster releases. In total 16.6m was taken at games stores for the week ending September 22nd, which is up almost 10m over the seven days previously. 586,077 games were sold in total, an increase …
Read More »Borderlands 2 season pass won’t entitle owners to all DLC
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has teased plans for additional DLC for Borderlands 2 beyond the game’s season pass offerings. Speaking with Kotaku, Pitchford mentioned the previously announced additional character add-on, then went on to tease new vehicle types in the works. "We will have other, non-season pass related DLC. The …
Read More »Borderlands 2 tops charts, becomes biggest 2012 release
At last, we have a No.1 selling in decent numbers. 2K Games’ Borderlands 2 has debuted at No.1 in this week’s listings thanks to the biggest unit sales launch of 2012 to date, bettering previous sales winner Mass Effect 3. Its predecessor Borderlands, which launched in late 2009, made it …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 16-22
Valve has revealed Steam’s top ten selling titles for the past week, with Borderlands 2 and Torchlight II duking it out for the top spot. In its second week of availability, Gearbox’s shooter RPG was able to hold off the launch of Runic’s dungeon crawler – though both titles seem …
Read More »Happy ending for Borderlands 2 box art bungle
Gearbox head Randy Pitchford makes amends for plagiarism with job offer
Read More »Gem backs Borderlands 2 with Xbox competition
2K Games’ distributor Gem is running a number of promotions in support of Borderlands 2. The firm (which has also worked on the ‘Guns, Guns, Guns’ Top Trumps pre-order campaign), is running a Facebook competition. Simply by liking the GemGroup page, you can win an Xbox 360 250GB Console and …
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