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Here, Have Some Rare Borderlands 2 Loot
There were plenty of delicious Borderlands announcements at PAX East today, but those who weren't present for the revelry may be feeling left out. Thus, a treat is in order! Gearbox was apparently handing out SHiFT codes, which give players access to special golden keys. Predictably, golden keys open golden loot chests. Also predictably, golden loot chests have rare loot inside. Seeing a patter...
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What Is Tiny Tina Teasing For Borderlands 2?
Gearbox showed off a little trailer that looks like Tiny Tina is playing something of a Dungeons and Dragons-esque board game, but Brick, Mordecai and Lilith aren't quite understanding her rules. Could this teaser trailer—shown off during Gearbox's PAX East panel today—be hinting at upcoming DLC? An official Borderlands 2 board game? A mobile spin-off? A sequel where it's just you playing again...
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Check Out The New Psycho Bandit Class In Borderlands 2 In Glorious Action
Gearbox announced a new playable class at their PAX East panel today, but now you can see the psycho bandit in action, in-game. Check out the devs playing as Krieg in the video above. Axe-swinging, dynamite-throwing...wow. He looks awesome and ragey and I want to play. Here's some more:
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Here's A New, Limited Edition Borderlands 2 Loot Chest [Update: Image Of Loot Chest]
Gearbox's last Borderlands 2 loot chests were such a hit, they decided to make a new version to match the style (aka diamond plated) of the in-game chests in the sequel. It's a collaboration with Think Geek, and they're only releasing 5,000 of them. The chests will be stocked with new content, in...
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The Newest Playable Class In Borderlands 2 Is A Psycho Bandit Named Krieg [Update: Now With Teaser Trailer]
The next character class in Borderlands 2 is a big, bad, psycho (you know, one of those bandits you shoot and kill all the time) named Krieg. An ex-psycho bandit that you can actually play as. Gearbox has been teasing the next playable character class for Borderlands 2—a hulking, silhouetted badd...
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Borderlands 2 Is Getting A Second New Game Plus Mode Next Week
If you've played Borderlands 2 to completion and then played it through to completion a second time on True Vault Hunter Mode, and you're still looking for more, you'll be happy to hear that the game is getting something of a new game plus plus mode. It's called Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, and yo...
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Borderlands 2's Level Cap Will Go Up To 61 On April 2
At Gearbox's PAX East panel today, the developers of Borderlands 2 announced that players maxed out at level 50 will finally be able to get to leveling their characters again. As of April 2nd (next week!) you can download what is basically DLC for 11 extra levels (that's up to 61). But it'll cost you $5 for the add-on, unless you've got that nifty season pass. The add-on will also come with the...
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Watch A Bunch Of Amazing Borderlands Cosplayers Dancing At PAX East
So this is what's happening right now before Gearbox's PAX East panel, where our own Tina Amini is standing by to report any and all further shenanigans live as they happen.
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Valve Adding Virtual Reality Support To Team Fortress 2
Valve has announced that they are adding an "experimental virtual reality mode" to their multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2. It will be playable by anyone with an Oculus Rift developer kit. The mode will be released in the coming days. The full release from Valve: Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, and Left 4 Dead), today announced...
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Video Games Have Become Obsessed With Bows And Arrows. But Which Game's Bow Is Best?
If you've been playing big-budget action video games over the last couple of years, you've probably noticed a few trends. The graphics have gotten better. The animations have become more lifelike. The explosions have gotten more explosive. And more recently, amid all those improvements, has come ...
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Watch All of Assassin's Creed II, Edited Into a Feature-Length Movie
The same gentleman who edited all of the scenes from Uncharted into feature-length movies is at it again. He's just stitched together Assassin's Creed II, following the release (sort of) of Assassin's Creed back in November. The editor is Andy Gilleand. You can watch the whole thing above (it sho...
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This Gory BioShock Infinite Trailer Shows Off Booker's Big Guns
Irrational Games, the folks behind BioShock, have just released this spectacular combat trailer for the series' newest installment, BioShock Infinite. Many of the weapons protagonist Booker DeWitt will get to use are put on full display. Look at that imagery. That statue. Those huge guns. Man, I ...
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Gearbox Teases Burly New Borderlands 2 Playable Character
At South By Southwest in Austin, Gearbox debuted a teaser trailer that hints at the addition of a new character to Borderlands 2. The character isn't fully shown, but looks to be some sort of melee-focused badass. The video above comes via Polygon, who are on the ground at SXSW. "A new vault hunter is coming," the teaser video promises. What do you think? Think it'll be a return of Brick-style ...
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Kneel Before This Massive Tower Of Borderlands 2 Boxes
When the games have been sold, and the swag remains: What do you do? What does a man do with 180 promotional boxes for Borderlands 2? He stacks them, apparently. This image set, uploaded to imgur by bitterguy a week ago, was tweeted at Gearbox's Randy Pitchford this morning. The imgur description: "What to do with 180 leftover boxes in an office building with a high roof." An ambitious recyclin...
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Technically, The Graphics of First-Person Shooters Have Improved A Lot Since 1992
Sit back and watch two decades of video game graphics flash before your eyes. YouTube user drloser333 has uploaded a video from French site NoFrag that unfurls the graphics of more than a dozen first-person shooters, from 1992's Wolfenstein 3 to 2011's Battlefield 3. Did the FPS get better-lookin...
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How Valve Hires, And Fires, Its Employees
There's no company quite like Valve. Super successful and with an organisation some would call crazy, there's also no company quite as interesting. So hearing about how Valve hires, and fires people, is far more educational than it would be for just about any other video game company. Writing on Gamasutra, the company's economist Yanis Varoufakis has lifted the lid on some of the company's empl...