Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock DLC detailed

The next downloadable content pack for Gearbox's Borderlands 2 has now been detailed as part of a leak, confirming information garnered from achievement trophies that appeared in the game after a recent update. Sir Hammerlock was already known to be the main focus of the new DLC pack but we now know it'll be called the Big Game Hunt (codename Safe). New features will include: A new head and... more.

With Borderlands 2, Gearbox Software releases a sequel to its popular FPS RPG that improves in many ways on the original. The original was successful largely due to its stylized look and irreverent sense of humor, and there's much more of the same here. The game opens with a narration explaining what's happened since the original Vault Hunters from the first game opened the vault to reveal the... more.

Publishing giant 2K games has announced a partnership with Official Xbox Magazine to create a special promotion for the release of Borderlands 2. On the 8th of August when the special editions of the mag are released, they will come with various covers featuring characters from the upcoming game. The backgrounds will have different colours, ranging through green, blue and more; but 10 of them w... more.

Marketing vice president at Gearbox, Steve Gibson, has been talking Borderlands 2, suggesting that a playthrough with just one character could take 58 hours to complete. Describing the game as more of a hobby than just a game, he said that "some guide guys" told him that they'd spent almost 60 hours completing it.  “So the depth with which people can get into that…Yeah we look at it as a hob... more.