"Will the random occurring events/quests be never en🅷ding?" one fan asks Borderlands 4 creative director Graeme Timmins on Twitter. "Yes, contracts found at bounty boards around Kairos will always provide contracts to pick up and engage,💫" he replies.

Apart from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Skyrim's Thieves Guild jobs, I'm not a big fan of radiant quests, but long-time fans of the Borderlands franchise may take a shine to these contracts because Timmins adds, "They remind me of the simpler missions from [Borderlands 1]. These are ﷺgreat to have as you'll often complete them when doing other activities naturally (killing enemies for exam🐲ple)."

I suppose if your contract is to go out and kill someone, then you do a story mission that sends you into an area where you subsequently turn a bunch of enemies into lead holders, you'll end up completing the contracts purely by chance. That way you get their rewards without feeling like you're grinding t𒊎hem.

One fan tweets that "simple pick-up-and-play side activities" are what the🦋 Borderlands series has been missing, and Timꦗmins has an explanation for where they've gone.

"As simple as the BL1 missions tended to be, they were satisfying to complete in groups," Timmins writes. "That kind of two birds, one stone idea of mission pacing became harder t༒o design/account for as we upped our mission game (dialog fighting, complexity of objectives)."

So, it sounds like it should give you the best of both worlds. Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 preview if you want to know more.

While we wait for it to come out, check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best FPS games you can play right now.

"Hey guys, wanted to confirm that Photo Mode will be coming to 🐈Borderlands 4," creative director Graeme Timmins says in . "It'll be a feature that we add in an update after ༺the game launches." The official Gearbox account has reiterated the same message.

It's unclear exactly where the idea that the game wouldn't have photo mode came from, but it became a talking point among the fandom on social media this week. For , it's a critical tool f💜or slowing down and zooming in on your damage numbers - though Gearbox says there will be better ways to evaluate your DPS - and the implication it might be missing was enough to get to trying to mod the feature in.

In the end, mods won't be necessary after all. But why is photo mode getting delaye😼d from the game's initial launch? "I had us prioritize polishing some other elements, more core to the moment-to-moment experience," Timmins says in a . "We've always planned for൩ it, and had it tasked up, we just needed to spend a bit more time on things that would directly impact QoL of playing the game."

Borderlands 4 doesn't have a minimap, but it's getting an optional combat radar after all following feedback from "the real fans who sincerely want the best for the game."

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gearbox's Borderlands series has always been chock-full of violence and crass writing filled to the brim with cringey humor and pop culture references, and from the looks of things the series is set to continue down that path. The ESRB has released and revealed some ofﷺ the more grisly details about the game, which has unsurprisingly given it a "Mature" rating for "Blood and Gore", "Intense Violence", "Sexual Themes", and "Strong Language."

This time around Gearbox is upping the ante on the gore effects, as the description notes "enemies bursting into c𒀰hunks of gore and/or losing limbs," "creatures exploding into large blood-splatter effects," "a character snapping their own neck," and "characters stabbed or impaled." Plus the game's environments will be littered with "corpses, large bloodstains, and severed limbs."

And if you 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:didn't like Borderlands humour before, don't hold your breath, as the ESRB has also revealed a gauntlet of sex jokes that 14 year olds and Randy Pitchford are going to find funny, such as "Start a weird robot sex commune"; "New position! Heh. Like sex"; "Light as a feather, stiff as a whore"; "Have you seen my penis strap?" With sex 💮toys also littering part of the world.

And of course, you have to have the pop culture references, with what seems to be a take on the iconic ending of the underrated comedy classic Clue, "…I'm gonna go home and have sex with my wife." Worst of all, just 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:like with Death Stranding 2, ESRB has reveale𝓡d "The word “f**k” appears in the game."

Borderlands 4 has "more skills per character than in Borderlands 3 and 2 added together," Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says: "We're working late on Fridays for you."

It's hard to believe it's been that long since Borderlands 3, but somehow that game is over five years old at this point (it'll be a day before six years when it launches on September 12, 2025), it's even a few months older than Death Stranding, which really puts it into perspective (I mean sure, there was Tiny Tina's Wonderlands in the middle there, but c'mon). From the way Gearbox tells it, that time was put to good use, as the character classes in Borderlands 4 seem way more i♚n-depth this time around.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and chief creative officer Randy Varnell took the stage at to chat about the new character classes in the game. Varnell spoke up a💧bout the depth ♎of the skill tree in Borderlands 4, saying that four players could take the same character and action skill into a fight and still have a varied enough moveset to take on different roles. Pitchford added, "You'll find more skills per character than in Borderlands 3 and 2 added together," saying, "We're working late on Fridays for you."

Doing the math, characters in Borderlands 2 each had three skill trees with 10 skills each, while in Borderlands 3, each character had 4 skill trees with around 18-20 skills each. So add it all together, and that's a ton of skills per character. Hopefully, they are meaningf🧸ul upgrades as opposed to being the skill equivalent of B🐬orderlands' millions of weapons with minor changes between them.

Borderlands 4 isn't a "cynical" sequel that's only being made "to meet the market," but because Gearbox wants to improve movement like it improved Borderlands 3's gunplay

Speaking to GamesRadar+ as part of our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 preview, lead writer Taylor Clark says that "Borderlands is almost old enough to drive. It would be strange if it weren't constantly growing and adapting. And that's not because we're trying to meet the market 🥂in some cynical way."

In other words, Gearbox isn't only making another sequel for the sake of making a sequel. "We are a creative team and 🦄there are ideas that we want to express through Borderlands 4," Clark explains. There are "ways that we want to make it feel like we're breaking fresh ground again."

For 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4, that fresh ground is to be found in a particular focus on how you get around. A more open-world entry than any of its predecessors, Borderla꧅nds 4 offers the ability to conjure its Digirunner vehicles wherever you are, but an emphasis of movement is said to pervade the whole game. According to executive producer Chris Brock, that's because Gearbox "wanted to take that same focused approach" that the studio ♊had on Borderlands 3's combat overhaul, "but this time for movement and exploration."

According to Clark, that means "less borders, more lands," as well as "virtually no loading times" and a non-linear approach to the campaign that lets you deal with main missions "in pretty much any order." Not all of that is directly attached to movement, but it's a free-form approach to Borderlands that hasn't really 🔯been a major part of previous entries.

As well as making its own new stamp on movement, Gearbox is listening to fans, announcing an 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:optional combat radar for Borderlands 4 in response to fans who mourned the loss of an in-game map. It's not quite ready yet, but it's been put together extremely quickly, implying that the studio might still have a🅘 few things it's yet to reveal ahead of the September release dat🦂e.

Borderlands 4's $70 price is "extremely unlikely" to have been influenced by backlash to Randy Pitchford's "real fan" comment.

After previews for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 went live, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford polling fans on "what more" they want when it comes to navigation in the game. It was already confirmed that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:there's no mini-map, but 55% of people declared that they wanted a "combat rad🐠ar, you fools♑," prompting Pitchford to explain that, actually, the devs already have us covered for the full launch.

In a thread discussing Borderlands 4's maps, compass, and EchoBot AI drone, Pitchford admits: "To be honest, we have been using the compass for so long for combat situational awareness, [that] we don't miss the radar. We stopped thinking about it. We can actually prove at the beginner level it doesn't matter and at the advไanced level the compass is preferred." However, following the game's recent "press tour," Pitc🦩hford estimates "roughly 15%" of players brought up the combat radar's absence, with a number really advocating for the feature.

"As me and head of dev, Steve Jones (and some of the other guys) were poking around with producers trying to figure out what it would take to add these featur⭕es and if we could make it in time to ship or not, something awesome happened," Pitchford explains. "In classic Gearbox style, where we have an ethos of 'they who builds it, wins,' some developers got together and found some time in the margins of their schedules. Some Gearbox heroes did what Gearbox heroes do!"

Pitchford says that in an effort from creative directo𒆙r Graeme Timmins and some members of the UI team (including "the awesome Jason Brown and the badass Justin Dooley," as well as art from "the super talented Ray Peña"), the devs made the combat radar players were missing. What's more, they "just barely squeezed it in for a QA pass so that it can go into the main branch of our software in time to ship with Borderlands 4 on September 12."

The Gearbox boss expresses his gratitude for the feedback the devs received, perhaps with some trepidation using the term "real fans," despite all the backlash he's faced for those two words recently. "This happened because of the best elements ꦑof our community. I'm talking about the real fans who sincerely want the best for the game and gave constructive notes and made reasonable arguments," he says. "You know who you are and you rock! You 🧸made this happen!"

Meanwhile, creative director that the combat radar was added "LAST FREAKING WEEK," so it real🦄ly is a recent development. He says that those involved in its creation "went incredibly fast🔯 when I told them – 'If we're doing this, I want it for launch.' This is just how committed we are here guys; we're doing everything to make BL4 the definitive Borderlands."

All in all, it's been a positive week for Borderlands fans – a welcome change after the aforementioned backlash following Pitchford's suggestion that any "real fan" would find a way to buy the upcoming game even if it was $80. A few days ago, it was confirmed that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the standard edition of the game is $70, so fans' wallets are somewhat safe, unless they want to buy a pricey collector's edition that's not actually a collector's edition.

Borderlands 4's $70 price is "extremely unlikely" to have been influenced by backlash to Randy Pitchford's "real fan" comment, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says, even if he thought it was "gross."

"Borderlands 4 is a day one purchase for me, by the way," Douse writes on Twitter. "I have a lot of faith in its writers (though I can't put a finger on it, I have a good feeling about it) and I think just en💛ough time has passed. Just throwing that out there in case you thought I was neggy on the BL."

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Douse has previously spoken out about Pitchford's controversial comment that "real fans" would find a way to afford Borderlands 4, even if it cost $80. "Saying 'real fans will find a way' is gross because it assumes yo🔯ur game is more important during a cost of living crisis than, for example, making it day to day," Douse wrote at the time.

So, you can see why Douse wanted to clear the air and let it be known he does still support the game. But, even though Douse is keen to get B🅷orderlands 4, he's still not afraid to give his honest opinion on the serie🦋s. One fan asks what he thought of the writing in Borderlands 3, and he replies: "That was a dry-ass turkey dropped eight months after Thanksgiving." Ouch.

I wonder if he'll be getting the $70 standard version or the $150 collector's edition that's not actually a collector's edition and doesn't come with the game?

While you wait, check out all the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming games of 2025.

Pitchford previously tweeted details of the "Collector's Edition of Borderlands 4 available for Pre-Order at GameStop." He added that it was "澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:pretty rad and will pᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrobably sell out, so grab it if you're into it."

It comes with an Echo-4 statue, vault symbol necklace, art prints, map of Kairos, and a code for five golden keys in Borderlands 4. What it doesn't come with is the game itself, even though it costs $150. So if you want that and the game, you're going ꦓto have to spend at least $220.

Naturally, a 🧸fan asks, "Wait... why doesn't this include the game?" The official Gearbox account replies, "The Echo-4 Bundle was mislabeled as a Borderlands 4 Collector's Edition. This has been corrected on the website💎."

So this isn't the collector's edition, just a pricey bundle with physical items and art – exactly what yo๊u'd expect to find in a collector's edition.

And, as far as I can tell, there isn't an official collector's edition out yet. The closest thing is this Echo-4 bundle, and the most-expensive version of the game itself is the $130 Super Deluxe Edition which comes with more missions, more Vault Hunters, and more goodies.

While you wrap your head around all that, check out the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming games of 2025 and hope their various versions aren't as confusing.

Pitchford's talking about the price of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 again. After Pitchford completely submerged himself in hot water by saying "real fans"꧙ would fork up th🌠e $80 for Borderlands 4 if it indeed ended up costing that much, and then 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:kind of sort of apologizing, pub🅠lisher 2K opened up pre-orders for the game and confirm🍰ed that the base game starts at $70, and the internet silently unclenched its jaw.

Now for the good... sort of.

Never one to gloat, about Bor𒅌derlands 4's not-$80 price tag on Twitter, and today he did something akin to that silly little da𝕴nce Football players do when they score a touchdown.

"I am so stoked that Borderlands 4 is $69.99 and not $80," Pitchford said in a . "I am so stoked we’re not doing any paid early access stuff and moved th𓆉e date earlier♎ to Sept 12. I am stoked that we are planning a TON of awesome DLC."

So far, we know that the $100 Deluxe Edition of Border💖lands 4 includes four post-launch DLC packs with new mꦐissions, cosmetics, and the like, and the $130 Super Deluxe Edition includes all that and an additional two story expansions. I'm not sure if that qualifies as "a ton" for y'all, but I'm thinking there's more to be revealed.

Pitchford on that tweet with clarification that "we are going to be working out our DLC plans as we land the game and can shift focus," addi🐭ng, "we already lots of amazing plans in mind for a range of free and paid content post launch."

The divisive game dev's final, for now, on the matter reads in part: "We're pulling out all the stops on our end game a👍nd our post launch commitment for Bor🐲derlands 4."

Purely going off the fact that it's now been six years since the last Borderlands game, not to mention all of this pre-release hype and controversy, Borderlands 4 has a lot to live up when it launches in September. Weꩵ'll see if it sticks the landing.

Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases.

alerting gamers that the Collector's Edition is available to be ordered from GameStop, saying "It’s pretty rad and will probably sell out, so grab it if💛 you’re into it." The Borderlands 4 Echo-4 Bundle comes with a Cloth Map, 8 8-inch tall Echo-4 ꦇfigure, some art prints, a Vault Symbol necklace, and some in-game Shift Code Cards.

And that's it. Rather than present your biggest fans with the game or even some DLC to go along with their tat, you'll need to drop an extra $130 on top of that to get the full Borderlands 4 experience. Considering the $100 version comes with what is effectively four of Borderlands 2's $3 Headhunter Packs, I'm not sure it's the best value.

Collectors' editions that don't include the game aren't actually new, sadly, but they are all pretty lame. The one for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is cool, mind you, but that comes with a Vinyl Soundtrack – that will inevitably go🅘 for🅷 nuts prices on Discogs – at least (and to be fair, it ).

Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases.

The elaborates that "we have a huge slate of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:post-launch content planned, including free content drops and updates," while the explains what's to come in the more expensive versions of the game with one of those tables that br꧂eak down everything.

The Deluxe edition comes with the B🍃ounty Pack Bundle, which includes "four unique areas, missions and bosses" and "vault card with unique challenges and rewards" along with cosmeꦛtics and weapons. Meanwhile the more expensive edition comes with the Vault Hunter Pack, which seems more in-line with a full-blown expansion, with new vault hunters, map regions, and story missions being added.

A fan on Twitter pointed out that the Bounty Pack Bundle sounds similar to the Headhunter Packs from 🐲Borderlands 2, which were small DLC packs that added little missions to t🐬he game along with a few cosmetics. And yes, these are going to be similar to Headhunter Packs.

"Bounty Packs are꧃ going to be similar to Headhunter Packs from Borderlands 2 with Vault Cards and extras!" it writes. "We'll be talking about this an🐽d the rest of our post-launch plans prior to launch!"

Of course, when you look at the cost of the Borderlands 2 Headhunter Packs, they were $2.99 each, so all five of those were just under $15 in total. So forgive me for saying that four Headhunter Pack equivalents for Borderlands 4 being $30 on top of ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe game sounds like a real bad deal. I'm s🀅ure Gearbox expects that the "real fan" will gladly go all-in on it, but if we're talking about the same scale as Headhunter Packs, $5 extra for each pack seems a bit much.

Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases.

Ahead of Borderlands 4's release on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on September 12 (the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 version still doesn't have a full release date), publisher 2K has confirmed🌊 that the standard edition of the game will cost $70, coming in $10 shy of the price tag everyone had beg⛎un to dread.

That's not to say that you can't spend more on the game, with the Deluxe Edition (which i🍒ncludes four post-launch DLC packs with new missions, weapons, cosmetics and more) costing $100, and the Super Deluxe Edition (with all the aforementioned DLC as well as two Story Packs and some skins) going for $130.

Let's face it, though, we've been faced with pricey deluxe editions of games for years – it's the standard price that everyone was most interested in, thanks to Pitchford's now-infamous "real fan" comments. Last month, responding to a fan who was concerned that Borderlands 4 would cost $80, Pitchford stated that, although the price is "not my call," ultimately, "if you're a real fan, y꧙ou'll find a way to make it happen."

Understandably, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:this didn't go down particularly well, and while Pitchford did later acknowledge that "nobody likes being taken for granted and it was not my intent" (before quickly adding that "regardleꦉss of🌟 where the price lands, it's going to be worth it and then some"), the backlash has been dominating discussion about the game since.

Pitchford was about the fact that there's "no price increase for Borderlands 4" today, adding: "Standard Edition launches not at $80, but at $69.99! They're 🌺showing you, so please show them." I'm sure he won't be the only one at Gearbox likely hoping that the price comment controversy will blow over now that the looter shooter is officially $70.

Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases.

Pitchford has been doing some investigation on Twitter over the last week or so, polling Borderlands fans on which factors they consider are more likely to correlate wit🅰h a "better" game, from average play time to posit🌟ive user reviews. Overall, his polls suggested that fans value "high actual play time" above other factors, although he's since pointed out that, in an "i🧜nteresting" twist, players also voted Borderlands 2 as a "larger" game than Borderlands 3, despite the actual stats showing a higher average playtime on the latter.

In his on the matter, Pitchford notes that "I wouldn't focus on the time – it's the relativity that matters." After all, in this context, ൲average playtimes are a slightly inaccurate way to measure things since you've got people on both extremes – those who'll play for all of five minutes, and others who rack up hundreds if not thousands of hours – influencing the overall figures. That, and "BL2 has an advantage for having been out so much longer than BL3."

Overall, though, his playtime results suggest Borderlands 3 "is 'better൩' than BL2 by the standard the people who responded to my poll have favored." Pitchford recognises that "obviously individual tastes vary and entertainment is subjective. We are all edge cases."

Concluding, however, it doesn't sound like the re꧅sults of Pitchford's polls really mattered that much at all when it comes to Borderlands 4. "In any case, by any standard we've thrown at it, we are confident that BL4 is turning out to be better than BL3 by every measurement we have, including subjective ones, so that makes us very excited about the launch!" he adds.

For now, it's just a waiting game to see if that really is the case. There's still quite a wait for Borderlands 4, with it set to arrive on most platforms on September 12, but hey, that's ဣ11 whole days sooner than we 𓆏originally expected.

Gearbox finally responds to series-wide Borderlands review bomb after 19 days, says its owner "does not use spyware" and it's actually OK with most mods.

Over the past 19 days, beginning on May 19, the entire Borderlands series has been blasted on Steam. According to its recent reviews, the most🎃 popular game in the series is Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, with 29% positive reviews. That lack of popularity runs through every numbered entry, 𒅌down to 2014's Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, which has just 9% positive reviews.

The culprit is the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new Borderlands user agreement, which players quickly blasted as 'spyware' for reports that it granted high-lev𒐪el access to your machine under the guise of anti-cheat software. Some members of the community have stood up to suggest that that's not really the case, and that Gearbox and its publisher and parent company have all been quite chill about modding and the like, but it's not done much to improve the review scores.

Now, 19 days after the first drops of that review-ಞbomb downpour started to fall, Gearbox has issued its respཧonse. In a , it said that "we know there have been some concerns from Borderlands fans about Take-Two's Terms of Service." Desiring to address some of those concerns, Gearbox kicked off with the eminently reassuring "Take-Two does not use spyware."

It says it asks for permission to collect somℱe data, but that doesn't mean it's actually doing it on every game or service. Where it does collect, Take-Two is trying to "personalize the user experience," not take a digital peek at its players.

Secondly, the company addresses anti-cheat concerns, saying that what it actually wants to ban are "mods that allow users to gain an unfair advantage🌊," to "protect the integrity of the game experience." Generally, it argues, Take-Two "does not seek to take action against mods that are single-player 🍸only, non-commercial, and respect the IP rights of its labels."

Whether that does enough to assuage the fears of players, I'm not convinced. Somehow I doubt it, especially since Gearbox snuck this whole thing out while all eyes were elsewhere thanks to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest. Given that it's also tried dropping steꦉep discounts and full gi🔜veaways on some of these games, however, clearly it knows it needs to do something a little different. But even if that does work, it's still got to compete against the Twitter account of Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford, which is probably doing about as much damage ﷽as the EULA.

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants to know what makes a game bigger or better, and he's using Borderlands 2 and 3 to find out

Although Take-Two's latest update to its terms of service and privacy policy was released in February, concerns were raised among fans only recently, when they were greeted with the agreements upon loading their Borderlands games. These have ranged from concerns about the collection of data, such as accounts and telephone numbers, to more extreme allegations that the games coul🦩d somehow function like "spyware" if users agree to the updated terms.

All this has led to a widespread review bombing of the games on Steam. Right now, Borderlands 2 is being offered for free for a limited time, but the recent reviews have been flooded with complaints about the terms of service. Now, though, two prominent Borderlands modders are trying to reassure the f♔anbase that there's "nothing new" about the agreement in the first place, and it certainly shouldn't have an impact on any game modding.

"I'm sure with thousands of new players trying Borderlands 2 for the first time, I'm bound to be asked 'What about the TOS?!,'" Borderlands modder Epic (the same person leading the effort to revive the Borderlands Online MMO) writes on Twitter. "I've told people it's nothing new many times before. But don't ꦕjust take ဣmy word for it, here is trusted modder Apple's statement on it."

Epic shares a Discord message from Apple1417, who's created a number of mods before for the Borderlands games. "Recently there's been a lot of misinformation and fearmongering concerning the new 2K TOS," they write. "Rest assured, there is nothing different about it compared to what was there previously – the main clause everyone's freaking out about was already there.

"It will not have any effect on Borderlands modding," they continue, adding: "We'll remind you the ওGearbox forums used to have a modding section, all the way since [Borderlands 1], they've never even taken any steps against it, let alone legal action. So please, don't worry about it."

Whether this will serve to calm down anxious fans is another matter♒, though. After all, the number of negative reviews on Borderlands 2 has only risen since being offered for free, despite the fact that the backlash started weeks ago, and even back then, some fans suggested that people were "overreacting" to the whole thing.

Borderlands 4 might not feature fan-favorite Tiny Tina, as her voice actor says they "haven't heard anything" about returning to the series.

Despite the recent good news that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 is 澳洲幸运5🐓开奖号码历史查询:releasing earlier than pre🧸viously announced, there has been a lot of negativity in the fanbase lately. This follows a controversial comment made by Pitchford, who suggested that "aಞ real fan" would buy the upcoming game even if costs $80, as well as a change to Gearbox owner Take-Two Interactive's privacy policy and terms of service, which left some players worried about the collection of their pers🎀onal information.

Thဣe latter point is largely to blame for the Borderlands games on Steam getting hit with an onslaught of negative reviews – Borderlands 2, for example, still has an "overwhelmingly negative" recent rating, despite the ongoing limited-time offer.

"Borderlan🌃ds 2 is FREE this weekend on Steam!" Pitchford proclaims on Twitter, sharing 🃏the offer. "Free is free, yo! Get it and check it out if you haven't played it. It's an oldie, but a goodie."

Pitchford also share📖s a "SHiFT code for free loot keys in Borderlands, [The Pre-Sequel], 2, 3, and Wonderlands," which unlocks three Golden Keys in the games for some loot. "Good luck, and happy looting!" (the code is 96XTT-STHJJ-JJTTT-TBJT3-CBTZX if you're interested).

Have either of these gestures stopped the negativity, though? No. In fact, looking at Steam's recent reviews bar graph, the number of negative reviews was actually larger today and yesterday (when the game was first offered for free) than it's been for a full month, with complaints still focused on the aforementioned privacy policy and terms 🐠of service.

At least this time, players don't seem as annoyed about the whole "real fan" debacle as they were when Pitchford announced Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was also temporarily free, while making sure to emphasise that "re🐻al fans who may be cost sensitive" might be happy about that fact.

Borderlands 2 is free until 8 June, aꦯny𓆏way, so if you want it, be sure to grab it while you can.

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants to know what makes a game bigger or better, and he's using Borderlands 2 and 3 to find out.

Modder EpicNNG – known as Epic – brought Borderlands Online back into the spotlight around a month ago with footage of the game running for the first time since its shutdown. Stuck on its character creator screen, admittedly, but that's further than anyone else has gotten in a deꦓcade.

Since then, however, they took to the community with a request for help from anyone who believes they might be able to get the MMO – which remains 🏅unplayable right now thanks to an infinite loading screen, broken scripts, and more – working again so it can be back in players' hands. And there's good news – speaking to GamesRadar+, Epic says although "responses started slow," they've "picked up steam fast. I have ha🏅d people from different parts of the world."

Up until speaking to us, Epic estimates that they've "put around 20-30 hours" into the project, adding: "It really consumed me. I couldn't sleep without thinking about it. I have no idea how long it will take to finish, though." As for how many people are needed to see it through, it's impossible to say – while "it only🤡 takes one dev to get us past the finish line," ultimately, "we need as many people as possible helping us!"

After all, it's a huge undertaking – Epic calls it "by far my biggest challenge ever." As for what it all involves, t♚he modder explains: "Without getting too in-depth, we are looking at either rebuilding the project in Unity via fixing scripts and materials, or we are trying to bypass [...] broken code by outrig꧑ht removing dependencies. We are also looking into setting up our own servers for it if it seems plausible."

Up until now, the "greatest challenge" has been the fact that the game's code is currently obfuscated. "We are almost entirely working in the dark, with function/method names that are a jumble of letters and numbers," Epic describes. "If we work in Unit🐈y, we are then working with thousands of errors. It is mentally depleting to say the least."

With all that in mind, you can understand why "my heart was beating out of my chest" when 𓄧Epic "made even slight progress at first." While the modder mentions looking into the possibility of setting up servers for the MMO, they note that they'll be pleased even if things don't end up getting that far.

"I am happy even if we just make it into the tutorial," Epic tells us. "I don't even care if all we can do is walk around. Up until a month or two ago, this game felt impossible to eve෴n touch. Any progre⛦ss is a win now."

In addition to all the technical difficulties, there is also a concern that the project could be shut down before it's even finished. In their call for help, Epic mentioned wanting to get it done before the release of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4, worrying that they could "receive a cease and desist" because of it being perceived that "we're taking away from the m🔥arketing of Borderlands 4."

This isn't a totally firm deadline, as Epic tells us, "I will continue working on this project until I am asked not to by Gearbox, 2K, or Take-Two." Should that day come, "I will be fully cooperative. I do not wish to cause any form of harm to their busines🎀ses.ꦚ"

Epic adds: "Aside from the risk of shutdowns, the biggest risk is disappointing people. Sometimes I really need to calm myself𓃲 down because it makes me so anxious."

De🍨spite taking on such a massive, complicated project, Epic is aspiring to reach even greater heights in the name of game preservation in the future. "I have another project in mind," the modder tells us. "It's a Borderlands web game named 'Mount Jackmore' which was discontinued in 2012.

"We currently believe this is harder to obtain than this game [Borderlands Online], and I will need to travel internationally to meet the people who 🍃have even the slightest chance of getting me access 🉐to it," they continue. "I will be making that journey this year."

For now, hopeful onlookers will just have to watch this space to see ho🐻w the projects unfold. Epic has already made a lot more of us aware of Borderlands Online's mere existence than before, which is a win in itself. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that the MMO might finally become playable again after all this time.

Borderlands 3 player beats every last bit of the FPS at the highest difficulty, without getting downed a single time: "The most tense run I've done."

Yes, the D&D-inspired, fantasy-themed Borderlands spin-off is the latest free game on the Epic Games store. If you haven't claimed a freebie from Epic before, you just head to , click the button to add it to your l🧸ibrary, and complete a zero-dollar "purchase" that'll add the game to your account for you to keep just like any other digital purchase.

Our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Tina Tina's Wonderlands review awarded the game four stars back at its original launch in 2022, praising the writing and gunplay while noting that the game could get quite repetitive. But that's par for the course in a loot game, and this kind of 𒈔asking price makes any such complaint a lot easier to swallow.

♐You can claim this free copy of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands from now until June 5, at which point it'll be replaced by another free game, as has been Epic's way for years. This week is actually offering a double freebie, as you can also claim Limbo, the classic monochrome puzzle platformer from Playdead.

You might want to get your Tiny Tina fix in now, because it's looking unlikely she'll return for Borderlands 4. Tiny Tina actor Ashly Burch recently said she hadn't "heard anything" about returning to the s🍸er𒊎ies.

Modder reviving dead Borderlands MMO turns to the community for help to make the long-forgotten game playable again: "This is genuinely history-making stuff."

Ar🐎ound a month ago, posts from Twitter user EpicNNG gained traction online after sharing footage of Borderlands Onlin꧋e – which was announced in 2014 and set to release exclusively in China – running for the first time since it and 2K China were shut down in 2015.

EpicNNG had already managed🙈 to bypass the MMO's login screen to access the character creator, though promptly became "stuck on an infinite loading screen after making a vault hunter." In a new update video (below), however, the developer discusses the ongoing situation a bit more, making it clear that making the MMO playable isn't going to be a one or two-person job.

Th𝕴e current build, 🅺EpicNNG says, "has been publicly available for the past 10 years," but it was only recently that another contributor to this fan effort, known as Lewis, discovered it online. Even then, apparently "a lot of the downloads were riddled with viruses," so be very careful if you decide to go looking into any of this stuff yourself. Now though, EpicNNG says "we have confirmed that we have got the full game," and "we know that we can get in eventually, it is just a matter of when."

That matter, though, is where the current contributors are hoping to get a bit of assistance from anyone who thinks they have the technical know-how to help bring the project into a playable state. "A lot of the scripts are broken, and when I say broken, I mean broken," EpicNNG says, adding that there are literal "thousands of errors, and to fix that would take us a very long time and would result in the game probably being in a completely broken state when w🥀e finally do get into it."

Furthermore, EpicNNG is cur♎rently working with "obfuscated code where I bypass the login screen," and noting that attempts to deobfuscate it have, up to this point, just t🧸ended to break things.

They've tried and failed multiple times to get past the login screen in a different way, but has made this video because "I need as much help as I can," believing that "we don't have time on our hands," expressing concerns that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4's impending release could lead to the Borderlands Online revival project being shut down. EpicNNG points to how Activision allegedly shut down the viral Call of Duty H2M mod so that it couldn't interfere with Black Ops 6's sales.

"God forbid that happens here, and this gets shut down, and I receive a cease and desist because we're taking away from the marketing of Borderlands 4," the developer continues. "Not my goal, and not the punishment I'm seeking, I purely want to get this done for the community to see what it was like so we can꧅ showcase this game in 2025, 10 years after it was shut down."

EpicNNG also implores anyone considering contributi🃏ng not to blast leaked information from the game "all over the internet and get us shut down," noting: "It is going to hurt us andꦑ you literally do not care about media preservation if that's the purpose of what you're doing."

The developer also has a message for the likes of Take-Two In🍒teractive, 2𝔉K, and Gearbox, reiterating that this is "purely a passion project" that's not intended to cause harm or generate profit. "Please hear my words. I am doing this for the sake of media preservation. I am a fan of the franchise, I am not doing this to harm you."

All in all, EpicNNG believes that to "preserve this and in order to make it something that can truly live forever, it needs to live through other people. And that's why I'm making this video." ꦓThe dev tantalizingly adds: "This is genuinely history-making stuff, and if we can get it working, I think there's a very, very real chance that we can make something special."

Borderlands 4 might not feature fan-favorite Tiny Tina, as her voice actor says they "haven't heard anything" about returning to the series.

In an interview with ♊, Tiny Tina actor Ashly Burch was asked all about her character, but when it came to whether or not we might see her in the upcoming Borderlands 4, Burch said "I haven't heard anything" about being asked to come bac🎶k for the role. That would certainly imply that there won't be any sign of Tina in the upcoming looter-shooter.

Burch doesn't elaborate much, but it's certainly a surprising admission. Tina has ap🧸peared in every Borderlands game since 2012's Borderlands 2, and while her original role was r✱elatively minor, she ended up headlining an entire DLC for that title. Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep was a D&D parody, but it went on to shape Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, a full-fledged spin-off.

In fact, that spin-off was so successful that developer Gearbox and p🐼ublisher 2K were quick to label it a new franchise, one that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查💎询:it was clearly prepared to invest in. Just months after its release, this Tiny Tina-fronted titled was hinted to have new experiences "under development." That might have been referrin🤪g to its DLC, but if the team had only been rolling out a pre-determined content plan, they likely wouldn't have been so loud about it.

Either way, Gearbox has gone to some substantial effort to establish Tina as an important character within the wider Borderlands-verse over recent years. She was even included in the much-malign🅷ed Borderlands movie, and while that might have flopped, I'm not sure it was all down to Tina.

Of course, Burch could be pulling the wool over our eyes. It wouldn't be the first time that an actor had had to be economical with the truth when it came to their appearance in a new franchise movie. But if she is telling the truth, it does sound like this could be the first Tina-less mainline Borderlands game in more than a decade - with Borderlands 4 due out later this year, Gearbox might be leaving it a little late 🅠to get Bu🌠rch into the booth.

Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford sorta kinda apologizes over $80 "real fan" comment: "Nobody likes being taken for granted and it was not my intent."

From 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mario Kart World to certain 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:unnamed first-party Xbox games coming in the future, one thing is clear – $80 games are becoming a thing whether you like it or not, and for obvious reasons, not a lot of people like it. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:recently got a lot of backlash after he responded to one fan concerned that Borderlands 4 would have this price tag, too, suggesting that "if you🥃're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen."

Although he since clarified that "it was not my intent" to make fan𒉰s feel ꦍlike they were being taken for granted, the weird vibes around Borderlandꦇs weren't helped by the dwindli𒊎ng but ongoing Steam review bombing of other games in the series.

Basically, it was recently highlighted that, upon loading up the likes of Borderlands 2, players were asked to agree to updated Terms of Service and a privacy policy from Take-Two Interactive that had some worried a🦄bout ownership and their privacy when it came to the colle💝ction of personal information.

While it's worth noting that some have suggested that the latest Terms of Ser🧸vice agreement isn't all that different to the previous one – with some worried fans potentially overreacting a bit – that's 𓆏not stopped the negative reviews from pouring in, with Borderlands 1 through 3 all sitting with "mostly negative" recent review ratings on Steam.

And, needless to sa🌌y, it doesn't seem like any of this is blowing over any time soon. Just before the weekend, to share a "free SHiFT code for loot keys" in any and all Borderlands games, offering three Golden Keys so you can get your hands on some extra loot. While a nice bonus, and one Pitchford hands out regularly, the responses are full of people continuing to air their grievances.

"Honestly surprised the code wasn't 'for the true fans,'" , referencing the controversial price comment. : "You sure you don't want the keys to be 80 dollars, too?♛ We'll find a way to make ♋it happen!"

Meanwhile, there are still plenty of compla💧ints about those updated terms of service, with one calling them and𒊎 it "crosses the line." Granted, that ball is likely in Take-Two's court.

More generally, one s�𒁃�imply : "We done with Borderlands y'all."

We'll have to see if all this passes by the time🗹 Borderlands 4 releases in September. In the meantime, Pitchford's latest SHiFT code (which is SR633-TXCRT-BTJBB-JJJJ3-K3BSC) is set to expire on May 29 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET / 5pm GMT, so be sure to enter it before then if you do want to use it.

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford responds to "real fans" backlash by doubling down on the fact he doesn't set the price: "If you want the truth, here it is."

Last week, Pitchford claimed that while he wasn't in control of the Borderlands 4 price, "澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:real fans" would find a way to afford it, even if it came out at $80. Those comments have been widely criticized - and Pitchford himself has attempted to set the record straight - but the extent of the damage they've done is enough 🌱that even some of the series' biggest fans are feeඣling wary.

YouTuber and streamer dammit2hell, who was part of Gearbox's 'Borderlands Stream Team' for the launch of Borderlands 3, said that Pitchford's comments were "tone deaf" and "driving off the people that were excited for the game." Another YouTuber, Mischief, quoted Pitchford's original tweet, "Borderlands 4 went from a guaranteed purchase for me to something I'm not remotely interested in." Elsewhere, Borderlands content creator Cashew Steam reviews that are adding to the Bord꧑erlands series' ongoing review-bombing by directly quoting Pitchford's recent words.

EpicNNG, a fan so dedicated that they've recently been trying to bring back the Borderlands series' defunct Chinese MMO, also criticized Pitchford, the the "best course of action is for Randy to apologize," and that it's "not fair on the devs to fuck BL4's hype like this." They also pointed out that "either the game drops at 80 dollars and people are outraged, or the game drops at the normal price and he caused a major PR shitshow for no reason. Absolute lose-lose situatio🍨n for him."

Criticism of Pitchford has been far reaching, with one Baldur's Gate 3 dev saying his outlook is "gross" for ignoring people's day-to-day needs.

After one Borderlands fan expressed their desire that Bor🦩derlands 4 not cost $80, Pitchford said that the game's pricing was "not my call" - while he might have some influence, publisher Take-Two Interactive is likely to have the final say on cost. However, Pitchford also had some choice advice for players who might balk at that inflated price tag: Just find the money.

"If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen," Pitchford says of that potential $80 figure, befo🐼re embarking on a personal anecdote to drive his point home. See, his local game store had a copy of 1991 Sega Genesis space sim Starflight for sale three decades ago, and Pitchford found the money to pay for it, even though he was "just out of high school working minimum wage at an ice cream parlor."

Now, the US Inflation Calculator suggests that an $80 purchase in 1991 is worth a tasty $190 today, and I do have to question just how good Starflight must have been to have encouraged Randy to spend that kind of cash. Importantly, however, given that he says he was "just out of high school" when he made that purchase, I'm willing to bet this was a pre-college job and that Randy had minimal living expenses around that time. Factor in that Pitchford's father was a senior technology developer inside the US int💛elligence system, and perhaps a $200 game was more affordable for him than for many of the rest of us.

If you feel like I might not be impressed by Pitchford's line of argument there - especially in this economy - then 🎃you might be glad to know I'm not alone. The replies benea✅th that particular tweet are filled with players who are slightly baffled to see a CEO still rocking the 'just buy it' line in 2025. It's a strange move, but I suppose it is at least in line with Pitchford's no-nonsense approach to social media.

Steam users are review bombing the Borderlands games following Take-Two's new user agreement: "I don't feel comfortable with the terms of service."

As pointed out by a player in a recent thread, the Borderlands games are currently facing a review bomb of sorts on Steam. The debacle boils down to Take-Two's recently upd𝄹ated user agreement, which is outlined on the holding company's . "People are reꦯview bombing the entire Borderlands series because of EULA changes that can apparently gain root-level access to your machine under the guise of 'anti-cheat' software."

The poster continues, explaining how fans are upset at the prospect of Tඣake-Two collecting "personal info like accounts, passwords, telephone numbers, etc." One look at the Steam pages for each of the three main Borderlands entries serves as proof that players are indeed upset about the new terms of service. Under the fir꧙st game's recent reviews, which have dropped to "Mixed," people share their concerns about the user agreement.

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"I don't feel comfortable with the terms of service," writes one such fan. Another simply calls the game "spyware" following the integration of Take-Two's new terms of service. The page for Borderlands 2 also shows "Mixed" reviews, with players highlighting their worries over the user agreement and how they're afra🍷id it affects their privacy 🎃online: "This collects usernames and passwords, IP locations and browser history data."

Recent Borderlands 3 reviews don't look much better, either. One fan exclaims that "recent E💧ULA changes seem insane," while others describe how now "mods are a bannable offense" and any "display of cheats/exploits is bannable" despite the game being largely single-player/co-op rather than an online experience where anti-cheat measures make sense. Elsewhere, people cite the legal impli👍cations of Take-Two's new user agreement.

Not everyone is convinced the changes spell the end of Borderlands as fans know and love it, however. As seen onꦍ the Reddit post covering the review bombing, some think players are "overreacting" currently: "People are overreacting for sure. The EULA is hardly any different than the one before it all the way back in 2018." Just as the games' reviews are now "Mixed" on Steam, then, so are the community's opinions on the terms of service.

Borderlands 3 player beats every last bit of the FPS at the highest difficulty, without getting downed a single time: "The most tense run I've done"

In a new instalment of Nintendo's Creator's Voice series, Pitch🦩ford says that "it's pre💯tty astonishing how perfect this platform is for Borderlands 4." Specifically, he points to the "cooperative experience," and how the Switch 2 can be used to "connect with friends" and "share our game with friends."

That's not the only reason he's a fa🍷n of the upcoming console, though, as he's also very complimentary of the power of the system. "The Nintendo Switch 2 has been a joy to work with," he begins. "It's very powerful. It's an incredible machine in a very tight form factor, and we lo🐼ve being on the bleeding edge with our graphics, and the experience that we're creating, and the Nintendo Switch 2 makes all that possible.

"We don't feel like w🅺e're fighting the system, we feel like the system's enabling us and empowering us to make the best version of Borderlands 4 we can," he continues. "As a game developer, it's awesome."

Despite Pitchford's praises of the system, it still remains unclear whether or not Borderlands 4 will be releasing on Switch 2 at the same time as its other platforms. Back in February, it was initially announced that the game would be launching on September 23 – a date which wasn't given when it was later confirmed to be coming to Switch 2, too. Instead, during the flurry of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 news, it w♔as simply stated that it'd be arriving on the up🐲coming console in 2025.

Since then, of course, we found out that Borderlands 4 is releasing 11 days earlier than expected, arriving on S𒐪eptember 12. Despite this, the Switch 2 release window is still stated to be "2025" in this latest video, as well as in a from the Borderlands🍰 Twitter account and on the game's .

For now, it seems we'll just have to watch this space, bu💦t Pitchford is certainly selling the experience on Nintendo's new console as an overwhelmingly positive one.

Be sure to check out our list of other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch 2 games to see what's on the horizon.

We just had a massive Borderlands 4 info blowout courtesy of a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:State of Play presentation, days after it was announced that the game is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:releasing over a week earlier than expected (which we all naively assumed was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:because of GTA 6 releasing near the original date – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:how naive we were). The upcoming game has 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:changed up how loadouts work and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:overhauled drop rates and loot to avoid the overabundance of Legendary weapons found in Borderlands 3, and Pit🌄chford is now attempting to ease concerns about weapon balance.

As one fan on Twitter states that their two main concerns about Borderlands 4 are the game's performance and balance, Pitchford quotes theiꦏr post to offer some reassurance. In , the Gearbox CEO says that the game will target 60 fps, and as for balance, he said, "F' balance. Make a sick build with some god drop loot and melt bosses. Be a legend."

Of course, the original user didn't say whether they were in favo🐓r of over-the-top wea🐓pon balance, but they got an answer regardless.

Borderlands 3 received a lot of back in 2019, which naturally has left people skeptical 🧜of Pitchford's comments. However, he🧜 doubting his "F' balance" stance, explaining that it's usually Graeme Timmins, Borderlands 4's creative director, who deals with balance-related matters.

"It is inevitable that with so much loot and so𝕴 many procedural combinations that there could be game breaking drops that he may not have anticipated or that we may not have discovered yet. I am eager to see how Graeme will handle it," Pitchford says.

"The c✨ase would have to be extremely rare and likely very strange for me to usurp his decision or come over the top of his authority. I trust Graeme's justice to be fair and swift even if, at times, it may be merciless," he adds. Which sounds to me like Pitchford is saying that the game will receive balance updates if things end up being too over the top, making the whole "F balance" comment come under question about four hours after he first said it.

Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says "sometimes we're white-knuckling to the landing," but with Borderlands 4 they've never "been in a better spot this far from launch."

Asked about Bo🎶rderlands 4's price , Pitchford says: "I'll tell you the truth. I don't know. That is the truth. I'll hit it straigh🅘t on. It's an interesting time.

"On one level, we've got a competitive♉ marketplace where the people that make those choices want to sell as many units as possible and they want to be careful about people that are price-sensitive," he continues. "There are some folks who don't want to see prices go up, even the ones deciding what the prices are.

"There's other folks accep✅ting the reality that game budgets are increasing, and there's tariffs for the retail packaging. It's getting gnarly out there, you guys. Bord꧂erlands 4 has more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3. More than twice. So the truth is, I don't know what the price is going to be."

Pitchford says Borderlands 4 pre-orders will open "🐼soon," and the price will of course be set by then.

He reasoꩵns that, naturally, the devs want to sell copies to get the budget to make more games. "When the revenue comes in, we can spend it to make bigger games and better games," Pitchford says.

"The fundamental philosophy is: we want people to buy it so we have the resources to make more, but we want everyone who buys and plays a Gearbox game to feel certain that they got the bℱetter end of the bargain."

He reiterates that "we're gonna have a price set soon." This "might be the new price that Nintendo and🐟 Microsoft have led with," he added, not saying $80 out loud but leaving no room for doubt, or "it might be that we stay b𒉰ack."

"It's gonna be the people at the publishing house that dec🦩ide that. If it is cheaper, maybe we'll sell you that minimap that you guys want that we'll develop later," he joked, referring to some of the hesitant pla൩yer feedback to Borderlands 4 going all-in on a compass instead of using a minimap (I'm actually not against the idea given the focus on verticality). "How bad you want that? $10? I don't know. I'm just kidding."

Former PlayStation boss blames AAA "production costs" for $80 games, says titles with "tighter teams" like Clair Obscur could be the way forward.

This 'you can climb that mountain' promise has evolved into one of the many memes stuck to Howard's leather jacket like a fish hook in your thumb, and it's a promise that Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has now one-upped with extremely similar verbiage in his excitement for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4.

Speaking at earlier today, Pitchford discussed the scope of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlanജds 4's not-technical🌃ly-open-world environments. He reiterated that 🍸the new setting of Kairos is "by far the biggest universe that we've built. And it's seamless. There's no load times."

And then Howard seem🅷s to astral project and assume con💝trol of Pitchford, who says: "You see something anywhere on the screen, a mile away, up in the sky, you will be able to get there."

Lots of games with big worlds have made similar promises, and plenty have generally lived up to the idea, including Skyrim. There's a reason Skyrim is now a verb used to describe climbing mountains like a particularly stu🧸bborn goat.

I think the best way to avoid getting too hung up on this or similar design semantics is, like with the law, t🦋o respect and follow the spirit, if not the letter. Will this stop some fasti𒈔dious Borderlands 4 players from posting granular video breakdowns of the limitations that any environment is sure to have because it turns out game worlds can't go on forever? Absolutely not.

As a longtime Borderlands enjoyer, I am genuinely intrigued by the environmental depth and verticality that Gearbox is promising in Borderlands 4. Movement mechanics have been expanded and modernized, ꦫ澳ꦰ洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a grappling hook is always catnip to me, and Pitchford spent quite some time talking up the ability to go a zillion miles away from your co-op partners to explore and then instantly teleport back to each other with no downtime🐎.

I don't think I'll be jumping 10,000 times to scale the set dressing – these games often forget to put something interesting atop the proverbial mountain – but I guess it's cool th🌞at I have the option.

With Borderlands 4, Gearbox says "we've overhauled our drop rates and loot across the game" – and admits that "in Borderlands 3, [Legendaries] dropped too often."

Earlꦜier this week, details emerged about a Borderlands 4 feature that will allow players to r🐼eplay missions and bosses. Dubbed 'Moxxi's Big Encore machine' after the series' long-running burlesque bartender NPC, it'll offer a chance to farm items and weapon drops without exploit save systems.

Apparently, however, it wasn't always known by that name, and was possibly something that made a bit more of a reference to Moxxi's sordid past. In a tweet, Borderlands 4 n♔arrative director Sam Winkler suggested that "some of the rejected names for this system would make a dockworker blush."

Sadly, Winkler doesn't reveal any of those names - he says they "will not be repeated" - but I can imagine the kind of climactic innuendo that the Borderlands writing team might have come up with. I could probably ta𓄧ke a decent stab myself, but I don't fancy getting fired today.

Winkler does seem to be trying to keep the worst excesses of Borderlands' historic tone under control in the new game. After its reveal last year, he said he hoped that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码🤪历史查询:Borderlands 4 wouℱld have less "toilet humor" and meme references to things like skibidi toilet and Hawk Tuah. Elsewhere, fellow dev Anthony Nicholson said 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询✱:"the tone of Borderlands 4 will evo🦄lve," and while there'll be some "over-the𒈔-top writing," it shouldn't be all-consuming.

Borderlands 4 moves beyond Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands as Gearbox promises "billions of weapons and accessories."

I can hear your confusion already, "ꦆwhat Borderlands MMO?" You'd be totally forgiven if yo🍷u'd never heard of it – titled Borderlands Online, the MMO was announced back in 2014 and was set to release exclusively in China.

Less than a year later, dreams for the game were crushed as 2K China was shut down. A at the time, saying that it was "determined that the additional time required to finish current projects at the studio, particularly Borderlands Online, woul🍌d not yield a favorable♔ return on investment."

You'd think that'd mark the end of the MMO for good, but as , a glimmer of hope has emerged thanks to dataminer, modder, a𝓡nd game developer @EpicNNG on Twitter. Last week, the dataminer took to the platform : "BREAKING: I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY OBTAINED A BUILD OF THE CHINESE BORDERLANDS ONLINE MMO."

For a while, @EpicNNG was stuck on the MMO's login screen, despite having "a ton of good ideas to brute force" their way in. However, even after they "just kept running into walls," the dataminer was determined to make the long-lost game accessible to the masses: "Won't give up though, I'll make sure the communi👍ty gets to experience this game one way or another."

Thankfully, it didn't take too long for the first major hurdle to be conquered, as @EpicNNG has gotten past the login screen and made it to the MMO's character creator. "Here is gameplay of the Character Creator in Borderlands ONLINE, running for the first time since it got shut down," they share. "Customiza𒁃tion for each character is rather limited, but cool regardless. So surreal to have access to this in 2025."

For now, you apparently get "stuck on an infinite loading screen after making a vault hunter," but ꧅it sounds like this is just the start of a bigger proje𒊎ct for @EpicNNG. "Since servers are dead, I think I'll go for the name 'Borderlands Offline,'" they ponder. "It will also need uncapped FPS, FOV changes, translating to English, and hopefully that's it. I guess you could say it needs a… Redux?"

From the outside, that frankly doesn't sound like a small amount of work – transl🏅ation alone sounds like it could be quite a task. However, the fact that Borderlands fans now have a chance of playing something once lost to time is an enormous win.

Borderlands fans really can't stop winning, as only last week it was announced that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 is releasing 11 days earlier than previously expected. That's a much better situation than GTA fans have found themselves in, as Rockstar, on the other hand, announced that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 has been 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:pushed back to next May.

In the meantime, be sure to check out our roundup of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best MMORPGs you can play right now.

"Vex the Siren is a powerful Siren who can empower herself or manifest deadly shades to fight alongside her," a press release says. During the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 State of Play, we see how Vex wields supernatural phase en🥃ergy to blast away enemies with her bare hands, or to create scythe-wielding spirits to fight her battles with her.

Like other Borderlands 4 Sirens – ultra-powerful, otherworldly beings, including the 💜fan-favorite bad girl Lilith, w💝ho may or may not be dead at the end of Borderlands 3 – Vex seems highly capable. But even with magic at her fingertips, it looks like she couldn't turn down her purple panther companion.

Gearbox shows off its muscle during State of Play, whi𒉰le demonstrating Vex's class abilities, or action skills. Vex can use something like the skill Incarnate to trigger a Phase Explosion that destroys opponents while regenerating her health, but Phase Phamiliar offers what looks like a more unique combat strategy.

With this skill, Trouble, Vex's ghostly Minion, can turn "into a Badass" that restores health and boosts damage for a limited amount of time. If only I could get the pigeons on my roof to do the same 💧thing⛄.

You'll be able to play as Vex and her evil kitty cat – along with three other new Vault Hunters i🥃ncluding, an exo-suit soldier Rafa, whose impressive range of weapons was also showcased during State of Play – when Borderlands 4 launches on September 12.

Whoa, Borderlands 4 made huge changes to guns: we basically have 5 weapon slots now, and there are 3 new manufacturers plus modded guns with "Licensed Parts" combos.

The was livestreamed today, and the folks at Gearbox talked in some ꩵdetail about the core pillars of the Borderlands experience, 🔴guns and loot.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:We've ✅got a writeup on the gun stuff already, which includes a new total of five weapon slots, three new manufacturers plus modded guns, and "Licensed Parts" combos that'll let you mix and match behaviors and abilities fr𓄧om different manufacturers into a single weapon.

As for loot, Gearbox gave a broader overview of what sounds like a marginally new philosophy that seems to amount to: lowered drop rates so that loot feels valuable aga⛦in.

"We've overhauled or drop rates and loot across the💟 game," said Borderlands 4 creative director Graeme Timmins. "We've worked hard to make sure all our g🍒ear feels better than ever, while also making rarity matter again. This makes for our most satisfying loot chase ever.

"And at the top of everything, our Legendaries," continued Timmins. "These have always had unique effects that you won't find on any other piece of gear, but in Borderlands 3 they dropped too often. This not only devalued Legendaries, it made everything feel less valuable. In our new system, not only do all guns feel great, but now Legendaries will truly be special events. We've added the magic back to our loot chase, and we know♏ you'll love grinding all that great gear on Kairos."

If you haven't watched the brand new Borderlands 4 gameplay trailer, head here to get a glimpse at some of the new weapons and skills, new traversal mechanics, and what looks to our eyes like an open-world despite Gearbox previously saying it wasn't going to be𒐪 open-world.

For a more comprehensive overview, here's everything announced at the Borderlands 4 State of Play.

This follows the news that Borderlands 4 is launching more than a week early, which Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says has nothing to do with the timing on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6, the heavyweight project of publisher Take-Two.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 features five returning weapon manufacturers♓ and three new ones with their own quirks. Here's the full list:

• Jakobs focuses on headshots
• Maliwan spills elemental damage
• Vladof brings big magazines and a rate of fire to match
• Tediore guns explode when you chuck them on a reload
• Torgue specializes in explosions
• (New) The Order deals in "charge-and-release blasts"
• (New) Ripper doubles down on full-auto
• (New) Daedalus are "reliable" and "easy to use" with support for multiple ammo types

The glue holding these manufacturers together is a new "Licensed🏅 Parts" system that sounds a lot like weapon modding, but is seemingly tied to RNG. "T🍰his allows for behaviors and abilities from multiple manufacturers to spawn in a single weapon," Gearbox explained during the show.

In one example, a Vladof rifle sported a Torgue mag, Hyperion attachment, and Maliwan switch, "meaning it shoots fast and explodes things." It's currently uಞnclear if we'll be able to customize these components ourselves, but it sounds like it's all down to whaꦡt weapons drop with.

Stil🌟l, this ought to make your umpteenth version of the same gun more interesting.

"The higher the rarity, the more parts it can randomly spawn, creating💜 wilder and wilder loot," Gearbox added. "And that's before even getting into alt-fire modes, underbarrels, and elemental damage."

Another significant change is found in the gear menu. You've♛ still got four weapon slots, with an♊ Enhancement item taking the place of Artifacts and adding "bonuses to specific manufacturers" or guns with their parts, but I'm most interested in the new Ordnance slot.

Ordnance is a cooldown-based, not ammo-based, weapon slot shared by grenades and heavy weapons like ro🐎cket launchers. My current read of this slot is that grenades will have a short cooldown for better uptime, while rocket launchers or the chain guns demonstrated during the showcase would have a longer cooldown but pack a much greater punch.

My previous go-to Borderlands loadout generally included a rifle or submachine gun, a shotgun, a sniper, and a rocket. With Borderlands 4's Ordnance addition, my rocket slot is 𒈔suddenly wide open. What will I do without my quadrilogy? Two rifles? Two shotg🌠uns, dare we dream? Grenades often felt a little throwaway in previous games, so as much as I hate change, I think I'm willing to make the trade here.

It's not quite a fifth weapon slot, but it sure sounds close enough in🃏 practice. And with no heavy ammo to worry about, you can fire a little more liberally too.

"No mor🔜e saving the b𒈔ig guns for boss fights," as Gearbox put it. "Now you can blow stuff up as often as you want."

Fortnite brings back long-forgotten Borderlands collab skin for the first time in almost 5 years, right on cue for Borderlands 4's new, earlier release date.

Borderlands 4 takes place on Kairos, which is made up of four zones "that you can seamlessly explore" with "next to no loading time," finding "dynamic weather and events" as you go. The State of Play broadcast demonstrated the path to what looks like a story mission, but it seems there'll be plenty of room to be distracted by side activities along the way, with "no need to pick up a mission" to engage wi𝔉th them.

As described in a follow-up post on the , you'll "come across short gameplay experiences and new activities that auto𒆙-grant a tracked mission whenever you discover them – like Silos, which house old, decommissioned Order tech that you can hijack for the Crimson Resistance."

Clear a silo, and it'll be turned into both a fast travel point and a launcher that'll send you flying intওo the air so you can glide down to your next destination. The glide joins double-jumping, dashing, and point gra🔴ppling to vastly expand your movement options. Each cleared silo will also point you toward a Vault Key fragment. Collect enough, and you'll be able to open a Vault for a high-level dungeon run with high-level loot.

So, we've got a giant world with distinct, but seamlessly connected areas to explore, dynamic weather, optio𝔍nal side activities that unlock fast travel points and new content, plus an array of movement abilities engineered to help you get around. That sure sounds like an open-world game to me – and the fact that you can pull out a personal vehicle to speed up your exploration seജals the deal.

Pitchford previously acknowledged that Borderlands 4 would be the "most open and free" entry in the series yet, but said he 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:wouldn't use the term "open-world" since it "comes with a lot of baggage that doesn't apply. Y🍒ou'll see."

I'm guessing that means the game will try to dodge the issues that plague some open-world games, like repetitive checklist activities that offer minimal rewards. We'll see how Borderlands 4 delivers on that front when it launches on its ཧ澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:newly minted release date oღf September 12.

GTA 6 has nothing to do with Borderlands 4's new release date, as Gearbox CEO insists it's "100% the result of confidence," not "any other product's actual or theoretical launch date."

Yesterday, it was confirmed that Borderlands 4 will be coming out 11 days sooner than previously announced, arriving on September 12 instead of September 23. Previously, Borderlands 4 was set to directly clash with the release of Bungie's upcoming extraction shooter, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marathon, but🐬 the game that has been brought up concerning the early launch is GTA ♕6.

Rockstar Games and Gearbox Software are both owned by Take-Two Interactive, and its CEO, Strauss Zelnick, previously said he thought it was "safe to say that we wouldn’t, and no one would, stack up huge releases unnecessarily." With GTA 6 currently eyeing up a fall 2025 release, this statement was already enough for fans to speculate that Borderlands 4's original launch date could have narrowed down when we can expect Rockstar's upcoming blockbuster to be upon us.

Fast forward to today, and you can understand why many could question if the move of Gearbox's game might be related to Rockstar's own release, but CEO Randy Pitchford asserts that this isn't the case. "Borderlands 4 shipping early is 100% the result of confidence in the game and development trajectory b✱acked by actual tasks and bug find/fix rates," the Gearbox boss explains on Twitter. "Our decision is literally 0% about any other product's actual or theoretical launch date."

That ties into what Pitchford was saying in his video announcing the news, too,♓ where he said that everything is "going kinda the best-case scenario" ✃behind the scenes of Borderlands 4's development, and added: "The game is awesome, the team is cooking."

Is this latest statement going to stop any GTA 6 faꦆns desperate for news from speculating if there might secretly be more to all this behind the scenes? Most likely not, but that's the official line, and Pitchford is sticking to it. To Gearbox's credit, it seems incredibly unlikely that the devs would be willing to shift their release dꦺate like this months in advance unless they were very confident about how things were looking.

We'll be given an even greater look at Borderlands 4 later today (April 30) thanks to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:its own dedicated State of Play stream, 💙too. It'll be going live at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BST / 11pm CEST, so don't miss it.

Borderlands 4 moves beyond Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands as Gearbox promises "billions of weapons and accessories."

"Get ready for a deep dive on Borderlands 4," creative director Graeme Timmins writes in . "During this special State of Play, I'll be joined by other members of the Gearbox team 🐎to share the nitty-gritty details of how you'll wreak havoc across Kairos and take down the Timekeeper."

Until now, developer Gearbox has been fairly tight-lipped about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4, the first main game in the riotous series since 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 3 came out in 2019. Since Borderlands 4 is now releasing on September 12 instead of September 23 – a change due to the fact that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"the game is awesome, the team is co�🍨�oking," Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford suggests – it's good that Gearbox is ready to ope𒁃n up.

Where to watch Borderlands 4 State of Play

You'll be able to view the Borderlands 4 State of Play on the PlayStation an🅺d chaꦯnnels on April 30 – as of writing, that's tomorrow.

Borderlands 4 State of Play time

The stream will start at a reasonable time for🐠 most Borderlands fans, heading into the late afternoon and evening with a 2pm PT start time, or 5pm ET / 10pm BST / 11pm CEST.

"Strap in with me and Anthony Nicholson, Senior Project Producer, for over 20 minutes of developer-gui🦩ded gameplay, including missions, killer weapons, exciting Action Skills, new and returning characters, and more," Timmins writes in the PlayStation blog.

You heard the man. Strap in!

Fortnite brings back long-forgotten Borderlands collab skin for the first time in almost 5 years, right on cue for Borderlands 4's new, earlier release date.

Fortnite has loads of fun collab cosmetics, allowing players tꦿo go for a victory royale as everyone from Spider-Man to Satoru Gojo, to Hatsune Miku and Solid Snake, but sometimes, actually being able to get your hands on the skins is easier said than done. C🌱osmetics released in the item shop are constantly rotating in and out, so they're not always available, and some things have been absent for quite some time.

While I've been in a constant state of regret over missing out on Resident Evil's Leon Kennedy in 2023, fans of other franchises have been waiting even longer for certain collaborations to return, like the popular League of Legends Arcane skins, which have been missing for over three years and won't be coming back "in the foreseeable future." It's stuff like that that makes the return of Borderlands' own Psycho Bandꦿit bundle – com🌳plete with the skin itself, as well as a Claptrap back bling and Psycho Buzz Axes – even more worth celebrating.

The last🌱 time these cosmetics were available to buy from the battle royale's item shop was all the way back in May 2020, so it's been a really long time coming for anyone who missed out. There was a longer period of availability for the skin for anyone who was up for buying Borderlands 3 on the Epic Games Store before the end of 2020 – those players got it as an extra bonus, but that eligibility period has long since expired.

Looking at the fine print in the item shop today, it's confirmed that Psycho Bandit will be available to buy until May 3 at 5pm PT, 8pm ET, or May 4 at 1am BST. Afte💯r that, as with any skin, it's not known how long it'll be before he's back again.

While some players love having "rare" skins, those being ones which haven't been seen in ages or were only available for a very limited time, I imagine there's a lot more people🐷 simply happy tꦅo have the opportunity to grab a collab they missed out on before.

Is that going to stop some old Psycho Bandit owners from being a tad annoyed that their skin isn't as elusive as it once ✃was? Probably not. But personally, I hope this sets the stage for even more of the long-forgotten collabs to return to the battle royale.

Again, the timing of the skin's comeback is impeccable, as just a c🐻ouple of hours ago it was revealed that Borderlands 4 is now set to release on September 12 instead of September 23, so ꦦwe can prepare to embark on the new looter shooter 11 days earlier than expected.

It's also been revealed that the deep dive Borderlands 4 State of Play will be taking place tomorrow, which should hopefully be full of💛 new details for us to pore over.

Borderlands 4's tone sits somewhere between the first two games, which probably means less Skibidi Toilet and more Handsome Jack-style antics.

As revealed in a video from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford today (which was swiftly deleted, but is apparently being reposted soon), 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 is now set to release on September 12 – a 🍸whole 11 days sooner than its old September 23 launch date.

Pitchford teases that "everything's going kinda the best-case scenario. The game is awesome, the team is cooking," hence why it'll end up be🔴ing in our hands sooner than expected.

"This never hᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚappens you guys, this never happens! We're moving the launch date forward! You're gonna get Borderlands 4ꦚ earlier!" Pitchford continues.

The Gearbox CEO also notes that the previously-announced Borderlands 4 deep dive St💖ate of Play is "coming up imminently," so it sounds⭕ like we won't have to wait long for that.

"It's gonna be awesome, we show you more about🎃 the game than you've ever seen before. And we are pumped," Pitchford adds, asking fans to look to Sony and 2K's own channels f🤡or details. At the time of writing, nothing has been posted there just yet, but we'll be sure to keep an eye on things.

So, be honest, how many of you thought Pitchford's news was going to be a Borderlands 4 delay at first? Given that his tweet said that "we have t♚o move the launch date," it wasn't looking too good at first, but this is certainly a welcome surprise.

Borderlands 4 is coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and even Switch 2.

Gearbox didn't set out to create an open-world game with Borderlands 4, but the FPS does have "open-world-like features, such as seamless travel between zones."

3D Realms has dropped its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: suit against Gearbox for unpaid royalties from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Duke Nukem Forever. The former issued a statement (via ) absolving the latter of all blame, with a personal apology 🤪from founder and🔯 CEO Scott Miller.

"After reviewing evidence regarding our business affairs, and without any money exchanging hands, we have satisfactorily reℱsolved any and all differences that we perceived against Gearbox," Miller said.

3D Realms claimed Gearbox failed to pay more than $2 m🔯illion in royalties aft🎐er Gearbox bought the rights to Duke Nukem Forever, which had been delayed and rebooted for more than a decade. It also claimed Gearbox blocked attempts at an independent audit of the royalties in question.

Now it seems the vaporware-turned-critical-and-commercial-flop can recede into the history books and ꦗstay there th✅is time.

"In all sincerity, we regret the misunderstanding that instigated our lawsuit," Miller wrote. "Now that we better unders♈tand--and appreciate--the actual nature of our business matters, we have voluntarily withdrawn our claims against Gearbox, with genuine apologies to [Gearbox president and CEO] Randy [Pi💯tchford] for any damage that our lawsuit may have caused to the relationship."

Is Krieg's inner voice a tragic metaphor for the player's desire to interact wﷺith the world of Pandorཧa in meaningful ways, constrained by actions limited to "shoot" and "use?" Sure, why not, either way the character still costs $10.

Also, Borderlands 2 players will get one last hurrah of shooting and using when the D&D-themed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep launches on June 25. It's the final piece of th👍e $30 season pass, and will also be available for $10 on its own.

Gearbox Software is the proud new owner of the Homeworld franchise, the developer announced today. Its first move will be to make the "purest form" of spacefaring RTS classics 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Homeworld and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Homeworld 2 available on digital distribution platforms

"Gearbox Sಞoftware has prevailed as the highest bidder in the acquisition of the Homeworld franchise from THQ," the studio wrote on . "Brian Martel, Gearbox Software's Chief Creative Officer, has great love and respect for Relic's brilliant, fun and innovative game and personally spe🍨arheaded the acquisition."

Homeworld was one of several THQ properties auctioned off in a se♔condary round of the publisher's bankruptcy proceedings. Darksiders and other prominent THQ licenses were also up for grabs, so we expect to kไnow mor⛎e soon.

Series creator Relic Entertainment was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:purchased by Sega. Relic was i💦nterested in reclaiming the franchise, according to an .

The Wii U version of the year's worst-received game is over, man. Sega today told that work on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Aliens: Colonial Marines for Nintendo's console is no more.

"Sega can confirm that the Wii U sku of Aliens: Colonial Marines is no longer in 🌼development," the p🍨ublisher said.

Colonial Marines was scheduled to hit Wii U by the end of March, but its universally panned release cooled in🐻terest in the long-overdue title. Port developer Demiurge Studios was nonchalant in its response to GameSpot.

"We were very sorry to hear about the cancellation of Aliens for Wii U. It's business-as-usual here at Demiurge Studios. We are focused on making 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shoot Many Robots for mobile kick ass🐻 and we've got another unannounced game in the works that we can't w𝓡ait to unveil!"

In space, no one can hear the bang or the whimper.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Aliens: Colonial Marines' infamously optimistic trailers will get a touch of reality thanks to one angry U.K. customer. The Reddit user, who goes by subpardave, sent a complaint to the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Agency about the differe𝓰nce in visual quality between the pre-release videos and the game itself.

"My aim was not to get fines, co🥃mpensation or any of that," . Instead he wanted to make sure Sega and the games industry at large is "held accountable for blatantly deceiving the con♊sumer."

The now states that "the trailer footage shown uses the in-game engine, and represents a work in progress," though the vide💙os themselves are unaltered for now﷽.

Adding a disclaimer to Colonial Marines' website and videos that the footage d💯epicts an in-progress version may not live up to your definition of accountability, but the ASA did side with the consumer on this one.

"Sega Europe understood the objections raised about the quality 🍷of the game in relation to the trailers, but explained that they weren't aware of these issues when the trailers were produced, in some cases several months before release," the , evidently .

"We consider that with this d💝ℱisclaimer in place, customers are unlikely to get the impression that the trailer shows the finished product and the ads are therefore unlikely to mislead."

Wonder no longer. Using Chaos Theory as our guide, and a tricked-out Delorean as our transportation, weve mapped out every potential change in the future that never was. Here are our irrefutable fin🐻dings

The fight was already won. Duke stood proudly ove👍r the carcass of the Cycloid Emperor, having gone to space and back to annihilate every trace of the alien presence. Hed𓃲 killed hundreds of pig cops, saved thousands of strippers, and wrought millions of dollars in damages across the Los Angeles area. Duke felt the need for a show of celebration, one appropriate to the football field he now stood on. With a running start, he kicked the dead Cycloids skull with every ounce of his strength, hoping to .

Instead, Duke screamed--a groaning, guttural scream. His ACL ruptured on impact; searing pain shot through his leg. Duke k🌺eeled over in agony, accidentally firing a Shrink Ray shot into his own groin. With an anguished whimper, he plunged into unconsciousness. He would remain on that football field, wounded and alone, until paramedics found him three days later. He had no way of knowing that the Cycloid Emperor had already been succeede𓂃d, instantly replaced by an alien bloodline that had been brooding for centuries.

Without Duke there to oppose their forces, the aliens easily embedded themselves on planet Earth. But strangely, and counter to Dukes testimony, it seems that the aliens had actually come in peace. Instead of subjugating humans, they chose to observe and study them, assimilating their lizard-like population into the major cities of existing nations. Pig cops resumed their duties as defenders of the law, and Battlelords worked to rebuild the 𒀰structures Duke had so callously destroyed.

Duke had to pay for his brutal crimes, committed against what was now known to be an alien exploration party. His punishment: Incarceration in a high-security space prison, home to some of the most infamous intergalactic degenerates from a wide array of species. Humanitys world leaders had no qualms with delegating Dukes punishment to the aliens, after all the goodwill they had demonstrated over the past year𒁏. As he was being hauled away in high-tech restraints, all Duke could think to do was yell This really pisses me off! at the top of his lungs. But on the inside, he anxiously wondered if he would ever see the light of day again.

The aliens had generously shared their technology with humanitys top scientists, and the advances they had made in two short years were astounding. Nuclear energy was made completely obsolete, thanks to groundbreaking developments in the realm of bioenergy. Former-comedian-turned-political-candidate Janeane Garofalo had been at the forefront of these advances, pushing for the continued research of bioenergy during her presidential campaign. Though her ambitions hadnt rea𒊎ched beyond the US presidency--which she won in a landslide--her empathy and tolerance made her the prime candidate to be the voice of the entire human race.

The ceremony for her inauguration as Head of Human-Alien Diplomacy was broadcast throughout the galaxy, and marked a milestone in the fabric of Earths history. As Duke watched the proceedings on a monitor near his cold, lonely cell, he was overcome with rage. "When I get outta here, I'll show 'em all that I'm still the King, baby," he said, softly, with💝 defiance, still hopeful for his eventual release.

Contrary to Dukes hopes, the world continued to turn without him. Under Delegate Garofalos leadership, humanity made incredible leaps forward in the region of gender equ🌠ality. With new job opportunities available for people of all education levels, prostitution was the first career path to dwindle into nonexistence. Women of all walks of life were discovering newfound professiꦚons, as male-dominated industries continued to lose their relevance. Strip clubs, no longer financially viable due to an absent workforce, closed down in droves across the planet.

Society had also fully accepted the aliens, with even the most xenophobic citizens looking past their archaic bigotry. The presence of pig cops had revolutionized law enforcement, as they were incapable of racial discrimination due to their own mutated ♔forms. It was also discovered that Octabrains actually fed on garbage and expelled clean air as their waste, drastically reducing pollution levels around the globe. The world seemed closer to a utopian existence than ever before. And Duke? Solit🔥ary confinement, of course.

But not everyone was happy with all this progressive change. Though they had failed to gain any tractio🧔n in public forums, a small sect of unhappy citizens had begun to band together. This group was composed of socially inept and sexually frustrated males, who had been suffering from a hormonal imbalance since the downfall of prostitution and stripping. They yearned for the days of yorꩵe, when sleaze and sexism were profitable enterprises instead of outmoded antiquities. According to their hastily assembled research, they believed Dukes imprisonment had been the turning point for humanity, and hoped that the traditional ways would be restored upon his release.

This sect, which came to be known as the Federation Against Penalization, r🌺allied for Dukes release on internet message boards. Their complaints were initially ignored, but after countless petitions and locked threads, the alien hierarchy decided to address their demands. They ruled that they would only release Duke Nukem when his rehabilitation was "done." Unfortunately, though therapists had switched tre🉐atment methods multiple times, barely any progress on his rehab had been made.

After observing the headway that the first-world nations had made, the rest of humanity followed suit, endeavoring to address gender relations in every culture. By 2000, the feminist movement was deemed a success: The male and female genders were now completely equal in all aspects of soꦿciety, on all parts of the planet. Light years away, Duke was still his same misogynisti🙈c self, convinced that the aliens were the cause for his total lack of conjugal visits. In reality, not a single woman had expressed interest.

Yearning for something to occupy his time, Duke had tried and failed to adapt to the daily activities of prison life. After years without a steady supply of steroids, Duke found that he was completely incapable of lifting weights in the yard--much to the delight of his fellow inmates, who incessantlꦜy mocked him and his feeble physique. Books were useless, seeing as Duke had never learned to read. Im here to hate life and improve 📖myself, thought Duke, and Im all out of self-improvement.

In the span of seven short years, gender inequality had been completely eradicated, bringing society into a renaissance of acceptance🐟 and impartiality. Even greasy cheeseburgers were deemed undesirable. The only dissatisfied group was the Federation Against Penalization, which had withdrawn from the advanced civilization to create their own underground society, by actually digging a giant hole in the ground and living within it. Though they were still united by their hatred for women and their passion to see Duke Nukem released, they were running into a new problem: the propagation of their culture.

With no women with which to procreate, the Federation Against Penalization knew that the existence of their philosophy was a ticking clock. Either Duke would be freed during their lifetimes, or they would die one by one in the depths of the earth. But their resolve had never been lower: None among the Federation Against Penalization had ♋heard or seen anything of Duke Nukem for years. They began to question if Duke was still alive, and quarreled amongst themselves if he was ever wor♚th rallying behind in the first place.

Meanwhile, on the surface, civilization continued to break new ground. As society moved towards worldwide collectivism, poverty, famine, and d🦋isparity between the rich and the poor ceased to exist--or matter. With no crime, violence, or war to report on, the news media revolved around human interest stories. But soon, there would be a single press event involving violence. After years of good behavior, Duke was granted a parole hearing.

With a greeting of Hail to the king, babies, Duke took the po꧅dium in front of a room of stoic justices and slavering reporters. For thirty agonizing minutes, he insisted that he was definitely going to be released t🦂his year, come hell or high water. He even tried to leverage the crowd with religion, claiming he had put all his faith in his guardian angel. JonSt. John watches over me, Duke insisted. His audience found themselves...surprisingly disinterested. Frustrated by their indifference, an insolent fury welled up in Duke. Blow it out your ass! he shouted, before physically assaulting the nearby alien guard. His outburst had only one outcome: the postponement of his parole hearing. Dukes release had once again been delayed.

With his repeated inability to control his te▨mper in public, Dukes freedom seemed as far off as ever. During all of his parole hearings, Duke would devolve from a phony piety into outright aggression. Female members of the Galactic Board of Prison Terms were alienated by Dukes advances, as he incessantly asked them to Shak🐎e it, baby or You wanna dance? Time and again, Dukes parole request would be denied. Ill rip off your heads and s*** down your necks! hed sputter, before swiftly being escorted back to his cell.

Just when things seemed beyond hopeless for Duke, on💜e Earth-dwelling lawyer would take pity on the man. An accomplished attorney, from the Geary, Boxer & Sons law firm, saw Dukes trial as the last challenging case in a world devoid of crime. Duke, completely out of options, took up the firm's proposal. After an extensive review of Duke's case, his attorney unearthed an arcane technicality, to which the court had no option but to accede. It was finally time for Duke Nukem to be released.

"...a man cannot be convicted of a crime if said crime was committed against an ꦆenemy of the state or any entity which could be construed as an enemy when said action was committed. And as the aliens were at the time of▨ Duke's arrest still entities of a presumed alien invasion, his deeds could not be classified as felonious. Therefore, I rest that, though this man is unfit to be a member of modern society, his incarceration was never truly justifiable..."

So, after years of suffering in solitary, Duke returned to Earth, never to be imprisoned again. Th♈ey say that ignorance is bliss, and Duke had the former in spades. But now that he had set foot in the modern world, the realities of Earths progressive changes were about to punch Duke squarely in his shrunken junk. Balls of steel would not help him now. No matter how many movie quotes he rattled off, or beers he chugged, or bottles of steroids he choked down, Dukes freedom felt hollow.

The world had changed, but Duke hadnt changed with it. No strippers. No porno mags. No scantily clad babes. Duke wandered the streets, staggering aimlessly in a worn-out daze. He was without purpose, trapped in a world where women were no longer his playthings and his "game" had long been redundant. Even the Federation Against Penalization, who had rallied for his release years ago, couldnt be bothered to care that he was finally out. But his story is not yet over. Duke can now, at this very moment, be found in a hole of a gym in an outskirt Texan town, muttering to himself, mid-bicep curl, "Always bet on th🐻e Duke. Always bet on...the Duke."

So ends the sordid story of Duke Nukems downfall. What do you think wouldve happened if Duke never met (and killed) the Al💃ien Queen? Let us know in the comments, and try not to weep for the loss of a utopian world that couldve been.

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Sir Hammerlock's Big 🌞Game Hunt is available both as 🌄part of the Bordlerlands 2 Season Pass and a la carte for $10.

The leaks are legit: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 2's vault hunters will head to the deserts of Oasis in the first campaign expansion DLC "C𓃲aptain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty" next week. Gearbox Software confirmed to the that the expansion pack will drop on October 16.

While pirates and deserts seem to go together about as well as ninjas and golf courses, the crew will be able to get around the dunes and squash new foes like sand worms with the help of a Star Wars-♏esque sand skiff.

"You can s༺ense ༒the pirate theme across the landscape, even though there's no water," Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford said. "It's all dried up. It feels more like Tatooine than an ocean. These bandits have really embraced the pirate lifestyle, and there's the legend of a treasure."

Pitchford said the new content will be accessible for players who have not yet finished the main game as well as those working on multiple play-throughs. The individual pack costs $10, and is also available through the Borderlands 2 season pass which includes four upcoming DLC expansions for $30 (but doesn't include new paid DLC character 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gaige the Mechromancer.)

The vault hunters of Borderlands 2 will battle buccaneers across the sandy seas of Oasis in upcoming DLC, according to h🔯ints uncovered by players in the game's existing content. put together the efforts of fans who revealed leaked in the game's Mechromancer update yesterday, as well as various assets hidden in Borderlands 2's .

A snippet from🍸 the uncovered script sets up the premise better than we could:

"Legends speak of Captain Blade's Lost Treasure of the Sands. Of a prize so great, that men would turn the sands red in pursuit of it. Of a pira𒐪te queen, courageous and deadly, who would stop at nothing to find it. Of a monstrous Leviathan. Of the Vault Hunters who journeyed to the desert town of Oasis, not knowing the horrors that wou꧃ld befall them."

The script also presumably contains the rest of the dialogue in the upcoming DLC, so be wary if spoilers aren't your thing. Oasis looks to be an all-new zone with plenty of treasure to dig up, i🐠ncluding a new head for each class,ജ a new vehicle, and a quest giver.

Despite rumors from a couple months back that the patent for the upcoming war shoote▨r, Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, had been abandoned, it turns out Gearbox has actually been considering the title's future very carefully.

Apparently, they've decided that the✅ game is no longer a true installment in the BIA series, and will be dropping the prefix from the name. Currently we don't know whether it will just be called Furious 4, or if they have another name in mind.

The news came today at a PAX panel reported on by in which Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford said, "the game that was announced as Brothers In Arms: Furious 4 has evolved," adding that when the company "pushed the gameplay loop, they got into a pla♉ce that got away from the core."

He didn't mean that as a bad thing though. He added that they merely felt the game needed to be "unshackled" by the constraints of an established franchise. The resulting game will now b💃e a completely new brand.

Given this new information, it now seems likely that the game's publisher, Ubisoft, had made the decision to abandon the Brother's in Arms name way back before May when the trademark for the name lapsed.

The new issue of Official Xbox Magazine UK is running an exclusive vault hunt alongside its exclusive Borderlands 2 cover story. The new issue, on-sale Wednesday 8^th August, has a choice of six co♛ver designs - and if you find one of ten golden Claptrap covers then you win an HDTV and a copy of the game signed by Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford.

There are six foil-finished versions of the mag, each one showcasing a different character. Subscribers get a silver cover showing Pandora’s new overlord Handsome Jack, and if you buy it on the newsstand you’ll have either Salvador, Axto𓆉n, Maya or assassin Zer0. There are also ten ultra-rare Claptrap covers, possession of which grants you a 40-inch Samsung HDTV and signed copy of the game.

The mag itself is “guest edited” by Claptrap himself, containing such insights as what he really thinks of GlaDOS and his preferred method of trolling, and the rest of Gearbox revea🍰l new details on the characters and world of Borderlands 2. There’s also the first review of the actually-really-good Sleeping Dogs, the story of how Valve made Portal 2, and exclusive interviews with LucasArts and Industrial Light and Magic about how it's getting Star Wars right with E3 hit Star Wars 1313.

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Petition instigator Melissa K is asking for "the ability to create a C𒈔USTOM female to represent ourselves just like the men can, in Multiplayer/Co-op in order for us to "Become a Colonial Marine"!" And it's a fair point. If any shooter should accommodate the XX chromosome as default, surely - logically - it's one based in the Aliens universe. You know, because Ripley.📖 And Vasquez.

Above: Women are clearly visible in this picture (but we have pointed them out in case you have trouble finding them)

It'd be completely baffling if Gearbox did 🥃decide to keep multiplayer limited to men only - as made apparent in the Aliens movie, clearly the Colonial Marine𒊎s are not prejudiced against recruiting people with vaginas. It'd be nice if the game could reflect the same open-mindedness to gender diversity in its own version of the make-believe military outfit.

Aliens: Colonial Marines is scheduled for release February 12 next year on every current platform (and Wii U), so there's still plenty of time for Gearbox to make changes. If you think it's right and proper that playable females deserve a place in the gamꦫe's multiplayer component, you should definitely .

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