Borderlands Has Over 3 Million Weapons (Updated)

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It appears the 3 million weapons estimate was wrong, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford reveals that “the last count was like 17,750,000,” yes that's a crazy amount of weapons, you probably won't use even a fraction of these.Randy Pitchford explained how they made all those weapons “Just thinking about shotguns we had thousands of permutations on a whiteboard. All the development teams in the world added together can’t build that many guns, because there are more guns in Borderlands than all the shooters on the PS3 and 360 added together. We had to build software to do it for us, so we built a procedural generation system that built all these guns.” World record for the most weapons in a game?

You can read the whole interview over at CVG

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ORIGINAL POST

During a recent showcasing event of Borderlands, MTV Multiplayer noticed while Gearbox president and founder Randy Pitchford was switching to a specific weapon he wanted to show off that there was over three million (3,166,880 to be precise) different entries. The weapons ranged from sniper rifles, Uzis and rocket launchers all with their own specific effects(fire and ice elements),with the release date of October 20th US and October 23rd for Europe on PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 there is still time to add even more weapons to an already very impressive amount.

Killzone 2 - Platinum Edition £16.99

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Product Description

Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA are taking the fight to Helghan. Their goal: to capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the Helghast war machine to a halt. You assume the role of Sev, a battle-hardened veteran and a member of the special forces unit known as the Legion.
For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just beginning. Tasked with securing Pyrrhus, the Capital City, they quickly discover that the Helghast are a formidable enemy on their home planet. Not only have they adjusted to the planet's hostile conditions, they have also harnessed a source of power they can now use against the ISA.
Sev and his squad aren't just fighting the enemy forces - their fiercest opponent is the planet itself.
Welcome to Helghan, soldier!

• Experience realistic, highly atmospheric environments that respond dynamically to the violent conditions on Helgha
• Witness the devastating effects of Helghan's climate as it forces you and your enemies to adapt to new tactics
• Face off against fearsome enemies who have learned to wield the hostility of Helghan itself against their opponents
• Operate new and exotic weapons and vehicles, in addition to trusty Killzone classics like the M82-G and the StA-52 LAR

Red Faction: Guerrilla (PS3) £17.99

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Product Description

Product Features
Open World Guerrilla Warfare – You decide who, when, where and how to battle. Utilize guerrilla tactics, improvised weaponry, and modified vehicles to lead insurgent attacks on EDF targets. Launch attacks based on your own gameplay style, take on missions in any order you choose, or engage in destructive activities to weaken the EDF’s grip on Mars.
Strategic Destruction – Use destruction to your tactical advantage, setting ambushes or chain reaction explosions to attack enemy strongholds and permanently modify the game environment. Leverage fully-dynamic physics-based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.
Evolving & Emergent Gameplay – Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics – mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.
Epic Sci-Fi Setting – Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos; then tear through the fully destructible open-world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the `downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.
Multiplayer Combat – There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer combat modes.
Product Description

Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.

• Open World Guerrilla Warfare: You decide who, when, where and how to battle. Utilise guerrilla tactics, improvised weaponry, and modified vehicles to lead insurgent attacks on EDF targets. Launch attacks based on your own gameplay style, take on missions in any order you choose, or engage in destructive activities to weaken the EDF's grip on Mars.
• Strategic Destruction: Use destruction to your tactical advantage, setting ambushes or chain reaction explosions to attack enemy strongholds and permanently modify the game environment. Leverage fully-dynamic physics-based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.
• Evolving & Emergent Gameplay: Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics - mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.
• Epic Sci-Fi Setting: Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos, then tear through the fully destructible open-world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.
• Multiplayer Combat: There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer com

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2: Special Edition (Europe)

If you want the special edition of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 you will have to buy it from HMV because they have secured it as an exclusive.This now joins another exclusive only at HMV, Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition.Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 releases on the 2nd of October this year, so while you’re pre ordering Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 you might as well pre order Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 special edition, and don’t worry it doesn’t cost £119.99.

HMV Exclusive Collector's Edition Contains:

A copy of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, exclusively for the Playstation3 computer entertainment system.

Complete, limited edition original soundtrack CD.

Exclusive downloadable costume available through the PlayStation Network.

Limited Edition 80 page 'Ninja Gaiden Treasury' featuring:

-Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 prologue comic written and designed by Team NINJA, which sheds more light on the intriguing storylines of Ninja Gaiden.

-Character and Concept Art Gallery.

- Lite-Strategy Guide including: Weapon Profiles for the 4 playable characters. Combos & Ninpos. Hints and Tips for Story Mode and Team Missions.

- Commentary from Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 producer Yosuke Hayashi, the Lead Artists behind the game and one final Tidbit from Team NINJA....

Second Uncharted 2 Beta Details

If you were unlucky enough not to of tried the first Uncharted 2 Beta, there is another on the way starting on the 15th of September until the 12th of October. The way to get in seems to be another pre order give a way but this time it’s when you pre order Uncharted 2 itself from Play.com.This new tester for the game will feature more modes, more maps so even the people who were lucky enough to try it the first time round might want to try out the new stuff to.Play seem to have the release date as the 30th of October, but i’m sure it’s the 23rd of October, anyway if you have yet to pre order Uncharted 2 then Play.com is the place to go.

Top 8 FREE Demos!

I remember when I was younger avidly awaiting the next issue of a gaming magazine to come out, just so that I could get my sticky child fingers on the latest demo disk for the PSX. And now that we live in the future, with our electric cars, robotic hoovers and Twitter, all our needs are catered for without ever needing to leave the house!

Like I've always said- the best thing about the new generation of games consoles are the freebies, so I thought I'd dedicate today's article to my top list of demos from the PS Store. Some old, some new, all worth a look.

BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYUM
Okay, so it's safe to say that I've been raving about this game for some time now, but for good reason! The build up to this demo has been intense- could it really live up to expectation? Well it's safe to say yes, yes it has! The game play it's very fun, the fighting dynamics look and flow very nicely and the sneaking, detective aspect of the game play is incredibly satisfying. I've already played the demo a few times over without ever getting bored, so I'm hoping the full game will be just as exciting.
The only downside is that the full game could end up being a bit repetitive, with limited attacks, moves etc. However, from reading various preview's written by people that have had a chance to play the full game, the game remains interesting an varied throughout. I suppose only time will tell, but for the time being this demo has definitely kept me, and hopefully all of you, occupied.

WOLVERINE
I used to live with a bunch of lads and often came back to find new demos installed on my PS3. So after a hard day of student life (drinking, lounging around in the sun, shirking off essays etc.) I came home to find this in my games folder.
Great demo- slashing Wolverines foes with those claws of his is gloriously satisfying. The fighting is really easy to master and is quite varied- leaping over a bad guy and slashing him in the face before giving him a colonic irrigation with your spiky fist, to picking up a flaming man and throwing him across the room onto a spike.
The demo can be played a few times over before it loses its appeal, which is why I wouldn't suggest buying the game. Reviews have stated that the graphics are brilliant and the fighting is varied, but the game itself lacks in longevity and ultimately becomes a repetitive chore- constantly re-tracing steps, lazily repeating levels (the level in the demo has to be completed several times throughout the game) and a bafflingly confusing story.
So my advice- just stick with the demo.

NARUTO
This one I only downloaded for a friend I was living with. He's a big Naruto fan so I thought he would like this. After it was installed it sat unplayed for months. Eventually, after playing all the other demos I had downloaded, I thought I'd finally give it a try- and thought it was great!
I've never been a Naruto fan so I wasn't exactly brimming with excitement to play, amusing I'd be lost, not knowing the characters or the special moves they use. But after playing it I found it to be very easily accessible, colourful and very fun. The fighting dynamics work really well (after a few attempts at least to figure out the controls) and moving around the beautiful scenery worked well.
The style reminded me a lot of the Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi games, with colourful graphics and the camera behind the player rather than the traditional side on, 2D view.
I'm not sure if I would pick up the game itself, but the demo is definitely worth a look in.

SKATE / SKATE 2
Anyone that reads my articles (all 3 of you out there) know that lately Skate 2 has slowly taken control of my PS3. It's a great game, providing you stick at it for a while. So my advice is to give you that extra edge once you get the game, is to practice with the demo first. If you're used to the old Tony Hawks games then this is a bit of a shock to the system- the controls are vastly different and much harder to master. But because of this, finally nailing that hard trick you've been working on is far more satisfying.
This demo is a must have.


UFC
This demo most definitely worth downloading if you have friends, or ever plan on making any. When I lived in a house of 5 lads, this was one of the games that we played the most. There is nothing more satisfying in this world than sitting around, having a drink and beating the crap out of each other on a FREE game! (Albeit a demo, but free never the less).
This is another game that takes a while to master, as I still don't fully understand how the grappling works, but is still open to casual gamers who just want to punch and kick their way to victory.
This is a great fighting game, brilliant with friends and definitely worth downloading. Now.

MOTORSTORM: PACIFIC RIFT
Once you and your friends, imaginary or not, get bored of smashing each others faces in, then the next step up is to smash each others cars in! This beautiful racing game has been played many times over on my console and still gets asked to be put on when friends come over.
Whereas in the UFC game you only get to choose between two characters, this demo allows you to play with 3 very different vehicles; a Buggy, a Motorbike and a Monster Truck- each giving a very different style of game play.
There's nothing more I can say really. It looks incredible, game play is fun and varied and is brilliant fun when friends come over. Get this one downloaded immediately.

PIXEL JUNK EDEN
This game is beautiful. It is so beautifully simplistic and simplistically beautiful. Doesn't look too bad either. And I think it looks pretty.
This is a small, 2D game with only one button- Jump. And the directional buttons to control the jump. So that's two buttons really...
You (and a friend if they bore of smashing things up) jump around the 2D world, collecting what can only be described as "colourful dots", making plant-like towers grow.
Jumping and swinging around this little world is very relaxing. This game has to be experienced by all. And the price of this demo is just right- nothing!

TRASH PANIC
This is the latest demo to call my console home. I saw it when I was searching for the new Batman demo and noticed the tag for it said "FREE". So after I played the Batman demo several times over, I noticed this sitting in my demo folder, forgotten and alone... So I thought I'd bite the bullet and give it a go.
First thoughts? WOW- This is fun!!
Brilliant little game, very basic game play and VERY addictive! It's a bit like Tetris, you have objects coming in and you have to place them all into the trash container to make them fit. Sorry, did I say place? I meant SMASH! There are all sorts of objects- barrels, violins, teddy's, toilets, statues, motorbikes, flaming torches- all of which have fit into the bin. Wooden objects can be smashed and burnt to make room, but objects like toilets and washing machines are harder to to break, as well as letting out water that puts out fires.
This game is seriously addictive, and as the full game is only £3.99 I'm seriously tempted to splash out on the full game. And as you may have already gathered from this article, I'm quite tight with my cash!
So what are you still sitting here for? Download this demo now!


So that's my list of free demos I recommend you to download, currently installed on my PS3.
Before starting this article I asked around to see if anyone else had suggestions for demos to try. I had a few suggestions (@Dude2Devil suggested the Wanted demo) so decided to search through every nook and cranny of the PS Store for any demos that caught my eye. I now currently have about 20 demos downloading, so hopefully I should have a new list of demos for you to download soon.

If anyone has any suggestions of demos they would recommend, send me a message or leave a comment below. Or, if you're all modern and that, try Twittering me!

Now- go forth and download to your hearts content!


-- BIZNITCH --

(My friend @bols made me a new Gaming Avatar- so I thought it would be appropriate to post it here! Cheers Jen!)

This Weeks Star Buy Monday Deals (10th Of August)

This weeks PS3 star buys are Prototype, Monsters vs Aliens, Millennium Series Championship Paintball 2009 (MSCP 2009 would have been better i think or Paintball 2009) and Pure.

Also this weeks PSP star buys are Mytran Wars, Fifa 08, Great Battles Of Rome.

These deals are now live until next Monday when a new bunch of deals will be announced.Remember you can also pay via PayPal at the checkout.

P.S I bought Fuel from last weeks star buys for £12.79, now that's a bargain.