Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Official Borderlands PS3 Box Art

Above is the official PS3 Borderlands box art for the US, but expect the European art to be the same just with different ratings.I think the box art is really nice and different from most other games, and should stand out really well in the stores against the other games coming out this Christmas.

Release dates
(October 20th, 2009 US)
(October 23rd, 2009 Europe)

Batcave Apartment Coming To Home

Platform Exclusive
(ATTN: As confirmed by Sefton Hill of Rocksteady, the Joker will only be playable on the PS3 and will not be playable on the 360 at anytime in the future. It is a permanent PS3-only exclusive. This is due to an exclusive deal that Sony has for the video game.)

PC
There will be Physx implementation for users with nVidia 8800+ graphic cards, or Ageia Physx Cards (if anyone ever bought these before nVidia bought the company).

Xbox 360
None.

PS3
Able to play as The Joker in eight Challenge Map which will be released as downloadable content on August 25th on the PlayStation Network. This DLC will be free.

There will be a "Batman Arkham Asylum Batcave Outpost Apartment". Apparently, this will be only for PlayStation Home. It will contain items such as the Batsuit, Batmobile, and Batwing, along with various Bat-gadgets. This content on PlayStation Home will be free.

The comic book "The Road to Arkham" will be given to PSP owners via download on the PlayStation Network. This comic will be free but will most likely NOT be able to be read by your PS3.

The PlayStation 3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum will use some elements of SIXAXIS Motion Control.

Found this news here

MAG New Gameplay Video

Just found the following MAG video on youtube, very high quality.

Monday, 10 August 2009

Borderlands Has Over 3 Million Weapons (Updated)


********UPDATE********
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
********END OF UPDATE********

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.

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