Though we’ve seen nothing from Microsoft, Gearbox or 2K mentioning any sort of special offer, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is now available for free in the Microsoft Store. Weird. Update: It’s a gift from Microsoft!
You can play Borderlands 2 and its associated DLC and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and its DLC today, just like you could yesterday. But this time, it’s all packaged together for the new-gen consoles in a definitive collection with some new features, like four-player splitscreen.
One player is doing a Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel run with no guns or melee. Butt slams only. They're challenging others to join them in this gleeful insanity.
Continuing in the Borderlands series' grand tradition of making sly winks at everything from Minecraft to Game of Thrones to a whole lot of Internet memes, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is littered with secrets and references—some especially elaborate. Here are all the ones we know of so far.
We might just have a new contender for the title of most Borderlands boss in the history of Borderlands bosses.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel's mean, green barfing machine of a secret boss thinks it's so tough. It can nearly one-shot players lower level than it is. One player, however, figured out how to one-shot it right back.
Usually, when code tinkerers shift camera angles on first-person games, the tweaks make things look really weird. Remember how weird Mirror's Edge looked from the third-person view? Surprisingly, that doesn't happen with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
If you're Australian, you'll know what a "bogan" is. If not, know they're a derided - but also strangely lovable - rung on the ladder that is Australian society. Think rednecks, only with universally high-pitched voices, and a condition that makes them end every sentence with the word "c**t".
It's not just a Destiny thing anymore.
Remember that Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel gun nobody could figure out how to use? Yeah, well somebody figured out how to use it. That didn't take long.
The Sword In The Stone, 87 bazillion gun moon explosion edition.
He's big, mean, and green. Also pretty well-hidden.
Borderlands is an island. In its center, there's a breezy mix of ridiculous firefights and even nuttier guns. Surrounding it, however, is an ocean of tedium—little inconveniences that have plagued the series since its inception. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel does only the bare minimum of work to fix that.
Sir Hammerlock and Mr. Torgue narrate a nearly ten-minute video about the new stuff coming to the Borderlands series with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Oh boy.
You can now play with the skill trees of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: perfect if you'd like to plan out in advance what you'll do on your first playthrough. Wilhelm's drones look like a combination of Axton's turret and Gaige's Deathtrap, both of which I loved in BL2, so I'll probably go with him. What about you?
Attention Borderlands fans: Gearbox just released 14 more minutes of butt-stomping action from the upcoming "Pre-Sequel," out this October for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Watch the new video above and read our thoughts on a recent preview for the game here.
I got a chance to play a bit of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel last week—and you can see some highlights of the mission I played in the video above, if you'd like.
2K Games has released an all-new gameplay trailer for their upcoming FPS-RPG, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
Not only does this video contain more than 15 minutes of footage from the upcoming last-gen-only Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it also includes more than 15 minutes of narration in both regular and Australian flavors. What a bargain!
If you've ever just looked up at the sky while playing a Borderlands game you might've noticed the big H-shaped, Hyperion-owned moonbase suspended ominously in space above the planet Pandora. Well, in the next big Borderlands game, coming out this fall, you'll be going to that moon.
