Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt DLC Launches for Borderlands 2

If you’re a big fan of the cooperative shooter Borderlands 2, you will be thrilled to hear that as of today the latest add-on campaign content is available to download. The new campaign is called Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt. The content will be available at no cost to gamers who purchased the Borderlands 2 Season Pass.

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The new campaign takes place in Aegrus, which is uncharted territory deep in the swamps of Pandora. Players will meet up with familiar characters from the game including Sir Hammerlock and Claptrap, and will also meet up with new enemies including Hyperion Scientist Professor Nakayama who tries to disrupt the hunting trip.

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The DLC will explore new environments of The Sun Swamps on a quest to find new loot and defeat new bosses. Other new enemies players will encounter include the spider-like Two-Legged Drifters, flying Slagged Spores, and insane Vampire Witch Doctors. That last enemy can unleash swarms of bats that will attack the player. Yeesh.

The Borderlands 2 season pass is available for $29.99(USD) or 2400 Microsoft points. The new add-on campaign content is available for gamers playing on the Xbox 360, PS3, or PC. To buy this add-on campaign alone will cost you $9.99 or 800 Microsoft points.

New Add-On Content Available for Borderlands 2


2K Games and Gearbox Software have announced the latest new add on campaign content for Borderlands 2 is now available. The new download content is called Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt and is the...

Custom LED Glowing Borderlands 2 Zer0 Sword: My Her0 Zer0

Fans of Borderlands 2 would love to get their hands on this weapon. This awesome glowing sword is just like the one that Zer0 uses in the game – only this one is real. While there’s no cloaking ability to go along with this sword, it’s still pretty amazing.

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This Borderlands 2 Zer0 Sword was built by Michelle Khuu (aka Sadistic-Otaku) out of wood, blue acrylic, a blue LED ribbon, a toggle switch and a 9v battery. It is a geek creation of deadly beauty. Hopefully she hasn’t cut anyone in half with it.

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If she sold these, I would buy one. She would probably make a ton of money off of all us gaming geeks. At least we would look cool for the apocalypse.

[via Obvious Winner]

Borderlands 2 (Xbox 360, PS3) down to $27.99


Since its September release, Borderlands 2 has only recently dropped from the upper $50 price range.  This Best Buy deal for Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game is dozens of dollars cheaper...

Claptrap Groom’s Cake: Romance In Borderlands 2? You Betcha

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Whether you’re looking for the treasure of the vault, or the treasure of eternal love, nothing says goodbye to your old life than our buddy Claptrap from Borderlands 2.

Meet redditor outbreak86′s amazing and realistic Claptrap groom’s cake. It even looks a bit cell-shaded! The cake was made by his ...
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Borderlands 2 Launches in North America


If you're in the market for a new shooter to play on your PS3, Xbox, or computer 2K Games and Gearbox announced that Borderlands 2 is available for purchase in North America. The game will be...

Borderlands 2 Launches in North America


If you're in the market for a new shooter to play on your PS3, Xbox, or computer 2K Games and Gearbox announced that Borderlands 2 is available for purchase in North America. The game will be...

Play This Borderlands 2 Demake While You Wait for the Real Game

Waiting sucks. But unfortunately we have to wait a while longer for Borderlands 2. It will arrive on September 18th in North America and September 21st internationally. The developer, Gearbox Software, knows that we need a fix so they’ve released an official 16-bit demake of the game.
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It should be just enough to whet your appetite while you are waiting. This demake is titled The Border Lands. Players can pick one of the new characters that are available in Borderlands 2, but sprite form. It looks like it’s all about shooting enemies, level up, and pick up loot.

In other words it’s just like the Borderlands that you know and love. To play you just use the arrow keys to move and the space bar to fire. Depending on what weapons you use, it could be a quick game, though. For instance, a railgun that fires both in front and behind of the player will annihilate most enemies easily, even the bosses. It is just some fun while you bite your nails and wait for the real deal to arrive. Check it out here.

[via Geekosystem]


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti review roundup: impressive performance for around $300

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti review roundup impressive performance for around $300

No one's saying that $300 is "cheap," but compared to the GTX 670 and GTX 680 before it, the newly announced GeForce GTX 660 Ti is definitely in a more attainable category. The usual suspects have hashed out their reviews today, with the general consensus being one of satisfaction. A gamechanger in the space it's not, but this Kepler-based GPU managed to go toe-to-toe with similarly priced Radeon GPUs while being relatively power efficient in the process. That said, AnandTech was quick to point out that unlike Kepler reviews in the past, the 660 Ti wasn't able to simply blow away the competition; it found the card to perform around 10 to 15 percent faster than the 7870 from AMD, while the 7950 was putting out roughly the same amount of performance as the card on today's test bench. HotHardware mentioned that NVIDIA does indeed have another winner on its hands, noting that it'd be tough to do better right now for three Benjamins. Per usual, there's plenty of further reading available in the links below for those seriously considering the upgrade.

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NVIDIA announces $299 GeForce GTX 660 Ti, lets Kepler walk among the people

NVIDIA announces $299 GeForce GTX 660 Ti, lets Kepler walk among the people

It's taken NVIDIA a mighty long time to squeeze its Kepler GPU into something more affordable than the GTX 670, but it's finally happened -- the mid-range GTX 660 Ti is out and available to purchase for $299 on boards from EVGA, Gigabyte, ASUS and the usual suspects. Some buyers may complain that's $50 more than the 560 Ti, while others will no doubt be reeling off their CVV codes already. For its part, NVIDIA claims the 660 Ti is the "best card per watt ever made" and that it beats even AMD's higher-priced Radeon HD 7950 at 1920 x 1080. Check out the slide deck below for official stats, as well as for examples of what the card can do with its support for DirectX 11 tessellation, PhysX (particularly on Borderlands 2, which you may well find bundled free) and NVIDIA's TXAA anti-aliasing.

We'll wait for independent benchmarks in our review round-up before making any judgment, but in the meantime it's fair to say that this 150-watt card comes fully featured. For a start, it has just as many 28nm CUDA cores as the GTX 670, the same base and GPU Boost clock speeds, the same 2GB of GDDR5 and indeed the same connectivity. The only sacrifice is memory bandwidth: all that computational performance is limited by a 192-bit memory bus, compared to the 256-bit width of the 670. Judging from those specs, we'd expect it to be almost 670-like in performance, and that's going to be pretty impressive.

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