Top Fifty: 45-41

Today I’ll continue reviewing my favorite 50 games of all time. Last week, I listed items 50-46, and today brings the next five in my list. 45-Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (Capcom, Arcade, 1993) Comparing this updated top 50 list to the list I made years ago, Tower of Doom is one of the […]

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Is Borderlands the New Fallout?

As I continue to play through Borderlands, after having completed the main quest, I notice more and more the external influences that must have affected the game’s design. For example, the pillar of light that appears when you activate quick travel looks very much like the pillar of light coming from City 17’s Citadel in […]

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The Borderlands Gun Show

This is a pretty cool site. The Gun Show allows people to upload and show off their Borderlands items, and it seems as though they may have a system in place for people who want to trade items. Fun to look through.

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Borderlands 2 Wishlist

Last night, I completed Borderlands’s single-player story mode, using Mordecai the sniper. And while the gameplay is so addictive that I plan to continue playing multiplayer Borderlands with friends, I have to agree with reviewers that the ending is lame. There’s now an interview online in which Randy Pitchford calls Borderlands 2 a “no brainer”. […]

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Borderlands: Favorite Weapons

Just thought I’d share a couple of my favorite Borderlands weapons here. I’m playing as Mordecai the sniper, so first off I’ve got my PPZ Liquid Wrath sniper rifle. In addition to doing over 200 damage, it zaps right through enemies’ shields. Very nice. And secondly, my standby at medium range. The HLK War Cobra. […]

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Borderlands: Initial Impressions

I’m playing the Steam version of Borderlands on a PC, which means that I’ve been playing about a week less than the XBox and PS3 folks. It also means that I’m not playing on a platform for which the game was designed. The menus in Borderlands were obviously put together for a console, and it […]

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Borderlands Gameplay

GiantBomb has just posted a video with a half hour of Borderlands gameplay. Check it out.

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Borderlands Claptrap Web Series #2

The second video in the Claptrap web series has just been released. Enjoy. This is funny.

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PAX Borderlands Demo

This is some of the juiciest info on Borderlands I’ve seen. If you’re looking forward to Borderlands half as much as I am, you’ve got to check these videos out.

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Claptrap

The good folks at Gearbox software have begun a new web series to virally promote their new game Borderlands. This is actually pretty damn funny.

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