Pre-Sequel | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:41:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Pre-Sequel | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Get a free Borderlands Pre-Sequel with OCUK Nvidia cards https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jon-martindale/get-a-free-borderlands-pre-sequel-with-ocuk-nvidia-cards/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jon-martindale/get-a-free-borderlands-pre-sequel-with-ocuk-nvidia-cards/#respond Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:01:19 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=206967 Overclockers Uk announced today that it it would be running a joint promotion with both Gearbox and Nvidia to give away free copies of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with select Nvidia graphics cards, including: GTX 770, 780, 780 Ti and the monstrous Titan Black. Of course this will mean a sizeable investment on your behalf, as …

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Overclockers Uk announced today that it it would be running a joint promotion with both Gearbox and Nvidia to give away free copies of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with select Nvidia graphics cards, including: GTX 770, 780, 780 Ti and the monstrous Titan Black.

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Of course this will mean a sizeable investment on your behalf, as even the cheapest of the bunch, the 770, will set you back at least £230 and you can go all the way up to £1000 if you want the fanciest, most customised Titan Black. But you will get a free game out of it at least.

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“If you have a high-end Nvidia GPU, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel will offer higher-fidelity and higher-performance hardware-driven special effects, including awesome weapon impacts, moon-shatteringly cool cryo explosions and ice particles, and cloth and fluid simulation that blows me away every time I see it,” said Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox.

For more information on the promotion and links to the cards in question, head here.

KitGuru Says: So regardless of whether you buy an Nvidia GPU to add more particles and physics to your gaming experience, who's excited about the next Borderlands? 

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Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is official https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/borderlands-the-pre-sequel-is-official/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/borderlands-the-pre-sequel-is-official/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:39:38 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=186775 Yesterday we reported on rumours of a Borderlands Pre-Sequel, which was said to be in development at 2K Australia and it turns out that the rumour was true, a new Borderlands game is in the works and not being worked on by Gearbox. The game will be set in space and take place in between …

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Yesterday we reported on rumours of a Borderlands Pre-Sequel, which was said to be in development at 2K Australia and it turns out that the rumour was true, a new Borderlands game is in the works and not being worked on by Gearbox. The game will be set in space and take place in between the first and second games but it wont be coming to the Xbox One or PS4.

The new title will feature a playable Claptrap and the story surrounding Handsome Jack and his rise to power along with four new vault hunters to adventure through space with. However, Gearbox's Randy Pitchford was quick to explain that this is not Borderlands 3 as it wont be a next gen experience:

“There's over 150 million installed PlayStation 3's and Xbox 360's. There are currently fewer PlayStation 4 and Xbox One's than the sold copies of Borderlands 2, and we do not expect a better than that tie-in rate. So it was a really natural decision for us to prioritize the platforms that our customers are on. That's one of the reasons why I wanted to make sure no one confused our energies as something that you might imagine a Borderlands 3 to be.”

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Gearbox is confident that 2K Australia will deliver a great Borderlands game, Pitchford even explained that work on Borderlands 1.5 started a few months after the launch of Borderlands 2:

“There's been a lot of energy on their side put in,” he said. “Gearbox has been able to help out with strategy with these guys and we had a couple of people involved early on. Now we have a lot of people involved, so we were able to get more people involved as things went on. But this has mostly been a 2K Australia-driven effort, and they've been 100 percent dedicated to this for a long time now.”

Letting another studio take care of the franchise for a while allows Gearbox to focus on new IP's. Borderlands 3 isn't being worked on right now but when it eventually comes, it will be a next gen experience. The Pre-Sequel is based on the same engine as Borderlands 2 and will be coming out for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

KitGuru Says: So the game is official now, how do you guys feel about a new Studio taking on the Borderlands franchise? What do you think of the concept for the pre-sequel?

Source: Polygon

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Rumour: Boderlands 1.5 pre-sequel in the works https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/rumour-boderlands-1-5-pre-sequel-in-the-works/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/rumour-boderlands-1-5-pre-sequel-in-the-works/#respond Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:04:55 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=186407 Get that pinch of salt ready people, as the rumour mill just pumped out a doozy: 2K Australia – of The Bureau fame – is working on another Borderlands game, not a sequel, or a prequel, but a pre-sequel, set between the two games and with players gunning their way through countless enemies on the …

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Get that pinch of salt ready people, as the rumour mill just pumped out a doozy: 2K Australia – of The Bureau fame – is working on another Borderlands game, not a sequel, or a prequel, but a pre-sequel, set between the two games and with players gunning their way through countless enemies on the Pandoran moon: Elipis, the one with the H shaped moon base.

The last Borderlands 2 DLC was released in February and we know there's a Telltale game in the works, but considering Randy Pitchford of Gearbox previously said there wasn't a sequel in the works it seemed to crush the dreams of any Borderlands fan about heading back to the very stylised shooter world. Now though it looks like we may head back there afterall, but they may not like who they're working with.

Remember this guy? Yea he's technically your boss in this one.

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Surprise!

Since this is a prequel though, Jack hasn't quite become the murderous sociopath he would eventually become and he's just a humble programmer according to GamePointsNow. He's after an alien artifice and its your job to help him get it, along with three others of course. The character options will include Athena The Gladiator, Wilhelm The Enforcer, Nisha The Lawbringer and Fragtrap, a militarised claptrap. Each of those characters is based on ones that you eventually fight in Borderlands 2, as they presumably helped Jack come to power.

Expect reduced gravity – since it's set on a moon – and Oxygen as a collectible resource, as well as two new weapon classes: Laser and Cryo, which gives me giddy memories of Duke Nukem 3D all over again.

No word on release date, but the rumour suggests the game isn't coming to next-gen, which seems an odd choice, hitting just PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

KitGuru Says: Even considering this is a rumour, what do you guys think? It's not Gearbox and you have to technically play as the bad guys before they were all bad, but do you think it'll be good if it turns out these rumours are true? 

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