Borderlands 2 Is Officially a Thing

Guess what, guys? There's going to be a second Borderlands game.

2K officially announced today that the sequel to Gearbox's breakout action role-playing shooter is very much in development, and will be headed to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in fiscal 2012 (translation: sometime after April next year).

In addition to the basic announcement, Game Informer revealed Borderlands 2 as its September cover exclusive, dropping a few details on what we can expect from the sequel.

Don’t expect just a couple bazillion more guns this time around. Gearbox is introducing new and more diverse environments, smarter and more powerful enemies, and an improved mission system capable of delivering a better story.

Borderlands 2 will get its official live debut to the world later this month at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, and will also make its way to PAX Prime this year. Anyone heading to either of those shows that feels like letting out a big, honking squee of excitement right now will be forgiven for doing so. Just, you know...clean up your mess afterward, okay?

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

Did I dream I read about Borderlands 2 being real? I swear I read an article about it last night. Trippy man.

Oh man! OH MAN! This is up there with some of the best news ever.

About time! I love Borderlands.

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

God, I can't wait. I own Borderlands and the DLC for both 360 and PC and I still feel like I need more. So this is awesome.

Great news, excited as hell.

bring it!

Amen.

Borderlands was not boring, hope they make more amazing than it was last time for solo players. 

I'm going to Gamescom, baby!

@Laketown said:

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

I must have played the game wrong, because I thought it was one of the best single-player FPSes I've ever seen.

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

I really liked the first one and played solo through it more than once (a rarity for me).  I just hope it's different enough from the original and from Id's Rage to reignite my interest in the franchise.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Laketown said:

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

My sentiments exactly.

The game was created from the ground up to be played with others, this sort of criticism ain't fair.

Having said that, I think it was perfectly fine as a single player experience.

Better classes, loot types, and environments thats all I'm asking for.

The original was a a solid title with a lot of potential for greatness, I'm pretty excited to return to Pandora.

OMG! OMG! OMG!

...pardon me while I freak the fuck out.

awesome that a game like this gets a sequel.

The game was created from the ground up to be played with others, this sort of criticism ain't fair.

Having said that, I think it was perfectly fine as a single player experience.

Did I dream I read about Borderlands 2 being real? I swear I read an article about it last night. Trippy man.

This makes me very happy!

Another reason to get Borderlands. Why can't you just make the GOTY Retail Version under $25?!

I;m not surprised by this news, but it's still delightful.

@BadOrcLDR: I think I shall freak the fuck out with you, if you don't mind.

OMG!

@Evilsbane said:

@Laketown

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

Duder no offense but Playing Boderlands solo is like . . . Well its just a bad idea!

90% of the time I spent with the game was playing solo, mostly because I always had really bad lag issues online for some reason. I still had a blast with it.

@natetodamax said:

@Evilsbane said:

@Laketown

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

Duder no offense but Playing Boderlands solo is like . . . Well its just a bad idea!

90% of the time I spent with the game was playing solo, mostly because I always had really bad lag issues online for some reason. I still had a blast with it.

how? what was fun about it? I seriously don't get it, I trudged through that entire first area because jeff said it was amazing, but...

Fuck I got one more reason to go to GamesCom

@natetodamax said:

@Evilsbane said:

@Laketown

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

Duder no offense but Playing Boderlands solo is like . . . Well its just a bad idea!

90% of the time I spent with the game was playing solo, mostly because I always had really bad lag issues online for some reason. I still had a blast with it.

Agree

I would totally play a better Borderlands.

All I need is more Guns and areas. I think I had 100+ hrs in the first game

Jeez, I forgot I owned the 1st one, that's how much I played it, not very engaging for my money. Maybe this will be better.

This just made my day!!! I'm so stoked for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Borderlands was not boring, hope they make more amazing than it was last time for solo players. 

Awesome I loved the first one so much.

Put it inside me.

I know this is against the popular idea among the hardcore that Borderlands is one of the greatest things ever... But by the time I was finished with that game I was so sick of it that I'll probably never go back to it again. And unless the sequel is far different I'll probably have to pass.

I COULD LITERALLY NOT BE MORE EXCITED. FUCK.

I'm more than willing to spend hours upon hours in Pandora again, one of my favorite co-op games in a long while

Oh hell yeah!

Excited!

Dear Gearbox,

Please auto-scoop loot. And include a button to buy max ammo. Oh and a shared vault that you can swap gear across your characters.

Besides those minor things, Borderlands was quite possibly the perfect game, for my money.

More Borderlands can only be a good thing.

Slightly off-topic but it's weird that Eurogamer had a story that Borderlands 2 would be at Gamescom, which they got from an unnamed source, and a lot of games journalists and even Randy Pitchford were hating on them for it even though it was totally true.

If they build a decent interface for the PC ... im in!

Can we cut the whole "This is a thing" now? It's really fucking annoying.

YES!

Sweet.

Finally "quality time with my brother 2.0" is announced!

Borderlands is literally THE only game both me and my brother like.

Nice! I put like 200+ hours into the first. Can't wait for this one!!