Borderlands PC slips a week

By Tom Bramwell Published 23 September, 2009

End of October for FPS/RPG hybrid.

2K Games has apparently slipped Borderlands for PC to 30th October, a week later than its console cousins.

IGN reports comments from 2K PR Charlie Sinhaseni confirming the change, which will also see the North American PC version released on 26th October.

We've asked 2K in Europe for super-duper, double-decker confirmation, but it looks like "optimisation", in Sinhaseni's words, has done the deed. (Update: Yep, 2K Europe says the same thing.)

The rather excellent-looking Borderlands is a first-person shooter with hefty RPG leanings, in which up to four players romp around the far-flung planet of Pandora mashing up native creatures and unruly cowboy types and then gathering loot, including a massive, procedurally-generated stack of weapons.

Look out for an extended hands-on with some near-final code in the next little while, but in the meantime there's no shortage of content on the gamepage, including Johnny's hands-on from a recent event and a Borderlands Eurogamer TV Show.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • rotmm #1 2 years ago

    Looks more like "get as many console sales in before PC version turns up on torrent sites" to me.

    Not that I blame any devs for this, especially when it's a new IP.

  • thesombrerokid #2 2 years ago

    I'm very close to cancelling my preorder for this, it looks amazing and i think the devs deserve the money but i really want to see 2K pay for this, the PC version will easily loose sales because of the delay. People planning on waiting and seeing will defiantly get the pirated version a week before the game comes out and be forced to pirate it, the fact that randy pitchfords awesome is enough to stop me cancelling though.

  • mkreku #3 2 years ago

    It actually suits me just fine since both Risen and Alpha Protocol are supposed to arrive in that time period. Feel free to spread out your releases a little, developers!

  • the_dudefather #4 2 years ago

    my reaction

    oh well, there is plenty else to play at that time (will probably be going through uncharted and brutal legend at that point)

    This whole 'delay on PC to reduce piracy/maximize console sales' thing is creeping up more and more these days, sometimes it's a fairly legitimate porting process (like red faction or GTA4 or whatever) then it's the seemingly arbitrary week or two delays between versions (like Batman)

  • Miths #5 2 years ago

    I had barely even noticed this game until yesterday where I stumbled across a preview, but it looks like it's going straight to my must buy list now. It looks like this is going to be yet another expensive 10+ games Autumn :).

  • Optimaximal #6 2 years ago

    @the_dudefather I actually thought of the exact same thing!

  • hiddenranbir #7 2 years ago

    Same day as FM2010.

    Lol at my spending.

    PC delay means they don't eat up console sales.
    Edited by 1 at 23/09/09 @ 10:35

  • ChaK #8 2 years ago

    I'll still buy PC version no matter what, but yes I cry

    A lot :'(

    edit :

    @mkreku : I don't know about alpha protocol, it's like the game almost doesnt exist, even one month prior release.

    And I too have a lot of game to play, including risen, flashpoint & all
    Edited by 1 at 23/09/09 @ 10:38

  • dirk_aircool #9 2 years ago

    it sounds like BS . the game must be in boxes being shipped gloabaly at the moment . its too close to release date to need 7 more days work .

  • muscleblade #10 2 years ago

    "It actually suits me just fine since both Risen and Alpha Protocol are supposed to arrive in that time period."

    No their not. Their both been delayed to 2010.

  • mkreku #11 2 years ago

    Nope. The Xbox 360 verion of Risen has been delayed to 2010 in North America, but in Europe it's all on schedule. October 2!

    But you may be right about Alpha Protocol.. noone knows what's going on there.

  • TheTingler #12 2 years ago

    Is there a game between August-December that hasn't slipped?!

    Still, only one damn week... is enough for me not to buy the game. I'm sorry Gearbox, it was very high on my Most Wanted list, but that measly week is absolutely perfectly positioned to stop me getting Borderlands. I'll be leaving the country for a long time, and I'd planned Borderlands to be the last game I bought in the UK for now - taking it with me and playing on my laptop. Now I can't!

    Alpha Protocol... expect the worst, release-wise. I will be very surprised if we see it next month.