Gearbox trademarks Borderworlds

By Robert Purchese Published 4 December, 2009

Series to visit a different planet?

Gearbox has trademarked the name Borderworlds, suggesting that Borderlands will expand into a series - as if you ever believed otherwise.

Even Take-Two top brass Strauss Zelnick and Ben Feder referred to the RPG shooter as a "key franchise" during an earnings call last night (listened to by VG247).

The Borderworlds trademark (unearthed, as always, by superannuation) protects the name but offers no further information.

Perhaps there will be different worlds to travel to in the game, and maybe there are spaceships.

Borderlands, released in October, aimed to recreate the randomly generated replayability of Diablo in a gun-based post-apocalyptic world. The game took longer than originally planned because of a massive visual overhaul, which remains one of the defining characteristics of the game.

Rounding off the package is online cooperative support right through the campaign for four people (or two locally). You can play the game alone, but with a group of friends Borderlands is nigh-on peerless.

Head over to our Borderlands review to find out why.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (38) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Fletche #1 2 years ago

    Excellent, for me this game is the surprise package of the year, a great game and hopefully one that will continue for a while with further expansions and sequels

  • rodpad #2 2 years ago

    I'd love this to be a full MMO version of the series.

  • optimusprym8 #3 2 years ago

    the missus is working all weekend, looking forward to getting 48 hours of non-stop co-op action on [in Borderlands]
    Edited by 1 at 04/12/09 @ 15:10

  • MyAfroAndMe #4 2 years ago

    Totally one of the games of the year and one of the few times a sequel cannot come too soon.

  • reddrag0nuk #5 2 years ago

    Nice maybe the next game will have jungles and citys.
    It would be nice to have more areas to explore.

  • jonbwfc #6 2 years ago

    @optimusprym8
    And will you be playing Borderlands at some point too?

  • Ged42 #7 2 years ago

    I more excited about this than I am about your mum's girly parts ;)

  • bratmandu #8 2 years ago

    Mmm ch' mm ch' mm ch', oh! Come on! Mm ch' mm ch' - I'm dancin, I'm DANCIN!

  • symmetry #9 2 years ago

    Ooooh, I like the idea of Borderworlds, environment variation would be great.

    I'm loving my soldier's machine gun at the moment, it has a magazine capacity of 141! I can take out an entire community of bandits / skags / spiderants without reloading.

  • Edwin #10 2 years ago

    stuck on the mad mel section, looks like i'm gunna have to venture online!!

  • MuchoPies #11 2 years ago

    Am I leaking?! I'm leaking, I'm leaking!

    Oh comme on GET DOWN!

  • bumgut #12 2 years ago

    I can see... the code...

  • Phattso #13 2 years ago

    If they can keep quarterly DLC coming out for the original and have a sequel done for Q4 2011 I'd be a very happy chappy indeed. I haven't played everything I want to this year, but this far if I had to pick my game of the year it'd probably be Borderlands - absolutely love it.

  • DUFFKING #14 2 years ago

    I actually only bought Borderlands because it was the same week as Forza 3 and bought it along with Forza. I expected to play Forza most of the weekend, but I hardly touched it once I started Borderlands. Despite it's flaws it's easily GOTY for me.

  • captain_Carl #15 2 years ago

    My gamesave corrupted on Borderlands, when i was at level 20. Still can't be bothered to get back where i was.

    But what i played was awesome, and i can't wait for the sequel. Hopefully it will have less glitches and bugs though

  • penhalion #16 2 years ago

    At the end of 1 it's implied there are thousands of angels so this isn't really a suprise for anyone surely.
    Edited by 1 at 04/12/09 @ 11:49

  • muscleblade #17 2 years ago

    Borderlands is great. After playing through the top notch Dlc i found the main game a little tedious though. The environments gets very samey after awhile.

  • MyAfroAndMe #18 2 years ago

    Edwin - just hide behind the ramp leading to Mad Mel's arena area and snipe. Don't bother with another runner after's he's appeared and inevitably destroyed your first one.

  • metalangel #19 2 years ago

    Can this sequel revolve around killing Claptraps. If I hear one more of those little twats announce that he's fucking dancing, I'm going to go nuts.

  • Edwin #20 2 years ago

    @Afro

    Thanks, will give that a go later.

  • kinky_mong #21 2 years ago

    @Metalangel: There's one bit in particular of the zombie island DLC that you'd enjoy ;)

  • Murton #22 2 years ago

    Borderlands was a serious contender for Game of the Year for me this year. It was everything that Failout 3 should have been, great looking varied environments, great FPS mechanics, solid RPG mechanics, decent storyline and most importantly of all the build quality one would expect from a finished product.

    Right now I'm seriously looking forward to going home for Christmas and battering it with my brother in co-op and possibly grab the DLC to do at the same time. I really like the idea of a sequel but what I'm hoping for is some new characters and of course, new abilities.

  • 5h1nj1 #23 2 years ago

    Wonderful game. Would have bought it right away if it wasn't steam-only. Looking forward for the sequel.

  • the_mtfr #24 2 years ago

    Borderworlds sounds more like an MMO rather than a similar sequel.

  • thefinn #25 2 years ago

    "Wonderful game. Would have bought it right away if it wasn't steam-only. Looking forward for the sequel."

    Umm. What? Do you mean that it uses Steam for DRM on the boxed version? It certainly isn't Steam-only for DD - Direct2Drive has it, for example.

  • davisorle #26 2 years ago

    Borderworlds sounds as a complete MMO convertion of the game. No expansion or anything. A whole new release of a Borderlands but shaped up fully for online. Not based on a solo camgaign like Borderlands did.

  • Madafunkola #27 2 years ago

    Not a single person attacking the game and/or insulting people who did like it? Are we unified for the 2nd time this week, gamers? (Langdell hatred being the 1st)

  • Cpt_McOneball #28 2 years ago

    Spaceships? No. This has got to be an MMO, which would be awesome shit XD

  • Grim63 #29 2 years ago

    Heh heh heh........".Borderworlds".........(Slobbers) - Still playing the original and completed the DLC, I think it's going to be quite some time before this gets stale.

  • penhalion #30 2 years ago

    I'd love to see a more fleshed out Borderlands 2, with maybe some spaceship travel/action. I loved the way it follows the "SpaceHunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" style of Sci-Fi i.e. there are ships and warp travel etc. etc. but, it's done in the traditional Human way. By this I mean cobbled together from high tech parts. It's seriously how I'd imagine we finally go out into the universe. Great high tech spaceships because you can't skimp on those and then colonies made of tin huts with just the bare minimum of high tech needed to actually survive the environments. Even the car in borderlands reminds me of the cars SpaceHunter had. They looked beat up and old but had lazers and rockets attached to them. If you haven't seen spacehunter then go view a clip and you'll see what I mean. I loved this move for it's sheer B-Movie style.

    [link url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3532047881 533557150#
    ]http://vi deo.google.com/videoplay?docid=...[/link]

  • Grayvern #31 2 years ago

    Then again thry could easily expand to other planets via dlc

  • AnsemsApprentice #32 2 years ago

    The Zombie Island of Dr.Ned was over a gig and about a 10th the size of what we saw of Pandora, god knows how big a full world would be via DLC. It sounds quite ambitious even for the current generation, could be for the next set of consoles? Unlikely.
    Edited by 1 at 05/12/09 @ 10:10

  • JayKwon #33 2 years ago

    I love this game through and through. Co-op in this game is awesome, and I keep getting excited over new loot.

    There are however a lot of points that could be improved. As long as they keep those graphics (love it) and that addiction to keep playing:).

  • zisssou #34 2 years ago

    They should do a freelancer type game if anyone remembers it. Then when you land at different planets you go into what borderlands is now.

  • makeamazing #35 2 years ago

    Ive enjoyed playing it, and really liked alot of aspects of it. I would have prefered that i didnt need to click on every single item dropped to pick it up, not really someone who likes grinding. But the combat was great.

    I wouldnt say this is GOTY for me (AC2 and Uncharted are fighting for that (with AC2 winning)... but i would say this is one of the surprising games of the year. I think with more story (I like story driven games), and some tweaks to make aspects of it less boring, this could move into a very strong game category. I liken it to AC1, certain things need tightening up... but i am sure Gearbox will do that :).. and BorderWorlds sounds great, I hope there is travel between planets.

  • actionfitz #36 2 years ago

    i love this game right now.
    only managed to get 1 mate playing with me... but have twisted another two to order it at the weekend :D
    lets the fun (and loots) roll in :)

  • Quint2020 #37 2 years ago

    Please not an MMO, please not an MMO, please not an MMO....

  • dk71 #38 2 years ago

    Borderlands co-op never worked for me (ps3) ,
    with such shitty support,
    I couldn't care less for anything from Gearbox...

    Instead of fixing the bugs, they make DLCs ????
    Nice attitude

    Can you imagine an MMO from a company that can't even make a 4-player game work ?!?!?!

    LOOOOL





    Edited by 1 at 08/12/09 @ 07:51