Ok, I admit that title has very little to do with this post but I always wanted to use that reference. And besides, one word in the title refers to what I want to talk about.

xwmstormx is working on porting the Abandoned Base deathmatch map to Borderlands. Very cool stuff since there's been many laments about the limits of Borderlands multiplayer capabilities. 

Congrats to Rob N Steal (AKA Lambo 412) for beating out fearsome competitor Henkin in our inaugural Borderlands 360 PvP cup. His award is that he gets to look at this jpeg of a 1st place medal to the right as much as he wants. The full results from the tournament are below.

By the way, a lot of people expressed interest in competing in this after the tournament started. Henkin has graciously volunteered to keep this thing going in some form, so stay tuned for more competition opportunities.

 Gearbox officially annouced their third DLC for Borderlands, "Secret Armory of General Knoxx." No date, no price, but who cares because we're getting what we really wanted.

Release an online only title and have the servers go down on the first day. Our sister site MAG Game Guide has the story. (By the way, I'm still optimistic about this game's potential. But I'm not going to cut them any slack for fumbling the launch like this.)

And onto the semifinal round we go of Borderlands PvP tournament. Just one victory separates these competitors from a shot at eternal glory in the championship.

Henkin, CyanideJay and Rob N Steal bring in a combined 6-0 record. Then there's the curious case of HammerofJustis who snuck through the first two rounds because of opponents eliminated for inaction. Could he be a dark horse surpise?

After much experience with this game, I have come to the conclusion that DUELING is absolutely pointless and is overall a broken experience in the game. (Editor's note: This isn't the official position of the site, we just thought it was a well-written piece that makes interesting points so we put it on the front page.)

I will state my reasons:

Caught a couple of good science fiction movies over the past couple weeks. One you’re heard of, the other you probably hadn’t.

The first is that one you couldn’t miss if you were Amish: Avatar. The hype preceding this film has been a spectacle in itself. With so much fanboy frothing I needed to wear a raincoat to the theaters, it seemed destined to disappoint.

Kotaku's got the scoop for today's big big BIIIIIIIG news.

Borderlands Level Cap Raise Confirmed by Gearbox [Kotaku]

That's right. We're gunna be getting MORE LEVELS! And also, more SCOOTER! And also confirmed is a bug fix update in the works.

Or if you don't want to see the summation there, just hit the Gearbox Forum thread to check it out.