Every day this week we’re giving away some badass Borderlands swag plus a copy of the game on Xbox 360. If you’d like to win, read on.
UPDATE: Tuesday’s draw closed at midnight. Entries received after midnight are ineligible. Wednesday’s draw is now open.
Thanks to our good friends at 2K Games each day this week we’ll be giving away the following:
* A copy of Borderlands for Xbox 360
* A Borderlands t-shirt
* A Borderlands mug
* A Borderlands kitbag
* A Borderlands notebook
* A Boderlands cap
* And a Borderlands retro tape player USB
Borderlands is the imminent – it’s out on Thursday! – role-playing shooter from Gearbox Software. It might not be the Citizen Kane of games, but it is – in the words of Gearbox president Randy Pitchford – totally badass. We’ve played it, several times in fact, and we dig it.
One of the more intriguing aspects of the game is its procedurally generated weapon system, which randomise a host of factors to ensure that you’ll rarely find two weapons that are the same. Gearbox claim there are more weapons in Borderlands than in every other shooter this console generation combined.
But perhaps you can come up with a weapon they haven’t got.
To be in the running to win, we want you to describe the Borderlands weapon you’d use to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Leave your weapon name and description in the comments below. Humour and creativity will be rewarded, as per usual Kotaku competition lines.
To be eligible for today’s draw, you must leave your comment by midnight tonight. You’re allowed one entry per day. If you want to enter in tomorrow’s draw, you must comment on that post with a brand new weapon idea.
And for all those who entered yesterday, Monday’s lucky winner is…
“asimovy” for the weapon called the Phat Looter. S/he clearly gets what Borderlands is all about.
“Using the amazing power of science, the Phat Looter will suck up all available loot from enemies in a 100 meter radius. Without needing to kill them!
But thats not all! The phat Looter’s secondary fire mode will launch all sub-par or useless loot back at the enemy dealing huge damage! Just in case they want their loot back!”
Bora
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 12:31 AMThe Chuck Norris
Enough said!
Liam Arthur
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 1:08 AMThe Christmas Gun – As it’s better to give than recieve…
The Gun will fire out divine pain in the shape of acidic snowglobes, gifts packed full of tnt and razor sharp xmas tree stars.
Secondary attack is a siren to call down your army of carnivorous reindeer and looting elfs.
excusemyspanish@hotmail.com
Liam Arthur
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 1:08 AMWhoops, submitted it a bit late… I guess I will try again tomorrow.
Chuckhazard
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 3:34 AM300 yards of standard gauge railroad track, mounted With pivoting base on the junk-repaired remains of the NASA crawler transporter. Heavily reinforced and strapped to the nines with hoss electromagnets. Stick a freight car full of TNT on the rails and… Fire. Lots of fire, and mile wide craters.
Given the right tech level I’d throw some anti grav on there so I could swing it around like a 9mm but for a post apocalyptic setting I figured the treaded platform gives if the right gritty feel.
Now I’m off to scour the wastelands for a WWII railway gun, so I can fire a krupp k5 which will then fire it’s own artillery as it hurtles through the skies.
Chuckhazard
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 3:37 AMOops put my weapon name in the website field. Was:
the rail-railway gun: taking the “post” out of post apocalyptic.
prplCar0t
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 9:44 AMThe “Panicake”
Primary fire: Pan cakes
Secondary Fire: syrup
basically you’ll wanna hit your target with couple of primary shots in the face so they can’t see then secondary the hell out of the ground in front of them, they’ll slip like granny in the shower…. “I’ve had a bit of a tumble” they will cry.
Burdo
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 1:41 PMThe Limited Edition Hyper Mega Super Advance Plus Gamma Omega Cannon.
Purpose: It’s the same as all the other billions of guns. Only better.
WezXD
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Cal Smith
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