Left 4 who?  Resident 5 what?  Pa-shaw!  I bring you the latest screens of the first DLC of Borderlands, titled the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned.  Fear the giant Frankenstein like creatures, look in horror as hordes of undead midgets attempt to eat your brains.  

Then shoot them in the face with a shotgun that does electrical damage and has a scope.

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After Borderlands blew us away with its release, we haven't been able to get enough of it. Additional content to extend the experience is a wonderful thing, but now we're ready to experience Borderlands at all times. In the car, in your office, at school - wherever, you'll now have the soundtrack to Borderlands available just in time for the holidays.
 

"The soundtrack features a number of tunes from various composers including Jesper Kyd, Sascha Dikiciyan, Cris Velasco and Raison Varner, Tim Larkin. Unfortunately, the catchy song "Aint No Rest For The Wicked," which was featured in the game's trailer and TV commercials, is not included."

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Gearbox has released the first patch for the PC version of Borderlands, squashing a few nagging bugs and adding features like voice volume control.  The biggest fix has to do with leaving a co-op game causing a characters progress to be lost, which thankfully, no longer happens.

 Along with the patch comes news that Borderlands was the fastest selling original IP of 2009, netting around 550k units sold on the 360 and PS3 alone.  This would put it ahead of Uncharted 2 on the NPD charts, and it doesn't include PC and digital sales of the product.  Bravo Gearbox!   We thoroughly enjoy the four player co-op gameplay and loot collecting, and it looks like everyone else does too!

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Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.

The stories for this week:

- Final Fantasy XIII Releasing in America and Europe March 9th, 2010
- Gamestop to Begin Selling DLC in Stores
- Modern Warfare 2 is Burning the Benjamins
- October NPD Numbers Out, Some Good and Bad News
- Assassin's Creed II, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Left 4 Dead 2 Highlight Last Major Release Week

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Remember when Borderlands was sent out to die?  Yeah...didn't happen.  The game sold an impressive 400k copies in October on the Xbox 360 alone placing it third on the sales chart behind Wii Fit Plus and Uncharted 2.  These sales numbers come from the monthly NPD stats, which report sales numbers for North America.

Halo 3: ODST took the number 6 spot, selling an additional 271k, bringing the two month total for North America close to 2 million.

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Wait right here, Ned's finishing up, he'll be right with you

We seem to really enjoy our Borderlands. Many of us have already finished the campaign and are leveling up their second and third characters. There's good news for those that wanted more; a new island will be available for download after November 24th. The DLC pack is called "Zombie Island of Dr. Ned" and will give players an additional 6-10 hours of gameplay time to complete the story here. IGN has stated that there are about "50 quests, and 5 new dungeons" on this new island, with a plethora of zombies accidentally created by a wacky Dr. Ned.

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In an interview with VG247.com, Gearbox's Mikey Neumann confirmed that a sequel to Borderlands is a distinct possibility.  In fact, it's a "no brainer."  

"Yes, I can probably confirm that there’s a chance of a Borderlands 2. I mean, with anything, especially a new IP, if people want more and you can make more, and everybody can make money and do good business there, it obviously makes really good sense to do that," said Neumann. "Obviously nothing so far is planned. We’re working on DLC. We haven’t really had any talks about a sequel, other than water cooler talk.."

With how well the reviews have been, how many people we've seen playing the game online, and just how addictive the co-op formula is, it seems Gearbox has hit gold here.  I'll be curious to see the sales numbers.  I mean..after all the game was sent to die.

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Gearbox and 2K Games have announced a release date and price for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of the first Borderlands downloadable content pack called The Island of Dr. Ned.  

The DLC is actually an island filled with zombies after Dr. Ned unintentionally converted the entire workforce population to the walking dead.  As you can see from the DLC offers the same slick visual style with it's own unique twist.  You know what kills zombies?  Shotguns.  You know what kills them better?  Shotguns with scopes, electrical damage, and a 10 round clip.

 The DLC will be out on November 24th, just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend in the US.  It's priced at $9.99 or 800  on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 respectively.  There's no word on when the PC would get the content.

 It's time for another one of our famous give aways, and this one is going to be a good one.  We're giving away one copy of Borderlands for the PC to two lucky winners.  Why?  Well we've gone ahead and updated our review with some PC impressions and needed an excuse to give out some goodies.

But how do you win?  Read on.

Earlier this week we gave you a status update to some of the bugs in Borderlands.  Today we bring you good news as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game have received patches to tidy things up a bit.  

Yes, Lilith's phase walk now works correctly.

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