{"id":33241,"date":"2012-03-01T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33241"},"modified":"2012-03-01T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T10:11:50","slug":"borderlands-2-pc-drm-system-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33241-borderlands-2-pc-drm-system-announced","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 2 PC DRM system announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2K Games has announced that when Borderlands 2 is released later this year, it will come with Steamworks built-in.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this only applies to the PC version, and it means that players will have to have Steam installed to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Borderlands 2 <\/em>players will enjoy the benefits of Steamworks features, such as Steam Achievements, downloadable content, auto-updating, multiplayer matchmaking, Steam Cloud support and more,&#8221; said 2K in an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean that players have to have an active internet connection to play the game, but it does mean that they will have to have an active internet connection to install the game.<\/p>\n<p>Borderlands 2 is currently being developed by Gearbox Software and is due out on 18 September, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tWUqZhyNLaE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Borderlands 2 dev talks co-op\" href=\"..\/news\/32454-borderlands-2-dev-talks-co-op.html\">Borderlands 2 dev talks co-op<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Gearbox: Borderlands 2 will be less repetitive\" href=\"..\/news\/29254-gearbox-borderlands-2-will-be-less-repetitive.html\">Gearbox: Borderlands 2 will be less repetitive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Borderlands 2 details emerge from PAX demo\" href=\"..\/news\/13856-borderlands-2-details-emerge-from-pax-demo.html\">Borderlands 2 details emerge from PAX demo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Borderlands 2 14 minute gameplay video leaked\" href=\"..\/news\/13826-borderlands-2-14-minute-gameplay-video-leaked.html\">Borderlands 2 14 minute gameplay video leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Borderlands 2 is \u201cabout a third\u201d bigger than the original\" href=\"..\/news\/13712-borderlands-2-is-about-a-third-bigger-than-the-original.html\">Borderlands 2 is \u201cabout a third\u201d bigger than the original<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Borderlands 2 multiplayer deathmatch? Maybe.\" href=\"..\/news\/13704-borderlands-2-multiplayer-deathmatch-maybe.html\">Borderlands 2 multiplayer deathmatch? Maybe.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Borderlands 2 features Salvador, the dual-wielding dwarf\" href=\"..\/news\/13390-borderlands-2-features-salvador-the-dual-wielding-dwarf.html\">Borderlands 2 features Salvador, the dual-wielding dwarf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annoyingly intrusive, or acceptably quiet? You decide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":29261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[827,1524,1525,21],"class_list":["post-33241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-2k-games","tag-borderlands-2","tag-gearbox","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33242,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions\/33242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}