{"id":5050,"date":"2009-12-18T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"borderlands-hits-2-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5050-borderlands-hits-2-million-mark","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands hits 2 million mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/4847-Borderlands-most-successful-new-this-year.html\">declaring<\/a> first person RPG shooter Borderlands the best selling fresh IP of the year in November publisher Take-Two interactive has come forward to reveal the numbers behind the success.<\/p>\n<p>While discussing &#8220;recent product highlights&#8221; Take-Two revealed that the game has so far &#8220;sold over 2 million units worldwide&#8221; since its release in October to the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms adding that it has now &#8220;established itself as a key franchise for Take-Two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that gamers may indeed see a Borderlands sequel in development next year. A number of reports thus far have suggested that this may be the case. In addition Take-Two added at the event that it holds the &#8220;long-term publishing rights&#8221; to the franchise and initially marketed it as &#8220;the first title in an all-new sci-fi action franchise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although there has been no sequel confirmation the game has received two DLC packages &ndash; The Zombie Island of Dr Ned, which is now available and Mad Moxxi&rsquo;s Underdome Riot which is due to be released soon. Borderlands has also secured positions on a number of reputable &lsquo;top 10&rsquo; lists of 2009.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers Take-Two suggest a healthy franchise may be in the works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}