Welcome to Sanctuary: the beating heart of Pandora and your primary port-of-call in Borderlands 2. As you can see, Sanctuary is a sleepy mountain resort with a charming neo-Western aesthetic and all the modern conveniences a gun-toting vault-hunter could possibly desire. Boomsticks, bombs, buggies, broads, booze, and some other things that don’t begin with ‘b’ can all be found within its heavily-guarded, double-reinforced concrete walls. Keep an eye open and you might even spot a few familiar faces…

Recently we sent two of Australia’s sexiest games journalists – Dan Staines and Daniel Wilks (collectively: Dans Central) – to 2K Australia’s swank Pyrmont offices to check out an early preview build of Gearbox’s much-anticipated RPG/FPS loot-em-up, Borderlands 2. After getting lost several times on the way there and almost getting run over by a bus on the way back, here’s what they returned with…

At a recent THQ event in Sydney, we were able to head along and take a look at the upcoming Company of Heroes 2 for ourselves. We put your questions to Relic’s Creative Manager Simon Watts, and came back with these answers – and a bunch of new screenshots!