Gearbox and 2K have released the launch trailer for the Psycho Pack, coming tomorrow, which includes the new DLC character Krieg. Krieg is, of course, a psycho — and so he has a variety of skill trees focusing on being mad, killing things while mad, and getting madder while killing things. You can check out some brief overviews of them below, or perhaps just wait until tomorrow and experience it for yourself.

It’s not included in the Season Pass, so you’ll need to fork out again for it — we’ll let you know what the Australian pricing is when we have it.

Source: VG247

Gearbox have formally announced the existence of Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep, the fourth and final piece of Borderlands 2campaign add-on DLC. The package will arrive on June 25 for free to Season Pass holders, or $9.99 for everybody else (US price, AUD not confirmed).

The campaign sees the players taking the role of characters in a game of “Bunkers & Badasses” played by Brick, Mordecai and Lilith, and game-mastered by Tiny Tina who narrates the entire thing. It is reportedly the biggest piece of DLC yet.

Today’s announcement follows a rather delightful leak in which lead writer Anthony Burch accidentally tweeted a picture of a sleeping colleague with the Tiny Tina DLC poster in the background. The image was pulled, but not fast enough — and Gearbox have since come forward to IGN to confirm.

The Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack has been released to waiting Borderlands 2 fans, raising the level cap to 61 and adding new content.

Owners of the Borderlands 2 DLC Season Pass get access to this pack for free, but otherwise you’re looking at an additional $8.99 on Steam. If you haven’t already picked up the Season Pass, you can get it for $28 at Green Man Gaming with the code GMGAU-3J9MF-MUINW.

Click on through for all the details and some SHiFT code action!

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Coming on April 2, Borderlands 2 is set to have its item tier raised and eleven more levels added, bringing the new level cap to 61. The new tier of weapons will be ‘Pearlescent’, to match the same tier in the original Borderlands. This will be free for Season Pass holders, and USD $4.99 for everybody else (AU pricing not yet confirmed). Whether you’ve purchased the level cap raise or not, all players will get free DLC called Ultimate Vault Hunter mode — available to anybody who has beaten True Vault Hunter mode.

A new character named Krieg is also on the way: Krieg is based on the Psycho enemies and is designed to encourage players to engage in high-risk behaviour. His Bloodlust tree is all about constantly dealing damage, his Mania tree rewards him for taking damage, and his Hellborn tree focuses on elemental damage.

Krieg is, according to IGN, not included in the Season Pass DLC.

Source: IGN and also IGN

Continuing its love affair with geek conventions, Gearbox Software has made a bit of a splash at SxSW this weekend by showing a teaser video for a new downloadable character for Borderlands 2. This sixth cast member isn’t included in the game’s DLC season pass, as Gaige the Mechnomancer was, and was first hinted at in late February. We don’t know anything about the new character expect that it is some sort of escaped experiment, and looks to be pretty large. You can see a dodgy off-screen recording of the teaser below.

Source: Polygon

You know what I love? Grinding. Sometimes. It depends on the game, obviously, but I don’t think grinding is as inherently bad as we often make it out to be. Repetitive tasks can be enjoyable and relaxing. They can be meaningful in and of themselves, not just for the promise of a reward. Sometimes the fun is in the process.

You know what I love? The Goliath enemy in Borderlands 2. While initially it might seem like just a slightly larger bullet-sponge than all the other bullet-sponge enemies in the game, the Goliath allows several unique engagements from the player that greatly mixup Borderlands 2’s base gameplay.

Perhaps more accurately, the Goliath demands the player engages with them in unique ways. They force the player to think, and they can become an embodiment of the player’s self-defined goals.

One of the common complaints about Borderlands 2‘s current run of DLC is that it doesn’t increase the level cap. Now Gearbox are looking at this, and expect to be able to deploy something for you by the end of March.

“We do have one planned, and it will be for quite a few levels which will allow you play for quite a bit longer. We also have a plan for Q1,” said producer James Lopez to Official PlayStation Magazine.

Why haven’t they done it before now? It’s all to do with the way they’re tracking data, through the SHiFT system. “SHiFT allows us to see a lot more about the way players are playing the game and see what they’re doing. We wanted to give people enough time to get at least one level 50 and then see from there. We also didn’t want to wait so long that people were no longer interested or felt like it wasn’t coming.”

Source: OPSM via PC Gamer

Borderlands 2‘s ‘Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt’ DLC is out today! To celebrate in the traditional way, there is a launch trailer for you to check out.

This DLC, which I will begin referring to as ‘SHBGH’, features new environments, all new phat lootz and a brand new bad guy to test yourself against, a Professor Nakayama. If the trailer catches your fancy, be sure to check out our SHBGH review by the delightful Mr Dalzell as well.

As per usual, watch the trailer below and let us know what you think. There is a masturbation joke in there. Really. If that’s what it takes to get you to watch it, I’ll just put it out there. Sir Hammerlock himself makes a masturbation joke. Watch the trailer.

With Handsome Jack vanquished and Pandora saved, our heroes now find themselves seeking peace on Pandora’s newly uncovered continent of Aegrus, following in the footsteps of Sir Hammerlock who himself has made the trek for nothing more than a quiet weekend of “Hunting, companionship, and bawdy jokes about social taboos.“. We sent Jamie Dalzell along to see if he could help out Sir Hammerlock in any of these three key areas.

What are you up to this fine Sunday, my lad and/or ladette and/or ladeloo? Well, cancel it, and fire up Borderlands 2 again, because there is some sweet gear on offer in a special weekend event. To get you prepared for Tuesday’s launch of new DLC, Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, Gearbox has ramped up the drop rate of a number of special items.

At the moment, you can pick up a bunch of rare grenade mods, but assuming you have some free time on Monday, or just never sleep you can check back in after 4:00AM AEST for a new kind of rare drop. What will that rare drop be? No idea; visit Gearbox’s homepage at about dawn tomorrow to find out, then get in an hour or two before the commitments of the week.

To participate, you just have to be connected to the Internet while you play. Easy done. Grenades for everyone!

Source: Gearbox

Need more Borderlands 2 DLC in your life? Of course you do! Well, the details for Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt may have been leaked all over the internet but that doesn’t mean you don’t get to see this pretty trailer. Will it be as good as Torgue? Worse than Torgue? Better than Captain Scarlett? All will be revealed on January 15.