Tales from the Borderlands shoots second, asks questions first
Pandora with fewer explosions is still pretty much Pandora.
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel takes aim on itself
If on a moon’s surface a vault hunter …
Playable Claptrap is a good way to get us excited about a new last-gen Borderlands game
Claptrap was a pretty outstanding non-playable character. In the first two Borderlands, he was sort of a curt, demented WALL-E. He made you laugh. He made you cry. OK, really he just made you laugh, and doled out some side-missions. But in the new Borderlands game announced today, we get to see what
New PBS Game/Show asks why we get so attached to NPCs
From Ellie, to Clementine, to, yeah, even Claptrap, the advent of believable non-playable characters, or NPCs, is one of the biggest developments in games in recent years, and also one of the strangest. Unlike the occasional actor and television personality that we form unrealistic attachments too,