Gearbox has released the 1.2.1 patch for Borderlands, which includes the following fixes:

• Multiplayer connectivity has been improved; users should no longer be required to forward ports to host or join multiplayer games
• Players who experienced distorted shadows or graphical glitches after update 1.0.1 should no longer experience these issues
• The 3D Vision crosshair has been improved

The patch weighs in at 190 MB and can be downloaded here. As with previous patches, the Germans have a different version, due to the game being censored there.

THQ and Russian developer 4A Games have released a trailer showcasing some of the gameplay from the upcoming Metro 2033 horror game.

The NBA 2K series has dominated EA’s NBA Live over the past few years, both in terms of gameplay and sales, so it comes as no surprise that 2K Sports’ NBA 2K10 has sold over 2 million copies to date. 2K says it’s a 60% increase compared to 2K9

BioShock 2 is very, very, close, in fact, just mere weeks away. To ease your waiting, 2K Games have released another launch trailer.

Publisher SEGA has announced that a demo of the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator game will be released tomorrow on Xbox Live, PSN and Steam. The demo features multiplayer deathmatch where players can try out as all three races (human, alien, predator).

Civilization Network, the Facebook version of Civilization, will have an open beta in the upcoming months, which will be accessible to all Facebook members. The game is expected for release sometime this June, publisher Take Two announced today.

That large God of War figure you see in the video actually holds a fully fledged PC inside. Great job, indeed!

While the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII will ship on a single BLu-ray disc, the Xbox 360 counterpart will have to manage with 3 DVDs instead. However, three doesn’t seem that much when you think that other Japanese RPGs came on four discs, like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.

Here’s something you won’t hear often in the video game industry: publisher Tecmo Koei has agreed on delaying the upcoming action game Quantum Theory in order for some fine tuning, polishing and general quality control. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 shooter was originally planned for a March release, but it now appears that the game will be out this summer instead.

Namco Bandai recently revealed their earnings for 2009, which, unfortunately, saw a loss of $129 million, compared to the year before, when the company made almost $100 million.

The rapid change in income means that Namco Bandai will be laying off 10% of its workforce, or what amounts to 650 employees, across the world — but mostly in Japan.