Despite being in development for over a decade Duke Nukem Forever‘s May 3rd, 2011 release date is finally approaching. While we’ve seen everything from gameplay to the collector’s edition there is still much to be known about the game. While it would be ridiculous to think that the developers will tell us everything prior to the game’s launch, some information has been trickling  out here and there.

The latest of such information focuses on the game’s campaign, more specifically how long it will be. Gearbox‘s own Randy Pitchford came forth during an interview with GTTV to let us know that it will be between 16 and 18 hours.

This is a decent amount of play time and will surely give Duke Nukem fans hours of fun. Now we just need some information on the multiplayer and we’ll be all set and, you know, a demo wouldn’t hurt.

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Something pretty serious has to go down in order for a game to get canceled. The most recent occurrence of this is with EA Sports’ NBA ELITE 11 which was canceled due to extremely poor reception. Duke Nukem Forever is one of the most publicized games thought to be canceled and then brought back from the dead.

It’s been nearly a decade since development began on Duke Nukem Forever so when a playable version was put on display at this year’s E3 gamers were shocked. Despite this, we haven’t been able to pin the game with a solid release date due to no official word being said. Luckily, our friends over at both Amazon and GameStop have pegged the game with a May 31st, 2011 release date for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Is this to be believed? Well, considering it’s coming from 2 major online retailers there is definitely some heat behind it but wait for an official word before getting too excited.

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Gearbox has announced that their upcoming Borderlands Game of The Year edition will not only include lots of DLC, but it’ll have something else as well: early access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo. The GOTY edition will come with a code to download the demo prior to anyone else, however, it’s not mentioned exactly when that’ll happen.

After 3D Realms was shut down, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford started talking to the guys, and Gearbox’ good relationship with Take Two, they ended up acquiring the Duke IP. They took over the development of Duke Nukem Forever, which was showcased as a playable demo at PAX last weekend. The game is scheduled for release next year, at which point it will have been in development some 14 years.

Are you looking for some fresh Borderlands content but don’t want to shell out $10 for any of the DLC packs? Well, you’re in luck as Gearbox has just slashed the price on Xbox Live from 800 Microsoft Points to 400. That’s $10 to $5.

Unfortunately it won’t be for all packs, just The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, but rumor has it Gearbox plans to release a 4th currently untitled DLC pack for Borderlands at some point in the near future.

As always, we’ll keep you posted.

Borderlands already has The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot and The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC packs but already  2K’s CEO, Ben Feder, is talking about future expansions. In fact, Feder said that Gearbox “will continue to support the title with add-on content”.

That’s the extent of the details we have regarding the new DLC but GDC will most likely bring more info.

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There hasn’t been much in terms of details for upcoming Borderlands DLC but one of the game’s developers has stepped in to let us know a bit about whats to come.

First and foremost, he said that the pack will be the biggest DLC they’ve made thus far and prominently feature an increase in the level cap.

Unfortunately, that’s all the information we have now regarding the matter but we’ll keep you posted.

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Have you picked up Borderlands yet? If you have, you’ve heard of Gearbox Software considering they are the masterminds behind the critically acclaimed game.

But that’s not what matters, what matters is that the studio is hiring for “all kinds of stuff, including a super secret project”. A super secret project you say? What possibly can this mean? I guess we’ll have to wait until further announcements are made to find out, which we’ll be sure to let you know of.

Below is the tweet that let us in on employment opportunity including a link to find out more info:

“Gearbox is hiring for all kinds of stuff, including a super secret project that I’m working on!http://bit.ly/3pfdFbHit up the site!”

It seems that some lucky gamers were able to get their hands on a copy of Borderlands before ahead of its October 27th street date. But for those of you who weren’t able to get their hands on a prerelease copy, don’t’ be discouraged as reports are popping up that the game won’t even be playable until October 26th, singleplayer included.

But what gives? Well it seems that 2K Games wants everyone to wait until the game is available to everyone but it has left some gamers unhappy. One German gamer sent the following tweet to Gearbox:

I own a legal PC-copy of Borderlands, and we can’t even play the Singleplayer cause of the shitty Securom-protection

But honestly though, is it really Gearbox‘s fault that retailers are breaking the street date? Just be patient, wait it out and everything will be fine, I promise.

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Valve’s Steam service hasn’t received much criticism over the years, despite it being the number one digital distribution platform, which fact, when you’re numero uno, usually comes with some criticism. Not Steam.

Now Randy Pitchford, Gearbox boss, has stated in an interview with Maximum PC that “Valve is taking a larger share than it should for the service it’s providing. It’s exploiting a lot of small guys.”. Another point Pitchford made, is that Valve is in essence, a competitor, which owns the platform the competing developers are publishing on. He suggests that Valve simply spin off Steam into a separate company, thereby removing the obvious conflict of interest.