Shacknews Interviews Gearbox's Mikey Neumann

Shacknews scored an interview with Gearbox's Mikey Neumann. I dig up the good parts below. You can read the full interview here.

1. Borderlands is almost done, but don't expect it until October.

Neumann says the target release month is October but they're wrapping up the game production now for certification time. Certification is a process developers go through with the console makers to make sure their game is up to snuff.

2. Sounds very likely we'll see downloadable content.

"During cert, if you have a lot of level designers who have nothing to do--which is pretty common, you pull level design and art off first--they're gonna be making cool shit," Neumann notes hypothetically. "That cool shit, that tends to be what DLC ends up being. It's the stuff we couldn't add to the game because we're making it during cert."

3. The midget pschos enemies make suicide runs.

"It's funny, the band of psychos, the midget psychos, they take enough damage and you leave them alone, they actually try to kamikaze you. They pull a grenade off and run at you. When it's like, baby-armed dude holding a grenade and running at you, it's pretty much... it's gaming bliss, really."

4. Bitch-slapping initiates duels.

"Oh yes. Within just the regular co-op mode, you can walk up to any of your friends at any time, let's say I'm playing with you, I walk up and I literally bitch slap you. And then it tells you that, "yo, that guy just bitch slapped you, what you wanna do about that?"

"So you bitch slap me back, a dome comes down, and we go into a dueling mode. You use all your skills and all your abilities, and that's just the most basic thing."

5. A demo is a possibility.

Neumann says they would "love" to have a demo but there's a lot of factors involved. He says they can't promise on eat this time.

6. Neumann says the gun count is up to millions now.

Even higher than the last count.

This was a great interview. There was actually a lot of new info in it. So many of the previews we read from E3 just rehashed a lot of the same stuff we already know.