2K parent company Take-Two released its fiscal fourth-quarter 2009 results today, highlighting impressive sales figures from its game library. Among them is GearBox-developed Borderlands, which is now becoming one of the company's top selling franchises.
"Borderlands from 2K Games has now sold over 2 million units worldwide and has established itself as a key franchise for Take-Two, for which the Company has long-term publishing rights," the release said. All news was not good from the report as the publisher reported huge year-end net losses, totaling nearly $140 million in the red.
The publisher added that its holds the "long-term publishing rights" to the Gearbox-developed franchise. Back when Gearbox and Take-Two announced Borderlands in 2007, the duo claimed that it was "the first title in an all-new sci-fi action franchise." Because of this statement fans should probably expect at the very least a sequel or two; my head tells me this will be a long-living and money-making franchise for Take-Two. The game has already received one piece of ultra-awesome downloadable content, with the second one, the recently announced Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, arriving later this month.
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