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Borderlands and Assassin's Creed 2 to be delayed for PC

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By David Hollingworth
Sep 25, 2009 | 13 Comments
Tags: borderlands | assassins | creed | 3 | pc | fps | rpg | game | news

Keen PC gamers are going to have to wait a little bit, and lot, longer.

Bad news for PC gamers. Two cross-platform big guns are going to be late to the PC, once again showcasing the fraught business of developing in a multi-platform environment.

We found it yesterday that Borderlands will drop on PC a week after it hits consoles. Last minute polishing and optimising is taking a little longer than expected.

And it's that optimising that looks to be taking much longer than expected with Assassin's Creed 2, which we've found out today - via the evil that is Twitter - is going to slip to the first quarter of next year. Ubisoft made very big noises about how hard it was working to bring a quality PC game to market - and at the same time - so we can only assume that the issues must be worth the slipped date.

Poo.

Both games are still on track for their console release dates.

 
 
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Malkieri
Sep 25, 2009 1:17 PM
 Damn, it's going to be annoying waiting a week to get Borderlands while all the console gamers get stuck in.

I assume this will affect your borderlands competition (i.e. delayed/cancelled)?
nesquick
Sep 25, 2009 1:29 PM
 So is AC2 going be an obvious console port like AC1 or will it play like a PC game.
TheFrunj
Sep 25, 2009 2:00 PM
 Malkieri, it won't affect our comp since we've got prerelease code:

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Gallery/156533,atomics-power-to-the-pc-sydney-tour.aspx/57

This is just for retail, which means if you want to buy it it's going to be a little wait.

-JR
Hawkeye
Sep 25, 2009 2:04 PM
 No, not at all - we already have code for that. The same code that was at Power to the PC.
Pari
Sep 25, 2009 2:32 PM
 eh 1 week is not much to wait for borderlands

as for AC2
I was going to get it on ps3 anyway
Malkieri
Sep 25, 2009 2:54 PM
 Ahhh, thought it was going to be release code.

Not that I would care either way :P

*finger crossed*
TheFrunj
Sep 25, 2009 2:58 PM
 How did you cross a single finger?!?

D:
Malkieri
Sep 25, 2009 3:22 PM
 I broke it in anticipation.....
Level2
Sep 25, 2009 3:22 PM
 try breaking it!
Hoonbernator
Sep 25, 2009 4:56 PM
 I suppose that's better than Blizzard's "when it's done" crap. Gha! Just give us a ball park please!
RaRaDawg
Sep 25, 2009 5:36 PM
 When I saw the title, I was like 'GHEY', but I have exams coming along.
Tythais
Sep 25, 2009 6:59 PM
 haha good point, i'll have to study... or play ODST and dragon age
skywarp00
Oct 14, 2009 4:57 PM
 this is not true. it is out next week as scheduled on steam. u can pre-order now. there is NO delay. this is wrong info
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