Here's How To Play The Original Borderlands For Free This Weekend On PC

by Brandon Hill — Friday, July 19, 2019, 02:20 PM EDT

If you have a bit of nostalgia for games from years past, Steam is offering up some freebie action this weekend. Steam is making Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced free-to-play this weekend only.

Borderlands was originally released nearly ten years ago on October 20^th2009 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and October 26^th2009 for Windows PCs. The co-op shooter in its GOTY Enhanced Edition includes the following DLC as well to further your co-op gaming experience:

Borderlands: Claptrap's Robot Revolution
Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Borderlands: Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot
Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned

Now is the perfect time to go back and revisit the original Borderlands without forking over one red cent -- well at least through Sunday night.

Gearbox has already announced the latest installment in the franchise, Borderlands 3, and it will continue the immersive, over-the-top co-op gaming experience that players love. What it won't have, however, is cross-play support at launch. Gearbox President Randy Pitchford made it clear earlier this week that his team didn't have time to put cross-play in the game for launch, but that he is committed to bringing the feature at a later date.

Borderlands 3 will be an Epic Games Store exclusive on the PC when it arrives on September 13^th, and that exclusivity will last for around six months. Gamers aren’t exactly thrilled with this turn of events, but the battle between the Epic Games Store and Steam is only going to get more heated in the months and years to come.

For those that want to get a piece of the free Borderlands weekend, be sure to click this link which will take you on over to the Steam store.

Tags: STEAM, Borderlands, Gearbox, Borderlands 2, borderlands 3

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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