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On our cover this month we welcome back one
of our favourite shooter franchises of the last
decade. It’s taken a few years to get this latest
sequel, until Gearbox felt that it could deliver a
suitably massive follow-up the series’ hugely
successful first two outings. OXM went to LAfor Borderlands 3’s big gameplay reveal and got
hands-on with the looter-shooter to find out just
how many guns the game developers were going
to give us this time! It’s billions. Find out more from
page 46! We celebrate the heroes of level designthis month, as we talk to the developers behind
the best stages of some of our favourite Xbox
games. See page 64! Elsewhere we take a trip
to Rare HQ to talk to studio head honcho Craig
Duncan (page 56), and as always we’ve got all the
latest news, previews and reviews from the worldof Xbox gaming! Enjoy!
Chris Burke
Editor
We’ve been inspired by
Borderlands 3 to invent
our own weird and
wonderful weapons.
Chris created a reality-
warping laser rife and
used to it add his very
own star to Hollywood’s
Walk Of Fame.Loving a little
bit of looting
THE OXM TEAM
Adam Bryant
Staff writer
Inspired by his studio
visit to Rare, Adam
created a giant flintlock
pistol and demanded
that we all talk to
him only using pirate
language. Yeargh.Rob Crossland
Art editor
Rob fashioned together
a Division 2-style drone,
complete with a tractor
beam, and uses it
to clear the roads of
traffic so he can use his
motorbike in peace.Drew Sleep
Production editor
Our spell-checker
brought us a red pen,
telling us that it’s the
only weapon he needs.
We looked confused, so
he wrote ‘NOT WORTHY’
on our foreheads.Robin Valentine
Contributor
Robin created a
gun that’s powered
entirely by D20 dice.
We haven’t seen him
recently, so we can only
assume he rolled a 1
when testing it.