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Take-Two’s Borderlands has been the year’s best-selling original IP, so it’s hardly surprising that the publisher is already talking about a sequel.

At yesterday’s earnings call, company chairman Strauss Zelnick said that Borderlands was “showing every sign of becoming an important, long-term franchise”. With developer Gearbox’s Mike Neumann having referred to Borderlands 2 as a “no-brainer” last month, it looks like a sequel is inevitable. Gearbox even has a proper working title to run with, having just trademarked the word “Borderworlds” in the US.

We’re already making a mental list of what we’d like to see in a sequel: extra skill specialisations; more vehicles; an increased variety of terrain; maybe some level of character customisation; and definitely a wider choice of online modes.

Interestingly, a report on Develop notes that Gearbox is calling for staff from axed studio Pandemic to apply for jobs with the Texan company. Whether that’s indicative of ramping up the Borderlands team size we can’t say, but as Borderlands was one of our favourite titles of 2009 a sequel can’t come soon enough.