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Publisher Take Two Interactive is always the last of the publicly trade game publishers to reveal its financial results. Today the company revealed that for the quarter that ended on July 31 it generated $354.1 million in revenue, a massive increase compared to the $94.9 million it made for the same period a year ago. Take Two recorded a profit of $12.4 million for the quarter compared to a loss of $58.3 million for the same period a year ago.

Part of the reason for the better numbers were the high sales of the console only game Red Dead Redemption which Take Two said has sold 6.9 million copies since its release last May. The publisher's PC game release schedule includes Civilization V, NBA 2K11 and the next Borderlands DLC release. Oddly, the press release makes no mention of Max Payne 3, the long-in-development action game that's been delayed a number of times.

Earlier this month rumors hit the internet that Gearbox Software had taken over full development of Duke Nukem Forever from 3d Realms. At the time Gearbox's head man Randy Pitchford would not admit to the rumor but told Kotaku that more info would be revealed at PAX Prime 2010. Now the schedule for PAX Prime on September 3-5 reveals that Gearbox will be hosting a panel where it claims that it will be showing "never before seen footage of upcoming Gearbox releases."

The PAX Prime Gearbox panel description claims that it will have "juicy exclusives, surprising disclosures, unbelievable scoops and behind the scenes access" to Gearbox's future plans. At the moment we do know that Gearbox is prepping to release a fourth DLC mini-expansion for its 2009 shooter-RPG hybrid Borderlands. Gearbox's web site currently shows three unannounced games listed along with Aliens: Colonial Marines, a long-in-development shooter for publisher Sega that Gearbox has said little about for nearly two years.

Gearbox Software hit first person shooter Borderlands has become the sleeper hit of the fall with lots of critical praise and evidence that the game itself is selling well. So how about a sequel? VG247.com posed that question to Gearbox's creative director Mike Neumann who stated, " So yeah, if everything makes sense, Borderlands 2 seems like a no-brainer to me."

That's not to say that the developer is currently working on such a sequel right now. Neumann states, "Obviously nothing so far is planned. We're working on DLC. We haven't really had any talks about a sequel, other than water cooler talk like, 'Wouldn't this be cool' kind of stuff." Neumann was also non-committal on whether on not we will ever see a Borderlands demo, saying, "Borderlands is just such an expansive game. So many things can happen at any time. It's really hard to truncate that down to some bite-sized, 'Here's why you should buy the game'' section."