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This week Borderlands Game Of The Year Edition shipped to stores and gamers will be able to get a code included in the retail package that will let them gain early access to, among other things, the upcoming demo for Duke Nukem Forever, As it turns out, you will also be able to get access to that demo if you already own Borderlands.

Big Download can confirm that purchasing Gearbox Software's FPS-RPG hybrid via Steam nets the user a code for the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club web site. That code opens up the site which at the moment just has a couple of wallpaper images (you can see one of them above). However it will also give those players access to the demo for the long awaited shooter game. So it seems if you just purchase Borderlands via Steam for $19.99 you will get the same Duke Nukem Forever demo access code at the same time as those folks who purchase the Game of the Year edition.

This week Borderlands Game of the Year Edition ships to stores and as we reported last week people who buy this collection of Gearbox Software's first person shooter and all four DLC mini-expansions will also get first access to the long awaited free Duke Nukem Forever demo.

But if you want to play the demo but don't want to purchase the new Borderlands collection to get it (most likely because you already own the game and the four DLC packs), don't fret. According to what Gearbox's Steve Gibson told Digital Spy the Duke Nukem Forever demo "... is going to go out to everybody, yeah." He adds, "We want to - I don't want to spoil the surprise - but I think it's going to be fun and people are going to be surprised at what we put in there and what happens with it." The demo to the long, long, long awaited game should be released before the full game comes out sometime in 2011.

[Via Eurogamer]

Fans of off-the-wall shooters have a lot to get excited about thanks to a deal announced today by 2K Games. Gamers that purchase the Borderlands Game of the Year Edition for consoles or PC when it releases on October 12th will get free membership certificate for the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club. Members will get exclusive early access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo, which will come out sometime before the full game releases. Unfortunately, it looks like players who bought Borderlands and its DLC expansions separately are ineligible for this offer.

The Borderlands Game of the Year Edition includes the core game and all of the DLC expansions: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, and the newest expansion - Claptrap's New Robot Revolution. Duke Nukem Forever is expected to release in 2011.

Last weekend, some of the attendees who managed to wait through long lines at PAX Prime 2010 got a chance to play a small portion of Duke Nukem Forever for the first time in the game's 13+ development cycle. But will the rest of the general public get a chance to sample this long awaited shooter via a free demo?

VG247.com put that question to Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford who stated, "I think that is an important thing to do ..." Now that the game is officially back in development, Pitchford said, " ... we can actually make those plans. No (sic) we can get with retailers and figure out the launch window, and figure out demo timing, and work with the first-parties on that." Indeed retailers have been kept in the dark that Duke Nukem Forever was back in development until the morning of the game's re-reveal this past Friday, Pitchford stated, "We weren't able to do that until this point, because if we did we risked damaging it even further."