{"id":113531,"date":"2020-05-28T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/borderlands_collection_becomes_free_on_epic_games_store_one_day_before_launching_on_switch"},"modified":"2020-05-28T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:40:00","slug":"borderlands-collection-becomes-free-on-epic-games-store-one-day-before-launching-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/28\/borderlands-collection-becomes-free-on-epic-games-store-one-day-before-launching-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands Collection Becomes Free On Epic Games Store, One Day Before Launching On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c848d4037394\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c848d4037394\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Borderlands\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c848d4037394\/borderlands.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c848d4037394\/borderlands.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Borderlands\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been thinking about picking up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/borderlands_legendary_collection\"><strong>Borderlands Legendary Collection<\/strong><\/a> on Nintendo Switch tomorrow, you might want to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>Just a day ahead of the series&#8217; Switch debut, a Borderlands bundle has become free of charge on the Epic Games Store. <strong>Borderlands: The Handsome Collection<\/strong> can now be picked up for the lovely sum of \u00a30 <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/store\/en-US\/bundles\/borderlands-the-handsome-collection\">right here<\/a> and includes <strong>Borderlands 2<\/strong>, and <strong>Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel<\/strong>. Thanks to our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/staff\/chris-scullion\">Chris Scullion<\/a> for spotting it:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you&#8217;re a PC gamer tempted to get Borderlands: The Handsome Collection on Switch tomorrow, hold fire: it&#8217;s just become free on the Epic Games Store <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xzSPrjJ2Pk\">https:\/\/t.co\/xzSPrjJ2Pk<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Chris Scullion (@scully1888) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scully1888\/status\/1266026719560990720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Now, admittedly, the Legendary Collection coming to Switch is a <em>slightly<\/em> different offering which contains both of the games mentioned above as well as <strong>Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition<\/strong> and plenty of add-on content, too. Still, that version will cost you a <em>fair bit more<\/em> than the alternative now available on PC.<\/p>\n<p>The timing&#8217;s almost <em>too<\/em> perfect, isn&#8217;t it? Let us know if you were planning on buying Borderlands Legendary Collection on Switch tomorrow with a comment below &#8211; has this put you off, or do you still intend to buy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been thinking about picking up the Borderlands Legendary Collection on Nintendo Switch tomorrow, you might want to reconsider. Just a day ahead of the series&#8217; Switch debut, a Borderlands bundle has become free of charge on the Epic Games Store. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection can now be picked up for the lovely sum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}