Remember when Borderlands was sent out to die?  Yeah...didn't happen.  The game sold an impressive 400k copies in October on the Xbox 360 alone placing it third on the sales chart behind Wii Fit Plus and Uncharted 2.  These sales numbers come from the monthly NPD stats, which report sales numbers for North America.

Halo 3: ODST took the number 6 spot, selling an additional 271k, bringing the two month total for North America close to 2 million.

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"The treasure is in the plaza" says Nathan.  All that stands in our way is a gigantic swarm of enemies that will lay their life on the line to protect it.  Or perhaps they want to steal it themselves?  No matter, our trio will shoulder on and steal what is rightfully ours.  If a few goons go down in the process, the world will be a better place for it.

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Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.

The stories for this week:

- Uncharted 2 Sees Title Update, Double Cash Weekend
- PS3 Has Lost $4.7 Billion for Sony
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Has Disturbing Areas (SPOILER WARNING)
- Champions Online Free Weekend
- Dragon Age, NFS: Nitro, Band Hero and LEGO Rock Band Highlight Releases

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Not to be outdone by Gears of War 2, the boys at Naughty Dog are having their own double weekend in Uncharted 2 - but instead of double the experience they are giving out CASH!  Money!  MOOOLAH!  Ok, so it's only in game money, but it sounds better than XP, no?

Be on the lookout for Naughty Dog devs playing as well, they'll be denoted with a little paw icon next to their tag.  Also, watch out for those evil red eyed skeleton things - we aren't quite sure what they are - but I bet they are made of bags of cash.

 You'll get 2x the money per round and per checkpoint bringing you more bags of cash than you can carry.  Bring a wheel barrow, tell a friend, lock the doors.  Big money!  Big prizes!  I LOVE IT!

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The battle is truly on for your fall gaming dollar as Amazon has unleashed a killer deal for gamers.  While normally they offer a $5 or $10 credit for preordering titles through their site, this deal trumps them all. 

When you spend $80 on qualifying games, they are going to give you $40 in credit towards future game purchases.  The list of eligible video games is about 600 titles deep, and titles like Uncharted 2, Borderlands, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Operation Flashpoint 2, and The Beatles: Rock Band are all on the list.  

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The television ads for Uncharted 2 posit that it is indistinguishable from a movie to intellectually-deprived girlfriends, and to a certain extent, you can count me in with that statistic.  For the first half of the single-player campaign, the relentless pacing, huge set pieces, wisecracks and other moments of levity really make you feel like you're in control of a huge Summer blockbuster.  Seriously, even the tutorial segment is intense.

Survival or Waves modes seem to be all the rage these days with co-op games.  And while we all love a good cooperative experience bolstered by solid exposition, it's hard not to love the arcade like nature of survival challenges.

Uncharted 2 should be on store shelves today, and with it comes an engrossing single player game packed with three separate online co-op modes for three players.

The three modes consist of a standard co-op mode where players team up to capture a treasure through a sub section of one of the single player game's map, Gold Rush where players have to capture treasure in a small multiplayer arena while fending off waves of enemies, and a standard survival style mode where players need to survive as long as possible without dying against waves of enemies.  

We'll have a full review of Uncharted 2 next week.  Until then hit up our forums to meet up with other members for co-op!  And don't forget to purchase at Amazon to support Co-Optimus!

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.

The stories for this week:

- Activision Executes Layoffs and Closes Studio

- Dragon Age DLC on Launch Day

- Epic Mickey Unveiled

- NPD September Numbers Next Week

- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Brutal Legend Highlight Loaded Week

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves hasn't even hit the store shelves yet, but eager journalists already want to know -  "Will there be downloadable content?"

According to Naughty Dog multiplayer designer Justin Richmond there will definitely be DLC, and in fact, they've been working on it since the game has gone gold.  But what kind of content will gamers get their hands on?

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