A little over two weeks have passed since the first additional content for Borderlands was announced, but Gearbox has already given it a release date. The DLC will become available on November 24 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for $9.99 or for 800 Microsoft Points. The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC has not received a date for the PC version, though, and it seems like the six-day delay the game got for this platform is becoming a habit. “We will have information on the PC version at a later time,” a 2K representative said, but let's hope this will turn out to be a delay of no more than week, just as that the full game experienced.

According to its developers, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, as the title suggests, will be populated by one Doctor Ned and his undead atrocities, and, of course, the player, or players that will decide to venture in the walking-dead-infested area.

Dr. Ned is a bit of a different sort of doctor than Dr. Zed, the second NPC players come across in the game, the first being the “murder on the dance floor” ClapTrap. Still, if the two share at least as many similarities in characters as their name does in letters, we can expect the zombie-making frankensteinian to not only have a few loose screws, but also a bit of a sadistic side.

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