Big news for you Borderlands fans out there. Gearbox has stated that they will release Borderlands 2 in 2012 on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

The new game will take you to areas of the Pandora planet and feature all new characters, skills, enviornments, enemies, weapons and equipment.

Gearbox has plans to show its first footage from the game at the upcoming Gamescom and again at PAX Prime.

Touch Arcade (www.toucharcade.com) is reporting that the long awaited Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions should make its way to the iPhone & iPod Touch this Thursday for around $15.99. It is expected that the iPad version will be pretty close behind with a release about one month later.

Do you plan on picking this one up? Personally, I’ll wait until the iPad version is released as I find playing games like this on the larger screen is more enjoyable.

After lackluster sales (830,000 sold in the US since launch) and in anticipation of a Playstation Vita launch later this year Nintendo has announced that it will drop the price of its 3DS portable to $169.99 (US) on August 12th 2011.

Nintendo has always been good to their customers and this time its no different. With the price drop Nintendo is announcing an early adopter program for those of us who purchased the system before the drop in price. Through this program you will be entitled to download 20 free games from the eShop.

To qualify for this which Nintendo is calling the “Nintendo 3DS Ambassador” program you simply need to connect your 3DS to the eShop once before the end of August 11th 2011 (EST) which will register you into the program.

The 20 free games are combined of 10 NES Virtual Console games and 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. The availability of these downloads will be staggered between September 1st and the end of calendar year 2011.

Some of the games that will be available include: Super Mario Bros.™, Donkey Kong Jr.™, Balloon Fight™, Ice Climber™, The Legend of Zelda™, Yoshi’s Island™: Super Mario™ Advance 3, Mario Kart™: Super Circuit, Metroid™ Fusion, WarioWare™, Inc.: Mega Microgames and Mario vs. Donkey Kong™.

So if you are in the market for a 3DS you might want to wait until the price drop to save some cash unless the downloadable games strikes you as a must have.