The new issue of OXM, out Wednesday 8th August, has some very special Borderlands 2 covers - one for every main character, and ten ultra-rare ones showing returning robot irritant Claptrap. If you get a Claptrap one, then you've won a TV and copy of the game signed by Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford.
We've celebrated our unprecedented access to the game and the developer with a whopping six different foil covers. Subscribers get a silver one displaying new archvillain Handsome Jack, while newsstand copies get the four player characters of Salvadore, Maya, Axton and Zer0. Mixed in among these are ten ultra-rare Claptrap covers, which will offer the highly desirable loot of a 40-inch TV and signed copy of the game.
Elsewhere in the issue, LucasArts and Industrial Light and Magic exclusively discuss how they're getting back into gaming with Star Wars 1313, there's a guide to being horrible online that you should absolutely not follow, and Valve reveal what went into making Half-Life 2. There's also the world's first Xbox 360 review of the excellent Sleeping Dogs.
If you've got a Claptrap cover, the first step is to mail a picture of it to jon.hicks@futurenet.com and we'll sort out verification. This will involve sending the magazine back to us to confirm it's legit. Other terms and conditions apply, which you can find on page 10 of the magazine.
You can buy a copy of the mag from tomorrow with free postage from oxm.co.uk/buy, or pick it up in any supermarket and most newsagents - it's in a card wallet with Salvador on, so you'll have to take your chances. If you don't want a TV but do want the latest on Borderlands 2, you get get a digital version from Apple Newsstand or Zinio for PC and Android.
14 comments so far...
msbhvn on 7 Aug '12 said:
Nice competition that I woldn't mind winning and all, but the big news is: SLEEPING DOGS REVIEW.
Plamsa wing on 7 Aug '12 said:
That's fair OXM, right when I've bought a new TV.
Day off tomorrow so if it's in the shop I might pick it up in the morning. Think I might go for Axton though or the blue one, love a good blue.
Sidenote: I predict alot of open covers on the shop shelves.
Clanger67 on 7 Aug '12 said:
I predict a nine out of ten for Sleeping Dogs.
GHOSTY05 on 7 Aug '12 said:
I got the silver cover
, no gold for me!! 
Now i know what those athletes feel like...well maybe not quite the same.
Phenom Paradox on 7 Aug '12 said:
Sio, subscribers can't win the competition, well that's just fantastic, get no game for subscribing and now no chance to win a television.
Still love you guys though!
OXM Jonty on 7 Aug '12 said:
As I understand it, the ten covers are randomly distributed, so there's as much chance of subscribers getting one as anybody. But only subscribers get silver ones.
Phenom Paradox on 7 Aug '12 said:
Ah right, sound enough then!
Plamsa wing on 7 Aug '12 said:
Thinking about it, although highly unlikely, what would happen if someone found all ten of them?
Grummy on 7 Aug '12 said:
I FOUND ONE!!!
It's on the yellow cover on the right!
GHOSTY05 on 7 Aug '12 said:
AHA...but what if your a subscriber of the digital IPAD version of the mag???
Can you still get a golden cover?
SidTheSloth on 8 Aug '12 said:
Ah, maybe this compo goes some way to explaining why in the six (yes, six!) different magazine selling shops i tried over the weekend, not one issue of OXM could i find - clearing the shelves to make way for this? Or is OXM now that popular it sells out everywhere?
AllusiveTurtle on 8 Aug '12 said:
Damn, no Gold for me. I got a creased Silver copy though!
I've subscribed for years and have every single issue of the magazine (in fact I've got 2 of issue 1 - don't ask me why!), but I could really have done with a new TV after my ex took my last one!
Guess I'll just have to make do with a creased picture of Handsome Jack....
msbhvn on 8 Aug '12 said:
No, it only came out today.
Plamsa wing on 9 Aug '12 said:
I assume each cover has it's own slip cover thingy?
I could only find the Salvador one yeasterday and my mum just called me saying she can't see any others in town either. Bet she didn't have a proper look!