The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club
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The game is distinguished by its use of a 3D rendering technique called cel shading
As far as I can tell (both from playing the game myself and from what I read online), Borderlands does not use cel shading. Instead, it uses normal rendering techniques but uses textures which were crafted to make it appear cartoon-like. The end result may be quite similar, but its not really the same thing.
As I said, tiny nitpick :)
Other than that, interesting read and the HN comments from last time it was posted are a great read too.
Still, it's a great post.