Borderlands graphics now cel-shaded?

Leaked magazine scans lead to rumors of a comic-like graphical makeover for Gearbox and 2K's post-apocalyptic free-range action RPG. But is it true?

What we heard: At Take-Two Interactive's press briefing at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, attendees were treated to the first gameplay footage of Borderlands, the ambitious new open-world action-role-playing game from Gearbox Software. For a few minutes Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford put the game through its paces, driving up to an underground vault, taking out its bandit inhabitants, and collecting some loot in the form of guns--a few of nearly 500,000 unique weapons in the game.
Shortly after the conference, Take-Two released the first trailer for the Borderlands, which will be published later this year under the 2K Games imprint.
Borderlands' graphical style was originally one of gritty realism apropos to its post-apocalyptic, dog-eat-dog world setting. So it was with some shock, then, that those following the project reacted to a Bo