Kicking off gamescom 2024 with a bang, Gearbox has introduced Borderlands 4 throughout Opening Night Live.
A teaser trailer, under, confirmed a 2025 launch window throughout PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X and S.
Writer 2K stated Borderlands 4 launches in 2025 throughout dad or mum firm Take-Two’s fiscal 12 months 2026. Meaning it can launch at some level between April 2025 and the tip of 2025. This is the official blurb from 2K:
Borderlands 4 was introduced at gamescom’s Opening Night Live with a teaser trailer offering gamers with their first tantalizing glimpse of an all-new planet. Borderlands 4 is the fourth mainline title and seventh general entry within the franchise. Gamers will as soon as once more assume the position of a legendary Vault Hunter as they seek for secret alien treasure whereas blasting all the things in sight.
“The crew and I at Gearbox have so much we’ve needed to do with Borderlands since we first launched the looter shooter style to the world with our unique sport,” stated Randy Pitchford, founder and President of the Gearbox Leisure Firm. “All of us at Gearbox have large ambitions for Borderlands 4 and are placing all the things we’ve into making all the things we love about Borderlands higher than ever earlier than whereas taking the sport to new ranges in thrilling new instructions.”
The Borderlands franchise has sold-in greater than 87 million copies to-date, receiving vital acclaim from reviewers and followers alike. With unforgettable characters, deep world constructing, and extra distinctive weapons than will be counted, the franchise has cemented itself as a must-play sequence.
“We’re thrilled to have the ability to share with our followers that 2025 will mark a large 12 months for 2K and Gearbox Leisure,” stated 2K Core Video games Senior Vice President and Common Supervisor Catharina Lavers Mallet. “The Borderlands sequence is one in all 2K’s most profitable franchises ever and is beloved by hundreds of thousands globally. We’re excited that our already shut partnership and collaboration with the Gearbox crew has grown even deeper, and we stay up for delivering best-in-class experiences for each longtime followers and new gamers alike.”
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The reveal of Borderlands 4 is a very long time coming, with Pitchford teasing it on quite a few events lately. He advised IGN in February that Gearbox was engaged on the “biggest factor” it has ever carried out. Take-Two later acquired Gearbox from Embracer Group for $460 million and confirmed a brand new Borderlands sport was in improvement.
The announcement of Borderlands 4 comes scorching on the heels of the high-profile flop that was the Borderlands film, which IGN awarded 3/10 in our assessment.
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