Summer Game Fest is promising the disclosing of the “subsequent iteration” in a giant 2K Games franchise subsequent month, coming shortly after Take-Two Interactive talked about as such in an earnings briefing. No clues have been dished out, however that is not stopping hypothesis.
The official Summer Game Fest account on X (previously often known as Twitter) particularly acknowledged the title will come from “certainly one of 2K’s greatest and most beloved franchises.” Go forward and rely out Grand Theft Auto VI, for a couple of causes. First, it is beneath Take-Two’s Rockstar Games label as a substitute of 2K. Moreover, the sport has already been revealed and Take-Two has set a Fall 2025 launch window for the anticipated recreation.
Based on Insider Gaming, Borderlands 4 from Gearbox looks like the most secure wager to indicate up at Summer Game Fest. In truth, Borderlands 4 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland 2 leaked late final yr on a recreation developer’s LinkedIn profile. That wasn’t the primary rumor about Borderlands 4, both, and there is additionally a Borderlands film premiering in theaters this August.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick additionally mentioned the Borderlands and Tiny Tina franchises on the earnings name earlier this week. “… [Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford] is a success maker,” Zelnick stated. “And it’s extremely arduous to make a brand new hit, and Tiny Tina was a brand new hit. And naturally, Borderlands simply goes from power to power. So we’re thrilled to have Gearbox within the household.” Earlier this yr, Take-Two acquired Gearbox for $460 million.
One other chance is a brand new entry within the BioShock collection. In 2019, 2K Games introduced the subsequent BioShock was in growth at Cloud Chamber, which has studio places of work in California and Canada. The final installment within the franchise was BioShock Infinite in 2013, which was over a decade in the past.
One different guess that appears extra unlikely is Mafia 4. Summer Game Fest will kick off Friday, June 7.