Borderlands 4 is real and coming sometime in 2025. Gearbox Entertainment made the latest sequel to its hit looter shooter franchise official with a teaser at Gamescom Opening Night Live showing a literal collision of worlds. It arrives just in time to give fans something to look forward to after the recent movie bombed in theaters.
A brief trailer showed a planetoid teleporting out of nowhere and tearing a hole through a crystalline shield that ends up raining fire down on the surface below. We then see a robotic arm pick up a bandit mask before the screen cuts to a 2025 release window. Borderlands 4 will be on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via both Steam and the Epic Games Store.
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The latest comedic FPS will end up arriving six years after Borderlands 3 and three years after the D&D-infused spin-off, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Both were fun but neither captured the mix of clever worldbuilding and compelling shooting that made Borderlands 2 one of the best games of the Xbox 360 and PS3 eras. The original Diablo-like FPS, it’ll be interesting to see how Gearbox evolves the formula as players increasingly become exhausted with the boom-bust cycle of live-service shooters.
Borderlands 4 will also be the first game in the series released after Gearbox was acquired by Take-Two, whose 2K Games label has been publishing franchise since it started. The new owners come after a tumultuous escape from Embracer, which spent years snatching up dozens of studios before just as quickly unravelling them when economic conditions got tough. Kotaku also understands that Gearbox is working on a sequel to Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, while several new IPs were recently shelved to focus on getting the latest batch of games out the door first.
