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Gearbox is officially releasing a sequel to Borderlands 3 next year.
Publisher 2K and developer Gearbox Software have officially announced Borderlands 4, the latest entry in the looter-shooter franchise. The highly-anticipated sequel was announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024, and will once again have players assume the role of a Vault Hunter in search of treasure on “an all-new planet.”
Borderlands 4 will launch sometime in 2025. Watch the teaser below:
Borderlands 4 announced for 2025 release window
It’s official: Borderlands 4 is coming. Gearbox Software has made no secret of the fact that it’s been working on a new Borderlands looter-shooter since 2022’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, but we now have official confirmation thanks to a new teaser. Here’s how 2K describes the game:
Borderlands 4 is the fourth mainline title and seventh overall entry in the franchise. Players will once again assume the role of a legendary Vault Hunter as they search for secret alien treasure while blasting everything in sight.
The teaser itself is pretty brief, but it does begin with Lilith’s Firehawk symbol seemingly vanishing due to the reappearance of the moon Elpis from Borderlands 3. We then see comets raining down on an unknown planet, one of which is revealed to contain a Psycho Bandit mask.
Gearbox founder and known magician Randy Pitchford spoke about the sequel, saying:
The team and I at Gearbox have a lot we’ve wanted to do with Borderlands since we first introduced the looter shooter genre to the world with our original game. All of us at Gearbox have massive ambitions for Borderlands 4 and are putting everything we have into making everything we love about Borderlands better than ever before while taking the game to new levels in exciting new directions.
Borderlands 4 will launch sometime in 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
