Borderlands 4 gameplay trailer displays 4 new Vault Hunters having a nasty day

It’s solely been a quick few months since Gearbox launched Borderlands 4, the next sport in its long-running looter shooter franchise. Once more in August, all we had was a cryptic teaser, nevertheless at at current’s Recreation Awards, we purchased an accurate check out the model new sport.

Gearbox says the model new Borderlands sport will arrive with 4 new Vault Hunters with “the deepest and most quite a few” skill bushes throughout the assortment’ historic previous. The game’s story will focus on the Timekeeper, “a ruthless dictator who dominates the tons from on extreme.” As with all the Borderlands video video games, 4 will assist solo or co-op gameplay with as a lot as three players.

The ultimate Borderlands sport was 2019’s Borderlands 3, which debuted on PS4, Xbox One and PC. It was successfully acquired — though a lot much less so than the first two mainline video video games — and provided over 5 million copies. Since then, Gearbox moreover developed and launched Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, a fantasy-infused spinoff with a sizeable contingent of diehard followers, and took over enchancment of Risk of Rain 2.

Gearbox was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in March 2024, following the extended and expansive implosion of its former proprietor, Embracer Group. Borderlands 4 could be Gearbox’s first launch given that acquisition and there may be one factor about this that appears like coming residence, considering Take-Two’s label 2K Video video games is the Borderlands assortment’ longtime author.