Borderlands 4 gameplay trailer reveals 4 new Vault Hunters having a foul day

It’s solely been a short few months since Gearbox launched Borderlands 4, the following sport in its long-running looter shooter franchise. Once more in August, all we had was a cryptic teaser, nevertheless at within the current day’s Recreation Awards, we obtained 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 varied” capability bushes throughout the sequence’ historic previous. The game’s story will take care of 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 properly obtained — though a lot much less so than the first two mainline video video games — and purchased 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 Hazard 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 will in all probability be Gearbox’s first launch given that acquisition and there may be one factor about this that seems like coming home, considering Take-Two’s label 2K Video video games is the Borderlands sequence’ longtime author.