Borderlands 4 is coming in 2025

thesixthaxis.com:

Hot on the heels of the Borderlands film release, Gearbox has announced that Borderlands 4 is coming… and it’s coming next year in 2025!

All that we have is this teaser trailer at this time, depicting a vast crystalline attack on a moon and planet, before the now iconic Psycho bandit mask is revealed to confim that yes, this is Borderlands 4. “The next Borderlands” was confirmed to be in development earlier this year, but this states clearly that it’s the next numbered entry in the series.

This announcement is sure to go down well amongst series fans. While the film did… not meet expectations, there’s still a huge amount of love for the Borderlands series and its spin-offs – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. We defniitely preferred Wonderlands to Borderlands 3, in large part for the tone and style of humour, and hope Gearbox strikes a fresh balance between the two.

We said of Borderlands 3, “I’ve got very mixed feelings about Borderlands 3. Overall I like it and it’s fun to play, but it could have been so much more and the writing feels like time traveling back to your high school days and being surprised and a little disappointed at how immature everyone is. Few things in life are as embarrassing as the person you were five years ago. If you’re not embarrassed, then I’m sorry to say that you may well be the Borderlands 3 of your friend group; stuck in the past unable to grow or change in any meaningful way, relying on fart jokes as a stand-in for your personality.”

Earlier this year, Take-Two acquired Gearbox from Embracer for $460 million – paid for in newly created stocks that Embracer is expected to cash out as soon as possible to help ease their cashflow problems. Borderlands 4 would have been deep into development at the time, pushing Take-Two to make the acquisition of one of their key money-makers. They also acquired the Homeworld, Risk of Rain, Brothers in Arms and Duke Nukem IP at the same time.