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Borderlands 4 is out now, so I'm looking back on the 5 best Gearbox games

Borderlands 4 "may be in a whole new level here," Randy Pitchford declares as the action RPG sets a series Steam concurrent player record within 24 hours of launch despite 'Mixed' reviews

Borderlands 4 narrative lead is "ridiculously proud" of the action RPG's story team, celebrating a whole "lot of f***ing people" who helped create a mercifully less stupid plot

Borderlands 4 devs assure Steam users that "Take-Two does not use spyware in its games" as Gearbox tries to avoid another review bombing over the parent company's unpopular new user agreement

Borderlands 4 Steam reviews start at 41% positive as early players report performance issues and crashes: “Randy I sold my car for this”

Borderlands 4 isn't even out yet and fans are already speculating about Borderlands 5, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "We don't show how the sausage is made!"

Borderlands 4 seemingly throws shade at former owner Embracer with an AI toilet and rundown town ruled by a king in a hot tub

Borderlands 4 Metacritic score ties it as the second-highest rated entry in the looter shooter's mainline series, only losing out to Borderlands 2

Here are the Borderlands 4 release times and dates

Early look at Borderlands 4 disappears and reappears after fans spot "a huge spoiler" about a returning character, but somehow Conan O'Brien crashing the game was kept in

Beefy Borderlands 4 system requirements promise "solid performance on older PC hardware," but after Randy Pitchford's warnings about "realistic expectations" I'm starting to feel a little scared

Gearbox let one lucky gamer play Borderlands 4 days before the rest of us: Conan O'Brien, who hated Claptrap after exactly one minute – "He's my least-favorite trash can I've ever met"

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants "everyone to have realistic expectations for performance" ahead of launch: "This is a big, open AAA game and lower end and older hardware may not perform as well"

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says Stop Killing Games "comes from the same heart that I have" and is "a metaphor, I think, for life" in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "we’ve been baking this cake for a long time" as he teases the looter shooter's story connections to a new comic issue

$112 million Borderlands movie was a critical and commercial disaster, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford just wants you to know "it would have been way worse if I directed it"

Borderlands 4 could have looked very different – the OG RPG initially had realistic visuals that were too similar to Fallout 3, so Gearbox "rebuilt the whole game" after 2 weeks of experimenting led to its iconic comic style