Borderlands 4 has finally been revealed, and it's out in 2025 across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S

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We're venturing away from Pandora this time

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Borderlands 4 was just revealed at the Gamescom Opening Night Live presentation, and it's out next year.

Gearbox just unveiled Borderlands 4 via a brand new cinematic trailer at the start of Gamescom 2024. We finally know that the next mainline game in the Borderlands series will be with us next year in 2025, and it'll only be available on new-gen consoles, as well as PC.

In truth, we didn't see a whole lot from the new Borderlands 4 trailer. We did see a planet with some very weird purple haze spreading across it, which we shortly found out wasn't actually the usual Borderlands planet of Pandora, on which every mainline game in the Gearbox series has taken place to date.

What we did see, though, was the classic 'psycho' mask that's adorned pretty much all the Borderlands box arts, with the exception of spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. So no, even though we didn't glean a lot about Borderlands 4 from this trailer, we know that it'll feature the same sort of enemies we've been used to gunning down.

Now sure, this didn't leak, as host Geoff Keighley proudly stated to the Gamescom audience just before the trailer, but it definitely wasn't an iron-clad secret either. Just earlier this year for example, Take-Two confirmed that Borderlands 4 was in the works, just one of "numerous projects" it planned to launch with Gearbox. While it didn't leak, we did know it was in the works.

Take a look over our new games 2024 guide for a look over all the other titles on the horizon.

Hirun Cryer
Hirun Cryer
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Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.