Borderlands 4 has been announced at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show, the perfect time for a reveal after a disaster-class in Hollywood.
The Borderlands movie has been one of the biggest flops of the year, but the franchise itself is still going strong, with the planned release of Borderlands 4 in 2025 ready to give the series a new lease on life. Not a ton was shown for Borderlands 4 beyond a teaser trailer, which showed what looked like the moon Elpis tearing through the skin and asteroids raining down onto the ground—with a robotic figure then picking up a psycho mask. Lore-hounds will also note Lilith’s firehawk emblem in the sky just before Elpis appears, possibly indicating that the scene at the end of Borderlands 3‘s campaign was Lilith not destroying Elpis and the great vault, but rather phase shifting it somewhere else in the universe—and likely setting up the events of Borderlands 4.