The next mainline Borderlands game might be announced very soon if Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford’s words are to be taken at face value. After all, the timing seems to line up—the Borderlands movie is right around the corner, and we had Borderlands 3 a good five years back.
“I’m confident that our fans are going to be very, very happy with the next video game project when we are ready to announce it,” Pitchford told GamesRadar in a July 27 interview. “I will tell you that we’re not going to be making people wait for a long time before we announce it.”
While this could potentially hint at a hypothetical Borderlands 4, a sequel to 2022’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is not out of consideration. Gearbox had “had a bigger result with the first Wonderlands game” compared to the first Borderlands game. “So that’s something we can build on,” added Pitchford.
Earlier this year, in February, mentions of Borderlands 4 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands 2 were found on a former Gearbox employee’s LinkedIn profile. While not wholly conclusive as to whether we will get announcements for those games soon, Pitchford’s recent comments will have fans of the looter shooter series excited.
As for the Borderlands movie, Pitchford dropped hints for a potential sequel even before the launch of the original, which premieres Aug. 9. We’ll get to hear more about the next Borderlands film “before the end of the year,” according to Pitchford. “We’ll see. Maybe sooner.”
