Borderlands 4 sets its sights on 2025 with a new trailer

After getting a small tease at Opening Night Live, Borderlands 4 returned with a fresh trailer during The Game Awards 2024, giving us our first look at gameplay with our new Vault Hunters, but sadly no firm release date within 2025. Randy Pitchford appeared on stage to reveal the next trailer for Borderlands 4 featuring a mix of cinematics and brief gameplay clips. The cinematic begins with an army of psychos and aliens preparing to face off in a desert world where we get our first look at the new villain called Timekeeper. The trailer cuts to a montage of multiple environments and locations with the new cast of Vault Hunters. And, of course, Claptrap makes an appearance. We don’t get a proper introduction to our new Vault Hunters, but can see them in action firing weapons, riding new vehicles, and using a new grappling mechanic to traverse the new planet called Kairos. There are two men and two women Vault Hunters, with one of the women having tattoos that might suggest she is a Siren like Lilith and Maya. As always, Borderlands 4 will support co-op with up to four players so players can share the entire game with friends. The Borderlands franchise is known for its irreverent humor, distinct art style, and melding of RPG elements with FPS gameplay. While it shares many elements with live-service titles, the series has remained PvE-focused with a heavy emphasis on loot grinding. The latest trailer for Borderlands 4 shows off plenty of new guns, abilities, and enemies players can look forward to facing either solo or in four-player co-op. Borderlands 4 will come six years after the previous entry, not counting the Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands spinoff from 2022. Despite the criticisms of the Borderlands 3, most often targeted at its writing, it did go on to be a massive seller. However, after the disaster that was the Borderlands movie, Borderlands 4 will need to win back some goodwill from its fanbase. Borderlands 4 will be available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC sometime in 2025. There are only a handful of games we can confidently say are even close to being as fun to play in co-op as the Borderlands games. Some like Split Fiction come to mind, but there’s something special about getting your pals together and running around Pandora as your favorite Vault Hunters. Borderlands 4 is the newest entry in the franchise that began in 2009, and the big question isn’t about the story, the guns, or the characters, but cross-platform support. Normally, we would just assume this game would have it, but Borderlands 3 didn’t launch with any cross-platform support and only got it after several updates. We traveled to Pandora and back to bring you the definitive answer on whether Borderlands 4 is cross-platform or not. Is Borderlands 4 cross-platform? When it comes to FPS games, it is always a toss-up as to whether or not the story even matters. On one hand, you can play the Call of Duty games in order but only a few games actually link up with one another. Meanwhile, playing the Halo games in order is almost required to understand what’s going on. The Borderlands franchise lands somewhere in the middle, though most people probably assume the story doesn’t play a big factor since it is more focused on being comedic than telling a deep story. However, there is a ton of lore to this universe and each game, including the spinoffs, all connect leading up to Borderlands 4. Don’t let the number 4 fool you, though, because there are more than twice as many games in the franchise. We’ve been playing the franchise since it began so we will show you exactly how to play the entire Borderlands franchise in order, both in release order and chronologically. All Borderlands games in release order Wednesday afternoon, PlayStation and Gearbox Software teased new Borderlands 4 content and showed a lot more about the game than we’ve seen up until now, including new movement mechanics, two of the four playable Vault Hunters, and much more. The first part of the video showed a panther/tiger made of phase energy on its back in a decidedly cat-like pose, moments before it leapt onto an enemy and removed its head in classic Borderlands fashion. The 20 minute deep-dive gave players a look at the new systems in play with the latest game. Set on the planet Kairos, Borderlands 4 has a “more grounded tone, pushing gameplay ahead further than ever before,” according to Randy Pitchford, founder of Gearbox Entertainment. Don’t worry, though; the game still has plenty of its over-the-top chaotic charm with all the Psychos you can shake a shotgun at.