While the disastrous Borderlands movie hasn’t provided the marketing bump 2K was undoubtedly hoping for, they went ahead and announced Borderlands 4 at last night’s Gamescom Opening Night regardless.

Penned for a release in 2025, the follow-up to Borderlands 3 got a brief teaser trailer. We see Lillith’s firehawk symbol appear in space, which she left on Elpis, before said moon appears and smashes into what looks like some sort of gigantic camouflage system hiding a new planet. A classic Borderlands psycho mask crash-lands on the new loot-filled playground and is picked up by a metallic hand. Presumably this will be the new villain.

“In this next instalment of the definitive looter shooter, players will assume the role of a legendary Vault Hunter as they blast their way through hordes of enemies in search of new treasures to loot on an all-new planet,” says the official blurb.

“The team and I at Gearbox have a lot we’ve wanted to do with Borderlands since we first introduced the looter shooter genre to the world with our original game,” said Randy Pitchford. “All of us at Gearbox have massive ambitions for Borderlands 4 and are putting everything we have into making everything we love about Borderlands better than ever before while taking the game to new levels in exciting new directions.”

Borderlands 4 is coming in 2025 for PS5, PC and Xbox Series X/S. You can check out my ranking of the best games in the series right here.