Borderlands 4 Release Date Confirmed
Gearbox has officially confirmed the release date for Borderlands 4.
At the new State of Play, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford announced that Borderlands 4 will be coming out on September 23, 2025. To celebrate, Gearbox shared a new trailer highlighting some of the new gameplay elements coming to the game.
The biggest new addition from the trailer appears to be the grappling hook. But fans of ridiculous guns and explosions and mayhem will find plenty to enjoy in the new trailer.
To commemorate the release date, Gearbox also announced that a special Borderlands 4-themed State of Play will premiere this spring. The Borderlands 4 State of Play will show off new gameplay and tons of more guns.
We’re still waiting for more story details on Borderlands 4, though we know that the lead writer suggested the last game might have relied too heavily on “toilet humor.” We’ll see if Borderlands 4 takes a more serious tone, though.
We’ll have more details for Borderlands 4 when the special State of Play premieres in the spring. Until then, check out all the big announcements from today’s PlayStation State of Play here.
Matt Kim is IGN’s Senior Features Editor.
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I’m not even a Borderlands guy and I have to admit this latest Borderlands 4 trailer looks fun. Randy and Randy (that’s Varnell and Pitchford, respectively) appeared at Sony’s State of Play stream to show off more of Borderlands 4’s acrobatic gun antics.
But the biggest news is a release date: Borderlands 4 is out September 23, 2025. That’s a Tuesday, if you’re curious. Multiple failed attempts to get into Borderlands 3 and that strange Tiny Tina game have shooed me away from the series, but I’m seeing lots to like in the sliding, double jump, and grapple hook—is Borderlands a movement shooter now? Ok, I’m leaning in.
This is our best look at Borderlands 4 gameplay yet. Gearbox also had a trailer during The Game Awards in December, but that one was more focused on characters and humor, aspects of Borderlands I can’t say I’ve ever thought highly of. Maybe Borderlands 4 will be a turning point. Back in September, narrative director Sam Winkler said:
“We want to make sure the player and the vault hunters are the central characters of our story. We want to make sure the world is reactive, that the world is grounded. That while we keep our humor that brings a lot of people coming back to our franchise, we want to make sure that it’s situational, that it emerges naturally.”
Hopefully Borderlands 4’s humor emerges more naturally than in the Borderlands film, a critical and commercial flop that did not turn out to be the big cross-media “moment” for Borderlands Gearbox was hoping for.
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