Just last week I was watching my oldest kid playing through Borderlands 2 for what must be the umpteenth time, lamenting the fact that we’ve yet to see a new Borderlands game this generation. As far as that series goes, we’ve had a remastered collection and a Telltale adventure game, but little else. We know that there’s a new game coming. Last year, Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford confirmed as much, saying that most Gearbox employees were “working on the thing I think most of you guys want us to be working on.”
It got many excited by the prospect that we’d see the new game at this year’s E3, but that was not to be.
Now, a new rumours suggests that Borderlands 3 will be out next year. The spotty rumour comes by way of Triple S League, who say that two sources have confirmed the game’s vague launch window with them
“We’ve received reports from two independent sources that localization work on Borderlands 3 has begun. This lines up well with reports of an expected release date between April 2019 and March 2020 based on statements from the CEO of Take-Two Interactive”
Localisation is one of the last things that happens when a game is being developed, though it is a time-intensive one. If this report is true, it bodes well for a new Borderlands in the first half of next year.
Speaking after the company’s last fiscal report, Take-Two boss Struss Zelnick said the company had pushed a “highly anticipated” game to the 2020 financial year.
“The highly-anticipated title from one of 2K’s biggest franchises, which had been planned for release during the current fiscal year, is now planned for launch during fiscal 2020 to allow for additional development time. We remain as excited as ever about this title, and expect it to enhance our results next fiscal year.”
That game could almost certainly only be Borderlands 3.
Last Updated: October 8, 2018
Magoo
October 8, 2018 at 13:11
Catch a riiiiiiiiiiiide!
Pariah
October 8, 2018 at 13:12
Man… The feels.
Pariah
October 8, 2018 at 13:11
“Speaking after the company’s last fiscal report, Take-Two boss Struss Zelnick said the company had pushed a “highly anticipated” game to the 2010 financial year.”
Marty, is that… Is that you?
Pariah
October 8, 2018 at 13:13
Just don’t have butt boosting and bad level design like that dodgy Australian attempt and we’re good.
Plus the world needs more BL.
Admiral Chief
October 8, 2018 at 13:16
Methinks about starting a new playthrough. Yessss. Good idea
Pariah
October 8, 2018 at 13:18
Which one? Or going all 3, start to finish?
Admiral Chief
October 8, 2018 at 13:34
LOL with what time?
Just maybe cruise through Nr2
Lord Chaos
October 8, 2018 at 13:39
Ah, those nights of co-op on Steam. Those were the good old days
Admiral Chief
October 8, 2018 at 13:42
Well, I’m home alone Friday/Saturday, so perhaps we should start up a session?
Lord Chaos
October 8, 2018 at 15:42
We can certainly try
Magoo
October 8, 2018 at 14:54
Mate and I, still in school, completed the game on both playthroughs in a single weekend sitting.
Which BL? Both. A couple of years apart.
Geoffrey Tim
October 8, 2018 at 13:39
Good lord, but I was not a fan of Pre-sequel at alllllll
Matthew Holliday
October 9, 2018 at 14:40
I didnt think the presequal was THAT bad, it just had zero replayability.
Probably because of the issues you mentioned, but for one a one playthrough game, it wasnt awful.
My main issues where:
-the guns and skills, they scaled horribly. you get into playthrough 2 and find that the next 10 levels add nothing to your actual skill tree, forcing you to power through useless skills and the guns effectiveness only increases at set points in the game with quest rewards. makes the first half of it feel like youre getting nowhere.
-Seasons pass, for the presequal was awful, twice the price of the BL2 pass, and we got ONE dlc. They made you pay for the pass, then just dropped support entirely. getting only one of the story driven DLCs.
Alien Emperor Trevor
October 8, 2018 at 13:38
Can do with more Borderlands in my life.
silverscorpio
October 8, 2018 at 13:51
I am too scared of the micro transactions selling boosting grind they might have in it. Not looking forward to it at all unless they have no micro transactions in it which is very unlikely.
Geoffrey Tim
October 8, 2018 at 13:53
BL2 had Mt’s for those golden keys…and if that’s what they sell (along with a bunch of fre ones given out) then I’m okay with that.
Lord Chaos
October 8, 2018 at 14:02
They had Mt’s for the keys? I just got them from twitter and other places, still have hundreds of the things
Magoo
October 8, 2018 at 14:55
Yeah I got like 60 of those from random codes online. Enough that I got bored before I finished them.
Craig "CrAiGiSh" Dodd
October 9, 2018 at 08:43
Please let these rumors be true.
BL was such an epic co-op game, its time for another !!!