Borderlands 3 is coming this year, and it would have been easy for the game to have embraced the “games-as-a-service” rubbish that’s turned modern video gaming into the hellscape it is right now.

By the time that Borderlands 3 begins, it looks like vault hunters will have a new element to play with that takes the place of Slag. Say hello, to Radiation.

It’s incredibly likely that Borderlands 3 will have cross-platform support. At least, it looks like it will have that support between PC and Xbox One.

Gearbox, the studio behind first-person shooters such as Aliens: Colonial Marines and the Borderlands franchise, is facing numerous legal battles thanks to accusations leveled between the former general counsel, and its current CEO. The accusations laid out against the studio’s former lawyer Wade Callender, and its current CEO Randy Pitchford include violating their legal duties to the company, as well …

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. That situation may change by April 2019.

With Borderlands 3 due for a reveal aaaaaaaaaaany minute now (E3 2018 probably), I’m hoping that it’ll be filled with wubalicious new guns. Guns which serve all manner of Easter egg purpose. One such weapon may already be in development: A flamethrower designed by none other than Elon “Is this what humans find fun” Musk.

Gearbox now have their hands on the latest Unreal tech, and they showed off their progress with it at the Epic GDC presentation in San Francisco. And the rendering tech that they hinted that “may use in a future Gearbox game”, looks an awful lot like a Borderlands sequel.

Overwatch and Battleborn were leagues apart in terms of design, but that didn't stop the fans from comparing the two. Something that Gearbox says was impossible to avoid.