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Kotaku’s Biggest Gaming Culture News For The Week May 31, 2025
31.5.2025
From mergers to memes, the landscape of interactive entertainment is always in motion. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.Read more
Someone Take Away Randy Pitchford's Phone
28.5.2025
Sometimes you just gotta walk away. And this might be one of those times. Earlier this month, Gearbox co-founder and CEO Randy Pitchford replied to someone on social media about the studio’s next game, Borderlands 4, possibly receiving an $80 price tag. He said it wasn’t his call and then...
Borderlands 4 Boss Says 'A Real Fan' Will Pay $80 For Games
20.5.2025
Game prices have been the subject of controversy since games had prices. How much is a game worth? What qualities or aspects of a game justify a higher price tag, or demand a lower one? Does a game that costs $70 deserve the same critical reaction as the identical game but $30? All this has gone...
Not Even Gearbox's Boss Knows What Borderlands 4's Price Will Be
9.5.2025
Borderlands 4 is now just a few months away, and if it’s anything like the previous games in the looter shooter series it will be one of the top-selling blockbusters of 2025. But how much will it cost? Will publisher 2K try to undercut the competition or match it as some new releases creep up...
13 Things We Learned About Borderlands 4 After Today's Big Event
30.4.2025
Today, we learned a lot more about Borderlands 4 during a roughly 20-minute PlayStation State of Play dedicated exclusively to Gearbox and 2K’s upcoming sci-fi looter shooter sequel.Read more
Borderlands 4 Is Launching 11 Days Earlier Than Planned
29.4.2025
Borderlands 4, Gearbox’s sci-fi open-world looter shooter, was set to launch on September 23. But the FPS sequel is now launching two weeks ahead of schedule, as accidentally leaked by Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford.Read more
Borderlands 4 Finally Gets A Release Date And Its Before GTA 6
12.2.2025
The fall release calendar for 2025 is finally beginning to take shape. Borderlands 4 is the first into the breach with a launch planned for September 23. With Grand Theft Auto 6 also planned for a fall release, the window is rapidly closing for the year’s other major blockbusters to find...
First Borderlands 4 Gameplay Is Here And Looks Good
13.12.2024
Tonight during the 2024 Game Awards, we got our first real look at the previously announced Borderlands 4, the next main entry in Gearbox’s super-popular first-person looter shooter series. Read more
Every Big Announcement From Gamescom, Breaking Down The Borderlands 4 Trailer, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
24.8.2024
This week, one of the three events each year in which we’re routinely graced with the presence of Geoff Keighley took place, with Gamescom Opening Night Live kicking off the week-long convention in Cologne, Germany. A host of World Premiere trailers and other announcements came out of that...
Breaking Down The Borderlands 4 Trailer: 6 Clues Fans Are Talking About
21.8.2024
Gamescom Opening Night Live kicked off with a surprise reveal: Borderlands 4 is real and coming in 2025. It’s been a long wait for the next numbered sequel in the sci-fi looter shooter series, and the teaser confirming the game’s existence didn’t give a clear idea of what to expect from...
Borderlands 4 Finally Gets Official Teaser, Coming 2025
20.8.2024
Borderlands 4 is real and coming sometime in 2025. Gearbox Entertainment made the latest sequel to its hit looter shooter franchise official with a teaser at Gamescom Opening Night Live showing a literal collision of worlds. Read more
Epic Box Office Flop Borderlands Reportedly Rushing To Streaming In Late August
19.8.2024
You might not have to wait long to see what’s going on with the much-pilloried Borderlands movie starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart for yourself from the comfort of your own couch. The box office bomb is reportedly coming to streaming as early as late August, after less than a month...
Borderlands Might Be 2024's Biggest Box Office Flop
12.8.2024
The Borderlands movie finally hit theaters this past weekend and quickly became one of the worst-reviewed movies of 2024. So it’s probably not surprising that Borderlands is bombing hard at the box office and might end up being the biggest flop of the year. Read more
Tales From The Borderlands Convinced Gearbox A Movie Was A Good Idea
6.8.2024
The upcoming Borderlands movie might not have happened if it wasn’t for the spin-off narrative game Tales from the Borderlands, which gave Gearbox confidence that the universe could be more than just a looter shooter playground.Read more
Embracer Decides To Split Up, Names New Companies Things Like 'Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends'
22.4.2024
After a year of carnage following its unprecedented studio acquisition spree, Embracer Group going back to basics and doing what it does best: confusingly re-naming and re-arranging its portfolio. The Swedish holding company is splitting itself into three new entities. The one in charge of the Lord...
Embracer Sells Borderlands Maker Gearbox For Less Than Half Of What It Paid
28.3.2024
Another company has escaped the gaping, acquisition-hungry maw that is publisher Embracer Group, as Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has been sold to Take-Two Interactive. This lines up with Kotaku’s previous reporting on the matter in February, in which sources told us Gearbox was nearing...
Painful Cuts At PlayStation, A Big Pokémon Reveal, And More Of The Week's Top News
2.3.2024
This week was marked by more inescapable upheaval on the gaming landscape, as PlayStation announced massive cuts across its studios and canceled some games in development. But there was some lighthearted fun to be had as well, with Hideo Kojima sharing his amusing reaction to Oscar Isaac’s...
Sources: Borderlands Studio Will Escape The Most Divisive Company In Gaming
29.2.2024
Embracer bought Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment for $1.2 billion back in early 2021 amid an unprecedented acquisition spree that’s since turned into a financial disaster. Now, just three years later, Kotaku has learned that Gearbox is closer than ever to being sold out from under what...
Embracer Cancelled Nearly 30 Unannounced Games In Just 6 Months
15.2.2024
Embracer Group, the proverbial grim reaper of video game acquisitions, has been wreaking havoc on the studios and IP it has acquired in the past few years. From layoffs across several companies to shutting down of beloved studios like Saints Row developer Volition, and cancellations of...
Gearbox Is Reviving A Dead Hero Shooter For 3 Days (No, Not Battleborn)
4.10.2023
You remember Gigantic, don’t you? The hero shooter from Motiga that was released in 2017 and, uh, died a year later? Well no worries if not, because Gearbox is bringing the ill-fated hero shooter back for a limited-time event from October 5 to 7, 2023. Read more