{"id":822164,"date":"2026-11-02T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822164\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:56:10","slug":"the-borderlands-series-has-sold-over-100-million-copies-and-gearbox-is-cooking-hard-on-more-borderlands-4-content-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822164\/","title":{"rendered":"The Borderlands series has sold over 100 million copies, and Gearbox is &#8220;cooking hard on more Borderlands 4 content for next year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Borderlands series has sold more than 100m copies across all games, developer Gearbox Software has announced. No surprise, then &#8211; the studio also said it&#8217;s cooking up &#8220;big plans&#8221; for the evergreen looter shooter&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Borderlands franchise has officially crossed 100 million units sold,&#8221; Gearbox boasted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/borderlands.2k.com\/borderlands-4\/news\/message-to-borderlands-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> published today. &#8220;There aren&#8217;t many franchises that have ever hit that milestone, and we certainly didn&#8217;t get here on our own. For us, it started with that first Borderlands in 2009, and we&#8217;ve been excited about everyone who has joined us in the Borderlands along the way. Borderlands has always had an incredibly passionate community. We&#8217;ve been through a lot together, and your feedback pushes us to make even greater games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wM9bYNky_P4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, where can Vault Hunters expect to go next? Gearbox just finished up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/borderlands-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borderlands 4<\/a>&#8216;s Year One roadmap &#8211; which included two new playable characters, two Story Packs and more &#8211; and it&#8217;s now &#8220;cooking hard on more Borderlands 4 content for next year.&#8221; There&#8217;s no concrete information about what that looks like for now, but the studio promised Weekly Activity refreshes and Community Challenges will chug on in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re also taking a bigger look at the franchise as a whole. Where can we take it next? What characters do you want to spend more time with? What stories deserve a payoff? A huge part of that is listening to you,&#8221; the studio wrote. &#8220;All that said, big plans take time, and we need some room to work. You can trust that we&#8217;ll talk more when the time is right. Now is your chance to influence what we&#8217;ll say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/take-two-blames-borderlands-4s-softer-than-expected-sales-on-troublesome-pc-release-gearbox-boss-randy-pitchford-insisted-was-pretty-damn-optimal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borderlands 4 itself experienced a &#8220;softer&#8221; than expected launch<\/a>, thanks partly to the game&#8217;s wonky PC performance, though it seems to have been a success in the long run. A promised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/borderlands-4-switch-2-port-paused-take-two-confirms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Switch 2 port was also indefinitely delayed<\/a> earlier in the year. We haven&#8217;t heard much about that handheld version since, but Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/05\/borderlands-4-switch-2-port-could-still-happen-but-its-not-a-priority-right-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">say <\/a>the team were focusing on getting Borderlands 4 into tip-top shape before trying to bring it elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/borderlands-4-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer&#8217;s Borderlands 4 review<\/a>, Rick Lane said the shooter  bought a &#8220;more sensible script and a true open world to its pseudo-cel-shaded gun-show, but these moderate improvements are undermined by frustrating exploration and combat that takes too long to properly shine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Borderlands series has sold more than 100m copies across all games, developer Gearbox Software has announced. 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