Borderlands 4, 20 Dakikalık Oyun Durumuna Kavuşuyor – İşte Nasıl İzleyeceğiniz

Gearbox is giving Borderlands 4 its moment — and it’s happening fast. The next PlayStation State of Play is all about Borderlands 4, and it’s going down on April 30 at 5 p.m. ET. The 20-minute showcase will stream on PlayStation’s Twitch and YouTube, and it's being billed as a deep dive into everything fans love (or love to hate): missions, outrageous guns, wild action skills, new faces, and some familiar ones, too.

“Developer-guided gameplay, including missions, killer weapons, and exciting Action Skills, new and returning characters, and more,” — Gearbox creative director Graeme Timmins

The timing is no accident. Gearbox just moved up Borderlands 4’s release date to September 12, nudging it slightly ahead from its original September 23 launch. That small shift is raising some big eyebrows — and yeah, it might be about dodging the cultural tsunami known as GTA 6. Rockstar still hasn’t officially dated GTA 6, but it’s looming like a black hole in the fall release calendar.

“If anyone would know where, exactly, to place Borderlands 4 with a game that will most certainly suck the air out of every other new release, it’s Take-Two Interactive.”

That’s right — Take-Two publishes both games. So if you think this is just a coincidence, you probably haven’t been paying attention to how carefully publishers plan their calendar around Rockstar’s shadow.

Why Borderlands Still Has a Place in 2025

Let’s be real — Borderlands doesn’t try to be a prestige, cinematic shooter. It’s not about hyper-real graphics or gritty, Oscar-bait storytelling. What it is, though, is one of the most distinct, consistent looter shooter experiences of the last 15 years.

Back when the first Borderlands launched in 2009, the shooter genre was mostly split between two poles: the brown-and-gray realism of Call of Duty and the sci-fi slickness of Halo. Borderlands showed up with cell-shaded chaos, irreverent humor, and a gun count in the bajillions. It blended Diablo-style loot grinding with FPS mechanics and RPG skill trees, all in a comic book visual style that felt totally fresh.

At the time, people even criticized the look as cheap, mistaking the art style for budget limitations. But in retrospect? That aesthetic was genius. It's now iconic. That gritty-yet-cartoony, black-outlined design is pure Borderlands. It’s never tried to look like anything else.

What to Expect from the Showcase

Gearbox says we’re getting more than 20 minutes of gameplay, which suggests they’re not just teasing this thing — they’re going all in. Expect:

• Extended mission previews
• New and old Vault Hunters
• A closer look at the new setting (rumored to be more expansive than Pandora)
• Gunplay with a bigger focus on class skills
• Hints at co-op innovations (crossplay, maybe?)

We’ll likely also get updates on pre-order bonuses, DLC plans, and maybe even a beta or early access announcement. September is not that far off.

Borderlands in Numbers

Here are all Borderlands titles in the series' rating.

The mainline titles have mostly hovered around the low-80s, with Borderlands 2 remaining the high point in terms of critical acclaim. But the real story has always been the player engagement. Co-op play, obsessive loot chasing, and its chaotic charm keep people coming back.

Don’t Count Borderlands Out

In a world where the biggest shooters are often trying to be prestige dramas or MMO-lite grindfests, Borderlands is still that loud, unapologetic junkyard of comedy and carnage. It’s not trying to be The Last of Us. It’s trying to be a Mad Max acid trip — and that’s why it still works.

So yeah, if you're tired of military sims and live-service bloat, Borderlands might just feel like a breath of fresh, irradiated air.