Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says the game industry once expected a genre experiment like Borderlands to "die," but it actually became "one of the leading video game franchises in the world": "It's kind of humbling"

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Borderlands 4 is one of the biggest upcoming new games for 2025, but a decade-and-a-half ago the series was getting underway in pretty humble circumstances. Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says that the industry at large expected the original Borderlands to come and go, and the success of the series since then has been downright "humbling."

"If you look at the Borderlands games over time, you see that we are pushing, and we are always exploring the boundaries," Pitchford tells GamesRadar+ at Gamescom. "But, we are doing it within a framework that is very natural to what Borderlands is. And I think that’s one of the reasons why we're on our fourth Borderlands game, and it’s one of the most successful franchises of all time."