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New Borderlands 4 DLC review bombed on Steam as players complain about its price and length: ‘This is a small story pack, not an expansion, and it should be priced accordingly’

Not the first time.

Destructoid

Borderlands 4 performance issues have been "pretty stressful," admits dev, but Gearbox has done "a pretty good job" fixing them

"I feel like that's part of what our jobs are"

GamesRadar

6 months after Borderlands 4 launch, Gearbox admits "we have more to do" to fix ongoing PC performance issues but promises "we're in it for the long haul!"

Gearbox has already made some big changes

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Borderlands 4's first story pack is the game's 'biggest DLC yet' and launches later this month

Gearbox Software has revealed Borderlands 4 Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned, which will introduce all-new content when it arrives later this month.

TechRadar

Borderlands 4 is finally getting Pearlescent gear this month, plus Bounty Pack 2 ahead of the March story update bringing new Vault Hunter C4SH

This looter shooter is chock-full

GamesRadar

Borderlands 4 Switch 2 port looks dead as Gearbox parent Take-Two "pauses development"

Borderlands 4 on Switch 2 was delayed indefinitely back in September, but it seems it's dead for good now

GamesRadar

Gearbox "avoiding nerfs at the moment" for Borderlands 4, dodging previous balance backlash: "I wholeheartedly want to avoid ruining someone's countless hours of farming"

Ultimate Vault Hunter levels will increase dedicated loot drops going forward

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"This is a massive fumble": Borderlands 4 players furious as drop rates are slashed after holiday event, even though Gearbox promises a "longer-term solution"

They're going back to pre-holiday levels

GamesRadar

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says late FPS icon Vince Zampella would "create mischievous joy" – like "trolling" Eli Roth in Borderlands during a pre-movie "tour"

"BAM, Vince would troll him again"

GamesRadar

Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025

…and three not-so-shining examples. Oh dear.

PC Gamer

Sealed, physical copy of Fortnite from 2017 sells for $42,500 at auction — Perfect condition disc contains original Save The World mode and exclusive cosmetics pack

Before Fortnite became a cultural phenomenon, it was a borderline indie effort from Epic Games to revive a genre that not many cared about. It partnered with Gearbox in 2017 to release discs in an extremely limited quantity that are now classified as collector's items, one of which has just…

Tom’s Hardware

As Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox decides to make the looter shooter's first DLC pack free for everyone, Deluxe Edition players aren't too happy: "I'm calling bulls**t"

Not everyone is getting into the holiday spirit

GamesRadar

Gearbox finally fixes Borderlands 4's infuriating class mod drops and snore-inducing Wildcards—oh, and its first DLC is now free

"The team realized that there was more mayhem than time when it came to getting as much into Bounty Pack 1 as originally planned."

PC Gamer

Gearbox finally fixes the most frustrating loot in Borderlands 4: "Class Mods have been adjusted to drop more for your current character"

There's also a new "legendary loot indicator"

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With an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating on Steam, Risk of Rain 2 fans finally get the DLC they deserve after the first Gearbox-led effort put the roguelike "in a really bad place"

The team seems to have turned things around following the last broken DLC

PC Gamer

A year after Gearbox released Risk of Rain 2 DLC so broken the developer admitted it put the game 'in a really bad place,' it's finally got a win: the new DLC's 96% positive reviews have blasted it up Steam's top sellers chart

It works this time!

PC Gamer

Borderlands 4 has a 'very stupid' glitch that lets you unlock a character's most powerful abilities before refunding all your skill points, but don't expect it to be around long as Gearbox says 'we're on it'

The glitch will "change the build meta for every build" according to the YouTuber who brought it to attention.

GamesRadar

Borderlands 4's "most insane glitch" yet lets you break every character's skill tree and changes "the build meta for every build," swiftly catching the attention of Gearbox: "We're on it"

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Borderlands Online revival still a go, as modder leading the recreation of China's canceled Gearbox MMO says devs are on "one of the latest, if not final, builds of the game"

They've made "significant progress" on the Borderlands MMO

GamesRadar

Nintendo will "never position" itself as a direct PlayStation competitor regardless of the Switch 2's third-party games, former Nintendo of America president says: "It's not in their DNA"

But he "absolutely" thinks there's a player base there for those AAA third-party games to come to Switch 2

PC Gamer

Borderlands 4's sales were 'a little softer than we would've liked' due to PC performance issues, says Take-Two CEO, but he's confident it'll have a long tail

It's okay, Gearbox. One in four games have the same issue. It's nothing to be ashamed about.

GamesRadar

Borderlands 4's launch "was a bit softer than we would've liked" partly because of PC performance issues, Take-Two CEO says, but "we're immensely proud of Gearbox" anyway

"While we experienced some challenges with optimization of performance on PC, Gearbox has been addressing these issues"

PC Gamer

Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 prove that great performance and low system requirements are king for multiplayer PC games in 2025

People power.

GamesRadar

Otherwise excellent Borderlands 4 patch accidentally brings back the infamous crit knife: "How does this go through testing?"

"This damn knife, dude"

PC Gamer

Magical Randy Pitchford summons the ghost of games discourse past, says games 'Haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet'

The Citizen Kane of gaming is, of course, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.

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