New Borderlands 4 trailer shows off explosive gameplay and gives us a release date

An early Borderlands 4 screenshot showing an enemy with a melee weapon.
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  • We finally have a release date for Borderlands 4 thanks to a recent trailer
  • It's coming on September 23, 2025, with a dedicated Borderlands 4 State of Play in Spring
  • It's set to launch on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S

We finally have an official release date for Borderlands 4 thanks to an explosive new trailer that gave us our first substantial look at gameplay.

Shown off in the most recent State of Play, the Borderlands 4 trailer shows plenty of fast shooting in the impressively high-fidelity world of Karios.

As you would expect from the series, we saw the player experimenting with a very large variety of weapons that ranged from traditional looking machine guns to giant rocket launchers and weird glowing melee attacks.

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Traversal seems to be one of the big focuses in Borderlands 4, which promises to let players "move across the Borderlands like never before" with new mechanics like double jumping, gliding, dodging, and a grapple hook.

Developer Gearbox Entertainment describes it as "our most ambitious game to date" and it definitely seems like one that fans of the first-person shooter (FPS) genre should keep a close eye on in the coming months.

The trailer ends with an official release date, September 23, 2025. We also now know that a dedicated Borderlands 4 State of Play presentation is coming in Spring, which will presumably reveal even more details about the game.

Borderlands 4 is set to launch on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S.

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Dashiell Wood
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Dash is a technology journalist who covers gaming hardware at TechRadar. Before joining the TechRadar team, he was writing gaming articles for some of the UK's biggest magazines including PLAY, Edge, PC Gamer, and SFX. Now, when he's not getting his greasy little mitts on the newest hardware or gaming gadget, he can be found listening to J-pop or feverishly devouring the latest Nintendo Switch otome.

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