Screenshot: Gearbox / The Game Awards / Kotaku
Fun reality about Borderlands followers: We may at all times use some morederlands. Good information, then, seeing as Gearbox revealed what’s subsequent for the long-running sequence of loot shooters at immediately’s kickoff occasion for Gamescom: The sequel for Tales From the Borderlands is out October 21, 2022, for consoles and PC.
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Fans have lengthy wished a sequel to Tales From the Borderlands, the 2014 narrative sport developed by Telltale. It’s lengthy held up by followers as essentially the most riveting story in Borderlands canon, one which by no means bought the sequel it deserved. But there’s some trepidation. This sequel is being spearheaded in-house by Gearbox, quite than by the builders of the unique. Telltale, in the meantime, having risen from the ashes like a phoenix in 2019, is making a sport primarily based on The Expanse, Amazon’s onerous sci-fi house opera.
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At Gamescom, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford stated New Tales From the Borderlands will characteristic new characters and a brand new story. Pitchford additionally famous that some members of the unique sport’s artistic workforce labored on this one as effectively.
Held every year in Cologne, Germany, Gamescom is strictly what’s on the tin: a conference about kölsh–no, wait, no. About video games. It runs for a few week every year, having attained a popularity as a form of mini-E3, a standing that has solely grown within the absence of an precise E3. As with earlier years, this yr’s Gamescom kicked off with a two-hour showcase hosted by the planet’s main purveyor of world premieres, Geoff Keighley.
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There’s lots in Borderlands Land by way of 2022. In March, Gearbox launched Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Technically a follow-up to the Borderlands 2 growth Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon’s Keep—extensively considered the most effective growth within the sequence—Wonderlands can be kind of Borderlands by the use of D&D. It’s fairly enjoyable, riffing on the long-running system and trimming away the elements that don’t work, like driving.
But Borderlands video games have lived and died by their expansions (to wit: that Wonderlands exists within the first place). These video games are identified for receiving a slew of meaty, narrative-driven campaigns within the wake of launch. Wonderlands’ expansions, nonetheless, haven’t been significantly expansive, providing little greater than singular dungeons—offered for about the identical value as earlier season passes. This has rubbed followers the mistaken manner.
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Also on the best way is a movie adaptation with a supernova of star energy: Cate Blanchett because the magically imbued Lilith, Jack Black because the annoying AF robotic Claptrap, Kevin Hart because the stoic soldier Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis because the, uh, morally questionable scientist Patricia Tannis. Some footage from the movie screened at this yr’s CinemaCon, to loud acclaim. But the manufacturing firm, Lionsgate, has but to launch it publicly.