Today at PAX East, Gearbox has confirmed that they will be developing Borderlands 3 sometime after they finish production on Battleborn and its DLC, though no specific time frame was given. This is a long awaited confirmation, although Gearbox previously said over a year ago in January 2015 that they were recruiting in preparation for their next Borderlands game. Gearbox’s last Borderlands game, Borderlands 2, released almost four years ago. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, which released in 2014, was developed by 2K Australia.
Gearbox president Randy Pitchford said at their PAX panel, “It’s no secret, obviously there’s going to be another Borderlands.”
Mikey Neumann, Gearbox chief creative champion and the voice of Scooter in the series, will be writing it. While thinking of possible characters for the game, Neumann said “I did this whole Scooter thing, then I pitch-shifted it up like seven semitones so it sounds like a chipmunk and it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard,” in reference to how Scooter’s son, Scooper, would sound. Nothing is official, so the character may not be in the final game.
It was mentioned at the panel that Battleborn would contain a lot of Borderlands easter eggs, and Battleborn creative director Randy Varnell even hinted at the possibility of Borderlands 3 easter eggs in future DLC.
Battleborn art director Scott Kester will also be the art director on Borderlands 3.
We still do not know when the game will release or for what platforms. Randy Pitchford joked that it may not even be called Borderlands 3, saying “We don’t even know if we’re going to call it that. We could call it Borderlands 4 for all we know.”
No matter what the name is, the next Borderlands game won’t be released for a while. Gearbox is surely focusing their efforts on launching Battleborn, which releases in just a couple of weeks on May 3.
Source: Eurogamer
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