UPDATE 8/11: A Genvid spokesperson has released this statement on the situation:
“Actor Angie Jho Lee is a voice actor on Genvid Entertainment’s upcoming interactive streaming series,Borderlands EchoVision Live,which was announced at San Diego Comic-Con last month.While the series takes place within theBorderlandsuniverse and is made in partnership with Gearbox Entertainment, it is not aBorderlandsgame.We reached out to Angie and asked her to make this change on her personal account to reflect the accurate role with the interactive series. More information onBorderlands EchoVision Livecan be found inthis press releaseas well as its official websitehere.”
Clearly, theBorderlands 4rumors are based on a misunderstanding. Needless to say, fans should not expect to seeBorderlands 4release this holiday season as was rumored.
Original story follows.
A new rumor making the rounds online suggests thatBorderlands 4will launch holiday 2023 with a new character named Aiyumi.Borderlands 3released in 2019, and with a seven-year gap betweenBorderlands 2and the third game, fans of the franchise are certainly prepared to wait a long time to play the next big looter-shooter game from Gearbox.
While it’s been four years sinceBorderlands 3first launched, fans of the franchise have had plenty to keep them busy since then. Gearbox supportedBorderlands 3with many post-launch updates and sizable expansion packs. It also worked to bring the game to new-gen consoles after the PS5 and Xbox Series X were out.Borderlandsfans werealso treated toTiny Tina’s Wonderlands, a spin-off game inspired by theTiny Tina’s Assault on Dragonkeepexpansion forBorderlands 3.
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Besides theBorderlandsmovie on the horizon, it seems franchise fans may also be able to count on an eventualBorderlands 4. The resume and LinkedIn profile for actress Angie Jho Lee claims that she is playing a character named Aiyumi inBorderlands 4, with the game itself set for a holiday 2023 release. Fans should take this information with a grain of salt, however. It would be rather shocking to find outBorderlands 4is releasing this holiday season when the game hasn’t even been announced yet. Perhaps that was the plan for its original release window, but the game will actually be coming out in 2024 or beyond.
Then again, some game developers have found great success announcing games and then releasing them just a few months later. One of the most notable examples of this would beFallout 4, which had a massive unveiling at E3 2015 and released that same year. Perhaps Gearbox is planning on some kind of big unveiling at PAX West or something, though fans shouldn’t hold their breath that they will get to seeBorderlands 4this year, let alone play it.
It’s also possible that the game referenced isn’t actuallyBorderlands 4. Some leaks have suggested that Gearbox is releasing anewBorderlandscollection. Maybe Aiyumi is a new character that will be featured in the collection somehow, andBorderlands 4was named as a mistake. All fans can do is speculate until official word comes from Gearbox.
