How to watch the Borderlands 4 State of Play

Gearbox Software will host a Borderlands 4-specific State of Play presentation on April 30 at 5 p.m. ET. The broadcast will be shown on the PlayStation Twitch and YouTube channels. The developer expects to spend more than 20 minutes on “developer-guided gameplay, including missions, killer weapons, and exciting Action Skills, new and returning characters, and more,” Gearbox Software creative director Graeme Timmins said in a post on the PlayStation blog.

Gearbox Software also recently announced that its moving up Borderlands 4 to Sept. 12; it was previously set to be released on Sept. 23. The game was first shown during Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live ceremony ahead of Gamescom in 2024, with the original release date announced in February. The release date hasn’t been moved up a ton, but there’s speculation that it could be to get out of the way of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 6 — the big release that’s anticipated for this year. Of course, Rockstar Games has yet to announce the release date for GTA 6, but the game is expected out this year.

If anyone would know where, exactly, to place Borderlands 4 in relation to a game that will most certainly suck the air out of every other new release, it’s Take-Two Interactive, which publishes both games.

Borderlands 4 is the first mainline game in the Borderlands series since 2019’s Borderlands 3. There have been two spinoffs since, though: Tiny Tina’s Wonderland and New Tales of the Borderlands. A Borderlands movie was released in 2024.