Today Gearbox and 2K Games announced a brand new Next Gen game called Battleborn which is a brand new IP for PC, PS4 and Xbox One only – that is right folks – Gearbox and 2K are committed to the future with Evolve and now Battlborn not being PS3 and Xbox 360 games at all.
Accompanying some early details on the game in development, we also a teaser trailer below.
Affectionately called a hero-shooter by the dev team, Battleborn combines frenetic first-person shooting with co-operative combat, and an expansive collection of diverse heroes to create an experience unlike anything you’ve played before. Set in a distant future, the only hope for the last star in a dying universe is a new breed of warriors who must put aside their differences to drive back an unstoppable menace. Players choose from a myriad of powerful heroes and fight together alongside their friends in a narrative-driven co-operative campaign, or battle against them in fast-paced competitive multiplayer matches.
Press Release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New hero-shooter experience from the creators of the best-selling Borderlands franchise brings industry-leading co-operative and competitive play to next-gen consoles and PC
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New York, NY – July 8, 2014 – 2K and Gearbox Software – the creators of the award-winning and best-selling Borderlands franchise – today announced Battleborn™, an all-new full-featured triple-A hero-shooter experience for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC is in development. The first details and full reveal ofBattleborn can be read now exclusively in Game Informer magazine’s August issue cover story.
Battleborn is developed by the teams behind the critically acclaimed hybrid role-playing-shooter Borderlands 2, and is an ambitious fusion of genres. The game combines highly-stylized visuals and frenetic first-person shooting, with Gearbox’s industry-leading co-operative combat, and an expansive collection of diverse heroes. Battleborn is set in the distant future of an imaginative science-fantasy universe where players experience both a narrative-driven co-operative campaign, as well as competitive multiplayer matches.
“If Borderlands 2 is a shooter-looter, Battleborn is a hero-shooter,” said Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software. “As a genre-fused, hobby-grade, co-operative and competitive FPS exploding with eye-popping style and an imaginative universe, Battleborn is the most ambitious video game that Gearbox has ever created.”
“Battleborn represents the combined might of the development and publishing teams behind the success of Borderlands 2, which to date has sold-in more than 9-million units worldwide and has become 2K’s highest-selling game of all time,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “The size, scope, and ambition of Battleborn are unlike any other title in 2K’s history, and the result is a defining next-gen co-operative experience.”
To learn more about Battleborn, read the latest issue of Game Informer magazine or visit www.gameinformer.com/
Battleborn is available for pre-order and will release during Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.’s fiscal year 2016 ending March 31, 2016, for Xbox One, PlayStation®4 system and PC. For a list of retailers that are taking pre-orders, please visit www.battleborn.com. Battleborn is not yet rated by the ESRB. For more information on Battleborn, follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, subscribe on YouTube, and visit www.battleborn.com.