Borderlands 4 gets a fresh trailer with some gameplay, and we can see why Randy Pitchford was “FREAKING OUT, yo”

A fresh trailer for Borderlands 4 just dropped at The Game Awards 2024, just as Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford said it would in a whole bunch of tweets.

Yep, after that first teaser trailer from Gamescom ONL this year told us all this was a thing that exists, our second look at it was teased by a bunch of Pitchford tweets that may or may not have been a bit premature. Classic.

As Pitchford suggested, the trailer featured some gameplay from the game that’ll attempt to follow this summer’s rather bad Borderlands movie, in addition to some pretty good-looking graphics, a terrifying woman mounted on the back of some spider-like legs, and a whole legion of horrible bastards that look like they’ll be pretty fun to shoot.

Outside of that, it was pretty standard Borderlands fare: mutants, people hovering menacingly in a low-grav environment, mutants, guns, and noise. If you could just ignore the Randy Pitchford stuff, it was all pretty exciting.

In those aforementioned tweets, Pitchford wrote: “Cooking up a new Borderlands 4 trailer and it’s badass af. Latest render is knocking me out. I’m not supposed to talk about it yet, but idgaf. I’M FREAKING OUT, yo.” He later added: “So… My phone is blowing up. I guess I wasn’t supposed to share that we have a trailer coming. My bad. Sorry. Not sorry. What’s done is done, so… not deleting. If you don’t hear from me in a week, please call 911.”

Was this Game Awards cameo for the game worthy of that all-caps typing, hype, and also the bit of back and forth with a Twitter random about edging that came in the first tweet’s replies (no pun intended)? The answer will probably depend on whether or not you’ve got a tattoo of Claptrap or Handsome Jack on your inner thigh, but fire away, let us know below.

You can also check out our coverage of Game Awards stuff Randy Pitchford wasn’t tweeting about here.