Earlier today, reports started to emerge that the existence of Borderlands 4 had been leaked by an actress adding the game to her resume, but Genvid Entertainment has since clarified the situation.
Fans noticed that the online resume for actress Angie Jho Lee had a listing for “Borderlands 4” under her “voice over” section, along with the role of "Aiyumi." However, in a statement, Genvid clarified that Jho Lee is actually appearing in Borderlands EchoVision Live, a recently announced interactive streaming series.
“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,” reads the statement. “While the series takes place within the Borderlands universe and is made in partnership with Gearbox Entertainment, it is not a Borderlands game. 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.”
As the statement notes, Jho Lee’s resume has since been updated to specify Borderlands EchoVision Live.
Further fueling the rumors was a LinkedIn page for someone named Nadia Danova, who listed “Borderlands 4” under her “Experience” section. That LinkedIn page, however, has since been scrubbed from the site, and it was a little dubious to begin with. According to GamesRadar, while the LinkedIn page was still live, it said she was working on the game while she was a developer with MoGi Group in 2021, and she listed that she left MoGi in May of 2021.
It’s worth noting, however, that that doesn’t mean Borderlands 4 isn’t eventually coming, nor has it been refuted by either today’s Genvid statement or by Gearbox – it just hasn’t been confirmed yet by today’s rumors. Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford tweeted in 2021 that they’re “working on the big one,” implying a fourth entry in the main Borderlands series.
“I am told of rumors that Gearbox is ‘assisting’ or ‘co-developing’ another Borderlands game (or a new spin-off game). These rumors are NOT accurate,” he wrote at the time. “Gearbox is lead dev of any future games in the Borderlands franchise (or any Borderlands adjacent games) with no co-development.”
He continued in a follow-up tweet: “More: We are definitely working on some amazing stuff that, I hope, will surprise and delight you. Plug: if anyone out there has Skills-To-Pay-Bills and wants to get in on some Borderlands action, we're working on the big one :),” with a link to Gearbox’s careers page.
There’s still plenty else that’s happening within Borderlands as well. What seems to be a new all-in-one collection, The Borderlands Compilation: Pandora’s Box, was seemingly leaked by the South Africa ratings board last month, and Eli Roth’s Borderlands film finally got an Aug. 9, 2024, release date.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
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