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2K’s Battleborn is multiplayer combat in a drugged-out sci-fi world

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Forgive me if I’m seeing the world through a psychedelic miasma. I’ve played a few rounds of combat in the multiplayer game Battleborn, coming soon from developer Gearbox Software and Take-Two Interactive’s 2K publishing label.

2K announced that the sci-fi shooter will have 25 unique playable heroes, a story mode that is playable alone or with up to four other friends, and several types of competitive multiplayer modes. It will have a persistent progression system, which means that Gearbox is investing heavily in this brand new intellectual property. And Gearbox’s last franchise, Borderlands, has sold more than 25 million copies.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.