Borderlands 3 booth at E3 2019.
Borderlands 3 booth at E3 2019.
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Gearbox creative director Paul Sage — How we made Borderlands 3

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 12 min

It’s been a long journey for Borderlands 3. Borderlands 2 shipped in 2012, and fans naturally thought that Borderlands 3 would be coming soon after that.

But it didn’t come. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel shipped in 2014. But fans — who have scooped up 43 million copies of the previous games — have been patient. The title is now slated to ship on September 13 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia. We played the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big trade show in Los Angeles, and we had a conversation with one of the leaders on the project.

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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.