Fl4k, the Vault Hunter known as the Beastmaster, goes after a Skag in Borderlands 3.
Fl4k, the Vault Hunter known as the Beastmaster, goes after a Skag in Borderlands 3.
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Borderlands 3 hands-on preview — Hours of goofy shooting and crazy sidekick characters

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Welcome back to Pandora. And the mayhem of Borderlands 3. Game developer Gearbox Software and publisher Take-Two Interactive’s 2K label will launch the title on September 13 on the consoles and PC.

But I was able to get a feel for the goofy first-person shooter combat at a preview event at publisher Take-Two Interactive’s 2K label in Novato, California. The art is beautiful, the dialogue is funny, and the characters are wacky. Borderlands fans have come to expect that from Gearbox, and that’s why the series has sold more than 48 million copies over the past decade.

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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.