Gearbox Software working on a new IP called Battleborn

<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" lang&equals;"en"><p>Battleborn is a full-featured&comma; triple A&comma; next-gen&comma; coop campaign and competitive on-line video game&period; Site is up at <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;yGJXcgoed9">http&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;yGJXcgoed9<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Randy Pitchford &lpar;&commat;DuvalMagic&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;DuvalMagic&sol;statuses&sol;486566832531185666">July 8&comma; 2014<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script src&equals;"&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" async&equals;"" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How has your Tuesday been&quest; Bet you didn&&num;8217&semi;t see this coming&comma; or did you&quest; Earlier today&comma; Gearbox Software announced their next title is called Battleborn&period; While 2k Marin is busy working on Borderlands&colon; The Pre-Sequel and Telltale Games is working on Tales from the Borderlands&comma; Gearbox is stepping away from the Borderlands franchise to work on Battleborn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the end of the trailer&comma; Battleborn will release on PC&comma; Xbox One&comma; and PlayStation 4&period; So what is the game about&quest; Well&comma; Randy Pitchford&comma; in the above tweet&comma; certainly hits on some of the high notes in under 140 characters&period; But he also tweeted this all encompassing tweet&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Battleborn is&colon; FPS&semi; hobby-grade coop campaign&semi; genre-blended&comma; multi-mode competitive e-sports&semi; meta-growth&comma; choice &plus; epic Battleborn Heroes&excl;&&num;8221&semi; Clearly&comma; the once-magician turned game tycoon is covering all the bases in his tweets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As an exclusive to Game Informer magazine&comma; Gearbox Software will reveal more of what the game is about in their August 2014 edition&period; In the meantime&comma; Game Informer did post this quote as to provide a little more clarity about Battleborn&period; The game is &&num;8220&semi;a fusion of first-person shooting and loot-grabbing RPG elements in a living comic book art style&period;&&num;8221&semi; The game will include five-player co-op as well as competitive multiplayer in 5v5 matches&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Based on some of the chatter on twitter today&comma; many are comparing the game as a mashup between a MOBA like League of Legends and the shooting aspects of Team Fortress&period; Battleborn has a tentative release date of sometime in 2015 or before March 31&comma; 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More quotes from Gearbox on their upcoming game&comma; Battleborn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If Borderlands 2 is a shooter-looter&comma; Battleborn is a hero-shooter&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Randy Pitchford&comma; president of Gearbox Software&period; &&num;8220&semi;As a genre-fused&comma; hobby-grade&comma; co-operative and competitive FPS exploding with eye-popping style and an imaginative universe&comma; Battleborn is the most ambitious video game that Gearbox has ever created&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Battleborn represents the combined might of the development and publishing teams behind the success of Borderlands 2&comma; which to date has sold-in more than 9-million units worldwide and has become 2K&&num;8217&semi;s highest-selling game of all time&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Christoph Hartmann&comma; president of 2K&period; &&num;8220&semi;The size&comma; scope&comma; and ambition of Battleborn are unlike any other title in 2K&&num;8217&semi;s history&comma; and the result is a defining next-gen co-operative experience&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05091701&sol;battleborn&lowbar;gamersinbeta&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-63311" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05091701&sol;battleborn&lowbar;gamersinbeta-1024x606&period;jpg" alt&equals;"battleborn&lowbar;gamersinbeta" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"355" &sol;><&sol;a>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gameinformer&period;com&sol;b&sol;news&sol;archive&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;08&sol;game-informer-august-cover-reveal-gearbox-battleborn-654814351318&period;aspx" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Game Informer<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;author&sol;capnmikem&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Mike Mahoney<&sol;a> originally posted this story on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;gamersinbeta&period;com&sol;gearbox-software-announces-next-title-battleborn&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">GamersInBeta&period;com<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;