Take-Two Interactive announced yesterday that it plans to release 62 games by fiscal year 2024, ranging from "immersive core" games to indie games. In any case, there is no room for speculation as to what these games will actually be, but Take-Two revealed that one of them will be something (apparently brand new) from Gearbox.

"2K will also introduce two releases from new franchises this year, including one from Gearbox," Take-Two president Carl Slatoff said during the earnings call. Slatoff was talking about Take-Two's 2022 fiscal year, which actually ends on March 31, 2022.

This is, admittedly, very little to go on, but two weeks after Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford semi-officially announced some activity on the Borderlands front - which could include, as he put it, "Borderlands-adjacent games" came out less than two weeks later, and can be seen as a nod to the new franchise mentioned by Suratov.

Pitchford was equally circumspect after Take-Two's announcement, replying to VCG's report on the new franchise with "Hmmm..." tweeted, then suggested that Gearbox had already spent "years of work" on the project.

Take-Two and Gearbox have a long-standing relationship, with 2K Games publishing all previous titles in the "Borderlands" series.

At the time, however, 2K Games stated that the new ownership would not affect its role as publisher of the "Borderlands" games or "any other projects we are currently working on with the studio." Based on Pitchford's tweets suggesting that the project is well under development, one might surmise that the deal with Take-Two was already in place at the time of the Embracer acquisition.

A Take-Two representative declined to comment further, but 2K Games will be at Geoff Keighley's massive Summer Game Fest on June 10. Perhaps we will learn more details then.