Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 “not a thing anymore”

Brothers in Arms: Furious Four looked like a deleted scene from Inglorious Basterds and would have been the fourth major console release for the franchise. The game was initially announced way back in 2011 and only a year later was fridged and indefinitely delayed. In a recent interview with IGN, Gearbox president, Randy Pitchford admitted that the game was officially dead.

Pitchford also explained that the ideas effort behind the BiA title were redirected and eventually evolved into Battleborn, slated for later this year, "Creative development is a trip. The idea that something that started as a Brothers in Arms game through some absurd convolution ended up as Battleborn is evidence of what’s possible."

That said, in another interview, Pitchford promised that Gearbox still has another Brothers in Arms game planned in the future, but that nothing has been committed to stone, "I feel like I’m on the brink of it, but we’re not quite there yet. Once it happens development will really take off and then sometime after that – if we don’t completely kill ourselves – we’ll announce. But we’re in the incubation phase with the next one there, for sure."

Bummer.

Battleborn is scheduled for later this year on PS4, XB1 and PC.