BY AMIT BARAN ROY | Battleborn, the latest first person MOBA game by , is currently enjoying its early days of impressive launch for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. This seems well proven by the recent of Randy Varnell, the Creative Director of Gearbox Software, who says that the early sales of Gearbox's Battleborn are "tracking just ahead" of the original Borderlands of 2009. Varnell has described the game’s launch as “pretty good” and has also stated that he and the entire studio is “cautiously optimistic” about the game’s future.

He said, "Ultimately Borderlands [was an] extremely successful new game for us, and even Borderlands 1 went on to sell, I think, almost 7, 8 million units in its lifetime,”

"Battleborn is actually tracking just ahead of where Borderlands was on the sales, and we think it's going to be a game that is going to work like that. A decent, solid launch. We're seeing steady and growing user counts on all three platforms, and hoping that word of mouth is going to take us even further."

Varnell also says that he has seen a “steady rate” growth of the game since its launch on May 3 and he expects that it will continue in the coming days too. Meanwhile, the original Borderlands has in its first two of release back in 2009.

Gearbox Software’s Battleborn has debuted at the No. 1 position on the UK sales chart for the May 7 weekend. This is Take-Two’s first No. 1 in over a year. The previous game to do so was Grand Theft Auto V in 2015. Yet we are still awaiting the release of the sales figures for Battlefront by 2K in the coming days.

Earlier (in February) in an , Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford described Battleborn as the company’s “Big Bet” and “Biggest Investment” ever. The interview also hinted at some of the future plans by Gearbox Software. Pitchford said while 80% of their 300 man company are working on Battleborn, the rest are engaged with “a couple of other things”, one of them being a Brothers in Arms game.

Battleborn Beta in April attracted over 2 million players from around the world. The full game is now available on for $59.99. In addition to the standard version, players can purchase the Digital Deluxe Edition, which includes the game's Season Pass and cosmetic items. Five additional characters are set to be released for the game upon release for free, and 5 different paid packs, which includes additional story content, are also scheduled to be released after the game's launch.