Borderlands: Dead ECHOs Releases Episode 4 of Its Narrative Podcast
What's new
Episode 4 of Borderlands: Dead ECHOs is now available. The weekly podcast series, described as Gearbox's first scripted narrative podcast, continues the story of Watts and Junie as their ECHO-brokering operation escalates in peril.
According to the announcement, this episode's central conflict involves DAHL Management finding a way to literally remove oxygen from the situation — a literalized corporate suffocation that the show frames as its protagonists' "most dire obstacle to date."
What the episode contains
- A guest star described as a "cantankerous cameo"
- Narrative elements including Boom Rooms, attempted fridging, old lady wigs, and "prestigious institutes of higher laughing"
- Continued pressure from DAHL's corporate apparatus on Watts and Junie's operation
About the series
Dead ECHOs follows Watts, a disenchanted DAHL ECHO Operator who sells secrets gleaned from undeliverable ECHO logs, and Junie, a stranger who introduces a Robin Hood dimension to his criminal side business. Antagonists include mercenaries, outlaws, and a DAHL corporate hit squad led by executive Vivian Proctor.
New episodes release weekly and are available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, iHeart Radio, and Pandora.
For players who have followed the Borderlands universe primarily through its games, this podcast represents an expanding narrative layer operating entirely outside the interactive medium.