LawBreakers

Steam News · Jul 19

Cliff Bleszinski says ego played a role in LawBreakers' failure: 'People are loyal to the game, but they're not necessarily loyal to the person'

LawBreakers was, by many accounts, a great game. But the 2017 shooter was a commercial failure, and developer Boss Key shut it down just a year after release. There's been much speculation about why it stumbled, including from Boss Key co-founder and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski himself. In a new interview with 80.lv, he offered his latest theories... Read more.

Steam News · Nov 4, 2025

British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski's dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament

Remember LawBreakers? I have to be honest: I didn't. Or rather, I didn't until the game was suddenly resurrected in—of all places—the UK Parliament... Read more.

Steam News · Jul 23, 2025

7 years on, CliffyB is 'still bitter' about people gravedancing when his studio Boss Key failed: 'It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while'

Storied game designer Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary... Read more.

Steam News · Apr 16, 2024

Fan project to revive LawBreakers gets Cliff Bleszinski's backing, as he eyes the prize of somehow getting Nexon interested: 'That's what I'm hoping for'

Released in 2017, Lawbreakers was the first game from the now-defunct Boss Key Productions, a studio founded by Cliff Bleszinski following his departure from Epic Games. It was a high-speed, high-skill FPS that slotted neatly into the Unreal Tournament lineage but, despite being really rather good , lasted barely a year before going offline forever ... Read more.

Steam News · Apr 15, 2024

LawBreakers is staging an unofficial comeback, five years after it (and its makers) shut down

Five years after LawBreakers shut down, we're getting to play the gravity-defying multiplayer FPS again thanks to fans. LawBreakers was the first game from Boss Key Productions, a studio co-founded by Gears Of Wars lead designer Cliff Bleszinski, and it had delightful ultraviolence beneath its uninspiring genric look. Alas, it did not sell well. Boss Key closed less than a year after launch, and t...

Steam News · Apr 14, 2024

Unique but forgotten FPS game brought back from the dead by fans

Making a successful multiplayer shooter isn't easy. Not everyone can make an Overwatch, Fortnite, Call of Duty, or Apex Legends, and upcoming hero shooters like Marvel Rivals are entering an incredibly popular market in 2024, and we can easily say the same of the shooter space over the last decade too. LawBreakers was one of the unlucky ones, as the low-gravity hero shooter never got the playerbas...

Steam News · May 22, 2023

CliffyB might not be done with making games after all, says 'my LA lawyer' is on the case for a LawBreakers revival

Clifford Bleszinski occupies an odd space in the games industry at the moment. The artist formerly known as Cliffy B is a big-budget director of substantial talent who's worked on some best-in-class titles and is still relatively young, but breaking off from Epic Games and setting up on his own didn't go quite as planned: LawBreakers was great , but didn't sell, while Radical Heigh...

Steam News · Apr 24, 2023

CliffyB wants to bring back that game we all definitely remember, LawBreakers

Cliff Bleszinski, director of the hero shooter LawBreakers that shut down in 2018, seemingly wants to bring the game back. I'm not going to judge you if you don't remember LawBreakers, as not many people even played the game. But now, five years after the game shutdown, Bleszinksi (popularly known as CliffyB) is trying to bring it back. Publisher Nexon - who's been in the news recently for lawsuit...

Steam News · Apr 24, 2023

Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski isn't bringing back LawBreakers after all, and he's 'kinda over the whole making games thing'

Turns out Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski's mysterious tease about the future of his flopped FPS LawBreakers may have been a bit premature. Two weeks ago, he tweeted "Just got a text from my lawyers about… LawBreakers. Stay tuned" (before launching into a rant against people who "were rooting for the game to fail"), implying some kind of return for the now long-dead game. It&apos...

Steam News · Apr 14, 2023

Cliff Bleszinski teases news about LawBreakers, the excellent arena shooter that died 5 years ago

Remember LawBreakers, the ill-fated competitive FPS that closed down a few months after its developer went defunct? It might not be as dead as you thought. So says Cliff Bleszinski, the game's director, who's been teasing upcoming news about the game over on Twitter... Read more.