Fans Resurrect LawBreakers Servers, Cliffy B Nods Approvingly | Push Square

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After LawBreakers developer Boss Key Productions shut down following the game's poor performance, it was thought that would be the end of the gravity-defying FPS. So traumatic was the entire ordeal that Cliff Blezinski, studio founder of Gears of War fame, swore off making video games for good. Now, years later, fans have managed to resurrect servers, even getting the much-coveted nod of approval from Cliffy B himself for keeping the dream alive.

As reported by Eurogamer, this revival is not an official release and is not associated with either the now-defunct Boss Key or then-publisher Nexon. Called The RELB Project, successful playtests were held over the weekend, helped in part by Blezinki's Twitter boost.

Further playtests have been scheduled, and RELB's stated aims for the project are modest: «This is just a project to make LB playable for (hopefully) forever, this is not intended to take over LB, no new updates (at most balancing but that's already unlikely) will be made.»

Cliffy B releases statement

Are you surprised to see LawBreakers resurface? Something must be in the planet and moon's alignment; Ratchet & Clank 2016 just got an update with a new weapon added. Could this project eventually result in a monied interest resurrecting the lost hero-shooter? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

I had no idea this game had any fans!

@Arnna I've never heard of that game before.

bring it back, we need it

I think it's cool that they've done it, anyone who old enough will remember back in the PC days of the 90 early 00s the GameSpy network. How it had custom servers for games that were dropped by publishers