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

pcgamer.com:

Turns out Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski's mysterious tease(opens in new tab) 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»(opens in new tab) (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's now looking like that was based on a misunderstanding of who holds the game's rights in 2023—a more recent tweet says «Well, turns out Nexon does own the rights to LawBreakers.»(opens in new tab) before appealing to Nexon's CEO to DM him about a resurrection.

Nexon retaining the rights makes sense—they published the game when it originally launched in 2017. What's less clear is what incentive they'd have to bring back LawBreakers. Though it reviewed well (we gave it a very respectable 84%(opens in new tab)), it was a desperate flop commercially and ultimately killed Bleszinski's studio Boss Key Productions, making it a pretty unsafe bet. And he's not even offering to head up this hypothetical revival—he wants a 3rd party to work on it and hire him as a consultant(opens in new tab). Which seems to me to be less of a business proposal and more like me wondering aloud whether Ubisoft might like to pay me for my 'Assassin's Creed during the Dutch tulip mania' outline. 

Bleszinski seems to be well and truly done with helming new projects himself, at least for now—he went on to say he's «kinda over the whole making games thing for a while»(opens in new tab), describing being CEO of a studio or lead designer on a project as «exhausting»(opens in new tab). Honestly, fair enough. He certainly seems to be keen on