CliffyB wants to bring back the game we all remember, LawBreakers

Cliff Bleszinski, director of the hero shooter offender Shut down in 2018, seems to want to bring the game back.

I won’t judge you if you don’t remember LawBreakers because not many people play it. But now, five years after the game shut down, Bleszinksi, better known as CliffyB, is trying to bring it back. Publisher Nexon — which has been in the news recently for lawsuit-related reasons — owns the rights to LawBreakers, originally published the game, and at no point did it sell the IP. As a result, Bleszinski pointedly tweeted to Nexon’s CEO about the revival.

“Well, it turns out Nexon does own the rights to Lawbreakers,” Bleszinski wrote before tagging Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney and saying, “How about slipping into my DMs so we can talk about the resurrection?” Mahoney said at There has been no response to Mahoney’s tweet at the time of writing, but unless the guy who runs Twitter decides to make everyone’s DMs public, we don’t know if they have any connection.

It seems that Bleszinski doesn’t really want to run the game himself, he just wants to try to bring the IP back. In response to a Twitter user asking about the game designer’s intentions, Bleszinski wrote“I am no longer the CEO and chief designer. Shiz is tired. But if a 3rd party wants to revive it with Nexon, I will go to consult.”

LawBreakers comes at a really bad time. For starters, it came out just a year after Overwatch, another hero shooter that was obviously hugely popular. And PUBG: Battlegrounds, released a few months after LawBreakers, popularized the battle royale genre. That’s important because Bleszenski’s studio, Boss Key Productions, is trying to make its own battle royale game, Radical Heights, apparently eager to try its hand at the emerging genre. Combine that with LawBreaker’s failure, and Radical Heights’ poor performance, and Boss Key Productions was shut down.

According to Bleszinski himself, LawBreaker failed because it was too “sane,” but perhaps it’s best to accept that the world didn’t need (and probably still doesn’t need) another generic shooter.