The designer of Gears of War is slowly turning back towards the gaming industry, even though a couple of years ago, he swore never to be involved in it.

„Cabin fever may finally be the straw that broke the camel’s back to cause me to start a Twitch channel. Zoom has made me feel comfortable on camera again after all this time,” Cliff Bleszinski wrote on Twitter. We never thought that a global pandemic will be the tilting point for CliffyB (who has moved from gaming to Broadway) to get involved with games once again!

The timing is interesting, though: recently, he announced that he started working on a new IP that will involve dogs. Now, since he is quite outspoken and opinionated (a prime example of it would be the pre-launch comments about Lawbreakers, a game no longer active on PlayStation 4 and PC, he said „thirty dollars, none of that sixty-dollar bulls__t”), he might run into fame the third time (he was first getting there via his work at Epic Games, then got the attention of another community via his Broadway work…), as he has several decades of experience in game development.

Bleszinski already took a break from gaming in 2012 after leaving Epic Games. However, he opened his independent studio, Boss Key Productions, in 2014. This team released Lawbreakers, but after it flopped, they tried a last effort battle royale project called Radical Heights that also left the gaming space. The studio was shut down in 2018. Since then, Bleszinski has been the co-producer of Hadestown, an acclaimed musical, and he has been writing his game industry memoirs. He also offered Microsoft to be a consultant on the Gears franchise, which has recently been handled by The Coalition, an Xbox Game Studios team.

It was expected: CliffyB has spent far too much time with games – he can’t get rid of this part of his life that easily.

Source: GameSpot

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