Boss Key Productions, the studio behind LawBreakers and the lately launched battle royale Radical Heights, have shut down. Studio co-founder Cliff Bleszinski introduced right this moment that the corporate is “effectively no more.”
Bleszinski’s assertion on Twitter says “Four years in the past I got down to make a world class online game studio and I employed a number of the finest expertise within the videogame business. They labored tirelessly to supply high quality merchandise and, whereas we had our ups and downs, I’d prefer to assume we had enjoyable doing it
“LawBreakers was an amazing sport that sadly failed to achieve traction, and, in a final ditch try we scrambled to do our tackle the large battle royale style with Radical Heights which was nicely acquired, nevertheless, it was too little too late.”
After working at Epic on video games from from Jazz Jackrabbit to Gears of War, Bleszinski got here out of semi-retirement to discovered Boss Key with fellow Epic alumnus Arjan Brussee. Brussee returned to Epic final 12 months. Bleszinski says that he’s “going to take some time off and reflect.” He provides that “videogames will forever be part of who I am and I hope to make something new again someday, however, I need to withdraw and take this time.”
Of the studio’s two video games, LawBreakers launched to typically constructive critiques final 12 months, however regardless of continued updates didn’t preserve a excessive sufficient player count to stay sustainable. Radical Heights appeared a bit cynical when it launched simply over a month in the past, however regardless of aping the type of larger video games and launching in self-described “X-TREME Early Access” it was nonetheless a strong tackle the battle royale method, and managed to draw more players than LawBreakers at launch – although it being free-to-play definitely didn’t harm.
“To those of you who have support myself and the studio these last for [sic] years,” Bleszinski says, “THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart and everyone who came to work for me.” Servers for Radical Heights will stay up within the close to future.
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