Our latest coverage of LawBreakers. 4g6w5w
Developers aren’t usually fans of emulators and have, more often than not, waged legal battles to shut them down. Boss Key Productions’ Cliff Bleszinski, however, has given his stamp of approval to a group of LawBreakers fans working on an emulator revival of the now-defunct studio’s team-based first-person shooter. Bleszinski had planned to relaunch LawBreakers himself but was legally unable [...]
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Now-defunct Boss Key Productions co-founder and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski is apparently looking to revive LawBreakers five years after it was shut down. The game failed to capture the attention of the gaming community and was sunsetted back in 2018 after just over a year in operation. The last time the flopped first-person shooter caught the community’s eye [...]
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Back in 2017, Boss Key Productions, a studio co-founded by Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski, released a buy-to-play low-gravity first-person shooter called LawBreakers. Unfortunately, the game was smothered by Fortnite and PUBG’s popularity and was shut down the next year due to poor sales along with the studio itself. Bleszinski, a.k.a. “Dude Huge”, recently published his thoughts on Instagram [...]
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Cliff Bleszinski announced on twitter today that Boss Key Studios is officially shut down. The company's 2 products Lawbreakers and Radical Heights will be shutting down in the near future. Check out the full statement below: Link to original tweet Anyone following Lawbreakers or Radical Heights should have seen this coming. Lawbreakers wasn't able to gain traction and quickly lost [...]
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The studio behind Lawbreakers, Bosskey, made a studio announcement earlier this week basically itting that Lawbreakers has been a failure and that they're pivoting to a new project. They also made it clear that the game won't go free to play. The fact is LawBreakers failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep it [...]
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In Nexon's Q4 2017 Q&A call with analysts and investors, an analyst from Goldman Sachs asks Nexon CEO the following question: "...Lawbreakers, now you're going into that console business but the title is going to be terminated, but you're in the console business. So, any takeaways from that? Any perspective on the console business in the incoming years?" -Time Stamp [...]
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In Nexon's Q3, 2017 earnings report the company wrote off the entire value of Lawbreakers, which means they now value the game at $0 on their balance sheet. While Nexon didn't break down how much money they lost on the title, the Lawbreakers write-off made up a "majority of the total other expenses" in the quarter which was ~$32.6M. 【Q】 [...]
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Welcome to the mmos.horseracingexpert.net Game of the Year Awards 2017 Edition. This year, we have introduced some new categories and trimmed old ones. We have also continued our Golden Coffee Cup trophy logo. Why not a chalice, you ask? Because chalices are overrated and coffee cups are more practical. Without further ado, I give you our games of the year. [...]
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LawBreakers is holding another free weekend with hopes of increasing their declining playerbase and it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. MMO Fallout recently captured a screenshot ing a current player count of “zero”. Now we’re not jumping to conclusions here, the servers might have been down during that time, but the game’s 24-hour peak of 43 players [...]
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LawBreakers continues its downward spiral a month after Boss Key Productions revealed their plans to reformulate the game’s marketing strategy. Over the last 30 days, the game has averaged around 130 concurrent players, that’s a 29% decline from last month’s average player count. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Boss Key Co-Founder Cliff Bleszinski reiterates that the game’s growth is “a [...]
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