LawBreakers development studio closes its doors

Boss Key Productions, the studio that released the game LawBreakers, among other things, is closing its doors. Founder Cliff Bleszinski reports that his studio is ceasing to exist, partly because LawBreakers did not become the success it had hoped for.

On Twitter says Bleszinski that his studio was embarking on a last-ditch effort to develop the recently announced battle royale game Radical Heights. Even though this game has been well received according to him, Bleszinski reports that it was actually too late to save the studio. The servers for this new game will remain online for the foreseeable future. It is not clear whether this will also be the case in the longer term and what this means for the development of the game.

In early April, it was announced that Boss Key Productions had stopped developing the online shooter LawBreakers, which was released in August 2017. Instead, the studio focused on a new game, which turned out to be the free-to-play Radical Heights a few days later. The money that LawBreakers raised was used for the development of Radical Heights; that may now also come to an end, partly because the development of this game is still in an early stage. The game has been available as a Steam Early Access title since early April.

The Boss Key Productions studio was founded in 2014 by Cliff Bleszinski, after he left Epic Games, the company for which he developed Gears of War, in 2012. Bleszinski started Boss Key together with Arjan Brussee, who left Guerrilla Games in 2012. Brussee then joined Electronic Arts. He had previously left Boss Key Productions to rejoin one of his former employers, Epic Games.