LawBreakers director Cliff Bleszinski provides update on ill-fated game

In his words, "Like, the team worked their ASSES off on it. I relocated many people from other parts of the world for it and the internet was like HAR HAR IT DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH PLAYERS. Meanwhile, studio craters and I have to deal with a year of crippling depression out of guilt."

LawBreakers was a first-person shooter video game that Bleszinski developed under his new studio Boss Key Productions. While it received generally positive reviews, it performed poorly with audiences which led to its eventual demise since it became unsustainable to keep it running.

In a release announcing the game's shutdown, Boss Key Productions stated "The fact is, LawBreakers failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep it sustained in the manner we had originally planned for and anticipated.

"And while a pivot to free-to-play may seem like the easiest change to make, a change of this magnitude takes publishing, planning and resources to do it." Apparently by this point, said resources had already dwindled.

The title was released for the PlayStation 4 and PC platforms in 2017. Despite fans clamoring for an Xbox One release, Bleszinski made the decision not to do so – a decision he would later regret and which many believe is, at least partially, responsible for the game's demise given the Xbox has a larger fanbase for multiplayer first-person shooter titles than the PlayStation and PC.

Nevertheless, Bleszinski will be happy that the Gears of War franchise lives on. Earlier this year, news broke that The Coalition, the studio currently in charge of the franchise, is going all in on a sixth installment of the video game franchise.

A recent report revealed that Netflix has hired Doctor Strange's scriptwriter Jon Spaihts to pen a screenplay for its feature film adaptation after it successfully acquired the rights last November.