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Boss Key Productions is moving on from Lawbreakers
LawBreakers Community, It has been a while since we said anything about LawBreakers. With that, the past four months at Boss Key Productions has been especially trying, as we pride ourselves at being communicative and transparent. So here is the very real truth, which may not come as a surprise. 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 easiest change to make, a change of this magnitude takes publishing planning and resources to do it. The team here has worked hard on this game over the past three and a half years and our studio is determined to give this game the second life it deserves. However, between now an...
Manas’ Top 20 Favorite Video Games Of 2017 (And Then Some..)
Looking back, I am surprised at how many games I was able to play and complete this year, and also how many of them were actually great. Sure, it’s easy to pick holes in even the best of them, but 2017 was truly one of the best years in Video Game history. I tried to trim list list down to 10, but I just couldn’t bring myself to cut down on the games I had an absolute blast with. Even after removing games like Cryptark, Sniper Elite 4 and Endless Space 2 (which I am managing to subtly sneak in by mentioning them here), the list just wouldn’t go below 25. So I played around with the list, bunched games together and threw some in the honorable mentions. Screw it, these are great games, they need to be on this list. Play them, if you haven’t already! Yakuza Zero Come f...
The Top 10 Most Disappointing Games Of 2017
Every year there are games that we are all hyped up and eagerly waiting for, and every year some of the drop the ball. So here are the top 10 most disappointing games of 2017. These aren’t necessarily bad games, these are just game we expected better from. Mass Effect Andromeda This one is probably the most obvious pick. To be honest, I did enjoy Mass Effect: Andromeda’s combat and exploration a lot. However, I was really hyped for this game, especially because I absolutely loved the original trilogy. Andromeda, sadly, never reaches the same heights. Star Wars Battlefront 2 At it’s core, Star Wars Battlefront 2 is an enjoyable game. It’s just so disappointing to see how badly EA screwed this over with their insatiable greed. As a shooter, it’s probably one of...
Game Director Talks About LawBreakers Low Playerbase, Says He Needs To Be Less Of A Dick
Lawbreakers is a great game in an oversaturated market. As confident and cocky the game’s director of Gears of War & Unreal Tournament fame, Cliff Bleszinski, had been prior to release, the launch numbers and eventual drop-off has been a humbling experience for him. In a recent interview with Gamespot, he had the following to say. We need the bodies. We need to keep fluffing up the CCU,” Bleszinski said. “We need to do what we can to let people know this is a really sweaty palm type of experience that can hopefully lend itself to eSports. But you know, I have to keep this game alive, first and foremost. I can be very cocky and very brash on social media. And realising that, you know, we have a fledgling player base. It’s been very humbling for me. I’m goin...
Top 10 Best Video Games You Must Play – August 2017
August has been a month of a lot of great games but what games really stood out from the plethora of the ones released? Well, let’s find out: Tacoma Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster. LawBreakers In LawBreakers, mobility makes you stronger. As their debut title, Boss Key Productions crafted a fast, fun and fluid multiplayer FPS for gamers who are ready for evolved gravity-defying combat unlike anything else. Nidhogg 2 The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their t...
LawBreakers’ Player Numbers At Launch Lower Than Battleborn
The LawBreakers beta wasn’t the best we’ve ever seen, but the game showed promise. Now, after launch, the player numbers are lower than 60% of what they were during the beta (according to GitHyp), even though the game is getting positive reviews. In fact, on the launch night, the concurrent number of players according to Steam peaked at 3000. The game’s beta numbered at #73 on the Steam Top 100 charts, but the final release has failed to make the cut, with playerbase dropping down below 1k concurrent players. Compared to Battleborn, the class-based shooter that came out last year (and was a huge flop), these numbers put the game’s future in a very bleak situation. Though players shouldn’t have a problem finding a game right now, we can’t help but wonder ...
Top 10 Games Of The Month – August 2017
Now half of the year is over and we have seen a bunch of good games and some bad ones too. These are the games that we should lookout for in August. As many games are releasing in August and we all can’t checkout every game so these are the games that you should be waiting for and maybe spend some money on. Yakuza Kiwami In 2005, a legend was born on the PlayStation 2 – the legend of Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, in his video game debut with Yakuza. Now, 11 years after that release, a new generation of players will be able to experience the incomparable action and drama of the Yakuza series with the rebuilt-from-scratch HD remake exclusive to PlayStation 4, Yakuza Kiwami. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle This is the story of an unexpected encounter between Mario and the irreveren...
LawBreakers Beta Open to All Players
LawBreakers Beta Event Open to All Players for the Frist Time Ever Starting Today Gamers have yet another opportunity to bring their skills and experience the thrilling, gravity-defying combat in LawBreakers during the game’s very first open beta event. Key-holding beta participants headed into battle earlier this week, but starting today at 9 am PDT, for the very first time, the PC beta is open to all gamers via Steam. Visit LawBreakers.com to get started. The PC beta event ends July 5 at 9 am PDT. The beta includes: • New Map: Vertigo – located in a remote location in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Vertigo is a high-altitude reconnaissance outpost with near suborbital elevation; • New Mode: Uplink – capture the uplink in the centre of the map and deliver to your team base, continuing to pr...
Top 10 Games You Probably Missed From E3 2017
We’ve covered the highs, lows, disappointments, and no-shows of E3 2017. Here is the last list of games we might have looked over or missed but are still really cool and promising. Sonic Forces This has been announced for quite some time now. However, we finally got an in-depth look at it. There are 3 primary “modes” in the game. Modern Sonic, Classic Sonic, and Forces Sonic. That new mode is one that mixes the two other modes, and allows you to create a new character based on an animal, and play the game your way. The new game looks pretty cool, and launches on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC some time later this year. Call of Cthulu This is another one we’ve known about for quite some time. It was announced back in February of 2016. Finally, we have gotten a trailer to give us an ide...
E3 2017 Highlights: PC Gaming Show
The PC Gaming Show is here and so is “the guy from intel” who loves to talk about all the cores and multi-thread usage. There were some interesting games that were shown though so here’s the highlights of the conference. XCOM 2: War of the Chosen XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, a huge expansion that adds new enemies, environments, missions, classes and fellow resistance factions. It is due out on August 29. Ooblets Ooblets has been all about adorable Pokemon-esque creatures, and also dancing. Inspired by life sims like Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, Ooblets will let you customize your character and deck out your own house. Battletech Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman unveiled the first footage of its single-player campaign, and the massive Argo ship that will serve as your ...
Gravity Defying LawBreakers Coming To PS4
PlayStation 4 gamers will be able to beat gravity into submission and compete in gravity-defying competition in LawBreakers, the new multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) from renowned game designer Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions. LawBreakers will be enhanced for PS4 Pro and promises to challenge even the best players to bring their skills, get off the ground and deliver death from every angle as they experience thrilling fast-paced, omni-directional gunplay with innovative movement systems and combat abilities. From the mind of Bleszinski, LawBreakers is set in a brand new futuristic world where the laws of gravity have been turned upside down. A war between the Law and the Breakers rages across a variety of iconic locations such as the boiling oceans of the Santa Monica coast...
New Game Lawbreakers From The Creator Of Gears Of War
Cliff Bleszinksi has revealed the first details about his upcoming free-to-play arena shooter, previously known as Project Bluestreak. During a livestream today, the Gears of War creator revealed the upcoming game, which is due out some time in 2016, will be called LawBreaker. At the heart of the shooter are three pillars: guns, gangs and gravity. LawBreakers is set years after a cataclysmic event called The Shattering rocked the world. Humanity interfering with the world caused gravity to go haywire, with seas churning and the earth cracking. Rather than taken place in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that followed, however, LawBreakers will be set after everything has been rebuilt and humanity has moved on. The one key difference is that gravity is still completely messed up, meaning jet p...