Cliff Bleszinski has been teasing his return to game development recently, and today finally revealed what he and his new studio will be working on. It won’t come as a surprise that the studio is Boss Key Productions – which was linked to Bleszinski before he revealed his involvement – and they’ll be developing a free-to-play arena shooter for PC codenamed BlueStreak.
Bleszinski spilled the beans on Twitter today, but he won’t be giving any specifics until tomorrow.
Friends, @BossKey will be working with Nexon to publish a Free2Play Sci-Fi PC arena shooter code named #BlueStreak. #BossKey #UnlockTheFun
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) July 8, 2014
Back in December, the Gears of War creator said that he had a pitch and art for a PC arena shooter. First-person shooters were in his DNA, he told Pointless podcast. Bleszinski wanted to make a “PC experience that will hearken back to a certain type of game that we cut our teeth on.”
He also explained that he didn’t want to make a heavily scripted game with lots of cutscenes, a sentiment he echoed earlier today when he promised that there wouldn’t be a “fake” CG trailer.
And no, there won't be a fake CG trailer showing "Gameplay" because that's not how @bosskey does it.
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) July 8, 2014
While his comments about the PC platform, specifically in regards to piracy and how it’s better to develop for consoles, lost him a lot of favour, Bleszinski has been touting his rekindled love for PC a lot lately. He’s gushed about Steam,and he admitted that he’s done with consoles.
We’ll hopefully find out more about BlueStreak in the coming days.