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Confusing messaging leads to promising studio closing its doors
Read More »Boss Key’s closure is a sad but unfortunate lesson in marketing for triple-I studios
Boss Key Productions focusing on new projects after slow start for LawBreakers
The studio will continue to support LawBreakers, but is already working on a fresh title
Read More »Nexon writes off Lawbreakers, blames PUBG for game’s lack of impact
Nexon have written off the entire value of hero shooter Lawbreakers, claiming that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds made the market environment tough for first-person shooters. Lawbreakers was one of the highest profile failures in video games recent memory, a critically well-received game that struggled to find an audience on console or PC. …
Read More »Boss Key COO: Lawbreakers esports success is “the ultimate dream to achieve”
Lawbreakers has, in gamer parlance, completely bombed. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Arjan Brusse, COO & co-founder of Boss Key, says that part of the company’s aims for reviving the troubled shooter revolve around esports and a service model. Brusse says that esports success is “the ultimate dream to achieve” for the …
Read More »Don’t write off LawBreakers as Broverwatch, it’s more than that
“So, is it just like Overwatch, then?” Playing LawBreakers on launch day, and the several beta tests before that, I’ve been bombarded with this question, in Steam messages, Discord and even the office. Thing is, besides being an FPS that features selectable heroes, LawBreakers isn’t anything like the Broverwatch many …
Read More »Lawbreakers devs tease new character announcement at The Game Awards
Cliff Bleszinski and his Boss Key team have been teasing a Lawbreakers announcement that is coming at The Game Awards. Over the past week the Lawbreakers Twitter account has been teasing an announcement coming at The Game Awards tomorrow, but it also tweeted a pair of images showing what looks …
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