It looks like another IP could see a potential return at some point. Well-known video game developer Cliff Bleszinski has expressed major interest in bringing back the arena shooter Lawbreakers, in which he was the main director for during his time at the now-defunct Boss Key Productions. Bleszinski made this interest public knowledge by posting a Tweet mentioning that the rights to the game is in fact owned by South Korean publisher Nexon, and by tagging the CEO Owen Mahoney asking him to message him directly.

Well, turns out Nexon does own the rights to LawBreakers. @owenmahoney how about sliding into my DMs so we can talk about a resurrection?

— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) April 19, 2023

Just a few days prior, Bleszinski made an initial tease about the IP when he posted a tweet stating that he was in contact with his lawyer. He then went further on his own thread saying that despite the game’s shutdown, the development team “worked their ASSES off on it.” He also added that he was greatly confused by the idea that some people were apparently rooting for the game to fail. Once it did shutdown, he noted that the title had plenty of support regardless of how it ended up.

For those who are unaware, Lawbreakers was an arena shooter that launched in August 2017. The title received a positive reception, with many critics noting that Bleszinski and company pushed the online shooter genre greatly with new implementations such as low gravity gameplay and specialized features for each individual character. Unfortunately, the game came out a little more than a year after another tile had just asserted itself in the exact same market, Overwatch. As with other similar arena shooters at the time that were not Overwatch, Lawbreakers suffered greatly with poor sales and little to no players after it released.

Less than a year later, the now-defunct Boss Key Productions announced that the game would be going free-to-play in June 2018. Then in September of the same year, it was shut down completely. Just a few months prior, Boss Key Productions themselves closed its doors, with the IP being handed off to the aforementioned publisher Nexon. Now, more than five years later, Bleszinski looks to break the IP out once again, hopefully, this time with some renewed success.