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Report: Cliff Bleszinski's new startup called 'Boss Key'

The name of Cliff Bleszinski's new startup appears to have been revealed: Boss Key Productions.
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Cliff Bleszinski's next game hasn't been revealed yet, but we may know the name of the new studio making it. Over the weekend, a site was uncovered for "Boss Key Productions," with ties to Bleszinski.

The official site at BossKey.com links to Cliff Bleszinski's Twitter profile. Meanwhile, documents obtained by Polygon name Bleszinski as CEO and former EA and Guerrilla exec Arjan Brussee as COO. Though he hasn't technically confirmed the new start-up, he has made some cheeky allusions to it. He retweeted one of Boss Key's tweets, and issued a statement hinting at a "new lean, agile, fun startup in Raleigh, N.C."

A new game reveal from Bleszinski is still set to be unveiled soon, as the countdown clock is ticking towards noon ET tomorrow.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    July 7, 2014 9:34 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Report: Cliff Bleszinski's new startup called 'Boss Key'.

    The name of Cliff Bleszinski's new startup appears to have been revealed: Boss Key Productions.

    • bigimp legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      July 7, 2014 9:54 AM

      I look forward to what's coming next from CliffyB... I hope it's not just a generic shooter.

      • bigimp legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        July 7, 2014 9:55 AM

        The company name implies it might be (find key, kill boss), but I'm hoping that's meant to be ironic, or meant to sound like Bleszinski, and not a description of their direction in games, heh.

        • phobium legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          July 7, 2014 9:56 AM

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

        • the archvile legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          July 7, 2014 3:31 PM

          As much as gamers used to rip on the "key, door, exit" model of FPS game flow, I'm having a lot more fun replaying those than I am with the "roller-coaster railshooter" approach of every FPS game that has aped Call of Duty.

          I don't think it'll be a shooter, though. "Lean, agile startup" seems to suggest something lightweight, easily playtestable. Probably some 2D platformer or Unity engine game.

        • Lucy Labia legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          July 7, 2014 5:17 PM

          I think it's going to be basically UT in but free to play.

          • Johnny Law legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            July 7, 2014 8:45 PM

            But that'd be an odd choice since Epic is also doing that.

        • VictoriouSecret legacy 10 years
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          July 7, 2014 8:49 PM

          I don't think that company names imply anything about what games they develop.

          • threeup legacy 10 years
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            July 7, 2014 8:56 PM

            Riot, Wargaming, Epic, Visceral,

            • MamiyaOtaru legacy 10 years
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              July 7, 2014 9:23 PM

              fine, they don't necessarily imply anything about their games

        • massdev legacy 10 years
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          July 7, 2014 9:10 PM

          Imagine if it has to do with him being the boss tying that lofty laborious liberty to future production which is key

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