Radical Heights Developer Boss Key Games Shuts Down

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Boss Key Productions, the studio behind the recent battle royale Radical Heights and last year’s Lawbreakers, is closing its doors.

The news comes from studio co-founder Cliff Bleszinski, previously of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament fame, who said that Lawbreakers had “failed to gain traction” and described Radical Heights, which launched last month to some popularity, as “too little too late.”

A statement: pic.twitter.com/LwJD54bCwL
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) May 14, 2018

Boss Key, founded in April 2014 by former Epic Games employees Cliff Bleszinski and Arjan Brussee, released the shooter Lawbreakers last year but failed to find an audience thanks in large part to an oversaturated marketplace (and the massive success of Blizzard’s Overwatch). Brussee left the company in December 2017 to return to Epic, where he worked on the mobile version of what had suddenly become the most popular game in the world: Fortnite.

Ironically, Fortnite was first announced by Bleszinski at the Spike Video Game Awards in 2011. And it was Fortnite that Bleszinski’s new studio tried to follow, with Boss Key releasing the neon battle royale game Radical Heights in April of this year. Radical Heights felt early and unfinished, but it drew some interest, with the mega-popular streamer Ninja even playing it for thousands upon thousands of viewers on Twitch. It wasn’t enough to save the studio, but Bleszinski says servers will stay online for “the near future.”

Posted: May 14, 2018 3:19 pm
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Source: https://kotaku.com/radical-heights-developer-boss-key-games-shuts-down-1826015127

Comments

TOXICPosted: Thu. May 17, 2018

What an epic fail lol, trying to copy Fortnite just aint gonna happen isit lol.

MushroomElmPosted: Tue. May 15, 2018

That's what happens when you're trying to copy a game that has already become the #1 of that genre. No one will beat Fortnite at this point by trying to do what they've already done.

They need to come out with something original. Lol. People see 'New Battle Royal' and think "Ugh."

kittyderpyPosted: Tue. May 15, 2018

Eh, hard to deny it was their fault though.

SagePosted: Mon. May 14, 2018

Played the game about 20-30h worth of games cause i thought it was fun and even bought the founder pass and im really sad that they shut down like this. The game had tons of potential.

MazePosted: Mon. May 14, 2018

Although I called this and knew it would happen, it's still sad to read. I never played a game but these guys tried their best and failed twice, that hurts and I feel bad them at least a little bit.