Gears of War Creator ‘Out of Retirement’ This Next Week

<p>Gears of War designer Cliff &&num;8220&semi;Cliffy B&&num;8221&semi; Bleszinski&comma; having left Epic Games in late 2012 after twenty years with the company&comma; is &&num;8220&semi;coming out of retirement&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and will reveal his latest project sometime in the coming week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m officially coming out of retirement to make video games again&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Bleszinski said on Twitter&comma; June 30th&period; &&num;8220&semi;Stay tuned here for details in the next 7 days&excl;&&num;8221&semi; This tweet was accompanied by the hashtag &&num;8220&semi;&num;DontCallItAComeback&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;therealcliffyb&sol;status&sol;483650607211765761<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He drummed up further anticipation for his announcement by adding&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s going to be a blast to finally tell the story of what brought me back&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;therealcliffyb&sol;status&sol;483669589817950209<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Although Bleszinski&&num;8217&semi;s been &&num;8220&semi;retired&&num;8221&semi; from the realms of game development&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s not left the game industry itself&period; Having attended various industry events like PAX East and E3 in the past year&comma; he hasn&&num;8217&semi;t pulled his punches when it&&num;8217&semi;s come to critiquing his peers&comma;  calling Markus &&num;8220&semi;Notch&&num;8221&semi; Persson a &&num;8220&semi;pouty kid&&num;8221&semi; regarding the Minecraft creator&&num;8217&semi;s canceled virtual reality version of Minecraft following Facebook&&num;8217&semi;s purchase of the Oculus VR in March&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bleszinski himself was an early investor in Oculus VR&comma; saying in March that he stands to make a &&num;8220&semi;very sizable chunk of money&&num;8221&semi; from Facebook&&num;8217&semi;s acquisition of the company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;63155" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-63155" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05092655&sol;Cliff-New-Project-Teaser-Image&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-63155 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05092655&sol;Cliff-New-Project-Teaser-Image-300x174&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cliff-New-Project-Teaser-Image Bago Games" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"174" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-63155" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Teaser image of Cliff Blezinski&&num;8217&semi;s alleged IP tentative titled &&num;8220&semi;Silverstreak&comma;&&num;8221&semi; courtesy of &commat;therealcliffyb on Twitter&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As for what Bleszinski&&num;8217&semi;s new game might be&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s previously talked about starting a studio and working on new IP called Silverstreak&period; This project &lpar;potentially a fast-paced arena shooter&rpar; has reportedly been &&num;8220&semi;gestating slowly&&num;8221&semi; for some time&period; He also released some concept art last year&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s unknown if it&&num;8217&semi;s related to whatever he is going to announce in the next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s unclear what form this new game might take&comma; but Bleszinski said previously that he wants to redefine his legacy apart from Gears&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you want Bleszinski&&num;8217&semi;s next game will be&quest; Share your ideas with us int he comments below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2014&sol;06&sol;30&sol;details-on-cliff-bleszinskis-next-game-coming-this-week">IGN<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;