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Morgan Park

7 years on, CliffyB is 'still bitter' about people gravedancing when his studio Boss Key failed: 'It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while'

Cliff Bleszinski.

Storied game designer Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary.

"11 years ago I started Boss Key. Sigh. It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while," he wrote in an X post on July 21. "Still bitter about the internet finding it hilarious that my studio folded."

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