Cliff Bleszinski met with Zynga and traditional publishers — here's why he's partnering with Nexon

Cliff Bleszinski says he felt like the “belle of the ball.”

When legendary Gears of War designer Bleszinski decided to come out of retirement, he says that he met with everyone he could. He was starting his own studio, Boss Key Productions, but he wanted to keep things small on his end. In a question-and-answer session on the community-run website Reddit, Bleszinski said he won’t tolerate “politics” at his new company. That meant his studio, Boss Key Productions, won’t hire “people to watch people to watch people,” as he puts it. That’s why he wanted publishing support from a bigger company, so he talked with Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Microsoft. In the end, he revealed that his free-to-play sci-fi shooter Blue Streak will end with the worldwide free-to-play experts at Nexon.