Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski starts new game studio: Boss Key Productions

Renown game designer Cliff Bleszinski has created a new studio called Boss Key Productions, according to a news report from game site Polygon.

Bleszinski filed for the new business in April with the North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, said the report. The document lists him as the registered agent of a company in Raleigh, N.C. The papers list Bleszinski as CEO and former EA producer and Guerrilla Games cofounder Arjan Brussee as chief operating officer.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.