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Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski says he’s ‘coming out of retirement to make video games’

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski can’t get enough.

The designer of the Gears of War and Unreal video games said in a tweet that he is officially coming out of retirement to make video games. He told fans to stay tuned on his Twitter account over the next seven days. GamesBeat asked him for more details, but he told us to wait like everyone else.

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Dean Takahashi

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.