Cliff Bleszinski is the creator of Project Bluestreak.
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Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski teases announcement for his next game

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Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski teased his new online game. Game publisher Nexon is expected to reveal the game on Wednesday at 9 am Pacific time.

The first-person online shooter game has been known so far under the code name Project Bluestreak. On the web site, Nexon said: Welcome to The Shattering….Create an account to stay in the know & share the countdown timer to receive an exclusive forum badge! Come back tomorrow for the first reveal….

Polygon reported that the game would be called The Shattering, but Bleszinski tweeted that was incorrect. Bleszinski was a 20-year veteran game designer at Epic Games, and he is best known for his as lead designer of Gears of War, as well as his work on Unreal and the Unreal Tournament. He left the company in 2012. He started his own studio, Boss Key Productions, in 2014, and he set up a publishing deal with Tokyo-based Nexon.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.