How the hell did they do this legally?! #highonlifegame
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Cliff Bleszinski
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Made lotsa games, co-owner of two restaurants, investor, Broadway producer, AUTHOR! Control Freak is out now! So is my comic SCRAPPER!
Making this up as I go.
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I've seen them all and I'm a multi-millionaire and own a life sized R2D2 and BB8, you fucking bellend.
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Never seen Star Wars.
None of them.
Never will.
“Omg you’re missing out”
Maybe.
You’re missing out on being a multi-millionaire.
Keep your movie.
Oh and keep Chris Pratt away from the Gears franchise, please, FFS.
Here's the rough direction I wanted to take the Locust in after Gears 3.
Brother, as the designer of 1 2 and 3 you're my first choice.
Oh and yes, Bautista as Marcus please - and a Latino actor for Dom, dammit.
Oh shit
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Gears of War was released 16 years ago today and to mark the occasion, Netflix has partnered with The Coalition to adapt the @GearsofWar video game saga into a live action feature film, followed by an adult animated series — with the potential for more stories to follow!
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I respect the hell out of content creators - it's hard work - but looking at the numbers from the Twitch leak NGL it upsets me that so many are making WAY more money than most of the GAME DEVELOPERS THAT MADE THE GAMES THEY STREAM.
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I didn't realize copyright law would allow the entire logo and name as long as one word is changed or added. Damn.
You know, in hindsight, making 3 videogames in which a guy blows his own head off, another guy has to put his vegetable wife down, and said guy offs himself to save his friends, and our hero watches his father turn to dust in front of him was pretty ballsy.
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Yeah man, you can unfollow me now, thanks. SMH.
Well, #highonlife went from not having a ton of hype, to getting a great reception, and, just like that, the army of people trying to look cool/edgy saying they don't like it showed up right on time.
Feels like that evergreen cycle of popularity is becoming ever more compressed.
Update:
My friend who has his own studio and is interested in a revival of LawBreakers has my LA lawyer on retainer to negotiate with Nexon for it.
Stay tuned.
"Platinum Games Reportedly Working With Xbox To Revive Scalebound"
Because dragons will always be awesome.
dualshockers.com/platinum-games
Sigh. My dragon pitch will always have a special place in my heart. I hope a dragon game comes out, crushes it, and proves all the pubs wrong.
Just got a text from my lawyer about...
LawBreakers.
Stay tuned.
PROMISING.
(also, I'm still available to consult, just sayin...)
OK fuck it, tomorrow I'm gonna tweet a preview of some stuffs I'm working on.
Hope y'all dig it.
10 years ago I was in Times Square for the Gears 3 launch and ordered a bunch of pizzas for the fans waiting in line for the event.
It was a good ol' time.
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I love how fast you shut down rumors on here. Fantastic.
Joel Osteen is trending and this is your reminder:
1. He's a trash grifter.
2. Tax churches.
Real talk, so Blizzard is renaming McCree bc he was apparently named after one of their employees that's allegedly involved in the mess going on, right?
I always thought he had that name because
You are absolutely welcome and I truly appreciate the support.
(See, people CAN be kind on this platform.)
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I’ll always miss the original gears days. Literally some of my favorite times in life playing that game.
I know I’ve said this before.. but every so often I gotta say it again.
Thanks @therealcliffyb
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IF they do Gears 6 Marcus HAS TO DIE that's right I said it.
Can Thanos just snap his fingers and make the anti-vaxxers vanish already?
I watched the trailer for Quake remastered and, man, I still want Unreal 1 remastered.
That was my last request when I did my exit speech at Epic. There was a lot of magic in that game, darnit!
If the Gears tv/film adaptation can do half as well as The Last of Us I'll die a happy man.
Uh, 1, obviously. Anyone who does #2 is a bad person and should feel bad.
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Anyone want an underwater Boomer?
Thoroughly enjoying #highonlifegame. It's exactly what I've been waiting for.
I'm tired of zombies, armies, elves, orcs, all of it.
Comedy is hard. Comedy in interactive? 10x harder. Few studios can do this stuff.
And, above all, it's fuckin' fun.
More later.
I just heard the term "Sony Ponys" for Sony fanbois and it is fantastic.
Para toda la familia de Gears Latina… Nos vemos el sábado, Delta Fuera
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LAS LEYENDAS, NUNCA MUEREN...
El creador de la trilogía original de Epic Games visita a la comunidad Mexicana, Latinoamericana e Hispanohablante de Gears of War por primera vez.
29 - 04 - 2023 | 20:00 PM (CDMX) EN VIVO x Twitch: Cliff Bleszinski x ElGamerWICHO... 
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So, I beat #HighOnLife. Got the "secret" ending also.
What a blast, start to finish. I had no idea what was going to happen next nor did I know what these batshit characters were going to say next.
Surprisingly solid shooting, exploration, and puzzle bits too.
Loved it!
I'm not trying to nitpick but this stuff annoys me so much.
I trust that the Coalition is working their butts off on Gears but SERIOUSLY this camera placement is driving me INSANE.
ONCE AGAIN I'm available for consulting. FFS.
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I'll just leave this right here haha
Gamers (God bless y'all) COME BACK AND MAKE GEARS GREAT AGAIN
Microsoft: ::crickets::
Me: F it, ima make a comic series and produce on Broadway then.
July 4th can fuck right the fuck off.
I am SO TIRED of my dog losing her shit over the locals firing off fireworks.
Literally tonight. It's literally July 1st.
Poor baby is shaking nonstop.
What ever happened to video game stores being all rad like this?!
I wish more single player games would do the "what if" one-offs that comics have been doing for years.
Like, a DLC mission that says "what if Dom lived?" etc...
I have zero interest in Harry Potter. Never have, never will.
However, Hogwart's Legacy is seriously tempting me to change my mind based on what I've seen.
Whenever my wife streams she asks for my "approval" of her outfit and half the time I'm like "not whorish enough" because WE WANT THAT SWEET SWEET SIMP MONEY.
DEAD SPACE IS BACK THIS IS A REMASTER I CAN GET FULLY BEHIND
People are actually taking fucking horse dewormer for COVID.
I just...can't...even...
SO I literally had to pay $480 for a 2 minute phone call with my Beverly Hills lawyer to confirm that the guy trying to get LawBreakers revived is legit.
Again, stay tuned.
Yes please, I would like the Nintendo cinematic universe please.
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And here's an underwater Ticker.
I'm going to go shower now.
Here's the big news!
I honestly haven't been this excited since Gears 1.
This IP is surgically built to be adapted to an animated series/video game/toy line, and, most importantly, it comes from the heart - from the loss of Teddy to finding puppy love with Lady. Stay tuned!
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Acclaimed game designer Cliff Bleszinski teams with bestselling writer Alex de Campi & artist Sandy Jarrell for upcoming comic book series, SCRAPPER @therealcliffyb @alexdecampi @sandy_jarrell ow.ly/FOns50NM5ro
Splinter Cell ain't coming back y'all.
And that makes me sad.
Jennifer Lawrence, being younger, reinforces my 10-15 year rule, yet again.
(Uh, Aliens, T2, Underworld, Kill Bill, etc...)
Can we just leave trans people alone for fuck's sake? What is with the obsession with them?!
OK, fine, Vampire Survivors is a blast.
I LOVE it when*seemingly* simple games become successes like this.
So oddly addictive, this one. Play it.
It will never not blow my mind that I made games that people got tattooed on their bodies.
Every guy I've ever known who claims he's an "Alpha Male" is the type to get drunk at a bar, pick a fight, and wind up crying on the curb while getting arrested while complaining how his father never loved him.
9 years ago I married . Every night feels like a sleepover with my best friend and I appreciate every moment I have with her.
Marriage is work, but if you find the right person it doesn't feel like work.
(first time I sent her flowers when she worked at ID software)
Y'all, sorry I get political on this platform sometimes.
I have my beliefs and I fucking stand by them.
Actually, this is the "sorry not sorry" part of it all.
STFU Microsoft might be reviving Scalebound after they turned down DragonFlies?!
Man. People wonder why I have zero desire to make another game any time soon.
And yes, I've had a two vodka sodas, but I'm in zero fucks mode these days.
Well, turns out Nexon does own the rights to LawBreakers. how about sliding into my DMs so we can talk about a resurrection?
And people wonder why I'm an atheist.
Tax the churches already ffs.
I STILL to this date catch myself going to YouTube and reading comments about the key scenes from Gears and reading what an impact we made on people.
We literally made people cry.
With a friggin' videogame.
The ultimate validation I suppose.
After our panel at the signing a woman cried on me and told me that during Covid lockdown that Gears literally saved her life. She made me cry as a result and we hugged.
This is why we create.
(This tweet won't seem to post so if there's dupes my bad)
Got recognized by a gaggle of nice 20 somethings last night who did the whole "we grew up with Gears!" bit so I bought them all shots.
It's the least I could do. ❤️
I could also see Karl Urban as Marcus, folks.
Fuckin' diabolical.
With all of the latest news about #HaloInfinite anyone else out there old enough to remember I LOVE BEES?!
I'm kinda emo these days.
My studio failing crushed me as did the loss of Teddy.
And then finding puppy love with Lady and finishing my book and then producing more Broadway and with Scrapper hitting today...
I really feel like a Phoenix heading into San Diego Comic Con.
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It confuses the hell out of me how people were rooting for the game to fail and when it did now there's a ton of support for it.
Gamers are weird, yo.
I bombed harder at karaoke last night than LawBreakers did.
I fear that my legacy won't be about the games I've made, the comics I've got coming up, the Broadway shows, my restaurants, my memoir, etc...
It'll be about the fact that I tweeted too much about eating ass.
Marketing team at HBO:
OK so we do HBO GO.
NO WAIT IT'S HBO MAX.
NO NOW IT'S JUST MAX.
Wait like Cinemax?
Worst branding team EVER.
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Like, the team worked their ASSES off on it. I relocated many people from other parts of the world for it and the internet was like HAR HAR IT DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH PLAYERS.
Meanwhile, studio craters and I have to deal with a year of crippling depression out of guilt.
I'm convinced posing like this for press pictures during my career is a major factor in why a good section of the internet loathes me.
Co-signed.
We could all use less devices in our lives that require a charge.
Call me a Boomer, I don't give a fuck.
OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content?
Uh, isn't that the entire point of Only Fans?
EVERY time, without fail, AAA bloats to insane levels - game dev budgets, marketing, etc... and, inevitably, some random little inde game comes along and shows that, as the Bard said, "The play's the thing..."
I have never, and will ever, give a fuck about the royal family.