Skip to main content

BossKey Productions’ Project BlueStreak gets a reveal trailer and a new name: LawBreakers

Since Cliff Bleszinski formed BossKey Productions and announced its first project, codenamed Project BlueStreak, last year, there has only been a slow trickle of information about the game. Earlier this week the Gears of War creator teased that a reveal would be coming on Wednesday, and sure enough, more information about the game was revealed yesterday than in the entire year leading up to it.

The real name of the game is LawBreakers and as you might have guessed, the five-on-five shooter sees players taking the role of either the law or those breaking it. Government testing on the moon has caused it to split in half, resulting in a series of massive earthquakes ravaging the globe, an event known as “The Shattering.”

LawBreakers takes place years after that event, but most of the planet is still in ruins, and gravity is much lower than it used to be. This factors heavily into the gameplay, with mobility being key. Players are encouraged to stay airborne as much as possible.

While the teaser give us a look at the world, no gameplay has been shown outside of a short Twitch stream hosted by BossKey yesterday. Luckily, there isn’t long to wait: a gameplay trailer will be released tomorrow at 6 a.m. PDT.

In addition to the trailer another new video was released, and if this one looked familiar it’s because we’ve seen it before … mostly, anyway. The video is a shot-for-shot remake of the original teaser for Project BlueStreak shown at PAX East, with one difference: Floating rocks and debris are clearly visible in the background during the outdoor sections.

BossKey will be offering hands-on access to LawBreakers at PAX Prime, which kicks off this Friday and runs through Sunday. If you won’t be attending PAX, your best bet at seeing the game before its release is to hope you make your way into one of the upcoming alphas. More info is available on the game’s website.

LawBreakers will launch in 2016, and while there is a possibility that it may come to consoles later on, for now the PC is the only platform targeted for release.

Kris Wouk
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Kris Wouk is a tech writer, gadget reviewer, blogger, and whatever it's called when someone makes videos for the web. In his…
Volgarr the Viking 2 will take you back to your Ghosts ‘n Goblins days
A viking slashes a tree in Volgarr the Viking 2.

Developer Digital Eclipse is working on a surprising project: Volgarr the Viking 2. The 2D retro sequel will launch on August 6 for PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

The news is an out of left field reveal. The first Volgarr the Viking game released in 2013 and was made as an ode to 1080s classics like Ghosts 'n Goblins. Despite being a small release, it sold over 1 million copies over the past decade. As revealed during today's Guerrilla Collective stream, the series is coming back with a new sequel by Digital Eclipse, the team behind this year's Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.

Read more
3 Days of Play PS Plus games to try this weekend (June 7-9)
Key art for Streets of Rage 4.

June 2024 is shaping up to be a pretty great month for PlayStation players. Not only are we coming off an entertaining State of Play showcase, but a new Days of Play initiative surrounding all the video game showcases this month is bringing a lot of new PS Plus additions with it. Many of those games hit PS Plus this week, and three in particular stand out to us.

For owners of Sony's oft-neglected PlayStation VR2, the first game is one of its rare exclusives that take full advantage of the headset's eye-tracking by seeing how often players blink. The next is a new PS Plus Essential game that's a revival of Sega's classic beat-'em-up series for the modern gaming era. Finally, the last title is an atmospheric and eerie fishing game that should entice fans of Lovecraftian horror.
Before Your Eyes

Read more
3 first-party Xbox Game Pass games to try this weekend (June 7-9)
Gears 5 Kait Hero Close Up

Microsoft will hold an Xbox Games Showcase and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct. this Sunday. These shows will provide a much better idea of what to expect from Xbox over the course of the next year or two. That's really needed right now, as Microsoft has struggled to keep online discussions around Xbox positive as it went multiplatform with some games, laid off thousands of developers, and outright shut down the developers of Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall. Based on leaks and my personal expectations for the showcase, there are three games you can play on Xbox Game Pass this weekend to prepare for the event.

The first is the latest first-person shooter in a long-running series by id Software that might be getting a medieval-set spinoff. After that, we have the fifth entry in a sci-fi Xbox series that still looks fantastic on Xbox Series X/S even though it came out in 2019. Finally, you can prepare for Avowed with the latest RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, a satirical sci-fi game where player choice is critical.
Doom Eternal

Read more