Gears of War driving force and former Epic Games Design Director Cliff Beszinski has revealed he is actively considering starting up a new venture. Bleszinski left Epic in October after setting the wheels in motion for the storied developer’s new IP, Fortnite. However, the biggest consideration in setting up a new studio, beside whether to go indie or AAA is the challenge of building a competitive team.

“I want to be creative in some sort of fashion,” he stated in a VentureBeat interview. “I’m a pretty smart designer who has a good sense and a good track record, but unless I’m surrounding myself with my Avengers, I’m useless.”

“The thing is, I would want to get back to the triple-A space eventually, but the last thing I would want to do – and no offence meant to Curt Schilling [38 Studios] and John Romero [Ion Storm] – is to do what those guys did: ‘Let’s throw 300 bodies at it! Sure, we’ll just make it work!’

Source VentureBeat

cant wait till this guy makes a new AAA game. it would be really interesting to see what cliffy B can do after leaving epic.

Hope he doesn't try to rush it, take your time.

lol so much for his "taking time off"

Fuck this dildo.

I'm assuming you dont like him O.o

Still one of the best developers in the bisiness even if some people dont like him though.

I don't agree at all. He's a douchebucket. Gears was cool and all, but he has basically disavowed everything that people like about it. "Oh, that cool thing? Wasn't my idea. I thought it was too dudebro. And I didn't want the characters to be all steroidal and shit. Also, I wanted them to have feelings and maybe kiss a little bit."

Whatever esteem I had for him went out the window when he said that the scene were Dom finds Maria was his response to the Terri Schiavo situation (LOOOOOL!) and that Saints Row should ditch every single thing that is cool about Saints Row so that it can be "taken seriously" and got me banned from GAF.

Banned. (tweeting Cliffy right now)

I have never played a game of his and I have no drive to rectify this, so whatever. I dun care.