Cliffy B's now-defunct studio BossKey never brought its hero shooter LawBreakers to Xbox, despite last year's update that sparked fresh interest in the title. Well, one year later, that interest still seems to be there - despite an Xbox release remaining unlikely.
A group of LawBreakers fans have resurrected the PS4 & PC shooter, thanks to an unofficial launcher built to circumvent the game's currently-offline state. Folks have been playing it on PC over the last few days, and here's a look at some footage:
As far as we're aware this launcher doesn't apply to the PS4 version of the game right now, and as we said, it's not an official revival from publisher Nexon - so it's best to be aware of that before looking into this new way to play. Still, it's pretty cool to see LawBreakers get another lease of life like this!
As we mentioned with reference to last year's update, an Xbox release still seems unlikely, but never say never! Back in April 2023, creator Cliff Bleszinski said he'd be in contact with his lawyer about the future of LawBreakers, but we haven't had a public update on that discussion since.
Did you play LawBreakers? Would you be up for an Xbox release? Tell us what you think down below.
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I mss fast paced arena shooter. All these shooters today made you build stuff and just wait for mins on end to shoot. COD has gotten such big maps that for 6 vs 6 i can not see an enemy sometimes for over a min. I really hope we see a revival of fast paced shooters like Quake and others.
Bring back Unreal Championship!!!
@awp69 Dear Lord yes! Now that is the type of shooters i am talking about.
we need this back . if you not into battle royales then it’s pretty stale out here
This game seems like one that could easily make a comeback with a fresh start. For Microsoft why not fund it's return and bring it to Xbox? I'm sure it would do great on Gamepass.
@nomither6 100% agree. I despise battle royal games. It had ruined my FPS genre to the point i don’t even have any to play anymore. Really want the fast paced arena shooters to come back at some point. But Fortnite isn’t about to not be the coolest thing around any time soon.
This is cool to see. Will the publisher step in though hmm.
But seeing some fans come and revive an online game (arena shooters or any others with online that don't get offline patches and are just cancelled/abandoned).
We haven't seen it with others but eventually I assume we will with some that do have an online connection be made offline or part of fan servers eventually just how long it takes and if people even care enough about some of these games/have the disks/archive the files.
For PC players make sense with an unofficial method. Console yeah good luck with that till the console or release is less relevant or archived enough. Whatever updates or the 1.0 on the disk for console and building upon them if possible besides the reworking.
This game released back in 2017, fell of a cliff(y) (pun intended) and died completely. I grew up with playing Quake 3 Arena so I really like arena-shooters but I did not touch Lawbreakers a second time after trying it out, got my refund from steam. There was so many balancing issues. And, don't forget, even though this game went free-to-play before being shut down, the player count did not rise that much. Honestly, this game should have been f2p from the beginning. People drool over this game today, but if it gets re-launched next year or sth, it could easily die a second time. Cliffy is an ignorant person living off 'Creator of Gears of War' all these years by not creating another IP.
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