Cliff Brzezinski is best known as the creator of the "Gears of War" series, but his long and fruitful career at Epic led him to work on games such as "Jazz Jackrabbit," "Unreal," and "Bulletstorm. "Boss Key Productions' studio, "LawBreakers," which, despite being a pretty good game, was not very successful.

In another world, perhaps one where LawBreakers was a hit and Boss Key was a viable and vibrant FPS studio, he would have also worked on a shooter about an alien world, Bleszinski said today on Twitter, He revealed that before Boss Key was shut down, he was in negotiations with Fox for a new Alien game, but that deal fell through when Disney bought Fox. (That deal was not actually completed until 2019, but negotiations date back to 2017.)

According to Brzezinski, the player will take on the role of Newt, the girl from "Aliens" who "mainly comes in at night" and is now all grown up. Ripley will appear as "Cortana/Anya," and the obligatory android role will be taken by a new android named Casey, who is Newt's doll (specifically, Newt's doll head) from the film.

The project may have been conceived as one of Fox's post-Alien: Isolation games, which was announced in January 2019. The story obviously did not have much going on, but Brzezinski said he was "drawing heavily on the Dark Horse comics" for the game.

Bleszinski had vowed not to make video games forever after Boss Key closed, but recently noted that he may have overestimated how long "forever" actually is In addition to reminiscing on Twitter, he is currently working on a memoir. working on a memoir.