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Cliff Bleszinski says it's not a matter of if he'll start a new studio, but rather "of when and with who." The former Epic Games design director spoke with G4's X-Play about the impact he wants to have in his post-Gears career.

"I don't just want the whole chainsaw gun to be my legacy," Bleszinski said. While he's flattered that the infamous Lancer commonly appears on best-guns-of-gaming lists (it sure made ours), he said he hopes something fresh and new will keep gamers from seeing him as a one-trick pony.

Blezsinski left Epic in October after 20 years with the company, and he remains one of the industry's most well-known game developers. He said that clout will help him in assembling a new studio, but you have to take care when "you have a certain amount of cult of personality. You can use it and leverage it to some extent, but you have to be careful not to believe your own crap."

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