You may recall that, last week, Rebellion announced plans to release several of its titles on GOG.com. Here's the thing you might have missed: Rebellion didn't actually make the games that it was releasing on the service. As it turns out, Rebellion purchased the rights to several of Vivendi's properties in the wake of its merger with Activision last year. Big Download reports that Rebellion has "complete ownership of the IP" to Evil Genius, Ground Control, Empire Earth, Lords of the Realm, and Lords of Magic.
In addition to allowing the release of previous titles in each series, Rebellion also has the right to create new entries if it so wishes, with CEO Jason Kingsley telling Big Download, "we're putting our plans together for new titles in each series." Any sequels are on hold for the moment, though, as Kingsley notes that Rebellion is "super busy" with both Aliens vs Predator and Rogue Warrior.
Rebellion is offering the Vivendi properties via GOG.com and Steam as part of its first steps into digital distribution, which Kingsley calls an "exciting area" for the company; one that "makes developing a smaller high quality game more possible for a developer working on their own."
Reader Comments (8)
Posted: Jul 14th 2009 2:57PM darkinchworm said
That's positively interesting. All the properties listed are at least decent.
Posted: Jul 14th 2009 3:31PM LaughingTarget said
Not quite, Lords of the Realm as thoroughly destroyed as a series with that joke of a game they called Lords of the Realm 3.
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Posted: Jul 14th 2009 3:05PM Courtney said
I loved Lord of the Realms 2, many a great night spent playing that with my roomies. May have to pick it back up for some nostalgia.
Posted: Jul 14th 2009 3:12PM TheDarkWayne said
Wait what? Rogue Warrior? Didnt they make that like 4 years ago?
Posted: Jul 14th 2009 3:16PM (Unverified) said
This world needs, NEEDS, an Evil Genius sequel. I love that game so hard.
Posted: Jul 14th 2009 4:23PM Bastard11 said
I want a new Sniper Elite :(
Posted: Jul 14th 2009 7:37PM BFBeast666 said
I really could do with a not-gimped, bugfree version of Lords Of The Realm. That game was awesome. Lords Of Magic... not so much.
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