lords-of-the-realm posts

As we have reported earlier this month, UK-based developer Rebellion has purchased the rights to several former Vivendi Games properties and has slowly been releasing the original games for people to buy via digital download. Today the GoG.com web site has added yet another property of Rebellion's, Lords of the Realm.

This particular release is the Royal Editon which contains the first two games in the historical RTS series along with the expansion pack for Lords of the Realm II. The GoG.com edition comes with free downloadable manuals for the games, a reference and a free map of the game's setting. You can download and purchase the DRM-free game now for $5.99.

The merger of Vivendi Games with Activision in 2008 to form Activision Blizzard left a ton of former Vivendi Games properties looking for new owners. Many of them found new homes with various publishers. One of them was UK-based developer Rebellion, best known for their work on the first PC Aliens Vs Predator game. Currently the developer is working on a new AVP game for publisher Sega along with the first person shooter Rogue Warrior for publisher Bethesda Softworks.

Last week, the DRM-free download site GoG.com revealed they were adding new games owned by Rebellion to their catalog. What wasn't mentioned at the time of the announcement was that the games were actually former Vivendi Games titles that were not previously owned or developed by Rebellion. That got our curiosity up and we decided to contact Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley to get more information.Kingsley confirmed to us that they now own the rights to release several former Vivendi Games titles. You can check out the breakdown after the jump: