Rage in Receivership

[Jan 15, 2003, 3:11 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Beckham game firm calls in receivers (thanks muff) is the BBC news article with the latest bad news for embattled game developer Rage Software. The article details the company's financial woes (story), and goes on to offer this grim prognosis:

The software company that makes the David Beckham Soccer Game has collapsed, with the loss of 77 jobs.

Receivers have been appointed by Liverpool-based computer game firm Rage Software, ending hopes that a rescue package could be put together.

The Liverpool-based firm is now likely to be broken up, and any new games it is working on sold off.

The future of the remaining 85 staff will depend on the sale of the intellectual property rights of games currently in development.

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Re: :(

Jan 21, 2003, 00:36

Zeus

The only three "old school" Brit dev companies that I can think of offhand that are still going are Codemasters, Rare, and System 3 What about the Bitmap Bros? They released a sequel to Z a couple of years ago and I think they're still around working on something. GODS rocked!

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Jan 15, 14:25	David Beckham Soccer Who?	Dr.Del
	8.	Jan 15, 15:42	Re: David Beckham Soccer Who?	DooM
	19.	Jan 15, 18:52	Re: David Beckham Soccer Who?	fredrickson
	2.	Jan 15, 14:26	Wow	changingman
	3.	Jan 15, 14:37	blink blink	Creston
	4.	Jan 15, 14:38	Re: blink blink	Schnapple
	5.	Jan 15, 14:41	Re: blink blink	nin
	6.	Jan 15, 15:21	:(	Grom
	7.	Jan 15, 15:39	Re: :(	eric clapton is god
	12.	Jan 15, 17:31	Re: :(	Sadogoat
	17.	Jan 15, 18:25	Re: :(	Dr.Del
	18.	Jan 15, 18:41	Re: Codemasters	Sadogoat
	21.	Jan 15, 19:26	Re: Codemasters	Von Helmet
>>	35.	Jan 21, 00:36	Re: :(	Zeus
	36.	Jan 21, 04:44	Re: :(	XEON
	9.	Jan 15, 15:46	Crap	Atomic
	10.	Jan 15, 15:55	Re: Crap	XEON
	11.	Jan 15, 16:43	Re: Crap	Hump
	14.	Jan 15, 18:07	Re: Crap	XEON
	13.	Jan 15, 17:57	No subject	teh mane mahn
	15.	Jan 15, 18:12	Re: No subject	XEON
	16.	Jan 15, 18:24	No subject	teh mane mahn
	20.	Jan 15, 19:19	Gunmetal	Hump
	22.	Jan 15, 23:05	No subject	fredrickson
	23.	Jan 15, 23:26	Ah oops	Creston
	24.	Jan 15, 23:36	Re: Ah oops	Dr.Del
	25.	Jan 16, 03:35	Re: Ah oops	XEON
	30.	Jan 16, 22:31	Re: Ah oops	Creston
	31.	Jan 17, 04:06	Re: Ah oops	XEON
	32.	Jan 18, 01:39	Re: Ah oops	anon@24.76
	33.	Jan 18, 06:05	Re: Ah oops	XEON
	34.	Jan 20, 09:27	Re: Ah oops	Seer
	37.	Jan 21, 15:45	Re: Ah oops	Tyler
	26.	Jan 16, 04:14	No subject	teh mane mahn
	27.	Jan 16, 04:17	Re: No subject	XEON
	28.	Jan 16, 04:18	No subject	teh mane mahn
	29.	Jan 16, 04:36	Deleted	XEON