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Here’s hoping – THQ Permit Indie Space Hulk Remake

Just like RPS, I really hope this isn’t an April Fool.

EDIT: It is, and now RPS are really pissed.  Some indie devs really know how to shoot themselves in the head.  My original post follows…
I used to enjoy a bit of Space Hulk of an evening when I was a mere snapper of whipper, so it’s great to see projects like Teardown‘s indie version around the place.

However, if Games Workshop have really cleared this as an acceptable use of their trademarks, it does beg two questions:

1. Why?

2. Why aren’t they trying to use it to make money?

I would love to live in a world where an indie dev team can make a game based on a property (or rather, perhaps more sensibly, approach the owner of the property and offer to make a game based upon it) and then sell it online with royalties split between the IP holder and the dev team – just a micro-licensing deal, basically. Unfortunately, I don’t think digital distribution is good enough for that to be in any way sensible yet (although, I can’t know, because Valve won’t release any BLOODY NUMBERS for the magical unicorn that is Steam). Anyway, here’s hoping that indie projects and cool, forgotten IP’s will have a long and prosperous future.

Next stop, a remake of Sid Meier’s Covert Action (PLEASE?)

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