Renegade Software

Renegade Software was a UK-based games publisher, founded in 1991 by the Bitmap Brothers.

Renegade Software
TypeDefunct
IndustryVideo game publisher
FateMerged into GT Interactive
Founded1991
Defunct1997
HeadquartersUK
Key people
Bitmap Brothers
ProductsGods
Magic Pockets
Cadaver: The Payoff
The Chaos Engine
Parent

Initially, the Bitmap Brothers used the new label to publish their own games, after they had become dissatisfied with the practices of publishing companies (their previous games were published by Mirrorsoft). Their stated goal was to give game developers more artistic freedom and more recognition.[1] One of the first games released by Renegade Software was Magic Pockets, for which they had struck a deal with music publisher Rhythm King to include a Betty Boo song in the game.

Later Renegade also published games by other developers and went on as one of the successful independent publishers of its time, until it was acquired by Time Warner in 1995 to become "Warner Interactive Entertainment Ltd", still publishing under the Renegade label. before merged with the European arm of Time Warner Interactive in the same year, Subsequently, in November 1996, the European division of Time Warner Interactive (including Northampton-based Time Warner Interactive Ltd, and Renegade itself) was sold to Midtown Manhattan-based, GT Interactive (later Infogrames) and the Renegade label ceased to exist.[2][3]

Games [4]

References
  1. Zero, issue 13, November 1990, pp.22-24
  2. Warner Interactive Entertainment Ltd. article on MobyGames
  3. SEC Info - Atari Inc - 10-Q - For 6/30/97
  4. List of games published by Renegade on MobyGames
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