Rebellion has announced that they will launch a division solely for making social games. This comes after the successful launch of the free-to-play Evil Genius game for Facebook.
The release of Evil Genius has given us an appetite to look at other opportunities in the area, said Jason Kingsley, CEO of Rebellion. One thing that has become increasingly apparent over the last few years is that gamers can t be defined as just people who own consoles people who use social media like Facebook or use smart phones all play games and this is an exciting new opportunity that we want to explore.
Evil Genius has been a fun and rewarding project for us and has proved that there is a lot of interest out there for games that don t run on traditional platforms, said Chris Kingsley, CTO of Rebellion. Thanks to the internal technology we use and the great skills of our team here, we can bring our 18 years of console and PC games experience to this sector and produce games that reach new players who would never consider themselves to be gamers.
Source: Rebellion Blog
