It was still the same people working in the same office on the same computers with the same salaries, they say.
Ragnarok Game allege that rather than Human Head shutting down then Bethesda stepping in to save their people, "ZeniMax arranged to have all employees dismissed from Human Head and hired by ZeniMax" as "a de facto merger". The whole thing was a bit of a disaster, and Ragnarok claim that "at the active instructions of Zenimax, Human Head timed the unveiling of its plan to cause maximum damage." Even more surprisingly, they say they only found out HH employees were joining Bethesda's new Roundhouse Studios when the public did. Ragnarok say they only heard that the studio were closing on November 7th, five days before Rune 2's launch. The lawsuit claims that for several months, Human Head "maliciously and actively concealed" plans to stop being 'Human Head', to not meet contractual obligations, to not support Rune 2's development and launch, and to be acquired by Bethesda. But there's plenty more the publishers are upset about. No offence to Human Head, but in no world was Rune 2 a substantial threat to Skyrim. Ragnarok do make the bold claim that Bethesda saw Rune 2 as a threat to their own Viking 'em up, Skyrim. Now they've expanded it to also pursue Bethesda Softworks and their parent company, ZeniMax Media, saying the release "was maliciously torpedoed in a conspiracy between the game's developer, desperate for cash, and a large video game conglomerate intent on destroying threats to its own video-game franchises." Rune 2 publishers Ragnarok Game were already suing the legal remnants of Human Head and several key figures there.
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They sued to regain control of the game's code and continue updating it, and now are going after Bethesda and Zenimax too. This was quite a surprise, even to the publishers who had been relying on Human Head to support the game after launch. The Viking fantasy action-RPG launched in November 2019 then, the very next day, developers Human Head announced they were shutting down but their employees had been hired for a new Bethesda studio. We’re incredibly excited to support the vision that our partners at Human Head Studios have offered for long-time fans and newcomers to Rune alike,” said ESDF Managing Partner, Matt Candler.Bethesda and ZeniMax intentionally sabotaged Rune 2 by secretly snapping up its developers days before launch, the game's publishers have claimed in a lawsuit. “Rune: Ragnarok is the first video game we’ve committed to financing. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve created.”ĭevelopment of Rune: Ragnarok is being funded by ESDF Management, a video game production and finance company. In the spirit of the original, Rune: Ragnarok has intense and brutal combat in a world steeped in Norse mythology. A highly anticipated follow-up to Rune, the team’s hit action-adventure game, Rune: Ragnarok places players in the middle of an epic battle where gods, beasts, and the last remaining humans struggle to survive.īy pledging allegiance to one of the Norse gods, players gain favor and special abilities to aid them as they raid enemy villages, fight the undead in brutal melee combat, sail to new lands, and craft powerful weapons to complete the goals of their god and conclude Ragnarok.įrom Project Director Chris Rhinehart, “After seventeen years, we are thrilled to finally announce a new Rune game. Human Head Studios has revealed Rune: Ragnarok, a sandbox, open-world RPG set in a dangerous Norse universe during the end of days.
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HUMAN HEAD STUDIOS ANNOUNCES OPEN-WORLD VIKING RPG RUNE: RAGNAROK FOR PC
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