UK games veteran returns after RTW collapse - Companies House filing reveals new Kimble venture
Games industry veteran Ian Hetherington has once again been linked to the acquisition of former Realtime Worlds game Project MyWorld.
A Gamasutra report says the man who formed Psygnosis and ran SCEE before co-founding Realtime Worlds has formed a new business to buy the game.
And filings with Companies House certainly back up the claim.
Hetherington, plus other former RTW execs Patrick Chung and Harry Weller, were all appointed as directors of new outfit Kimble Operations last week.
The latest report about MyWorld says that said Kimble firm has purchased the MyWorld user-generated-content project from administrator Begbies Traynor.
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Its just one of the assets up for sale as part of the RTW collapse - Begbies Traynor is also hoping to sell off the APB game rights and assets.
According to Companies House documents, Kimble was originally incorporated, with the aid of business law firm Olswang LLP, on July 30th. (Under the name 'New Inc Co', a relatively common name for new companies that need incorporating but aren't willing to disclose their name officially.)
Project MyWorld was originally unveiled on July 29th.
Realtime Worlds officially went into administration just over two weeks later, on August 17th.
Seems a bit dodgy that they sank a company and then formed a new company to buy the assets of the previous company at reduced price....
It's quite normal - if not ethical.
This was clearly the plan from the start and the reason why no buyer was found to save the jobs of those who worked on MyWorld.
Ian Hetherington and his buddies obviously made it as difficult as possible for a new buyer to come in early on, so that they could pick up the rights at a fraction of the cost.
....it aint the first time they've done it and it certainly wont be the last.
I only hope people begin to realise what a crook this guy is and avoid working for him in the future. I know i'll certainly be stearing well clear.
