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A few months ago a guy on forumhq.com forums asked for the contact information for the current owners of subspace (he wished to purchase the game). I looked around on the web a bit and really couldn't find shit. The most I could come up with is that at some point some guy named Nick Fisher (a CEO of a publishing company who worked with harmless games (now a porn site) which made infantry) who went by the name Trixter purchased the rights and then at some future time a company by the name of Brilliant Digital Entertainment obtained the rights (both sources found on http://www.shanky.com/server/indexold.html). Apparently vie.co.uk is currently owned by a german company called Avalon Interactive, but thier site has nothing other than a brief history of VIE (they also own vie.com). I searched through both the patent and copyright government websites but came up with nothing. I have no interest in buying the game, as I have about $500 in my bank account and that will bairly cover books for the summer-semester. I'm sure that someone asks the above question once every 6 months but I couldn't seem to find anything with the search. <3
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CypherJF · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

Yup, I know for sure this question came up about a year ago right before the april fools joke by the ops.

It was my understanding that BDE owns the rights to the game. I wonder if Avalon Interactive is a subsidary or partner w/ BDE, or they simply just own the domain name.

I wonder how much they'd sell this ancient code for...
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Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

My recollection of ancient SS history is that Trixter never successfully bought the rights to SS, although he apparently tried multiple times. IIRC, they first went to Westwood Studios when VIE US was dismantled, and then Westwood sold off a bunch of assets to BDE, who now owns them. But don't take that as authoritative. A while back, a company with various names (I think one of them was Horizon something) claimed they were making SS2, apparently with BDE's permission. But they're long gone by now too.

50% Packetloss · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:27 am Post subject:

Here is BDE's financial info (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=BDEI.OB). Their company is literally a 30 min drive from me.

D1st0rt · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

You should visit them

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