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game show project. However, various financial issues, mismanagement, and other problems caused Runecraft to go bust at the end of December 2002. To keep the show alive, BBC Worldwide acquired the developer and a small number of its staff, and renamed the developer under BBC's core-publishing brand
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and the completion of the tie-in games, In February 2004, Gamezlab were commissioned to develop a video game based on BBC's
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to develop a fighting game engine for the company's upcoming
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