Evil Genius News

Greetings, minions.

We've been absent for a while, but we have a gift for you. We're nice like that. James Hannigan's Evil Genius Soundtrack has been missing in action for quite some time - but, in our weekly lair excavations, we stumbled across a mysterious encrypted container, and struck audio gold!

We thought we should sell it on the black market in a typically rash act of wanton capitalism but thought better of it in a rare moment of weakness. Instead - go here to sign up for the Evil Genius newsletter, and we'll send you a link to download the Evil Genius Soundtrack for yourself, absolutely free. We know, it's very out of character for masterminds such as ourselves.

We'll be back soon with more news on our future plans for world domination.

Until then,

Stay Safe, Stay Sinister

Evil Genius 2: World Domination is the fully-fledged sequel to the 2004 classic. You are an Evil Genius, and your aim is nothing less than taking over the world! Would-be masterminds have the power to:

• BUILD YOUR OWN UNIQUE EVIL LAIR
  Set up your sprawling base of operations across multiple storeys!
  
  
• UNDERTAKE HUNDREDS OF DIABOLICAL OBJECTIVES
  Sell the British Royal Family! Kidnap the Governor of Maine! Bake Alaska – literally!
  
  
• AMASS A FORCE OF CRIMINAL MINIONS AND HENCHMEN
  Recruit and train all manner of underlings, and send them across the globe to commit delectable criminality in your name!
  
  
• DEFEND YOUR LAIR FROM THE FORCES OF JUSTICE
  Engineer dastardly traps and tactically deploy them to keep those interfering do-gooders from getting in the way!
  
  
• AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

http://reb.to/qzexfzd - Evil Genius 2 Steam page

http://reb.to/nxktvqc - Evil Genius 2 Official home page

• Evil Genius 2
• Sniper Elite VR
• A major unannounced new title

Keep an eye out for more news during E3!

Our spies tell us “millennials” like to “have their say”. To that end we’ve decided to announce our Minion Relations Surveys (MRS)

Enlist IMMEDIATELY for future intel and feedback on the next Evil Genius project: http://reb.to/te97gcy

Yours Evily, Max.

We know you’ve been waiting a long time for this announcement, so we won’t tantalize you any further. As revealed in our new video interview with Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley (we suggest giving it a watch) we’re thrilled to announce we are now officially working on Evil Genius 2.

https://youtu.be/DMUG2WCEyOQ
Ever since Evil Genius came under the Rebellion roof, we’ve always believed that Elixir’s beloved real-time, lair-management and world-domination simulation deserved a follow-up. We’d like to make this super-duper clear – this isn’t a remaster. Evil Genius 2 will be a fully-fledged sequel and it won’t be free-to-play. Our focus currently is on a PC release, but as ever we’ll look at other platforms and see what fits and what doesn’t.


Now, before you get too excited and start furiously drawing up your blueprints for a Gravity Disruptor 2.0, development only began this Spring and is still at a very, very early stage. We’re currently fleshing out the tech that will make Evil Genius 2 a reality. This will be the first real-time strategy game built in our in-house engine Asura, after all, so we need to do a little bit of extra work under the hood before we expand the team, nail down gameplay design and go into full production.


That said, you may well be asking why it’s taken us a while to get to this point. As some of you may remember, we were very close to announcing this project several years ago. Back then, our plan was to crowd-fund a new Evil Genius PC game and we made a series of steps to launching a campaign.

So why didn’t we go ahead with it? Firstly, we were in the middle of a big transition into becoming our own publisher and we needed to put resources into the projects that became Zombie Army Trilogy, Battlezone on PSVR and Sniper Elite 3 & 4.

Secondly, we decided crowd-funding wasn’t the way we wanted to go. After the growing success of the Sniper Elite series and other Rebellion games IP, we started to feel it wasn’t fair to ask fans to fund a new game if we didn’t need them to! With some big projects now out the door and being enjoyed by gamers worldwide, we feel like now is the time to return to the world of Evil Genius.

So yes, it’s taken us some time to get to this point. But today we are in a position where we can happily say Evil Genius 2 is an actual thing we’re actually coding, designing and er… arting, right now!


Bear with us just a little longer, would-be global criminal masterminds! It might be a while until we can show what we’re working on, but you can make sure you’re in the loop by following us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and signing up to our newsletter! As soon as we have more to say, you’ll be the first to know.
Yours evilly,

Rebellion