Runecraft (later renamed Gamezlab) was a British

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based in the

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. The company was founded in April 1997 and mostly developed games based on licensed properties.

History

In 2002, the company was commissioned by the

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to develop a fighting game engine for the company's upcoming '' FightBox'' 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 "Gamezlab". Following the failure of ''FightBox'' and the completion of the tie-in games, In February 2004, Gamezlab were commissioned to develop a video game based on BBC's '' Spooks'' TV series for the PlayStation 2,

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and Microsoft Windows. The game was planned to use a new internal game engine, but at the end of September 2004, BBC Multimedia closed down Gamezlab as part of a restructuring to focus on licensing and ceasing development and publication.

Games developed

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