Renegade Software was a UK-based games publisher, founded in 1991 by the

Bitmap Brothers The Bitmap Brothers are a British video game developer founded in 1987. The company entered the video game industry in 1988 with the scrolling shooter ''Xenon''. They quickly followed with '' Speedball''. Prior to becoming the publisher of th ...

. Initially, the Bitmap Brothers used the new label to publish their own games, after they had become dissatisfied with the practices of publishing companies (their previous games were published by

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). Their stated goal was to give game developers more artistic freedom and more recognition. One of the first games released by Renegade Software was

Magic Pockets ''Magic Pockets'' is a platform game developed by the Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade in October 1991. It was released for the Atari ST, Amiga, Acorn Archimedes, and MS-DOS. The title track of the game is the instrumental version of ''" ...

, for which they had struck a deal with music publisher

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to include a

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song in the game. Later Renegade also published games by other developers and went on as one of the successful independent publishers of its time, until it was acquired by

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in 1995 to become "Warner Interactive Entertainment Ltd", still publishing under the Renegade label. before being merged with the European arm of

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in the same year, rebranding as Warner Interactive Europe. Subsequently, in November 1996, the entirety of Warner Interactive Europe (including

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-based Time Warner Interactive Ltd, and Renegade itself) was sold to GT Interactive and the Renegade label ceased to exist.SEC Info - Atari Inc - 10-Q - For 6/30/97
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Games List of games published by Renegade
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* Gods (1991) *

(1991) * Cadaver: The Payoff (1991) *

Sensible Soccer ''Sensible Soccer'', often called ''Sensi'', is an association football video game series which was highly popular in the early 1990s and which still retains a cult following. It was developed by Sensible Software and first released for Amiga a ...

: European Champions (1992) *

: European Champions: 92/93 Edition (1992) * Fire & Ice (1992) *

The Chaos Engine ''The Chaos Engine'' is a top-down run and gun video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in March 1993. The game is set in a steampunk Victorian age in which one or two players must battle the hostile creat ...

(1993) *

Uridium 2 ''Uridium 2'' is a science fiction themed, horizontally scrolling shooter designed and programmed by Andrew Braybrook for the Amiga. It was published by Renegade Software in 1993. ''Uridium 2'' is the sequel to Braybrook's Commodore 64 game ''Urid ...

(1993) *

Turrican 3 ''Mega Turrican'' is a shooter game, developed by Factor 5 in 1993 and marketed by Data East in 1994. This game of the ''Turrican'' series was initially designed for the Mega Drive/Genesis, and later followed by an Amiga port converted by Kaiko a ...

(1993) *

Elfmania ''Elfmania'' is a 2D fighting game developed by Terramarque and released by Renegade Software in 1994 for the Amiga. Gameplay The gameplay is a standard fighting game, but Elfmania does not have special moves triggered by various button combinati ...

(1994) * International Sensible Soccer (1994) *

Ruff 'n' Tumble ''Ruff 'n' Tumble'' is a 1994 platform run and gun video game developed by Wunderkind and published by Renegade Software for the Amiga. An Amiga CD32 version was planned but never released. It was the only game made by Wunderkind. It stars Ru ...

(1994) *

Sensible World of Soccer ''Sensible World of Soccer'' was designed and developed by Sensible Software as the 1994 sequel to their 1992 game ''Sensible Soccer'' which combined a 2D football game with a comprehensive manager mode. The game includes contemporary season data ...

(1994) *

Flight of the Amazon Queen ''Flight of the Amazon Queen'' is a graphical point-and-click adventure game by Interactive Binary Illusions, originally released in 1995 for Amiga and MS-DOS. The game was re-released as freeware in 2004 for use with ScummVM. In January 2022, a ...

(1995) * Harpoon Classic (1995) *

Virocop Virocop is a run and gun video game developed by Graftgold and published by Renegade Software in 1995. It is regarded as the third game in the ''Quazatron'' series, the others being ''Quazatron'' and ''Magnetron''. An Amiga Advanced Graphics Arch ...

(1995) * Sensible World of Soccer '96/'97 (1996) *

: European Championship Edition (1996) *

The Chaos Engine 2 ''The Chaos Engine 2'' is a top-down shooter video game, and sequel to ''The Chaos Engine'', released for the Amiga in 1996 and developed by The Bitmap Brothers. A Sega Mega Drive version was planned but never released. Plot During the original g ...

(1996) * Z (1996)

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