GOG Manager Says Dune II’s Re-Release Requires Untangling Rights Held by EA, Universal, Legendary Pictures, and Dune: Awakening’s Developer

A modern re-release of Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty remains difficult to arrange because the game’s rights are divided among multiple companies and stakeholders. Although Electronic Arts owns the game’s code and assets following its acquisition of Westwood Studios, it does not control all the intellectual property needed to distribute the classic strategy title again. Marcin Paczynski, GOG’s senior business development and partnerships manager, discussed the problem in an interview with GamesRadar+. He described the game as one…