If you've played games on the PC during the last decade, chances are you might have heard of (or stumbled upon) some of Bullfrog's games, such as Theme Park, Theme Hospital, and Populous. Bullfrog was the studio that used to be headed up by Peter Molyneux before he quit once EA bought them out. Kikizo sheds some information on whether EA might re-release these games at some point and whether they might collaborate with Lionhead Studios.

Five years ago this month (gosh, how time flies), we asked Peter Molyneux whether he'd like to make new versions of his classic and celebrated Bullfrog Productions games from yesteryear, such as Populous, Theme Park and Magic Carpet.

Although at the time we had to cut the segment in question from the video interview, five years on there's no harm in revealing that his answer was "I'd love to, but EA owns all the rights". We'd have to dig way into our video archives to find the exact quote, but that was the gist of it, and I remember he added: "All I'd need to do is pick up the phone."

Well, on Peter's behalf, we skipped the phone call and not too long ago ended up meeting in person with Harvey Elliot, boss of EA's Bright Light studio in the UK - the part of EA that's closely tied to all of that classic Bullfrog IP, ever since EA's 1995 acquisition of the studio. So, is it looking at all likely these days?

"For me, I love the old Bullfrog IP, it got me really passionately into games, and I'm really proud that Bullfrog is part of the heritage of Bright Light", says Elliot. "I'm personally a huge fan of Populous and Theme Park, they were some of my favourite games - many years ago, obviously - and I'd love to see both of those remade."

McClubbin via games.kikizo.com »