Rebellion has just announced that an Evil Genius 2 is finally in development. Which is important if you ever wanted to overthrow th🍒e world through dastardly schemes and sharks with laser beams (may or may not be an actual thing). 

Here's Rebellion CE🧜O Jason Kingsley ann💟ouncing the sequel:

You might not have heard of the original, but it was a 💜🎃Dungeon Master style management sim with a focus on a Bond-like world of espionage from the perspective of a hopeful Blofeld. 

By building various facilities and laying traps to prevent any global agencies that might want to stop you, the overall aim was to build a doomsday device and take over the world. With or without one meellion dollars. 

While the game might be forgotten to most the original was a cult classic, and both fans and Rebellion have been muttering about a sequel for years. Back in a blog post mentioned it wanted to make a "fully-feat🦄ured follow-up."

In the publisher clarifies the new game isn't a remaster and will instead be a "fully-fledged sequel" and not free-to-play (there was an Evil Genius Online F2P mobile game that shutdown this year). Currently, Rebellion says it's targeting a PC release initially but adds "as ever🍸 we’l꧒l look at other platforms." 

Currently development is described as being at a "very, very early stage" with the studio basically just getting the tech up and running. In the meantime check out a really🌸 old trailer of the original game when it was an Elixir Studios/Vive♔ndi joint (Rebellion bought the IP in 2006).