Horton was previously at Rockstar, and his credits include GTA III. “We didn’t launch it well,” admits Alex Horton, Jagex UK’s chief creative office, explaining what happened with Ace of Spades.

So badly, in fact, that many of them stuck with the original, or as they prefer ‘classic’, beta version. It was developed by Ben Aksoy and released in beta three years ago, but he departed soon after selling the game to Jagex, who swiftly remade the game and solid it on Steam, which went down incredibly badly with the existing fanbase. Short version: Ace of Spades was a free-to-play mash up of Minecraftian block building and class-based competitive FPSing. You might however have heard of Block N Load’s predecessor, Ace of Spades, which it’s worth mentioning here because of the surrounding controversy.