Rebellion Developments

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Rebellion is a British computer games company, based in Oxford, who are most famous for the first "Aliens versus Predator" computer game. Since 2000, it also publishes comic books and it launched its own book imprint, Abaddon Books, in 2006.

History

Rebellion was established by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley in 1991. Their first known title was "Alien Vs. Predator" for the Atari Jaguar, which was considered one of the few good games for that console.

In June 2000 they bought the comic "2000 AD" from Fleetway [cite web|title=Rebellion corporate history|url=http://www.rebellion.co.uk/corporate.html] , and have since developed several characters from the comic for the games market. The first commercial release, "" was mildly successful. A second game was released in 2006 based on "Rogue Trooper" and has been very well received.

Along with developing the title's characters for video games, Rebellion continues to publish "2000 AD" as well as its sister title the "Judge Dredd Megazine". In 2004, Rebellion entered a deal with DC Comics to reprint several 2000 AD stories in trade paperback form, including "Judge Dredd", "Strontium Dog", "Nikolai Dante", and "Sinister Dexter". When DC left the venture, citing poor sales, Rebellion elected to continue the line on its own. Rebellion also added the "Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files" series, which has begun reprinting almost every Dredd appearance in chronological order.

In 2005, they had announced taking development of the sequel to Evil Genius (game)Fact|date=April 2008 since the original developer, Elixir Studios had gone bankrupt.

In 2006 Rebellion purchased Tomb Raider developers Core Design from Eidos, as well as Strangelite from Empire Interactive, making the company the largest independentFact|date=June 2008 European development studio.Fact|date=June 2008

Rebellion launched their novel imprint Abaddon Books and made a number of publishing purchases. These included buying Clickwheel which was used to digitally published "2000 AD", [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=140001 2000AD Goes Digital: Taking Brit Comics Online] , Newsarama, 17 December 2007] with archives [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=146854 Rebellion, Clickwheel Post 2007 2000AD Archive Online] , Newsarama] , February 15, 2008] and an online iPhone comic reading application [ [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080730-Clickwheel.html SDCC '08 - Clickwheel Unveils Comics Reader] , Newsarama, July 30, 2008] launched later. In August 2008, Blackfish Publishing, publisher of "Death Ray magazine", announced it had been bought by Rebellion and [ [http://www.blackfishpublishing.com/content/view/83/1/ All change at Blackfish] , August 18, 2008] in September 2008, Rebellion acquired Mongoose Publishing, [ [http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13200.html Mongoose Joins Rebellion] , ICv2, September 2, 2008] who had previously published games like "The Judge Dredd Role-Playing Game".

List of games

* "Alien vs. Predator" (1995, Jaguar)
* "Checkered Flag" (1995, Jaguar)
* "Eye of the Storm" (1993, Amiga and PC-DOS)
* "Aliens vs. Predator" (1999, PC)
* "" (1999, Game Boy Color)
* "The Mummy" (1999/2000, PC and PlayStation)
* "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six" (1999, PlayStation version)
* "" (2000, PC)
* "" (2000, Game Boy Color)
* "Gunlok" (2000, PC)
* "" (2000, PlayStation version)
* "Largo Winch" (2000, Playstation)
* "Skyhammer" (2000, Jaguar)
* "Snood" (2001, GBA)
* "Klustar" (2001, GBA)
* "" (2001, Game Boy Advance version)
* "" (2001, PlayStation)
* " (2002, Playstation)
* "" (2002, Game Boy Advance)
* "Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf" (2002, Game Boy Advance)
* "" (2003, PC, GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox)
* "" (2003, PlayStation 2)
* "" (2004, PS2, PC)
* "Sniper Elite" (2005, PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox)
* "" (2005, PlayStation 2)
* "" (2006 PSP)
* "" (2006, PSP)
* "GUN Showdown" (2006, PSP)
* "Rogue Trooper" (2006, PC, Xbox and PS2)
* "Miami Vice" (2006, PSP)
* "" (2006, PlayStation 2)
* "" (2007, PSP)
* "Free Running" (2007, PlayStation 2, PSP)
* "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007, PSP)
* "The Simpsons Game" (2007, PlayStation 2, PSP, Wii)
* "" (2007, PSP)

Awards

* 2006: nominated for the Eagle Award for Favourite Publisher

References

External links

*official|http://www.rebellion.co.uk
* [http://www.mobygames.com/company/rebellion Rebellion Developments] entry at MobyGames