Rebellion Developments

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Rebellion Developments
Genre	Video games, comics and books
Founded	1991
Founder(s)	Jason and Chris Kingsley
Website	Official website

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

1 History
2 List of games
3 Awards
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 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 ^[1], and have since developed several characters from the comic for the games market. The first commercial release, Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death 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)^{[citation needed]} since the original developer, Elixir Studios had closed its doors.

In 2006 Rebellion purchased Tomb Raider developers Core Design from Eidos, as well as Strangelite from Empire Interactive, making the company the largest independent^{[citation needed]} European development studio.^{[citation needed]}

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,^[2] with archives^[3] and an online iPhone comic reading application^[4] launched later. In August 2008, Blackfish Publishing, publisher of Death Ray magazine, announced it had been bought by Rebellion and^[5] in September 2008, Rebellion acquired Mongoose Publishing,^[6] who had previously published games like The Judge Dredd Role-Playing Game.

After the lock-up at Free Radical Design, Star Wars Battlefront III was said to be shipped to Rebellion Developements for further developement of the game. Rebellion Studios is known for their past involvement in the Battlefront Series with the production of the PSP exclusive Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron.