Rebellion (company)
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| legal form | Limited company |
| founding | 1992 |
| Seat | Oxford |
| management | Jason Kingsley (CEO) |
| Number of employees | about 300 |
| Branch | Computer games, comics |
| Website | www.rebellion.co.uk |
Rebellion Developments Ltd. is a British computer game - developer based in Oxford . In 2000 the company also acquired the British comic series 2000 AD , which it has been publishing ever since.
Company history
The company was founded in 1991 by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley. The most successful titles in the early years were in 1994 for the console Atari Jaguar published game Alien vs Predator and Aliens vs. Predator for Windows - PCs in the year 1999th
In June 2000, the company bought the rights to the British comic series 2000 AD and all of its characters, including Judge Dredd . Since then, however, Rebellion has only developed a few games based on the 2000 AD license. Kingsley justified this in an interview with a lack of developer capacities.
In 2001 the company was a founding member of TIGA , an association of independent game developers in Great Britain. Jason Kingsley is now the association's vice chairman.
In May 2004, the company licensed the publishing rights to material from 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine for North America to the American comic publisher DC Comics . In the summer of 2006, Abaddon Books was founded, its own book imprint , which mainly publishes science fiction and fantasy novels.
In the years 2006 to 2008 the company expanded and took over several other developers. First they bought Strangelite , an in-house development studio from Empire Interactive . In June 2006, Rebellion took over the staff and facilities of the well-known development studio Core Design (known as the developer of the Tomb Raider game series ) from the owner SCi Entertainment . The name Core Design and the intellectual property of the Core Design games remained with the publisher Eidos . The studio was renamed Rebellion Derby. At the end of 2007, the development studio Awesome Developments from the developer Ignition Entertainment was the next acquisition, whereby the company grew to around 280 employees. The Banbury- based studio had previously developed several games for the PlayStation Portable game console .
In July 2008, the company took over the English developer Razorworks , another in-house development studio from Empire Interactive, after the studio was under acute threat of closure. The 30 employees of the studio were integrated into the Oxford studio.
The "Develop 100" list of the top-selling developers published by the games industry magazine Develop listed Rebellion as the most successful independent developer studio and the 16th most successful studio in the world with sales of £ 20.13 million . The data collected by Chart-Track and ELSPA for this list is based on sales in the United Kingdom only .
In 2009 the company acquired the rights to the Ground Control , Evil Genius , Empire Earth and Lords of Magic game series from Vivendi Universal and announced that it would develop sequels to these series.
In early August 2013, the company officially announced the new game Evil Genius Online. The title appears for Facebook and Zynga.com.
In July 2017, Rebellion announced Evil Genius 2 as the successor to Evil Genius.
Development studios
The company now consists of the corporate headquarters in Oxford and three additional, acquired development studios. Software and technologies developed in the individual studios can be used by all of the company's development teams.
The studios are:
- Rebellion Banbury (since 2007, formerly Awesome Developments )
- Rebellion Derby (since 2006, formerly Core Design )
- Rebellion Liverpool (since 2006, formerly Strangelite )
- Razorworks (since 2008, integrated into the head office in Oxford)
Games
- 1993: Eye of the Storm (Amiga, DOS)
- 1994: Alien vs Predator (action game, Atari Jaguar)
- 1994: Checkered Flag (racing game, Atari Jaguar, Lynx)
- 1999: Aliens versus Predator (action game, Windows PC)
- 1999: Mission: Impossible (action game, Game Boy Color )
- 1999: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six ( tactical shooter , PlayStation implementation)
- 2000: Asterix: Search for Dogmatix ( Jump 'n' Run , Game Boy Color)
- 2000: Gunlok ( action adventure , Windows PC)
- 2000: The Mummy ( Beat 'em up , PlayStation, Windows PC)
- 2000: Skyhammer (action game, Atari Jaguar)
- 2001: Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James (action game, PlayStation)
- 2001: Klustar ( Puzzle , Game Boy Advance)
- 2001: Midnight Club: Street Racing (racing game, Game Boy Advance implementation)
- 2001: Snood ( Puzzle , Game Boy Advance)
- 2002: Delta Force: Urban Warfare (first-person shooter, PlayStation)
- 2002: Largo Winch . // Commando SAR (third-person shooter, PlayStation)
- 2002: Medal of Honor: Underground (Ego-Shooter, Game Boy Advance implementation)
- 2002: Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf (Sports Game, Game Boy Advance)
- 2002: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf (Tactical Shooter, PlayStation 2)
- 2003: Gunfighter II: Revenge of Jesse James (action game, PlayStation 2)
- 2003: Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death (first person shooter, Windows PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube)
- 2004: World War Zero: Iron Storm (action game, Windows PC)
- 2005: Dead to Rights: Reckoning (Third-Person-Shooter, PlayStation Portable)
- 2005: Sniper Elite: Berlin 1945 (action game, PC, Xbox, PS2)
- 2006: Rogue Trooper (action game, PC, Xbox, PS2)
- 2006: Greetings from Moscow (third-person shooter, PSP implementation)
- 2006: Miami Vice : The Game (third-person shooter, PlayStation Portable)
- 2006: GUN: Showdown (Action-Adventure, PlayStation Portable)
- 2007: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (action adventure, PlayStation-Portable implementation)
- 2007: The Simpsons Game (action game, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, Wii)
- 2007: Star Wars: Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (action game, PlayStation Portable)
- 2007: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (action game, PlayStation Portable)
- 2008: Call of Duty : World at War - Final Fronts (first-person shooter, PlayStation 2)
- 2009: Rogue Trooper: Quartz Zone Massacre (3rd person shooter, Wii)
- 2009: Shellshock 2: Blood Trails (first-person shooter, PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360)
- 2009: Rogue Warrior (first person shooter, PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
- 2009: Battlefront: Elite Squadron (first person shooter, PSP)
- 2010: Aliens vs. Predator (first person shooter, PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
- 2012: NeverDead (Shooter, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
- 2012: Sniper Elite V2 (Shooter, PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
- 2013: Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army (Shooter, PC)
- 2013: Sniper Elite: Zombie Army (Shooter, PC)
- 2013: Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 (Shooter, PC)
- 2014: Sniper Elite: Zombie Army 2 (Shooter, PC)
- 2014: Sniper Elite III (Shooter, PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, PlayStation 4)
- 2015: Zombie Army Trilogy (Shooter, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4)
- 2016: Battlezone 98 Redux (revised new edition of the classic Battlezone by Activision , 1998)
- 2016: Battlezone VR (virtual reality version of the classic)
- 2017: Sniper Elite 4 (Shooter, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4)
- 2018: Strange Brigade (Shooter, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4)
- 2018: Battlezone: Combat Commander (revised new edition of Battlezone II (1999))
- 2020: Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Rebellion at MobyGames (English)
- Interview with founder Jason Kingsley (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gamasutra: From Judge Dredd To Harry Potter, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley Is Spoiled When It Comes To IP . August 8, 2007.
- ↑ TIGA website
- ↑ Gamespot.com: Rebellion inks deal with DC Comics . May 5, 2004.
- ↑ Gamasutra: Rebellion Acquires Strangelite From Empire . June 2, 2006.
- ↑ Gamasutra: Rebellion Acquires Core Design Assets From SCi . June 16, 2006.
- ^ GamesIndustry.biz: Rebellion acquires Awesome Developments . December 3, 2007.
- ↑ Game Daily: Razorworks joins Rebellion . July 18, 2008.
- ↑ Developmag.com: Razorworks chief: 'We are examining options' . June 11, 2008.
- ↑ Gamershell.com: Rebellion Buys UK Studio Razorworks . July 19, 2008.
- ^ Develop 100: The World's most successful game studios . Retrieved July 22, 2008.
- ↑ Keith Stuart: UK studios fare well in Develop 100 list ( Memento of April 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) . April 19, 2006.
- ^ GamesIndustry.biz: Rebellion picks up former Vivendi titles . July 15, 2009.
- ↑ Rebellion officially announces Evil Genius Online , accessed August 10, 2013.
- ↑ Evil Genius 2 - sequel to the super villain game announced - GameStar . ( gamestar.de [accessed on July 5, 2017]).
- ↑ Battlezone 98 Redux | Rebellion. In: www.rebellion.co.uk. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .