Rebellion Developments
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Genre | Video games, comics and books |
| Founded | 4 December 1992 |
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| Headquarters | Oxford, England, United Kingdom |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| Products | Sniper Elite series |
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Number of employees
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180 (2016) |
| Divisions | Rebellion Liverpool |
| Subsidiaries | Rebellion Publishing Abaddon Books 2000 AD Solaris Books |
| Website | rebellion.co.uk |
Rebellion Developments Ltd. (commonly referred to as Rebellion) is an English video game developer based in Oxford, England, known for its Sniper Elite series and multiple games in the Alien vs. Predator series. Rebellion has published comic books since the year 2000, in which it purchased 2000 AD (publisher of characters such as Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper). The company launched its own book imprint, Abaddon Books, in 2006.
Rebellion was established by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley in 1991. The team was later expanded to include artists Stuart Wilson, Toby Banfield, and Justin Rae and programmers Mike Beaton, Rob Dibley, and Andrew Whittaker. This expanded team was hired initially in order to work on two Atari Jaguar titles, one of which was the high profile release Alien vs Predator (1994).
In June 2000, they bought the comic 2000 AD from Fleetway, 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. Its 2005 game Sniper Elite was awarded "Best PC/Console Game" in the TIGA Awards of 2005.
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 created its own line of American graphic novels, distributed through Simon & Schuster. In 2005 Rebellion also created the Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files series, which has begun reprinting almost every appearance of Judge Dredd in chronological order.
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