THE WORLD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL GAME STUDIOS
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16 REBELLION TOP TITLES
UK PUBLISHER
HIGHEST UK CHART
£20.13m FORMATS
UK RELEASE REVENUE DATE
Founded: 1992 Independent
1 THE SIMPSONS GAME
STATISTICS
Last year’s position: 77
ELECTRONIC ARTS
3
LUCASARTS
56
PS2, WII, PSP
NOV 07
£15.59m
Head count: 280 Revenue per capita: £71,892
2 STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT: RENEGADE SQUADRON
PSP
OCT 07
£1.28m
Address: Riverside House, Osney
3 HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
CONTACTS Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES, UK
ELECTRONIC ARTS
1
PSP
JUN 07
£1.03m
UBISOFT
33
PS2, PSP
APR 07
£0.74m
ACTIVISION
191
PSP
NOV 06
£0.32m
TOTAL:
£18.95m
www.rebellion.co.uk
4 FREE RUNNING
5 GUN: SHOWDOWN
A superb placing for this key British indie, up from last year’s 77th position thanks to the strong performance of EA’s The Simpsons Movie tie-in. Rebellion handled Wii, PS2, and PSP duties, with the Sony formats the usual destination for Rebellion’s output in recent times. However,
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the developer is actively shifting its focus more towards the now-established next-gen consoles, with Eidos’ Shellshock 2 for PS3 and Xbox 360 the first fruit. There’s also the potential for new games based on Rebellion’s 2000AD properties; it has regained the next gen rights for Rogue Trooper, for instance.
(94% of total revenues)
Rebellion aims to have around five products in development at once, with its proprietary Asura Technology a key component of its strategy. This year has also seen the studio move to house all these projects and its 280 staff under one roof at a purpose built studio in Oxford.