Rebellion buys Mercury dev

By Games Industry.biz Published 12 March, 2007

Awesome purchase.

Rebellion has acquired Ignition's Banbury-based development studio Awesome Developments.

The studio is known for its PSP project Archer Maclean's Mercury, and becomes the latest studio to join Rebellion.

The company acquired both Tomb Raider developer Core Design and Strangelight Studios, the team behind Starship Troopers, last year.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • onyxbox #1 5 years ago

    I have a friend that once worked for Rebellion.

  • repairmanjack #2 5 years ago

    Anyone know what Rebellion are working on at the moment? They've made some great games in the past year or two.

  • DaM #3 5 years ago

    None of their "great games" springs to mind...!
    I suppose they must be selling a lot of 2000ADs or whatever it is called now.

  • Nova5lag #4 5 years ago

    Rogue Trooper was actually quite good... if you are into the comic stuff.

  • DaM #5 5 years ago

    That reminds me, I did mean to pick Rogue up cheap....

  • jebus #6 5 years ago

    Well Rebellion bought Core so they are working on that Free Running game - the name escapes me at the moment. It was a PSP game originally but I think it may be on PS2 now as well.

    Rogue Trooper was a bit lame imo. I can't think of any great games they have made in the last year or 2 either. AvP2 was the last good game and that wasn't as good as AvP.

    But that's just my opinion of course.

  • Corv01 #7 5 years ago

    They didn't do AVP2 that was done by Monolith

  • Whizzo #8 5 years ago

    I thought Rogue Trooper was excellent, deviated from canon quite a bit but wasn't any the worse for it.
    Edited by 1 at 12/03/07 @ 13:14

  • Empedocles #9 5 years ago

    So who is going to open the book on when they are going to go pop! After this string of aquisitions and no released titles?

  • TheDifficult3rdAlbum #10 5 years ago

    >So who is going to open the book on when they are going to go pop! After this string of aquisitions and no released titles?

    I find your lack of faith disturbing

  • jebus #11 5 years ago

    Yeah - forgot about that Corv1

    They have fingers in all sorts of pies - I don't think they are going to go away anytime soon. Bear in mind that they own 2000AD lock stock and barrel. I imagine they mnake money out of studios just optioning IP for movies even if they never get made.

    Hope they are around for many years to come - sick of seeing brit devs going to the wall.
    Edited by 1 at 12/03/07 @ 15:02

  • Dynamize #12 5 years ago

    I really enjoyed Rogue Trooper, brought the comic to life as much as they could in a game, I thought. If they're stuck for something to do, I'd welcome a sequel or expansion pack :)

  • Spanky #13 5 years ago

    They did Sniper Elite which a lot of people liked, normally mentioning 'hardcore' in there comments so i avode(just invented).

    I also loved Rogue Trooper, had a nice pace.

  • Kostabi #14 5 years ago

    If I remember right, don't Rebellion have a rather swish motion cap suite in amongst all the stuff they own?

    I think, if anything, Rebellion have suffered from a distinct lack of money (or prowess) in the marketing department as both Rogue Trooper and Sniper Elite were decent games that should have sold better than they did.

    Still, it's hard to forgive them for cocking up the Judge Dredd game so badly.

  • onyxbox #15 5 years ago

    @ yellowtruck

    Jamie Lokier, it was back in the AVP days I think and he was working on some game called Legions of the Undead or something.