Rebellion Developments, the studio behind the PSP games Star Wars Battlefront, Alien vs Predator and The Simpsons Game, is now stepping out of its shell and moving on to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms, starting with a sequel to Eidos Interactive's Shellshock. More in the full article.

 

Developer Rebellion Developments and publisher Reef Entertainment recently teamed up with Rotterdam, Netherlands Chief Marketing Office to feature the video game Free Running in Rotterdam's City of Architecture 2007 event. Why is this exciting, you ask? Be informed that it projected a gameplay of the title through the world's possibly biggest TV.

This happened because accordingly, the Free Running gameplay vid was the first prize for the lucky winner of the regional heats leading up to the premiere last Saturday, April 14. That means the dude got to play the game while it was projected to the building.

The show took place at the heart of the city, specifically on Nedlloyd building, one of the largest structures in Rotterdam overlooking the waterway. Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley mentioned that they are happy to be a part of the City of Architecture event. According to the official, the joint venture also made perfect sense. Kingsley explained,

The CMO are communicating Rotterdam as a youth oriented city and playing an urban-sport focused videogame on one of the City's key buildings actively engages with and encourages the young people of Rotterdam to get involved with new and exciting projects. It was an opportunity not to be missed.

Many fans have described Free Running as a Tony Hawk video game but without skateboards. It involves running around and dealing with obstacles in your path in an acrobatic manner. It is actually considered as a sport and an art developed by Sebastien Foucan.

UK-based video game developer Rebellion Developments, famous for the PlayStation 2 game Sniper Elite, has announced that they have just acquired Awesome Studios, more commonly known as Ignition Entertainment's development studio in Banbury in Oxfordshire. In line with this announcement, Rebellion CEO and Creative Director Jason Kingsley had this to say:

This acquisition takes the Rebellion headcount to 280 full time members of staff. We're fully booked with work until later in the year so these additional highly talented staff will be a valuable addition to the team.

In case people are wondering, Rebellion made several stints into the PlayStation Portable, with their most well-known game being Miami Vice: The Game (2006), which, alongside their Rogue Trooper (2006) PC title, helped push them for a "Developer of the Year" award at last year's TIGA event in the UK. In a strange bit of irony, they were also behind the notoriously mediocre Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, and PC. Gamers will best remember Awesome Developments for their development of the PSP game Mercury, along with Pool Paradise for the PS2.