Key Points
- Rebellion converted the former Daily Mail printworks in Didcot — a site valued at £78 million — into a 220,000 sq ft production complex with six soundstages.
- Atomfall passed 3.5 million players within its first year and won Best British Game at the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards.
- A television adaptation of Atomfall is in co-production with Two Brothers Pictures.
Oxfordshire's creative sector runs from centuries-old publishing houses to a modern games and screen production cluster — and one studio has recently turned a local nuclear disaster into a genuine cultural export.
Rebellion: from Didcot printworks to BAFTA winner
Rebellion, based in Didcot and Oxford, is an independent video games and film/TV studio. In 2018 the company acquired the former Daily Mail printworks in Didcot — a site valued at £78 million — and converted it into Rebellion Studios, a 220,000 sq ft production complex with six soundstages, creating up to 500 jobs.
Rebellion's 2025 release Atomfall, a survival-action game inspired by the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster and set in a militarised quarantine zone, passed 3.5 million players within its first year and won Best British Game at the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards, with the trophy accepted by Rebellion co-founder and CTO Chris Kingsley.
Following the win, Rebellion announced a television adaptation of Atomfall in co-production with Two Brothers Pictures — the producers behind Fleabag — with writers Harry and Jack Williams attached, extending the Rebellion IP from games into premium television.
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