The five-acre building was previously the base of The Oxford Mail. It will more than double Rebellion’s space to 217,800sqft. A comics publisher and games developer is buying a newspaper’s former base as part of a large expansion.Oxford-based Rebellion will create new jobs at the Osney Mead office of Newsquest Oxfordshire as part of an eight-figure deal agreed with HSBC. It is the second time the company, which publishes the 2000AD comic and the Sniper Elite and Zombie Army games, has bought a disused newspaper facility. Is this a growth strategy and new support for the sniper game series ?

