Codemasters, the developer and publisher of acclaimed videogames including Colin McRae: DiRT and Race Driver: GRID, was honoured at the 2009 Develop Industry Excellence Awards winning the coveted Grand Prix Award. The ceremony was held last night in Brighton, UK, as part of the Develop Conference 2009.
Facilitating an accelerated expansion of its development talent base, Codemasters today announced it has reached an agreement with Activision Vivendi to take over Swordfish Studios, the Birmingham-based games development house....
David and Richard Darling, co-founders of Codemasters, were both made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), which sounds like a real-time strategy Harry Potter game.We've been big fans of Codemasters since the days of Dizzy and Brain Ache, but the UK firm is better known for ultra-realistic racing games these days and Lord of the Rings Online. The Darlings literally went from bedroom coders to business superstars, and ...
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TVGB: "..they'd wait to see how GRID performed whilst working on that before they picking their next move. Furthermore, because of the loss of Colin McRae last year, the company was still discussing internally where to take the renowned rally franchise."
GameTap pulls one of its random Tuesday updates this week immediately causing Joystiq to become suspicious: