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
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.
In what you could call a fitting tribute, Colin McRae: DIRT is back at number one...
Publisher moves as a sign of respect. Codemasters has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz it has pulled a major advertising campaign for the PlayStation 3 version of Colin McRae: DIRT. The publisher has cancelled the TV campaign as a sign of respect following McRae's death last weekend. With consideration to and in agreement with McRae's family, there was a stop put on the TV ads that were planned to run on Sky channels at the weekend and through this week, said a spokesperson for Codemasters.
There seems to finally be an update on the EU Playstation Network, although a day later than usual. Don't get too excited there. As of time of writing the update includes: Colin McRae: Dirt (Demo) Jed Ashforth Interview (Video) All the Kings Men (Blu-ray Trailer) As you have noticed there isn't even a sign of the latest Heavenly Sword video's, so hopefully I've caught it in the middle of an update.
Codemasters Europe announced Colin Mcrae on the PlayStation will be released in a special steelbook edition. It is yet unknown if this steelbook-version will include some kind of bonus materials and also the price of this special steelbook edition is still unknown. Hit the jump to see a image of this steelbook-edition.
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