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Disney has announced that there will be significant layoffs at Black Rock Studios, its Brighton-based outfit responsible for the Spit/Second and Pure racing games.

Speculation over staff cuts at Black Rock began yesterday when an unidentified source told Eurogamer that as many as 100 jobs were "at risk." Today, Disney said it was moving forward with the cuts, announcing, "Disney Interactive Studios confirms...

Blackrock Studios' 2008 racing game Pure found tremendous critical success. So much so, that it appears that there were plans, at least initially, for a sequel. However, according to a blog post by a former Blackrock Studios employee, Pure 2 was canceled by Disney some time in 2009.

Nominations for Develop Industry Excellence Awards are unveiled, and two developers are likely to walk away with most of them. Rockstar and Media Molecule will be contesting for the most category nominations. Rockstar snags six of them with GTA: Chinatown Wars and GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned from Rockstar while Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet alone is nominated for another five.

Mitch Powers on Official PlayStation Blog: What's up folks! This is Mitch Powers, senior global brand manager from Disney Interactive Studios. Just wanted to drop a quick note and let everyone know that trophies will be available for PURE on PLAYSTATION 3 this Wednesday, May 6. Whether you're a hardcore PURE player or you're just getting started, there are trophies you will be able to earn when you throw down on PURE as you nail the sick tricks and huge aerial jumps in Black Rock's action sports game. The update includes more than 30 trophies at the Gold, Silver and Bronze levels. There's also a Platinum Trophy that can be earned only by gathering up all of the other trophies in the game. We are super excited to finally bring this offering to all of you huge PURE fans! So go get the update this Wednesday, and we look forward to seeing you pull off tricks on all the different tracks!

Along with the latest patch for Pure on PS3, Disney added trophy support for the game! Some of them are even retroactive. The game has 42 Trophies: 24 Bronze, 14 Silver, 3 Gold, 1 Platinum Check the full list!

Taking place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, this year's MCV Industry Excellence Awards will be the most hotly-contested ever, with 17 accolades up for grabs, across a diverse range of categories covering the entire industry. Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sega and Activision will battle it out for the Games Publisher Award, whilst individual titles Guitar Hero World Tour, GTA IV, FIFA 09, Fallout 3, Wii Fit and Call of Duty: World At War compete for Game Campaign.

If you just loaded up PURE you may have noticed you need to update to version 1.01

That Aussie Game Site recaps another important week of game news. Featuring their theories on Bungie's Keep It Clean trailer, the revelation of a familiar looking nemesis in Gears of War 2 and they discuss the disappointing mix-up that left no one playing the the much anticipated Mirror's Edge demo.

Pure is an off-road, trick-oriented ATV racer, but you wouldn't know it from the title. Most racing games attempt to be descriptive about their content in the title, but Pure is the opposite. It tells you nothing about the game itself. That sounds like a risk, so MTV Multiplayer asked Pure game designer Chris Bowles how they came up with the name.

Black Rock director Jason Avent has stated a sequel to the highly welcomed off road racer 'Pure' is being considered along with downloadable content for the original.