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.
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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.
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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!"
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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!
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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.
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If you just loaded up PURE you may have noticed you need to update to version 1.01
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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Black Rock director Jason Avent has told VG247 that the studio hopes to extend ATV racer Pure into another game, and that DLC may well be on the way for the game.
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Speaking to VG247 today, Pure director Jason Avent said that the differences between PS3 and 360 were comparable to the differences between LCD and Plasma TVs.
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Pure, the award-winning action sports video game, shipped today and will be available at all major retailers on September 23. Pure will be available for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Windows based-PC.

Developed by Black Rock Studio, Disney Interactive Studios' award-winning development studio in Brighton, England, Pure delivers heart-pounding racing experiences unique to the genre by taking players over the edge with massive jumps and spectacular airborne tricks. Pure is set in seven real locations all over the globe and features more than 35 multiple-route tracks and 70 unbelievable tricks.
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Disney Interactive has released a dozen images of the cast of their upcoming off-road racing title, Pure, along with character descriptions and a list of Achievements for the Xbox 360 version.
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A 26 song tracklist has be released for Pure, such songs included are Pendulum -"Granite' and 'Showdown"
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Cynamide:

"Pure is the first off-road racing game in which up to 16 drivers against each other. We could try in Leipzig, how much fun the whole. The conclusion: the game not only looks great, but unfolded in multiplayer mode all of its charm."
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Get your hands on a playable demo of the upcoming game, Pure, by pre-ordering the title.
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Disney has announced that a demo of its impressive looking off-road ATV racer, Pure, will be available to download via the PlayStation Network next month.

The demo will include a tutorial mode, allowing you to get to grips with the new trick system, along with a single racetrack set in Italy.
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Here are 23 Pure screenshots that weighed in at 231.7MB. Excessive? Yes, but the game does look bloody nice. The environments look so good it's the sort of game that should be seen in screens that are nine-bazillion pixels wide, but we shrunk them down to a sensible size so as not to snap the internet, and so you can actually see them today. It's not just a pretty face - it plays pretty well ... » Read More

Game director Jason Avent is confident that Pure will be exactly the same on PS3 and 360.

Speaking to Eurogamer, he said there was nothing to worry about and that the Sony version of the off-road arcade racer was up to standard as early as January this year.

"It's the same; exactly the same," Jason Avent assured us. "I'd say around January time we had all the functionality in the PS3 version that we had in the 360.
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Disney Interactive Studios has told MCV that its off-road racing title Pure will arrive in stores on September 26th.

The release date applies to both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of the game whilst the previously announced PC edition has yet to be dated.
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