Gamasutra writes:
Several former employees at Blue Omega, developers behind the recent Damnation, have confirmed with Kotaku today that the entire dev team has been laid off following "issues" with Codemasters, Damnation's publishers.
This week's new video game releases:
A new trailer was released today for Blue Omega Entertainment's upcoming steampunk shooter Damnation, this one focusing specifically on the multiplayer aspects of the game. Narrated by producer Richard Gilbert, the trailer hammers home the point that, because the characters can climb on any surface in the game, there will be nearly infinite number of attack and defense positions during multiplayer matches.
Here's this weeks Video Games released for Europe. There's a couple of highlights this week; Punch Out! for the Wii, UFC 2009: Undisputed and Bionic Commando for both PS3 and Xbox 360.
Codemasters has announced that Damnation, with a serious delay, will appear on May 22 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Originally, the game of Blue Omega needed to come out last year.
Codemasters have confirmed that, as part of their wider expansion strategy, they were looking to localise languages in certain emerging markets.
Brodiesan over at PS3 Attitude writes:
Brutal Gamer writes - 'All I can really say is 'Wow' (no, not World of Warcraft, you idiot.) This morning I received a rather large email which within it contained the press release (which you can find after the break) and a bunch of new screen shots, both multiplayer and single player of Codemaster's upcoming steam-punk-vertigo-fanatic shooter Damnation'
Speaking to GAMER.tm, lead game designer Jacob Minkoff confirmed that both console versions of Damnation will be near identical when it's released this winter.
Destructoid hands-on:
Eurogamer writes: "Damnation developer Blue Omega reckons there was "no frigging way" BioShock should have ended up being successful.
Damnation is a brand-new IP from Codemasters described as a third person action/shooter in development for PC, PS3 and 360.In development at Blue Omega Entertainment, formerly a video studio that's now venturing into the world of games, Damnation "will feature huge, open environments, frenetic combat, daredevil acrobatics and high-octane vehicle-based stunts."We seriously need to get the phrase "high-octane" banned.The game is said to be ...
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Tuesday, 6th March 2008 ¿ 2pm UK ¿ Codemasters®, a leading video game publisher, and US creative studio Blue Omega Entertainment today announced Damnation, a new videogame franchise set to come leaping onto the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows® this winter.