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British developer to work on title with role-playing masters

Radio documentary following studentsâ?? experience to air next week

Online firm's middleware to help make PC game for mass-market audience

Having been in development for three years and impressing the industry and gamers alike with Colin McRae: Dirt, Codemasters’ Neon middleware engine has been renamed EGO. The engine is currently being employed in the development of Race Driver: GRID and Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising. We made significant investments in …

Proprietory middleware upgraded and rebranded as part of firm's £40.5m investment in development

Michel Guillemot to look at pushing down barriers to mobile development success

Mario may be making a triple dent on the Wii charts at the moment with the success of Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Party 8, but the plumber’s high-flying antics look set to receive a further boost next year with the confirmation of a …

Burnout Paradise, the racer which has been dubbed the first ‘proper’ next-gen instalment in the series, will arrive in Europe on both Xbox 360 and PS3 on January 25th, Eurogamer reports. The wait for Criterion’s latest instalment in its manic racing franchise has certainly been a long one, but the …

A brand new trailer for Rockstar’s massively anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV, entitled ‘Move up, ladies’, is due to hit the virtual airwaves tonight at 8:00pm. The last time the publisher unleashed a GTAIV trailer on the internet the huge web traffic forced the company’s official site to a crushing …

Australian developer facing financial difficulties, says source