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Next year’s Grid 2 will represent the biggest investment British publisher Codemasters has ever made in a video game. Codemasters announced the sequel to the BAFTA award-winning racer earlier this week, showing the games media new technology and advanced features that have been in development for almost five years. It …
Read More »UPDATED: Why Codemasters won’t be ‘doing a BioWare’
Despite being the latest publisher to brave the wrath of the ferocious online games community, Codemasters is sticking by its guns. It was revealed yesterday that the Britsoft studio is cutting the in-car view option from freshly announced racer Grid 2. So what, you may say? Well, in-car is for …
Read More »Grid 2 ‘will set new standards for racing games’
Codemasters has finally lifted the lid on the next game in its acclaimed Grid series. Grid 2 will launch on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC next year. It was unveiled to the games press last week and was shown running on PC, giving the media a brief glimpse at what …
Read More »The Darling Diaries: The role of art in games
Kwalee CEO and Codemasters co-founder David Darling kicks off his new monthly Develop blog looking at the best practices in integrating art into development
Read More »Codemasters reveals Mario Kart-inspired F1 spin-off
F1 2012 is not the only Formula One game coming to retail this year – with Codemasters preparing an over-the-top spin-off for Christmas. F1 Race Stars has more in common with Mario Kart than the hardcore, realistic F1 simulator series. The game presents iconic F1 stars – including Fernando Alonso, …
Read More »Codemasters Birmingham revs new kart racer
New Mario Kart-esque racer coming from Codies' F1 studio
Read More »UPDATED: GRID 2 will follow F1 2012 release, could launch this year
While Codemasters is officially working on F1 2012 for the fall, a new report claims the racing developer is also working on GRID 2 for release sometime after. CVG reports the latest OXM rumours page reveals that the original GRID team is in high gear developing the sequel to the …
Read More »What’s Out Today? w/e May 25th, 2012
Ubisoft assaults the FPS market with the long-awaited return of its flagship Tom Clancy shooter. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier equips players with the weapons of tomorrow and throws them into some of the world’s deadliest battlefield. The new Gunsmith mechanic allows them to craft more advanced weaponry, complete with motion …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Codies’ new focus on racing games
Codemasters’ decision to abandon the shooter genre was made last September. Bodycount – the firm’s bold attempt at an FPS – had failed. And the game’s Guildford studio was shut. Its racing studios are all that remain. And last month the publisher made it official. The days of Operation Flashpoint …
Read More »Recruitment Spotlight – April 2012
Our monthly studio recruitment update looks at Crytek, Version 2 Games and new studio PixelFoundry
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