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'I want to be a magnet for emerging talent' says CEO Rod Cousens

The UK industry’s biggest publishers have revealed the challenges that await them next year: and it appears the major worry is that ‘you can’t please all of the people, all of the time’. According to the likes of EA, Ubisoft and Activision, the trial of keeping the increasingly lucrative casual …

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

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 …

Codemasters will smash through the 100m revenue barrier this year and rubber stamp its position as the fastest growing video games company in the world, according to CEO Rod Cousens. The British publisher this week posted its FY ‘07 results (ending June 20th) which showed sales up 38 per cent …

MCV sister site Licensing.biz reports that Codemasters Online has released the official game based on hit 1980s chick flick Dirty Dancing. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the classic date movie, fans can now step back to 1963 in the PC action puzzler, learn to dance with the resident …

Spearheaded by a 151 per cent increase in US net sales and a 332 per cent growth in US dollar sales, Codemasters is celebrating its most impressive ever year for the 12 months ending June 30th 2007. Overall group sales for the period increased by 38 per cent, hitting 71.5 …

As the importance of digital distribution continues to grow, UK publisher Codemasters has become the latest big name label to sign up to Valve’s popular online distribution service Steam. The first Codies content to appear on the network in Europe will be Clive Barker’s Jericho, which will be released online …

Codemasters has acquired the rights to produce a series of games based on the 14 million selling Ology book series, MCV can reveal. The deal with Templar Publishing will see the publisher convert best-selling encyclopaedia-style books such as Dragonology, Wizardology and Pirateology into games exclusively for the DS and Wii. …

Codemasters has acquired the rights to produce a series of games based on the 14 million selling Ology book series, MCV can reveal. The deal with Templar Publishing will see the publisher convert best-selling encyclopaedia-style books such as Dragonology, Wizardology and Pirateology into games exclusively for the DS and Wii. …