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Industry veterans join Codemasters

Codemasters has unveiled its new management team tasked with leading the firm into its fourth consecutive year of growth. Headlining the new appointments is senior vice president of publishing Axel Herr. Herr is the former managing director of THQ, Nintendo of Europe, and most recently, CEO of Bally Wulff Entertainment, …

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Cousens: ‘Who needs a $100m game’?

Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has candidly revealed the development cost of the publisher’s biggest games – and questioned the megabucks approach of the firm’s rivals. The revelations came in Cousens’ speech at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival this week, in which he made the case for the UK’s strength as a …

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E3 08: SingStar, EyeToy rival Lips on the way to 360

As expected, there was an announcement regarding some motion-sensing technology from Microsoft at E3 today – but it was SingStar rival Lips, not a Wii Remote clone, that provided it. The head of development on the title, Keiichi Yano – who was previously responsible for Elite Beat Agents and Gitaroo …

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Codemasters screeches into Japan

Codemasters has expanded its publishing operation into Japan – with its brand set to appear on a boxed release for the first time. The UK publisher’s Race Driver: GRID title will get a fully localised release in the territory on PS3 and 360 in the winter, and will be bundled …

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