News and updates about Codemasters.

There aren’t many motivations while playing a demo that speak as loud as this particular one does.  Codemasters released a demo for their soon to be released racer, GRID, today and at the same time they pulled the curtains off of their eBay Motors Challenge.  The GRID playable demo just so happens to be a US-exclusive [...]

“To create the most intense racing experience, Codemasters consulted with the only people to have that experience.” GRID is coming this Summer to the Xbox 360 with a challenging career mode to thrilling, incident-packed online races featuring up to 12 players.  Codemasters shared the latest media on the game featuring Felipe Ortiz and Stuart Hall of the [...]

Fancy a bit of a race?  A new world of motorsport is brought to life in the new  racing title from Codemasters called GRID™.  Featuring aggressive wheel-to-wheel racing, spectacular crashes and a taster of the jaw-dropping damage engine, GRID aims to make racing exciting again.  You can check out a gameplay trailer here with game footage captured from [...]

Codemasters and US creative studio Blue Omega Entertainment today announced Damnation™, a new videogame franchise set to come leaping onto the Xbox 360, PS3 and Games for Windows this Winter.  After seeing the screenshots and reading the details of it I have but one thing to ask…is it Winter 2008 yet?  Damn I want Damnation now!  [...]

I came across this news in the forums today.  I know many of you enjoyed the recently released DiRT so you will recognize this name as it’s been the name of the most popular rally racing series in video games.  The man behind the Codemasters franchise, Colin McRae, was killed in a helicopter crash near his home [...]

In just one week, DiRT has managed to exceed the expectations of many by selling 500K (500,000) units globally for Codemasters.  That’s a lot of dirty racing and it bodes well for the genre to debut with such strong sales.  The playable demos for the Xbox 360 and the PC have been downloaded over 500K times [...]

June 19.  That’s the day we’ll all be getting a little dirty with Codemasters’ DiRT.  (those of us in North America that is)  Until then, sit down and enjoy one last video before that day.  It’s a video with Jon Davis-Hunt, Senior Game Designer at Codemasters, detailing the replay function in DiRT .  It’s also the [...]

I woke up this morning to check on my Hour of Victory demo status (started downloading last night and fell asleep) and when I did something surprised me.  There was yet another demo in the Xbox Live Marketplace.  This one is full of tiny little minions for you to control.  Yes, a demo of Codemasters’ [...]

Since the announcement of the next-gen consoles, the talk of the town has been all about a handful of features. Horsepower tends to be high on that list, along with particle effects and how much geometry developers allow on-screen. While those are valid topics to be concerned with, one thing that hasn’t received anywhere near [...]