Codemasters Working On A New Shooter

Back in 2006, UK Developer Criterion took a pause for the cause from developing super awesome and super speedy racing titles, more specifically the Burnout series, in order to create a short, but very sweet and visually outstanding (for its time) first person shooter called Black, for the PS2 and Xbox. Black’s lead designer, incidentally named Stuart Black, has now joined forces with Codemasters in order to create a new shooter. C&VG got their hands on the story, so you can head over there to get a little extra details, but the short quote below pretty much sums up the gist of it. Other than the information below, we don’t have any further details on the game.

“VP of Codemasters development Gavin Cheshire not only confirmed the appointment to CVG today – but added that two more impressive industry vets were working on a new title with Black.

Former Game Director at Sony Computer Entertainment London Studio Tom Gillo has been signed up as executive producer, whilst Andrew Wilson – previously Senior Producer on Split/Second at Blackrock – becomes Senior Producer.

The duo will lead an 80-strong development team working with Codemasters’ famed EGO engine.”

Rumours suggest that this new shooter will be revealed in the UK in a cover story in the next edition of Official Xbox Magazine UK. We’ll let you know as soon as we do, but right now we’re keeping it on our radar.

[Source: GameSpy]