THE WORLD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL GAME STUDIOS
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31 CODEMASTERS STUDIOS TOP TITLES
UK PUBLISHER
HIGHEST UK CHART
£11.73m FORMATS
UK RELEASE REVENUE DATE
Founded: 1986 Owned by: Codemasters
1 COLIN MCRAE: DIRT
STATISTICS
Last year’s position: 27
CODEMASTERS
3
XB360, PS3, PC
JUN 07
£6.37m
Head count: 260 Revenue per capita: £45,115
2 BRIAN LARA INTERNATIONAL CRICKET 2007
CODEMASTERS
3
XB360, PS2, PC MAR 07
£4.11m
Address: Stoneythorpe, Southam, Warwickshire, CV47 2DL, UK
3 LMA MANAGER 2007
CONTACTS
CODEMASTERS
4
PS2, XB360, PC
SEP 06
£0.69m
CODEMASTERS
2
PS2, PC, XB
FEB 06
£0.20m
CODEMASTERS FERAL
10
PS2, PC, XB, MAC
SEP 04
£0.11m
TOTAL:
£11.48m
www.codemasters.com
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5 COLIN MCRAE RALLY 2005
Codemasters’ successful 2007 sales sheet hardly hints at the activity going on beneath the surface. Last year’s bestsellers were familiar – Colin McRae, Brian Lara, LMA and TOCA might have figured in any number of years – but back at base Codies invested some £40 million in game development in the
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12 months to June 2007. Key has been ongoing work on its proprietary EGO Engine technology; it also opened a studio in Guildford and established an internal art outsourcing team in Kuala Lumpur. The publisher’s year was touched by tragedy in September, however, when Colin
(98% of total revenues)
McRae died in an accident that also claimed the lives of his son and two family friends. Looking forward to 2008, work on the internal projects Race Driver GRID, Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising and ‘Project Strike Team’ continues. The masterplan remains an IPO this year, headed by CEO Rod Cousens.