touchstone polisher: Codemasters Restructuring, 80 Jobs Rumoured to be Under Threat

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Comment #1 by EngagedMetal7

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:18:49 AM

So... someone who doesn't even work at codemasters is giving you the figures for this? wtf?

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Comment #2 by Mega Man

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:20:02 AM

Such a shame for anyone to loose their job. Hope this won't lead to administration

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Comment #3 by pete_2

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:26:39 AM

they should bring back Dizzy, he'd save them!

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Comment #4 by macd

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:28:42 AM

I thought Codies were making a lot of money, given F1, Grid and Dirt have been good to them in terms of sales.

However, given it says they won't be affected, I can't actually think of a non-driving games of theirs I own apart from the two Operation Flashpoint games on 360. I suppose they could have had a few other games that just sucked, but of the games of theirs I own, I really like them all.

Good luck to anyone who does get the chop, seems like the industry is getting a fair bit smaller at the moment.

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Comment #5 by cockblocker

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:29:59 AM

The micro machines 2 4 player cartridge was the greatest invention of the 20th century. You can forget nuclear power, Personal computes the airplane and antibiotics.

This beast:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Mega_drive_j-cart.jpg

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Comment #6 by Gone4aDuck

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:38:06 AM

A big problem with codies is their after release support. Ashes cricket 09 got no patches for its faults. International cricket 2010 online gameplay NEVER worked and they gave no patches or support at all. Even the f1 games have bugs, and they get maybe 1 patch if its bad enough. A once respectable company that's lost it's way in recent years.

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Comment #7 by cheevo360

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:42:56 AM

Woke up few mins ago and look at window and I said "WTF BIG SNOWY OUTSIDE" and now when I switched on laptop and until log in here and again I said "WTF ANOTHER DEVELOPER FOR ANOTHER PEOPLE LOSING THEIR JOBS". Very sad again. Pain in asses in recent of years with so many companies and people losing their jobs in world. Good luck to those people losing jobs over Codemasters.

Can't believe heavy snowy today and more people losing job today. Good and bad news. :/

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Comment #8 by mikefizzled

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 06:43:44 AM

@3 He most definitely will not. They raised ?25,000 of the required ?350,000 to make a new Dizzy game on Kickstarter

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Comment #9 by Hurricane Of 87

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 07:02:18 AM

Dan Webb's achievement list will turn things around, right? Right?!

@8: Ouch.

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Comment #10 by Samurai Bladez

Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 07:09:43 AM

I wish codemasters would redo the dizzy games that i grew up with and bring them out on xbox live i would be happy to pay for the all even if it was 1200msp for 1 dizzy game.