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Company Profile
Codemasters
Website
www.codemasters.com
About
Codemasters is a developer and publisher of entertainment software appealing to all ages and interests.
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Scott Rombach
Game Designer
Accolades
Articles featuring Codemasters
Dishing The Dirt
Codemasters suffer job losses in ongoing Electronic Arts takeover aftermath
After the acquisition of rivals, restructuring of teams and lacklustre sales, owners EA have stepped in to "align teams and resources to meet evolving business needs"
Dreaming Big
NDreams hires former Codemasters CEO Frank Sagnier
NDreams CEO welcomes Sagnier’s wisdom and passion to the board
Reshuffle
Codemasters CEO Frank Sagnier will step down, four months after EA acquisition
Rashid Varachia will step down at the end of July as well
Welcome To The Family
EA completes its purchase of Codemasters
The pair hope to usher in "an exciting new era for racing games"
Possible Deal
Codemasters execs approve EA's acquisition offer
Still needs the backing of other shareholders
Competitive Offer
EA outbids Take-Two for Codemasters
Racing firm has accepted the bid, Grand Theft Auto giant "considering its position"
Big Money
Codemasters agrees to sell to Take-Two
Racing firm goes to the GTA parent company for close to $1bn
Possible Acquisition
Take-Two possibly buying UK publisher Codemasters
GTA giant has until the start of December to say if it actually wants to snap up the British racing specialist
Round The Track
Sperasoft teams up with Codemasters to work on racing titles
"We are proud to be a partner of Codemasters and to share in their cultural principles"
Codemasters' New Cook
Codemasters hires Alex Cook as its new global sales director
Previously worked for Jagex
Stock Sold
India's Reliance Entertainment reduces ownership to 14.2 per cent of Codemasters
Racing firm's CEO Frank Sagnier says that OnRush has been played by 2.5m people as of March 2019
Data
UK games industry gender pay gap widens
Median hourly wage for women drops 4.78 per cent, mean figure down four per cent
Deal
Codemasters and NetEase are making a mobile game together
UK firm to make $8m in revenue over the next three years
Gearing Up
Codemasters teams up with Eden Games to develop F1 Mobile Racing
The new racing game will come to iOS and Android with the date to be announced
Debt Collection
Codemasters plots $20 million mobile games investment following IPO
But most of the money raised will go to paying off debt to current majority shareholder
Gender Pay Gap
UK games companies reveal gender pay gap
New figures show men earning more than women
Malta Closure
Codemasters shuts down Battle Decks studio to refocus on racing games
11-person team folded into other studios
Micro Machines
Chillingo and Codemasters bringing Micro Machines to mobile
Partnership stays strong
Play Your Cards Right
Codemasters' Scott Rombach on Chillingo-published CCG Battle Decks
How Codemasters' Malta studio cooked up a new mobile IP
Monetizer Special: 8 games with very weird IAP economies
Some clever and some stupid decisions revealed
Codemasters: Console giants need to fight their complacency if they are to make it on mobile
Digital veep Gary Rowe on firm's McRae move