Half of Swordfish studios bought

[Kage]

The manchester office was bought by an MMO technology creating company:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55883

 

[esoj]

more good news hopefully for our friends at swordfish. at least it looks like they will still be around anyway and maybe have a bit more freedom now. let's hope an online sports game is Monumental Games plans for them.

 

[Gay-Guy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (esoj @ Nov 13 2008, 09:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

more good news hopefully for our friends at swordfish. at least it looks like they will still be around anyway and maybe have a bit more freedom now. let's hope an online sports game is Monumental Games plans for them.[/b]

Except some of the key programmers from the original JLR team are no longer with them.

 

[esoj]

and the other swordfish studio has been bought by codemasters very interesting indeed.

http://au.codemasters.com/news/?showarticle=11959
Today we’ve announced that we’ve reached an agreement with Activision Vivendi to take over Swordfish Studios, the Birmingham-based games development house.

Swordfish and Codemasters have partnered previously for the development of hit sports ***les Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 and Jonah Lomu Rugby. Most recently Swordfish led the creation of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand for Vivendi.

With the exciting plans we have, this will add further strength in depth to our development side, with Swordfish Studio’s development team being integrated and managed as part of our network of studios.

Carrying the Codemasters Studios imprint, the studio will create original content using the company’s proprietary EGO Engine, the technology behind racing hits Colin McRae: DiRT and Race Driver: GRID and is currently powering the highly-anticipated Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.

 

[esoj]

This bit was mentioned in the announcement they made on their forums about this

http://community.codemasters.com/forum/ann...ment.php?f=1127
The studio will be run by Trevor Williams, Founder and Managing Director of the Birmingham-based studio and will bring immediate additional resource to our development operations.

could this be a return to them making sports games I sure hope so. it's interesting how these things turn out since they were heavily involved with codemasters before they were bought out by vivendi and now with codemasters buying them they are back working with codemasters again.