In an interview with Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens, he declared that his company is attractive for companies outside the gaming market. He was able to say so because the company had a good 2007.

The successful titles they were  by able able to produce the past year include Colin McRae: DIRT (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360), Overlord (PC, Xbox 360) and Clive Barker's Jericho (PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3). Details of the interview are in the full article.

Gravity Interactive is going from the cutesy feel of Ragnarok Online and plunging straight into the deep, dark shadows with their newest offering, Requiem: Bloodymare. This new "mature-themed" MMORPG is currently set for an early 2008 release. You can get some first details about it in the full article.

The 80s and the 90s can be considered as the golden era of cartoons. It's the time when the concept of mutant turtles were born, robots as tall as buildings were created, and talking bears with cute drawings on their chest was considered cool.

Entertainment media has spawned new avenues in modern Earth, but we're sure these old-school cartoons can still kick ass. So in this article, we look at old-school cartoons and wonder how great it would be to have them as a video game.

In an email to Valve, gamer Thomas was able to confirm that a bunch of Valve games (including three games in the Orange Box) will be getting additional achievements, namely: Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source.

Read Valve's email in the full article.

British game publisher Codemasters is enjoying the best fiscal cycle yet in its 22-year history as its US sales spiked up by 22%, sparking a North American overall growth of 150 %. Considered instrumental in the deal is its distribution pact with Warner Home Entertainment and titles such as Overlord (PC, Microsoft Xbox 360) and DiRT (PC, Xbox 360).

Beautiful and busty babes in video games have always been one of the biggest fantasies of any hardcore gamer. From the inception of Lara Croft's... magnums in Tomb Raider to many of today's digitized vixens, they provide a lot of much needed fan service while playing our favorite games.

The December issue of Playboy magazine proudly brings to us its top picks of today's most vivacious women in video games. The feature article "Playing Rough" is actually the fourth annual tribute the world renowned men's magazine has published for gamers to drool over.

Read the list of luscious women from Playboy's picks right after the jump!

Article originally posted Oct 27, 2007 at 02:20PM

(Editor's Note: Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble; eye of newt and... all that jazz. What's your costume going to be like this year? It's finally that time of year when CosPlay fanatics can run wild in the streets without fear of getting hounded by the cops. Do we have some people coming in as Kratos this year? Maybe wanna dress up as a character from a new IP, like say, Altair from Assassin's Creed - he seems to be pretty popular among the ladies. Be that as it may, it's time to don the QuickJump QuickPeek suit - hold the eye of newt, please! The 18th edition rolls out today!)

Clear the decks for this one, folks! Following last week's #17, QuickJump QuickPeek 18 has parked its merry bottom on the QJ blogs! Halloween is just around the corner and this edition of our weekly recap has nothing less than the most wicked news and updates. Of course, "wicked" here may connote either of two things: 1) wicked in the sense of being vilely putrid in nature, or 2) wicked in the sense of being made out of pure win, awesome, or [insert your own expletive of jubilation].

This week, we've got a heavy dosage of updates that'll make pumpkin heads roll. For one, Clive Barker's Jericho is already on shelves this week for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 - that right there is probably enough to give you some goosebumps for the next couple of weeks. Rawr. Now just to give you a slight swig from the QuickPeek cauldron, it's a potion of sorts with various PSP batteries colliding, highly-anticipated games finally getting the gold status, and some little after taste of bold remarks from iconic analysts, CEOs, and attorneys.

Something wicked this way comes! On with the pumpkin rolling!

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Heads up, fans of the gaming occult! We've just learned that Codemasters has released Clive Barker's Jericho on Steam, meaning people can now pre-purchase the adventures of Jericho squad on their computers.

For those who haven't heard of the game, here's a quick recap of what Clive Barker's Jericho is all about. In Clive Barker's Jericho, you get to play as members of the Jericho Squad, an elite task force of soldiers with experience in both military and paranormal encounters. Your team is sent on a mission to defeat an ancient evil that rests in the city of Al-Khali, and now you'll have to control the whole team in your quest to take down evil.

In any event, Clive Barker's Jericho is available on Steam for the pre-purchase price of US$ 39.95. Interested gamers can check out the link below, which leads to the purchasing page for the game.

With Clive Barker's Jericho's release date now upon us, we get intimate with the Jericho team one last time - and this one's about the main protagonist of Codemasters' supernatural horror FPS, Captain Devin Ross. Probably the only ordinary-looking guy on the team (except for his ridiculously awesome arm tattoos), he's the guy you'll be playing as through the entire game for the PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Sony PlayStation 3.

But wait a second. If he's the one we're going to be controlling, then why do the previous videos clearly show the player controlling the other members of the Jericho Squad? That's because of Devin's unique ability to possess humans - humans being his own teammates.

Near the beginning of Clive Barker's Jericho, the operation goes awry with the good captain's untimely death at the hands of a particularly ugly-looking monster. But with his power to possess the other members of the Jericho squad, Devin's spirit lives on in the hearts of his buddies. Or something. Which is entirely too bad, as his Patrioteer gun looks like it packs a massive punch, and his Psychic Healing ability looks super-handy.

In any case, check out Capt. Devin Ross in action in the video of Clive Barker's Jericho below. Enjoy!

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Clive Barker's Jericho from Codemasters and Mercury Steam (PC, Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360) just right around the corner, fans and FPS fanatics are certainly getting ready for some fine blast 'em up action involving lots of guns, and lots of undead baddies. And to get us all hyped is this introductory video of the last member of the Jericho Squad, Captain Xavier Jones.

He may be the last team member to get his introduction video, but he's definitely not the least - as he sports the ability to not only see potential threats from a distance via Seer magic, but also possess enemies for a brief period of time. This lets him control the ghoulies and send them into their own self-destruction. A flaming, explosion-flavored sort of self-destruction.

Oh, and he's got this shotgun/submachine hybrid dealie of a weapon. That's cool too. Enjoy the video.

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