Last time we saw Codemasters' FPS Bodycount be back at E3, when creative director Stuart Black declared Lady Gaga as one a the game's influences. Cut t' six months later 'n Black has left the company, 'n the game's been delayed t' next summer. So how's Bodycount doing?

Not as bad as ye might think. It turns out Black's sailing away Codemasters wasn't completely unexpected. "We'd been talking about it for a while," Andy Wilson, the game's director, told us at a recent press event. "He had it in his mind -- there'd been some hints -- 'n we started talking about it more shortly after E3. it be a personal decision with the sea dog -- it be certainly not something t' do with us or anything that be happening on the project. It be just his time t' go."

So Black moved on, but Bodycount, Wilson assured, be "still going t' be the game that it be going t' be at the beginning."