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Humbly I present to you, our bundle of readers, this week’s Humble Weekly Bundle. It concerns seven games from venerable Brit publisher Codemasters, which are on average Quite Good. Racing! Man-shooting! Very sweary man-shooting! Imp-herding! An ARPG I’ve never played! More racing! More imp-herding!(more…)

UPDATE: Oh dear, turns out to be some mobile thing.

The DIRT and GRID games have all been jolly good, accessible fun, but I know a certain contingent of Metal Box Moving At High Speed fans have long rued Codemasters’ retreat from traditional rally games – specifically the once-ubiquitous Colin McRae Rally series. Looks as though mud’n'hatchback fans might be due to have all their Christmases come at once, as the CEO of Codemasters has announced plans to visit all their houses, tie them to a kitchen chair and force-feed them 85 whole turkeys, 340 roast potatoes and 21 pints of gravy each. After that, he might even confirm that there will indeed be a new McRae Rally game, as today’s viral teasing has heavily implied.(more…)

The Dirt 3 Complete Edition officially launches March 20 in North America, running (or racing) $40 for Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows. The Complete Edition contains more than $30 of additional content, which by our calculations means you're getting a 5,000 percent increase in value. Again, that's by our calculations, and we never said we were very good at mathing.

Codemasters has announced that it's releasing a "Complete Edition" of Dirt 3, due out sometime this March for Windows, Xbox 360, and the PS3. The $39.99 release will include the full game, 12 new tracks in two different new locations and lots of new cars and liveries to play around with.

The two new tracks run through the snowy mountain roads of the Alps and some urban streets in Shibuya, Tokyo, and the new cars include the BMW M3 Rally, the Ford Escort Mk II and the Mini Cooper S Gymkhana, in addition to a slew of others. You can see a few shots of the game below, and read the entire press release after the break.

Where can racing games go? How can they push boundaries and the same time provide us with the speed and competition we crave? The genre is already offering some clues about what it might be able to do, aside from improving graphics, realism, or going online, or doing anything else purely technical. The future of racing games is going to depend on designers doing interesting things, and fortunately for us some studios are doing just that.

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#steam Publishers Codemasters and graphics card manufacturer AMD have been running a promotion lately whereby purchasers of a card got a free copy of excellent racer Dirt 3. That offer has now been, uh, slightly expanded. More »

It's time to rip up the streets in Shibuya as the track becomes available via the X Games Asia pack!

It's time to rip up the streets in Yamanote as the track becomes available via the X Games Asia pack!

The Udagawacho expands upon the track listings in the DiRT 3 X Games Asia Pack!

The Udagawacho course in Shibuya expands upon the track listings in the DiRT 3 X Games Asia Pack!

Dirt 3 got its second DLC track this week. Whereas the previous pack, the Monte Carlo Track Pack, was about expanding Rally offerings, the X Games Asia Track Pack is about RallyCross. The addition clocks in at 400 Microsoft Points or $5 and adds two tracks with four course variations set in Shibuya, Tokyo...

What a funny world we live in. A world where $5 DLCs for a PC game must be purchased from their Xbox.com site. It’s a bit of a shame that something like that should be buried there, but the Codemasters.com URL now redirects to Facebook, so I suppose that’s not any more of an appropriate location to sell DLCs for a rather good racing game from, is it?

So what’s the download in question? Why it’s the X Games Asia pack for Dirt 3, a game which I thought was great. Something tells me I won’t be playing this particular set of tracks, however. You can check out if it tantalises your track-buds via the trailer, below.(more…)

Los Angeles - To coincide with this week's X Games 17, Codemasters announced that the X Games Asia Track Pack has launched today for DiRT 3 from the Xbox Live Marketplace and Games For Windows Marketplace (400 MSP) and PLAYSTATION NETWORK ($4.99). A new gameplay video showing how Tokyo is turned into the host of an official X Games event is now showing at www.youtube.com/dirt3game...

TORONTO, CA - Virgin Gaming, the premier online destination for competitive console gamers, is shifting into overdrive as it unleashes the intense, white-knuckle racing action found in Codemasters' DiRT 3 upon its competitive gaming community. Fans of the critically acclaimed racer, which has shippe...

Burn through the snowy fog of a Monte Carlo winter.

Turn on your high beams as you blaze through an unlit Monte Carlo road!

Soak up Monte Carlo's sunny rays in this racing gameplay.

Dirt 3's gotten some downloadable attention in the form of car packs since its release, but Codemasters finally released a new location to race. For 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and Games for Windows or $9.99 on PSN, players can now take a trip to the mountains of Monte Carlo. This location, set...

Los Angeles - Codemasters is pleased to reveal that the Monte Carlo Track Pack is available now for DiRT 3 on the Xbox Live Marketplace and Games For Windows Marketplace (800 MSP), and will be launched tomorrow on the PlayStation Network ($9.99)...

According to Codemasters, players have spent 292 years playing Dirt 3, neatly pre-dating the invention of the internal combustion engine. To add on a couple of centuries, here’s the first fully-fledged chunk of content for Codemaster’s superb rally racer, improving on the rather typical showing of extra cars already available. Centring on the Monte Carlo Rally, you can expect snow and tarmac courses through the Alps, changing it up some from faffing around a disused ironworks in Michigan.

The DLC should be available for purchase in the GFWL Marketplace soon, and a trailer for Monte Carlo is after the jump.

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#watchthis We've seen plenty of games trying to achieve photographic realism, but how often do we come across attempts to make real life look more like a game? The folks over at Codemasters have done just that, with their latest tie-in video for last month's racing title Dirt 3. More »

Last Friday, some malevolent entity got into codemasters.com, and obtained access to information on the Dirt 3 code redemption page, the E Store, and the CodeM database. The publisher sent out an email today warning users about the site's code having been mastered.

The hacker was able to access information including customer names, addresses, and email addresses (but not payment information), and passwords, along with Xbox Live Gamertags and IP addresses. Codemasters shut its site down immediately upon detecting the intrusion. A new website will launch later this year, with Codemasters planning to redirect to its Facebook page in the meantime.

"Whilst we do not have confirmation that any of this data was downloaded onto an external device," Codies said in the email to users, "we have to assume that, as access was gained, all of these details were compromised and/or stolen." You can read the full email after the break ... right after you change your password anywhere that you had been using the same one you used on the Codies site.

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Codemasters has announced the first DLC for Dirt 3, and says that all proceeds from the sale will go to charity. The Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack is now available for the Xbox Live and Games for Windows versions of the game (for 160 Microsoft points / $2), and allows players to drive a Ford Escort Mk II with five different liveries. The PS3 version will be available as soon as the PlayStation Store returns.

This was the car famously driven by Colin McRae, the original namesake of the Dirt series who died in 2007. All proceeds from the pack will go to the Colin McRae Vision Charity, which raises funds for worthwhile causes around the world in McRae's name.

Codemasters says that this is the first of a few weeks' worth of DLC packs. Each will feature more cars and new tracks going forward.

Los Angeles - Today Codemasters announced that the Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack is available for DiRT 3 from Xbox Live Marketplace and Games For Windows Marketplace for 160MSP; all profits from the sale of this download content pack are being donated to the Colin McRae Vision Charity...

#sitonit A pretty crappy car, maybe, but the point remains: you could still buy a working, actual automobile for the cost of this steering wheel set minted for racing game Dirt 3. More »

#watchthis Ah, Monaco. A charming Principality, famous for its azure harbors, Grace Kelly and...car rallies. Lots and lots of car rallies. The folks over at Codemasters would like to invite you to this car-racing paradise in their newest gameplay trailer for Dirt 3, giving a glimpse of the title's Rallycross, Gymkhana and Head 2 Head stages. More »

The streets of Monaco become your plaything in DiRT 3!

Three versions go toe-to-toe in the dirt to find out which comes out on top!

Take to snowy slopes in a machine built for speed and traction!

Race to the Finnish line in this picturesque gameplay!