Mon, Jul 19, 2010 | 12:35 BST
Confirmed: Stuart Black exits Bodycount team
Codemasters has confirmed to VG247 that swear-meister Stuart Black “has decided to move on” from the Bodycount team.
“Having created a great vision and direction for Bodycount, Stuart has decided to move on after three years with us,” said Codemasters Guildford studio manager Adrian Bolton.
“He will see out his design role until October and, through the transition period, will continue to work with the talented development team that will take the game through to completion.”
No specific reason was given for the move.
Back to Black
Black became an easily quotable figurehead for the Codemasters shooter thanks to his penchant for swearing like a fucking trooper in interviews related to the game, which was first announced in March.
The developer, who previously worked on Criterion FPS Black, went on a PR assault in the following months, saying the game’s exploding crates were “fucking operas”, that he wanted to “fuck” realism over fun and that Lady Gaga “blew” his “fucking socks off”.
Black claimed Bodycount was to reinvent the genre, extolling the virtues of story in shooting.
Never more.
Sounds like the team’s getting on with it, whatever the reason for his leaving. Bodycount is due out for 360 and PS3 early next year.
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Posted in: Action, Codemasters, Development, Hot, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Bodycount, Codemasters Guildford, Stuart Black
14 comments
#1
Erthazus
19/07/10, 12:36 pm
After all this PR there is only one word: LOL
#2
Blerk
19/07/10, 12:37 pm
He’s off to start his own studio, called ‘Fuck Fucking Fuckers’.
#3
StolenGlory
19/07/10, 12:38 pm
@2 Yeah I heard that too. I also heard that David Jaffe was joint director also.
#4
fj
19/07/10, 12:50 pm
He’s off to create a Lady Gaga sock fucking game. World exclusive.
#5
get2sammyb
19/07/10, 12:54 pm
How absolutely bizarre. There has to be more to this.
#6
Johnny Cullen
19/07/10, 12:56 pm
Of course there is: he’s gone to SCEE Studio London to do a Lady Gaga version of SingStar.
#7
mojo
19/07/10, 1:00 pm
his new studio has to be called “Fucking Black, motherfuckers!!”
#8
AHA-Lambda
19/07/10, 1:06 pm
OMFGLOLXD
#9
Noonan
19/07/10, 2:08 pm
@4 I’d buy that for a dollar.
#10
Freek
19/07/10, 3:13 pm
Fantastic Unlimmited Creative Kolaborators presents,
a Stuart Fucking Black game, starring Lady Gaga,
Black 2: Rock My Fucking Socks
#11
fdelfino
19/07/10, 5:10 pm
From the way this guy curses, he’s probably irish or somethin’…
#12
G1GAHURTZ
19/07/10, 9:11 pm
LOL!
#13
Samuel
20/07/10, 8:30 am
Where will journalists get all their outrageous quotes from now?!?!?!?!
#14
Blerk
20/07/10, 8:46 am
Heh heh – the knives are out!