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Develop’s reporting that UK indies Eutechnyx and Brain in a Jar have joined forces to build a new, under-wraps racing project.

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Eutechnyx has announced its gained government growth funding of up to £1.8 million. It said it will use the grant to help set up a publishing operation for Auto Club Revolution, which will provide 190 jobs that consist of posts for marketing, support and operations. The money will “allow us to continue recruiting the cream of the development & publishing talent from around the world to join the team, and to really push forward with an innovative and genre-changing online product,” according to Darren Jobling, COO of the developer.

More details at Develop.

Eutechnyx has announced the closed beta for Auto Club Revolution, its online racing game and car community, will start next week on July 25.

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The holiday is over, the fireworks were cool; let’s have some shorts, there’s no Dana only Zuul.

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Eutechnyx and Activison have released three new NASCAR 2011 videos, and each is posted below courtesy of Gamespot.

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NASCAR 2011 developer Eutechnyx has said it’s looking into releasing the game as a region-free title, after earlier reports stated the game would not see a UK release.

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Eutechnyx has released a new developer diary for NASCAR 2011.

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Activision has released a developer diary and new screenshots for Eutechnyx’s NASCAR 2011: The Game. Both are posted below.

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Eutechnyx’s upcoming NASCAR title has been delayed, the developer has confirmed, saying the game needs more time for “polish”.

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Activision has put out five new screens for Eutechnyx’s NASCAR The Game 2011.

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To sum it up, it features lots and lots of cars.

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Eutechnyx has told VG247 the reason why there’s no PC version of the recently-announced NASCAR 2011 The Game is due to a “lack of retail space.”

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Activision has released the first set of screenshots for NASCAR The Game 2011.

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Activision formally announced NASCAR The Game 2011 this morning, amid rumors swirling around the publisher securing the license to the franchise last week.

Today, VG247 was given the opportunity to speak with NASCAR The Game’s UK-based developer Eutechnyx, a studio known for creating racing titles since 1996.

NASCAR will allow you to either play as yourself or any real-life driver through 22 tracks. Cars can be damaged in “meticulous detail” with multi-car wrecks, and online 16-player multiplayer.

It all sounds very racy, and executive producer Dave Thompson told Keza MacDonald all about the game and how excited the studio is for the opportunity to develop the title.

Get the full interview along with shots of a few cars below.

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Activision’s just formally announced NASCAR The Game 2011, to developed by UK-based developer Eutechnyx.

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Following confirmation from EA Sports last year that talks on future NASCAR games had stalled, strong rumour is pointing to the imminent reveal of a Eutechnyx-developed NASCAR 2011, to be published by Activision.

Additional reporting by Debabrata Nath.

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Darren Jobling, business development director at Eutechnyx, has told GI is worried that the UK development community is about to enter it’s demise.

“I think we’ll see more consolidation between publishers and developers, and more mergers,” he said. “I also think we’ll see a lot more closures in terms of publisher-owned studios. Some publishers see remote development studios as a drain on their resources and when it comes to cost-cutting, they’re usually first in the firing line.

“My worry, though, is that we’re going to see the decimation of the British game development community.

Just as the British game publishing industry was hit by a bunch of buyouts and closures in the 1990s, the late 2000s may see the publisher-owned development community being hit every bit as hard.”

Newcastle Eutechnyx have been in the industry since The Stone Age. The company has produced a large number of games for Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Amiga. By the early 90s the Ferrari Challenge development house was also making games for PC and consoles such as the Sega Mega Drive and SNES.

Full interview here.

By Mike Bowden

Eutechnyx’s Darren Jobling has issued a stark warning on the issue of American domination of publishing and development, saying that both the creative and business side of the European games industry is in dire straights.

“The games industry is currently a US dominated industry, everything we had left in Europe has pretty much been decimated,” he said, speaking to GamesIndustry.biz.

“I was talking about it on the publishing side, obviously there’s only Ubisoft and Eidos of any size and I think that’s pretty much it.

“What concerns me, is that if you look at publishing what happened was Infogrames came in buying up Ocean, buying up Gremlin, and the whole thing collapsed, and that just worries me about these people coming in buying developers.”

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