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A new online service called Fireteam, made up of former Splash Damage, Bizarre and Rackage developers Arnout van Meer, Ben Hopkinson and Stephen Gaffney, has launched, and it aims to provide an online service suite to console, free-to-play, mobile and PC developers.

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Splash Damage has announced the hiring of Marc Fascia, gameplay programmer for Enslaved at Ninja Theory.

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Splash Damage has announced it’s appointed Griff Jenkins as its new director of production and has been given a seat on the Board of Directors. Prior to joining studio, Jenkins spent seven years at EA and was the firm’s senior development director for multiple FIFA and worked on the Need for Speed series. “Griff’s new role at Splash Damage will be to improve our games by improving the way we make them,” said Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood. “Under Griff’s leadership we’ll elevate production to a discipline on par with art, design, and programming. Prior positions held by Jenkins include stints at Criterion, Kuju, and Eidos where he worked on the Championship Manager series.

Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood has said the studio is to announce “new titles – both on platforms we’ve previously visited (including the PC and the world’s leading consoles), as well as exploring spaces completely new to us,” speaking in a statement regarding the developer’s 2012.

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The Writers Guild of America has selected a blockbuster lineup of games for its annual awards.

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GameStop is selling Splash Damage shooter Brink, brand spanking new, for 97p on Xbox 360. The Bethesda-published resistance-security title launched in May earlier this year for PS3, 360 and PC. You’d be utterly bonkers to not buy it at a quid. Go do it here.

Splash Damage boss Paul Wedgwood has said reports of the studio working on a game based on a “major entertainment brand” are “inaccurate.”

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Splash Damage has announced it’s close to releasing an update for Brink, which will bring full clan support, ladders and tournaments to all versions of the game. Currently in the final stages of testing, the update will be released for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 as “soon as it is complete.” For more information, as well as new screens of how the update will work, be sure and visit the Bethblog through here.

With Brink DLC still on ongoing concern, Splash Damage isn’t ready to talk about its next project – but it’s certain to be multiplayer.

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Organisers of the Writers Guild Awards have announced the nominations for the Best Videogame awards. Splash Damage’s Ed Stern for Brink, Ninja Theory’s Tameem Antoniades & film producer Alex Garland for Enslaved and ex-journo Kieron Gillen for The Curfew are all up for the award, which will be given out on November 16 at Notting Hill.

Thanks, Videogamer.

Just a heads-up to let you know Bethesda has released former retail and pre-order exclusives as DLC for Brink.

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Brink had a bit of a rough time when it launched back in May. Most people who bought the game knew that very well. Now the game’s lead designer is ready to admit that as well.
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Brink’s first bit of DLC, Agents of Change will be released next week on August 3 for PS3, Steam, and Xbox 360 and will be free for two weeks. The DLC sees a ship from the outside world showing up and putting a bit of a snag in the peace agreement between the Resistance and Security. The underwater Labs Facility, and the Founder’s Tower where the Ark’s elite live, will be the two new battle zones. The level capo has been increased to 24, and new abilities, customization options and weapon attachments will be included in the DLC. Thanks, Gematsu.

Paul Wedgwood, CEO of Brink developer Splash Damage, has told Edge that whilst the crunch period during development is all but inevitable, the key to a healthy studio is to do as much advanced planning as possible.

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Nearly two months after the console versions and the retail SKU launched, Steam’s finally gone live with Brink. For those who haven’t bought the Splash Damage shooter for PC yet, it’s currently on a 25 percent discount, priced at £22.49. The game launched back in May for PS3 and 360, as well as on PC at retail, but unknown issues with Steam seen its release on the service mysteriously delayed until now. This comes before the release of brand new DLC Agents of Change. You can buy the game here.

Bethesda’s announced that the first DLC for Brink, Agents of Change, will go live in “early July.”

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As promised last week by Splash Damage, the player statistics site for Brink has gone live, and so far it is reporting more than a million matches, 10 billion XP points earned, and 80-years worth of combined player time.

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Splash Damage has an update on the Brink statistics site, which will go live on Tuesday for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions.

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As promised, Splash Damage has launched a new update for the PC version of Brink. The update will fix audio and memory bugs, graphical performance is improved as well as additional interface and server issues. PS3 and 360 updates will launch once its passed certification from both platform holders. Full patch notes are here.

Splash Damage has detailed the next patch for PC and console editions of Brink, and we’ve got some highlight for you below.

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