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EA Partners boss Jeff Gamon has confirmed Starbreeze’s anticipated shooter, Syndicate, will not utilise an online pass system.

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Stace Harman grabs a final hands-on with Syndicate’s four-player co-op ahead of its February launch and speaks to lead co-op programmer Lars Magnus Lang about the game’s evolution since 2008.

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Starbreeze chose to develop Syndicate as a shooter because that’s what it does best, and isn’t concerned by the saturation of the market.

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EA has confirmed it won’t censor Starbreeze’s Syndicate reboot to meet MA15+ content guidelines, preferring to skip an Australian release all together.

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Starbreeze’s shooter take on classic Bullfrog property Syndicate has been Refused Classification in Australia, effectively banning it from sale.

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You’ve seen the guns, but that’s just the beginning of your arsenal. “Technology is a weapon,” this new Syndicate trailer advises. “Use it.”

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When Project Red Lime became Syndicate there was excitement; when Syndicate became an FPS there was befuddlement. Stace Harman goes hands on and speaks to EA to get some clarity.

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The studio behind Chronicles of Riddick and The Darkness, Starbreeze, is working on a brand new IP, its announced today.

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EA has finally confirmed the worst kept secret of the last few years: Starbreeze’s Project Redlime is indeed Syndicate.

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Starbreeze Studio’s Project Redlime, long suspected to be a revamp of Syndicate, looks very likely to appear at gamescom if a hastily deleted tweet from a Starbreeze employee is any indication.

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Sources claimed to be familiar with Starbreeze have commented that the company was never very interested in The Darkness, now in the hands of Digital Extremes, and that Project RedLime is suffering a troubled birth.

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Project RedLime, the top secret Starbreeze Studios title strongly suspected to be a new Syndicate, has been increased in scale, and that a new downloadable title from the studio is in the works.

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Paradox Interactive seems like a wacky place to work. Not Marx Brothers wacky by any means, but only wacky due to the firm’s apparent sense of humor. Proof of this odd sort of thinking can be found in the firm’s list of upcoming titles, and some it’s passed on. Yes, this is the same firm which released Stalin vs Martians, but, there are some things out there that are just too dotty even by Paradox’s standards.

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Chasing the reality of a new Syndicate game is a confusing mess, but it’s mess with intentionality: it points, with unwavering resolve, at the existence of the publisher’s worst kept secret.

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So many tiny bits of news. So little time.

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Another day, another developer CV spilling a bean. This time is looks to be the name of Starbreeze’s EA Bourne title – according to Starbreeze audio director Carl Vikman, it’s called “Bourne Ascendancy”.

Starbreeze was announced as the developer of the next Bourne game in February this year, with a rep to the Ludlum estate even going so far as to say the property was now being handled by “grown-ups”. The previous Bourne game was developed by High Moon and published by Sierra.

The Riddick team is known to be working on the game. There’s no date on it.

Thanks, superannuation.

Starbreeze Studios’ Enclave, the 3D fantasy action game for the Xbox and PC, is coming to Wii.

As reported by Eurogamer, progress with the unreleased GameCube version may have made the Wii version happen, but instead of Starbreeze working on the title, German firm Village1 Entertainment is handling it.

The game does not have a publisher yet, but Village1 expects it to land sometime during early 2010.

Starbreeze CEO Johan Kristiansson has confirmed to VG247 that his company isn’t involved with the recently announced Darkness sequel.

“I heard that there were talks about a Darkness sequel, but Starbreeze is not involved in anything like that right now. We are busy on two projects together with EA,” he said.

Bummer. Here’s hoping Top Cow can find an equally skilled developer to handle the game.

Want to make super-creative games? Don’t work for a mega-corp.

“I personally think it’s more difficult to be creative in a larger corporate environment,” Starbreeze boss Johan Kristiansson told Develop.

“Larger companies are – by nature – always slower with making decisions in game production. In an independent studio I think the staff usually has a stronger feeling of ownership-attachment to their properties; and you can develop a more tightly knit team over a long period of time as well.”

Kristiansson went as far as to say that publisher input can damage games.

“An independent studio is always going to be more creative, and I think it’s important that publishers let them be independent during production, let them have control of their product,” he added.

“If indies are too close to their publishers, that can also damage the decision making process and the overall game quality.”

Full thing through there.

Starbreeze’s Riddick team is to create EA’s upcoming Bourne project.

“It is the same team that’s going to create the Bourne game that did Riddick as well as The Darkness,” Jerk Gustafsson told Eurogamer.

“We’ve already begun work. There are some personnel in a development cycle that are free a little bit earlier than others and those guys have been working on the Bourne project.

“So we’re probably still going to continue creating games the way we do, blending various gameplay elements into a good storyline. I think that’s what we do well.”

Untitled at present, the game is codenamed “P9″, and will have multiplayer capabilities.