XBox 360 Rally

Codemasters sent out a nice press release (seen after the break) that detailed a very good news blip about Overlord and it receiving a multiplayer split screen. Adding a whole new multiplayer mode that doesn’t require online, excellent job, keep an ear out for announcements of new game modes, challenges, maps, and chapters of the game too. Go rent Overlord now btw, you are missing out.

In other games, at Leipzig, they will be showing a playable version of Jericho, the Clive Barker made game! Turning Point: Fall of Liberty will also be on display and up for playing, it is a WWII shooter, but this isn’t your Call of Duty type game, it has a twist, Nazi’s in New York! I would be a happy man if they surprise everyone there with a little taste of Rise of Argonauts (and even a happier man if I could be there, Codemasters kicks ass).

Full press release with a little on DiRT for PS3 and Lord of the Rings Shadows of Angmar on PC as well as the aforementioned games below:

Codemasters spotlights stellar line up at Games Convention, Leipzig.

Playable premieres for Clive Barker’s JerichoTM, Turning PointTM: Fall of Liberty and more at world’s largest videogame exhibition.

Codemasters will host a stellar showing of exclusive playable reveals at this year’s Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Germany, running August 23rd – 26th, 2007.

The ever growing videogame developer and publisher’s showcase booth (Hall 4, F01) will feature playable premieres for Clive Barker’s Jericho™, Turning Point™: Fall of Liberty, new downloadable content for Overlord™, plus the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system edition of hit off-roader Colin McRae: DiRT™. A Codemasters Online area will be dedicated to The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ and feature content update Book 10: The City of the Kings.

“Everyone within Codemasters is extremely excited to have both Clive Barker’s Jericho and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty playable at this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig,” states Rod Cousens, CEO, Codemasters.

“We have very high hopes for both titles and, as we continue to increase Codemasters growing presence, we recognise the significance of allowing our fans and consumers to get an early taste of what’s to come, and this year’s Games Convention in Germany is the perfect opportunity to do so.”

Codemasters’ Games Convention 2007 Lineup:

CLIVE BARKER’S JERICHO™
The terrifying squad-based horror FPS based on an original concept by the master mythmaker, Clive Barker’s Jericho™ will receive its European consumer playable premiere at Games Convention 2007. Already hotly tipped as a key videogame this fall, and included in GameSpy.com’s Top 10 Best Games of E3 2007 awards, Clive Barker’s Jericho will take players on a journey through hellish locations and slices of time combating gruesome and twisted enemies from the mind of Clive Barker.

Clive Barker’s Jericho is coming this autumn for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft® and Games for Windows®. For the fright of your life, visit www.jericho-game.com

TURNING POINT™: FALL OF LIBERTY
Games Convention 2007 will mark the first time ever that gamers will be able to go hands on with Turning Point™: Fall of Liberty, the epic alternate-reality World War II shooter from Spark Unlimited.

Set in 1953, amidst an alternate WWII reality, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty opens as Nazi forces launch a decimating attack on New York. At Leizpig, gamers will be able to hands-on and play through the game’s moving, action-packed portion of the initial invasion. With Nazi battleships taking the harbour, monstrous Zeppelins filling the skies, jet powered aircraft executing bombing runs, and armed paratroopers descending to the city streets taking New York block by block, players will be overwhelmed with the will to survive and the determination to defend with this new take on WWII shooters.

To be showcased at Leipzig on Xbox 360, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is also being developed for the PLAYSTATION®3 system and Games for Windows. For the latest game briefings visit www.turningpointgame.com.

OVERLORD™
Revealing new content for Overlord™, Codemasters’ hit action adventure that enables players to explore their more despotic side, gamers will be able to go head to head with an all-new split screen multiplayer mode. The mode is soon to be available as a free content download for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live® Marketplace.

The creation of Dutch developer Triumph Studios, Overlord is all about being ruthless and determined as players pillage lands, conquer kingdoms and rise to be proclaimed the new all-powerful Overlord, ably assisted by a horde of loyal but lethal minions.

The free content update will provide the option to play split screen on all existing multiplayer maps. Overlord is out now for PC and Xbox 360. Visit www.codemasters.com/overlord for the latest game information.

COLIN McRAE: DiRT™
Already a best-seller on Xbox 360 and PC, Games Convention 2007 will be the first place for gamers to test drive the PLAYSTATION®3 system edition of Colin McRae: DiRT™. Set to launch this September for the PLAYSTATION®3 system, Colin McRae: DIRT takes traditional rally and turns it into an exhilarating cavalcade of mud splattering, gravel churning, handbrake turning, off-road race events.

As the evolution of the world’s grittiest racing game series, the car handling is sublime, the physics system thrillingly accurate and the damage effects are devastating. Dirty up at www.codemasters.com/dirt

The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™
BOOK 10: THE CITY OF THE KINGS.

The dedicated Codemasters Online area will feature the playable first look at Book 10: The City of the Kings, the second free update for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, the award-winning MMO from Turbine, Inc. Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer, will host exclusive presentations of Book 10 at 12.00 and 14.30 on Thursday, August 23rd and 17.00 on Friday, August 24th. The area will also feature community activity including a series of Monster Play events.

For all this and more, be sure to visit the Codemasters booth (Hall 4, F01) at Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Germany, running August 23rd – 26th, 2007 www.gc-germany.com.

Plus - news just in:
Codemasters Online will be showing new signing “Fury” on the OnlineWelten stand, located in Hall 4 B01. The development team and Codemasters Online team will be there to host the first European look at the title.