A former Codemasters employee has publicly accused the publisher of unlawful business practices. Semi Essessi, programmer on the flop Bodycount, claims that Codemasters has threatened former staff with bankruptcy proceedings over a dispute regarding wages the company claims were mistakenly paid out.

Once a programmer at Codemaster's shuttered Guildford, England, studio, Essessi paints a picture of a workplace where his employer failed to pay employees overtime or comply with labor laws.

Read more: 'No effort to enforce' labor standards »

Codemasters is "proposing to retire" its internal studio which developed the recently-released destruction-happy FPS Bodycount. It's part of a shift to strengthen its racing game offerings, the English developer and publisher has said.

"As Codemasters looks to take greater leadership in the racing category, the company is proposing a studio structure that adds resource and strengthens our best-in-class racing teams."

Read more: Multiple new racing IPs in development »

Do you hate the world? The demo for Codemasters' destruction-mad shooter Bodycount might not let you outright end everything and put us all out of our unending misery, but it will let you smash up a small virtual corner of it. The demo launched today on Xbox 360, and "will follow" for PlayStation 3.

Watch: A peek at the demo »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features a developer diary for Bodycount, a teaser trailer for Deepak Chopra's Leela, and new screenshots for Sid Meier's Civilization V.

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features a developer diary for Bodycount, a sneak peak at Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, a gameplay trailer and screenshots for Hard Reset, a teaser trailer for The Dark Meadow, new limited edition screenshots for Need for Speed: The Run, a gameplay trailer for King's Legion: Bounty, an explosive b-roll for Renegade Ops, a launch trailer for Pirates of Black Cove, and new screenshots for The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut.

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Today's Filter includes an update trailer for City of Heroes, a developer walkthrough of a Star Wars: The Old Republic instance, a teaser trailer for Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai, a Comic-Con trailer for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, a gameplay trailer for Bodycount, and two new trailers for F1 2011.

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The release date for Codemasters' extravagant shooter Bodycount has been pinned down to a specific date. It'll explode onto Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on August 30, then land in Europe on September 2.

Bodycount promises "outrageous and stylish gunfights" with "skill kills," kill-chaining, destructible cover, upgrades, special abilities, mines, airstrikes, and other loud and colorful things. You get a gun and make stuff go bang, you see. Though Bulletstorm might seem a strong influence, do bear in mind that Bodycount was announced first before you go making silly accusations. Read more »

Codemasters Guildford's over-the-top shooter Bodycount for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 has been delayed into "early summer" of 2011 while studio general manager Adrian Bolton has left Codies, Eurogamer reports.

Codemasters says Bodycount's delay is down to quality concerns, telling Eurogamer that "we plan to publish the game in early summer next year and we're not being any more specific than that because we're not prepared to compromise on the quality." Read more »

Bodycount's E3 trailer has arrived, packed with pre-alpha gameplay showing the "orgy of bullets and destruction" promised in Black co-creator Stuart Black's new shooter.

Published by Codemasters and developed by its internal Guildford studio, Bodycount is scheduled for release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in spring 2011. Read more »

Fresh off yesterday's unintentional revelation of Bodycount--the latest from Black co-creator Stuart Black--publisher Codemasters has now officially announced the first-person shooter.

Said by the company to feature "an orgy of bullets and destruction," Bodycount is due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Q1 2011.

It's the first wholly-developed project out of Codemasters Studio Guildford, and is powered by Codemasters' internal EGO Game Technology--an evolution of the EGO Engine used by Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, DiRT 2, and Race Driver: GRID. Read more »

The new first-person shooter coming from Codemasters Guildford and former Black designer Stuart Black is titled Bodycount.

While it has been known that Black was working on a game for Codemasters, no details had been revealed until today. A news story intended to run with the newest issue of OXM UK, which includes a cover-story on the game, gave us the game's title. That post has since been removed, but not before being cached by Google. (Thanks, Destructoid!) Read more »