Codemasters' EGO has landed

Proprietary middleware behind Colin McRae: DiRT is renamed; set to power upcoming Race Driver title, GRID.

The proprietary middleware game engine previously known as Neon is now to be referred to as EGO. The Codemasters engine is under the hood of Colin McRae: DiRT, and is also being used in the upcoming titles Race Driver: GRID and Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising.

The middleware is the base technology used in DiRT, drives the new damage and physics systems in GRID, and is used for the huge battlegrounds in Operation Flashpoint 2.

Bryan Marshall, chief technology officer at Codemasters Studios, commented, "Particularly for Operation Flashpoint 2, we simply could not fulfill the ambitions we have for the game with any off-the-shelf middleware; certainly not one that enabled us to develop across the major fifth generation consoles simultaneously with PC, rather than as an afterthought, and no one was doing that."

EGO has been three years in development at Codemasters. The company decided to rename the engine to better "befit its accomplishments and future potential."

46 Comments

  • goppizzi

    Posted Feb 5, 2009 2:59 am PT

    we're still waiting for the release date of operation flash point 2. plssssss

  • beatles5

    Posted Jul 4, 2008 12:21 am PT

    I loved the first ofp. I cant wait till the 2nd one comes out.

  • thenephariouson

    Posted Jul 1, 2008 11:16 am PT

    Operation Flashpoint will tottally rock, and if its anything like the Original PC version (realism wise etc) it will make a lot of FPS devs very envious, as well as showing them how to make a trully great 'Modern Combat' shooter.

  • Delta-1984

    Posted May 16, 2008 3:40 am PT

    Will this bee like TOCA 3 or more like DiRT???

  • shazam_lp

    Posted Apr 24, 2008 8:47 am PT

    Codemasters > EA. Rock on guys! GRiD is a game that just won't be able to fail. I cannot wait to race using my Logitech G25 Racing wheel!

  • iminsanescott

    Posted Apr 11, 2008 6:29 pm PT

    CodeMasters can't screw this up... i just cant wait.

    YEA! Another fun racing game!
    Bring on the competition!

  • brain20035

    Posted Apr 6, 2008 1:18 am PT

    Operation Flashpoint, DiRT, Overlord,etc.
    I love this company!!

  • kaziechameleon

    Posted Apr 4, 2008 5:10 am PT

    what i want to know is will the multiplayer suck like dirt?

  • Philo350

    Posted Mar 23, 2008 8:25 pm PT

    The graphics in the trailer looked really good. But i reckon it will look like NFS prostreet, not good. Prostreet crashes were ****

  • wenbin09

    Posted Mar 21, 2008 8:48 pm PT

    looks good

  • jaflash

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 5:38 am PT

    I don't like it graphics look like pgr4 but with game play of toca and damage but im not sure the graphics in that trailer are like the graphics in the dirt intro fake so we will see

  • renknram

    Posted Feb 5, 2008 6:05 am PT

    OFP2: RR & RACE DRIVER: GRID are on my most wanted List, As Makavelo mentioned "wide open areas that you can explore, not like many of the shooters today that got small open areas". & everything is interactive on the Battlefield, what you see or come across you use.

    I never bothered with Armed Assault, as I still play OFP: GOTY still to this present day,

    OFP2 : RR will be a BIG HIT!!!

  • mechworrior762

    Posted Jan 19, 2008 7:20 pm PT

    OF2 looks pretty good so far. I'll be keeping an eye on it.

  • Makavelo

    Posted Jan 8, 2008 6:19 am PT

    I like OF because of the wide open areas that you can explore, not like many of the shooters today that got small open areas.

  • hardworker321

    Posted Jan 4, 2008 7:22 pm PT

    Operation Flashpoint 2 looks like a very interesting game and one to keep an eye on.

  • NND1

    Posted Dec 26, 2007 12:52 pm PT

    I love street racing...

  • tjdeep_2007

    Posted Dec 11, 2007 3:52 am PT

    dirt rockss..........but still codemasters need to improve their games quality..........

  • GunGriffin

    Posted Dec 10, 2007 4:28 am PT

    Yeah CodeMasters rocks! They know how to make killer Raceing games thats for sure! I just hope there next PS3 game is a Motostorm2 not another Drit game. I mean that was a good looking game and all, but it had no real online play with other players ingame. They tryed to be more competitive then fun, and it failed big time.

  • munkymatt

    Posted Dec 10, 2007 1:58 am PT

    I've always been a fan of codemasters and own the majority of there games. I rate Dirt highly although after hearing about codemasters recent law suits against individuals, including many minors, for downloading their games via file sharing sites, I have lost respect for them. I am against illegal downloads of games as it is clearly damaging the industry but threatening people with court action if they don't pay codemasters a fine ranging from £500-£5000 ($1000-$10000) is not the right way about stopping it in my opinion.

    Bankrupting hundreds of familys a month before christmas is hardly going to give Codemasters a good public image.

  • sharpshooter188

    Posted Dec 9, 2007 9:52 pm PT

    after codemasters little stunt with the "charging for cheat codes" on jericho i dont think im gonna be buying anything from them for a while. not that one person really matters but..ya know.. had to rant.

  • pixelsword

    Posted Dec 9, 2007 2:53 pm PT

    Uh, em... so?

  • Dryker

    Posted Dec 9, 2007 10:41 am PT

    Ok... Now use that supposed powerhouse of an engine to give us a next-gen Micro Machines. Now that would be cool.

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Dec 9, 2007 3:09 am PT

    hmm, different

  • mashom

    Posted Dec 9, 2007 2:49 am PT

    after successfuly DIRT we have GRID, good to know codyyyy

  • Star_Wars117

    Posted Dec 8, 2007 11:37 pm PT

    OFP2 is going to be GOTY for 2008. Its simply amazing,

  • turb06

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 11:14 pm PT

    GRID should be great. Hopefully the vehicle dynamics are as good as Forza 2's.

  • Pete5506

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 10:50 pm PT

    New racing game, sweet

  • Mercanis

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 8:32 pm PT

    Just don't let your "ego" get in the way. Zing!

  • Rob_101

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 7:33 pm PT

    DiRT was tons of fun. GRID and operation flashpoint look very good and I can't wait to play them

  • postbox posted Dec 7, 2007 7:02 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    postbox

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 7:02 pm PT (hide)

    wow! i hope they will design operation flashpoint for the console not the pc.

  • default9308

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 1:18 pm PT

    DiRT is my favorite racer on the 360. Definitely pumped about GRID

  • jamesallenyz431

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 11:23 am PT

    i was hoping they would release some downloadable content for DiRT, i dont think im gonna get GRID. the racing was awesome on dirt but there wasnt alot of it

  • polsci1503

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 9:32 am PT

    DiRT looked great... will look into GRID.

  • Pastehunter

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 9:10 am PT

    Awesome name IMO

  • Coldkilla9

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 8:39 am PT

    When I got the email update I thought there really was some OFP2 news... ARRR!!

  • TECMONGOOSE

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 7:30 am PT

    Odd how many people link EGO to Dirt. I have to admit this is a great game. But what we seem to forget is the impact this will have of the successor of THE best war sim ever made, OFP. Though Armed Assault was a nice snack in between, Codemasters will definately amaze us by going a couple of steps further. For all you sim fans out here, keep an eye on OFP2 as the BF series and everything alike will turn pale when this jewel hits the stores

    Goose

  • StanBlocker

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 6:55 am PT

    A new name on a great engine. DiRT looked great and the screens from GRID look even better. Eager to see videos from that game. Nice backgrounds and scenery too. If the damage system is as good ad DiRT then some then that's fantastic. Especially when it comes to multiplayer game types.

  • KingKoop

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 6:52 am PT

    Cool, it should go into competition with Criterion's Burnout engine and Rockstar's RAGE. It'll be interesting.

  • Spartan1017

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 6:52 am PT

    awesome, grid looks pretty sweet and codemasters has been around forever, so, well, um, i don't what else to say. w00t!

  • MasterChief725

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 6:39 am PT

    GRID looks awesome. Since my boycott of EA, I am missing out on burnout, and this game will help make up for it

  • uklegendkiller

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 6:36 am PT

    Looks like great things are on the horizon for codemasters the engine behind dirt was fantastic. So i'm expecting great things from them.

  • Drower

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 5:12 am PT

    So, does that mean we will get StarForce in OFP2?

  • LoSeL

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 4:23 am PT

    Multicore and vista 64 suport?!?

  • Shmoe82

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 3:33 am PT

    I don't care what they call it. Its a great game.

  • dn3datomiced

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 3:32 am PT

    The engine behind DiRT? Ooooooh. That was a pretty engine!

  • gmax Site moderator

    Posted Dec 7, 2007 3:29 am PT

    A name to live up to, maybe...

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