Doublesix Video Games, established by Kuju Entertainment in 2007, has been established as a new business division in Catalis. This move emphasises the importance of the self-published digital games segment in line with the Catalis Group strategy. Doublesix therefore now sits alongside its sister divisions Kuju Entertainment and Testronic Labs. Kuju CEO, Nigel Robbins, will also drive Doublesix’s ongoing development as a world class leader in its field with the provision of additional studio resoures. Under its Guildford-based studio head, James Brooksby, doublesix has a number of digital games in development based on original and established IP and due for publication in the near future.

First off, thanks for all the e-mails and tweets from people about our new Top Gun game. We’ve even had a fair amount of interest over the game’s two hidden trophies (naturally, they’ve been figured out already). The reviews have been mostly positive too, from Gamespot to Kotaku and for those curious about the game’s script and narrative, then PS3 Attitude also has an interview with Jack Epps Jr about the work he did on that for our game. Even Ironstar’s wonderfully balanced appraisal, with the video version below, was very much appreciated in the studio.

We were recently visited by some lovely people from Deutsche Welle, which is a big German international broadcaster. They were interested in our take on the recent tax break reversal by the new UK coalition government, something that has been understandably rubbing people’s backs up in the UK games industry quite a bit. Apart from crediting me with creating Burn Zombie Burn (which is very generous as I only did the scripting, along with Jim and Chewie obviously) the rest of the piece covers the wider impact the tax breaks are going to have in the UK. Naturally, the below video is also available in German and the original link on Deutsche Welle’s website is here, as the YouTube one cuts out towards the end.

Top Gun is finally released in the US today for the princely sum of $14.99. To commemorate the release we’ve uploaded a new YouTube video of the game’s Horde mode, along with some helpful annotations about how the game works. Enjoy!

As of yesterday, Burn Zombie Burn is now finally available on Steam. Like the PS3 version before it all the modes and levels are present (except multiplayer). It also supports keyboard and mouse obviously but if you have a game pad then we strongly recommend using that if you can. If you buy it now you even get a 10% discount!

If you go to our jobs page you’ll see that we’re now hiring. Specifically for a gameplay programmer, two junior artists and an in-house QA technician. If you’re interested in any of the following positions, then follow the details and get in touch with our recruitment people.

We’re based in the heart of Guildford (right on the high street in fact), have a really upbeat studio atmosphere, we’re all gamers and we get free doughnuts too (yeah, FREE doughnuts). Put simply it’s an awesome place to work, so why not come and join us?

After a fair bit of waiting, the trailer for our Top Gun game has finally been shown to the world. We’ve also had some more previews for the game too, from Daily Joypad to NXTGamer and even Strategy Informer. Again, these were hands on demos and it seems that they really liked what they played (which is always encouraging). Still no word on the European release date but we’ll know soon hopefully. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer below…

James Brooksby, our studio head, was recently interviewed over at Game Careers.biz about doublesix and the fact that our studio looks like a messy kids bedroom (it really does). Thankfully, they were kind enough to upload the interview as a video to YouTube, shown below. Despite the bizarre green screen effect, which gives James a fuzzy purple hairdo, it does cover the fact that we have three super tip-top secret games in production (self published too). In any case, enjoy the video below and guesses as to what we’re making next on an electronic postcard…

Earlier in the week we were busy in giving hands on previews to the press for our upcoming Top Gun game. From CVG to PS3 Attitude, the game’s been covered in a fair bit of detail. Even places like BeefJack, Girl Gamers UK and Electronic Theatre managed to give a good amount of coverage for the game, the latter even made some lovely comparisons to Star Fox 64 – so thanks for that! Our favourite piece was by Resolution Magazine though, if only for the barrel roll mention.

For those curious, the build we demoed was actually the final US release (that’s out on August 17th in case you’re wondering). We’re still waiting on the European release date but once we get that we’ll let you know. In the meantime, make sure to check out our developer diary over at IGN.

What with the Steam release of Burn Zombie Burn but a few days away, Gametrailers have been kind enough to host the exclusive debut trailer for the PC version (shown below). For those that played the PS3 original then the PC version will afford you the same amount of zombie burning goodness. You can pre-order the PC version on Steam here and it will go live on August 12th.