We’ve loved transforming the old criteriongames.com website into a blog over the last 4 weeks. It's been great to start opening up the studio to the fans. If you’re new to the site hit some of the older posts to find out what we’ve been up to.

Tomorrow, we'll unleash an all-new look that reflects our revised approach.

If you saw our recent office refurb story, you've already had a taste of what's to come. Hit this link to check it out.

We go live tomorrow, so be sure to check back and see how it looks.

We also got a MASSIVE response to this footage a few weeks back.

We wanted to show you the awesome Dust Storm off road car, but we also wanted to drop a big hint about an incredible new location in Paradise.

This is still under construction, but tomorrow, we’ll reveal the first images and show you how it’s coming together.

Yesterday, we announced that you can now view our top players by region in Paradise by going to the leaderboards.

Here's a little info on how everyone stacks up. On Xbox 360, US players took 5 of the top 10 ranked race positions and an awesome 51 positions in the top 100. Go USA! And great to see CoxyRox flying the flag for GB in 1st place! (And despite our lack of a Canadian leaderboard our second best player is Canadian.)

But the real surprise was on PS3.

Now, we always knew the French loved Burnout. What we didn’t realise was that these hardcore guys rule it on the PS3.

Although there are only 26 French players in the top 100 PS3 rankings, they DOMINATE our chart occupying an incredible 6 out of the top 10 spots, including the top 3!

We expected USA to rule this list, but the first American player doesn’t appear until the #9 spot, although there’s a solid 21 players dispersed throughout the top 100.

Maybe it's time to create a French language version of criteriongames.com!




We’re fascinated by these figures and look forward to bringing you more on this and some weekends of international ranked racing to see if anyone can take on USA and France.

You can also expect the international leaderboards to hit a revamped criteriongames.com tomorrow.

You may have noticed us referring to our future new content by codenames. Just to clarify – you’ll see them in this order “Cagney”, then “Davis” and then “Eastwood”.

What we’re working on now goes way beyond conventional content updates, so we figured the usual 1.1, 1.2 version numbers didn’t do it justice.

We will TRANSFORM Paradise over the coming year.

...and we won’t hold back on this blog. Our goal is to bring you EVERYTHING - as soon as we have it.

We want to tell you what we’re making and why. We want to know what you think and you better believe we’re listening to what you have to say.

If you want to get involved keep checking back to the site, posting on the forum and mailing us.