Development Diary posts relating to “Project Canvas” have just been updated. You can find our first post here: Vision+Media blog

Citrus Suite is currently expanding its portfolio with in-house development projects that target iPhone, iPad, PC, Facebook, Nintendo Wii, and the Project Canvas TV platform. The management team has collaborated with leading development studios from the games industry producing content released by Sony, Microsoft, Disney, Sega, Codemasters and EA.

We’ll have more news to follow in the coming weeks.

If you’d like to find out more about our company do get in touch.

Journo’s seeking the press release about our company’s official launch can find it here, via Games Press.

According to Development Director, Chris Morland: ‘Liverpool is an important hub for UK games development. Setting up here has allowed us to tap into an extraordinary talent pool as well as capitalise on important industry connections. Liverpool is in the thick of the action as far as games are concerned – that fact, and a healthy competition between developers, gives our new venture both a sense of vitality and industry credibility.’

SpawnPoint and Menagamer.com both ran this item as news.

Citrus Suite in LDP’s Business News,  2nd August 2010.

Great local news article, almost a full page with photo Newspaper and Website. Via Liverpool Daily Post

We also got a mention on the Northwest Insider Website  Via Business Insider , as well as TechWatch,  OneNews, RapidTVNews, and GamesIndustry.com, as well as some other minor blogs.  Seems to be a good pic-up rate for this story.

“A Liverpool development studio has signed a deal to work on interactive television for the BBC…”

Second Citrus Suite Newsflash at the Business Desk // 30th July 2010 // Looking Good

Full Article via “The Business Desk”

We also got mentioned on Design Initiative’s new Futures Network website, Full Article via “Futures Network”

Citrus Suite, a new development studio in Liverpool has started working on interactive services for Project Canvas.

Project  Canvas has been created to develop a standard for internet   television  services in the UK and is being backed by BBC, ITV, Channel  4, BT and   Talk Talk. Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) allows you to  access   programmes via the web. It should be launching via set-top  boxes from Spring next year. Citrus Suite is creating a prototype to show how viewers can interact directly with one of the BBC’s existing shows.

“This is a golden opportunity to collaborate with the BBC and deliver a product using state-of-the-art technology – from a creative point of view this is where we want to be,” explained Chris Morland,  development director at Citrus Suite.

The company, which is based in Liverpool features 9 artists, designers and programmers from the city’s  games scene, who develop for Apple devices, Wii, PSP and PC.

Via How-Do-Daily

! Press release went out yesterday and we are already getting some good coverage 

Following up from my first blog, is this a modern take on console wars from Playstation’s “VP of Everything”… Kevin Butler.. enjoy!!!

We’ve now got a fixed a URL for the seemly obligatory Facebook company page…
http://www.facebook.com/citrus.suite

LinkedIn seems a bit more relevant for the business stuff, feel free to add me…
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrismorland

Don’t get me started on Twitter.

Andreas Heikaus pays homage to a certain famous plumber, with this fantastic peice of rotoscoping.

This is the first video game I remember watching my older brother play. Ahhh the good old days of nintendo-sega rivalry. Enjoy…