Emergency Heroes
Ubisoft’s super-hot Wii driving game Emergency Heroes is due for release in June, featuring a story and characters created by us.

CBeebies
And Carrie and David's Popshop went out on CBeebies and picked up good audience figures. Mustard's Neil Richards story-lined all 30+ episodes and scripted three shows.

Mustard Audio Partnership Takes Off
Nov 2007 – Industry leader, Nimrod Productions and The Mustard Corporation have formed an alliance to provide a complete audio solutions package for any game genre.

Japanese Partnership
Oct 2007 – The Mustard Corporation are pleased to announce their partnership with Now Production, a games developer based in Osaka, Japan.

Driver ’76 released
May 2007 – Ubisoft’s first Driver title has been released for the PSP. The Mustard Corporation are pleased to have been involved in creating the narrative for a game which led Extreme Gamer to say: Driver 76 is good enough to pull you away from the latest and greatest PSP offering from Rockstar.

Mustards talk at Nordic Games Conference
May 2007 – Director, Marek Walton, gave a talk at this year’s Nordic Games Conference entitled Beyond Storytelling: MMOs and the Role of Writers.

Mustard Director at Animex International Festival
February 2007 – Director, Marek Walton is to appear on the writers’ panel at the International Festival of Animation and Computer Games, Animex. www.animex.net

Mustard in Develop Magazine
November 2006 – Director, Marek Walton to publish an article in Develop entitled “Is better narrative still a fairy story?” discussing the state of writing in today’s games market. www.developmag.com

Mustard Director book published
Nov 2006 – Maurice Suckling’s acclaimed debut collection of short stories Photocopies of Heaven is published this month.

Chart success
October 2006 - Broken Sword: The Angel of Death and Just Cause, two titles worked on by Mustard Corporation director Neil Richards, both made it to Number One in their respective games charts.

Mustard Director nominated at BAFTA awards
October 2006 – Director Neil Richards has, for the second year running, been nominated for a BAFTA for scripting Education drama for the BBC.

Mustard Corporation to work on BBC’s Jam Project
September 2006 – The Mustard Corporation has been hired as interactive consultants for BBC Jam, working on a variety of projects.

Virtua Tennis 3 announced by SEGA
September 2006 - The Mustard Corporation has been contracted to culturise the highly anticipated SEGA Europe’s Virtua Tennis 3 title, due to ship in 2007.

Mustard Corporation strengthens Japanese ties
August 2006 – following recent trips to Tokyo, The Mustard Corporation are pleased to announce they have signed an agreement with Japanese agency Interarrows whose gaming division is headed by industry veteran, Satoshi Honda.

Mustard Director to give talk at Reading University
April 2006 – Director Maurice Suckling is to give a talk entitled Beyond Storytelling at the university’s Journeys Across Media event. He will examine the evolving role of the writer in today’s new media and explore the challenges they face.

Mustard Corporation Director writes article for MCV
April 2006 – This week's MCV contains an article by Maurice Suckling entitled “Cheesy Does It”. It discusses - in a light-hearted way - how not to write narrative and character for games.

Mustard Director to take part in online narrative workshop
April 2006 – Director Marek Walton is to visit Munich to take part in a workshop exploring narrative in online games.

Let’s Make a Soccer Team game announced by SEGA
March 2006 – SEGA Europe announce development of Let’s Make a Soccer Team for the Western market.  The Mustard Corporation has been contracted to culturise dialogue and text for this popular Japanese sports title.

Driver: Parallel Lines released in Europe and America
March 2006 – the highly anticipated next title in Reflections’ Driver series has been released to strong reviews. The Mustard Corporation are proud to have been involved in creating a narrative which led the UK’s Playstation 2 Magazine to say: “The storyline shifts into fifth gear as you begin to seek revenge on those crims who conspired to put you behind bars.  Completing one mission has you desperate to get to the next one just to see how it pans out…”

Mustard Director in Develop Magazine feature
In the magazine’s March edition, The Mustard Corporation publishes an article about our UKTI trip to Japan and Maurice Suckling is featured in an article on out-sourcing in the games industry.

Mustard Director to speak at Show Some Emotion event
Marek Walton will be speaking on the role of the games writer at an event associated with March’s AV Festival 06; the UK's newest, and largest, international festival of digital arts and music, games, film and new media.

Mustard Directors travel to Japan as part of UKTI delegation
February 2006 - all three directors traveled to Japan as part of a UKTI sponsored games delegation. The trip was designed to help forge relationships between British and Japanese games companies. See our article in Develop Magazine to find out more (March 06).

Mustard Director nominated at BAFTA awards
October 2005 - Neil Richards has been nominated for a BAFTA for Education TV series Law and Order at The Children’s BAFTA Awards to be held on 27th November 2005.

The Mustard Corporation become official suppliers to SEGA Europe
September 2005 - the company has become an official supplier for SEGA Europe, working on a major title scheduled for release in 2006. Details of the title are still under wraps but The Mustard Corporation will ensure the content of this Japanese game is ‘culturised’ so it appeals to Western gamers.

Mustard Director invited to speak at Edinburgh Games Festival
August 2005 - Neil Richards has been invited to speak on the role of humour in games at the prestigious Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival.

Mustard Directors invited to take part in prestigious UKTI Digital Mission to China
Directors Neil Richards and Maurice Suckling travelled to China in July 2005 as part of a British games industry and UKTI delegation seeking to forge strong business partnerships with the important territory.

Mustard Directors invited to speak at Showcomotion Conference
June 2005 - Mustard Directors Maurice Suckling and Marek Walton have been invited to speak on the nature of games and narrative at the childrens’ media conference, Showcomotion.