Racing game developers today Codemasters announced that it no longer developed future dirt rally racing games and ended a 25-year run that began in 1998.
On April 30th Codemasters – a British studio that specialized in racing games and was bought by EA in 2021 – – Published an update on its official website Announcement that it would not publish new updates or extensions for 2023 EA Sports WRC Rally racing game. This game acted as the successor to the dirt Series, What even had connections to the studios in the past Colin MCrae Rally franchise That started back to the original Playstation. However, the more disappointed news for fans are that Codemasters is ready to play rally games as a whole.
As announced in Wednesday -update, “pause” codemasters the entire current development into future dirt racing rally games, which effectively kills this Dirt/Colin MCrae Rally franchise after two decades and over 10 entries. The last entry in the dirt Franchise, Dirt 5Started into the 2020. My city has turned to EA to get more information.
“At the moment we are pausing development plans for future rally titles,” said Codemasters. “Our [World Rally Championship] The partnership was a kind of height for our Codemasters trip with off-road races that decades through titles such as Colin MCrae RallyAnd dirt. We have made a home to every rally enthusiast that tirelessly sought to cross the borders and to deliver the intoxicating thrill of driving on the broken edge. We brought incredibly talented racing developers together, worked with some of the icons of sport and had the opportunity to share our love for the meeting. Many thanks to all fans who have part of our Rally trip and are still part of the rally. “
The studio promised the fans that EA Sport was wearing WRC Will continue to be “available” for new and existing players. Fortunately, it doesn't sound as if the team's last rally game will be carried out and closed shortly. Nevertheless, it is a shame to see how the studio, after almost 30 years of excellent games in a genre, which is often ignored by other studios and publishers, withdraw from the rally race.
Codemasters will continue to develop other racing games, such as the annual EAS F1 Series and possibly (hopefully) future entries in the Track Racer franchise network.
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