It’s time to talk about another acquisition that I and at least one other person didn’t see coming, and it once again involves the racing-game genre. Codemasters has a handful of ongoing series in their garage, such as Dirt, Grid, and the official Formula 1 games. They now own new territory thanks to their acquisition of fellow British developer Slightly Mad Studios, makers of the Project CARS IP. If you ask me, this is a big deal because they’re two of the most prominent companies when it comes to today’s racing games, not to mention they both have really good assets and licenses. With this purchase comes very valid questions — Is one of the four aforementioned series being canned? Which licenses that Slightly Mad Studios owned could be used in Codemasters’ Grid series, and vice versa for the Project CARS series? Regardless of what theories we come up with, the best thing we can do is to wait for Codies to give us the answer..And you bet your buttons I’m excited to know what’s up.
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