Codemasters acquires Slightly Mad Studios

Codemasters has agreed to acquire racing simulation specialists and creators of Project CARS, Slightly Mad Studios!

[Knushwood Butt]

Where do Codemasters get the cash from?

[Skate-AK]

Guessing the yearly F1 games. Dirt is pretty big too.

[neutralgamer1992]

Code masters have are wealthy developer

[AuraAbjure]

What?

[neutralgamer1992]

I meant to say they are quite rich. They sold 50% to one of the richest companies in India so their parent company is faulty rich

Reliance bought 50% of code masters in 2010

[Retroman]

Codemasters should Acquire NFS maybe we could get it back on original formula again.

by the way Happy Thanksgiving guys.

[USMC_POLICE]

Dude heat is a huge step in the right direction.

[sprinterboy]

Forget acquiring nfs, but instead make a game to compete and blow nfs out the water.
Their is certainly a market there for another nfs type game but actually done right..
Edit: nfs has turned into a shite fast and furious TV game spin off, that's why they've been shite for the last 10 years, lost its identity of actually being a nfs game.

[AuraAbjure]

Well the game awards 2019 nominated two of their games for best racing game 2019 so Codemasters aren't exactly slackers.

[sprinterboy]

Codemasters do some great racers for sure.
I live within 20 miles of the devs in Leamington Spa, still hoping for that game tester job haha.
I think they should get Paul rustchynsky to head up the new studio and game imo.

[SprigganN4G]

Ciao to their "next gen console" hahah.

[Nacho_Z]

That was more than slightly mad wasn't it.

[Applejack]

Wow, I completely forgot about that thing! I bet they’re hoping most people do too.

[2ndhandcorn]

Wow big news there very cool .

[xTonyMontana]

Good luck to them, hopefully Codemasters treats them better than EA did

[Nacho_Z]

On paper a joint effort between Codemasters and SMS would be something special. Presumably they've got something specific in mind to work on and it could end up being pretty great.

I always thought that SMS made good games but that they'd benefit from help from someone with either money or experience.

[Movefasta1993]

SMS need to make their racers play well with a controller, code masters certainly do that, so that's good.

[Nacho_Z]

Yeah I was going to reinstall Project Cars the other day until I remembered about it being crap with a controller. They did get a lot right as well, never heard engines as beefy in a game.

[sprinterboy]

Agreed, that's why GT is so popular, great with controller and wheel where as sms it's just good with the wheel and awful with the controller.
Get the controller setup and feel right and they'll be on the right path to not having just one great racing sim in the industry along side gts but 2 great racers for us sim racer fans to enjoy.

[sprinterboy]

What sms lacked was a good racer which felt right using a controller, not just a good racer with a wheel.
Thats why gt is so popular, it's perfect with a controller and wheel.

[TheColbertinator]

Codemasters is taking the next generation seriously.

[luis_spartano]

After what Codemasters did to Evolution Studios, this is bad news.

[Prince-Ali]

what did they do..?

[bishup25]

sony shut down Evolution studios. that's what happened.
http://www.gamesindustry.bi...
Bad Codemasters!!!!

[CosmicTurtle]

They acquired them after Sony but... “After the disappointing sales of their next game Onrush, several members of the Codemasters EVO development division were let go in redundancies, including game director Paul Rustchynsky and the division was shifted to a support role for other Codemasters titles.“

[UltraNova]

@Cosmic
Absorbed and dissolved.

[sprinterboy]

🙄 Clueless

[lodossrage]

I might be the only one thinking this, but to me, this is concerning. It's not like there are that many racing studios out there. So Codemasters buying one of their few competitors to me is an issue

[Sgt_Slaughter]

My hope is they acquired them so they can take on more projects at once and spread the workload to a company that's proven they can make a great racing game like NFS Shift

[sprinterboy]

Good point

[porkChop]

This is likely because of the Fast & Furious game that SMS has been working on. If done right that will be a big potential franchise for them.

[Imortus_san]

How mad can you be to buy this crap company, apparently slightly.

[l33t_haxx0r]

why are they mad they was acquired??

[skwidd]

So Codemasters are buying their competition and everyone thinks it's cool? They're growing bigger in the car racing market buying out the bigger sim developers. Pretty crazy.