Codemasters To Focus On Racing Games After Shutting Down Malta Studio
Codemasters, the developers of Overlord and the Dirt franchise, has shut down their Malta based studio, and has told Eurogamer that from now on, they’re going to focus on be strictly a racing genre based developer. Noting that they want to “double-down on racing to develop future titles that will demonstrate our absolute commitment to the category.”
“While it’s been great to explore projects outside of racing, we know that our hearts belong to racing in all its many glorious forms,” a Codemasters spokesperson told Eurogamer. “The success of Dirt Rally’s Early Access programme has been incredible, F1 2015 was very successful reaching number one in many territories, we’ve recently announced that Micro Machines will come to mobile and we have a strong road map ahead of us that keeps racing as its razor focus.
With Battle Decks’ development complete, we’re saying goodbye to Malta and looking to fold talent from its 11-person team into our most successful studios here in the UK as we double-down on racing to develop future titles that will demonstrate our absolute commitment to the category.”
So what kind of titles can we expect from them in the future via the racing genre? Well, no doubt more Dirt titles, but we may be seeing something new from Codemasters sooner than we think with this new restructure.