Racing games developer Codemasters is famous for creating impressive, yet somewhat niche games. With its recent acquisition by Electronic Arts, the studio aims to flex its new resources into making a game that will appeal to the masses.

Codemasters is the maker of the steadily consistent DiRT racing games series, the Grid franchise, Project Cars, and the more simulation-leaning yearly Formula 1 entries. According to some job listings for the developer, it is looking to fill two positions at the company. Both listings mention being a part of a team making a AAA game in development. One is for a non-creative "Development Manager" role described as a role that's mostly task tracking and management, the other is a "Senior Manager - Engineering" position on the creative side of the game development. Both are based at Codemasters' Cheshire studio in Runcorn, England.

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Both job listings claim that this game is an unannounced AAA game, so Codemasters is not counting Grid Legends which was revealed at EA Play 2021 as that AAA game, even though it is ambitious for the studio. That game looks to have multiple driver career modes throughout a variety of racing disciplines and a multiplayer mode that offers mixed discipline races.

EA may or may not be thinking about handing the reins of the Need for Speed franchise over to their newest studio. EA has been shuffling around who gets to develop that game since it decided to fully reboot the Need of Speed series in 2014 under Ghost Games, following two years of being made by Criterion Games. Criterion Games have been assisting with Battlefield since 2018. Alternatively, EA could turn over the IP for the Burnout franchise to Codemasters, but either of those prospects conflict with EA's past statement of letting the studio remain independent.

Codemasters released DiRT 5 in November 2020 while in the midst of a bidding war between Take-Two Interactive and EA, with the latter winning out at the price of $1.2 Billion, making the deal official in February. It then released F1 2021 that featured its first full-fledged single-player story mode. Both games have steadfast communities backed by a solid history with Formula 1 fans and consistent content updates for DiRT 5, and Grid Legends is slated for a 2022 release. So if it isn't not staffing up for that game, whatever this new AAA project is, will surely come sometime after that game and that year's F1 entry in 2023 or later.

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Source: Exputer