Codemasters secures Formula One video game rights

[daniboy79]

Codemasters secures Formula One video game rights

Codemasters, developer and publisher of award-winning racing video games, has secured the exclusive video game rights to FORMULA 1™ it was announced on Friday. In a worldwide licensing agreement with Formula One Administration Limited, Codemasters will develop a new generation of the multi-million selling Formula One game franchise across multiple platforms.

Codemasters Studios, creators of genre-leading racing titles Colin McRae: DiRT™ and Race Driver: GRID™, will lead the design and development of official FIA Formula One World Championship games for home console, handheld and PC gaming formats.

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/5/7752.html

now let's see how looong they take to come out with the Game.

[Agokillya]

I'm a Huge fan of Codemasters. From the first ever Colin McRae (God rest his soul), to the last.I'm also a F1 freak so I can't wait to see what there gonna do with the franchise.

[daniboy79]

sweet! an F1 fan amoungst us!

[SPK]

....I remember my days of sweating Micro Machines in the computer lab via a floppy disk, when the lab tech resorted to removing hard drives on the older systems to try to curb people installing games on them....

Good times....