KnackChap Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Formula One is to have its first official computer game in more than two years next season following the capture of a new official licencing deal with British gaming company Codemasters, autosport.com can reveal. With Sony having published the most recent official F1 game last summer, based on the 2006 season and available only on PlayStation consoles, Codemasters' deal will see F1 return to a multiformat platform for the first time in many years. The game is set to be available on all major home consoles, as well as handheld and PC gaming formats. After weeks of discussion between Codemasters and Formula One Administration, it is anticipated that the company will produce the first game next year, based on the 2009 F1 season. This will be the first game that Lewis Hamilton will appear in. Rod Cousens, chief executive officers of Codemasters, said: "Formula One is ambitious in expanding its reach with more circuits planned beyond recent additions in the Middle East and China. It is also ambitious in expanding its reach via technology. "The digital communities that computer and video gaming creates will play a key role in further growing the F1 audience and connecting them globally. "As a world-leading creator of driving games, this alliance with F1 is the jewel in Codemasters' racing crown and creates an undisputed segment champion." Chris Denning, chairman of Codemasters, added: "Codemasters' success and recent innovations in the racing game space makes the company more than appropriately tuned for the challenge. "The combination of F1's new momentum of expansion and Codemasters' contemporary technology and past experience is the breaking of a new dawn for the sport, on the track and on the HD game screen." Codemasters Studios has already begun preparations for the major task of creating the new game, by strengthening their team with personnel from the now defunct Sega Racing Studio. There are 350 people working on the project, which will be based on the EGO Engine that Codemasters has put to good use on the Colin McRae: DIRT and soon-to-be-released Race Driver: GRID titles. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/67228 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnackChap Posted May 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 codemasters are a pretty good choice imo atleast the game will now have a much better and fleshed out career mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Yippee !! A new F1 game That too on my X360 :jumpy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtheK Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Yippee !! A new F1 game That too on my X360 :jumpy: It will be awesome gaming from next season... and i can bet on it MT will buy it for PS3 and not X360 cos he would have forgotten his x360 by then after seeing the beautiful MGS4 edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotek Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 This is amazing news!!!!! Hopefully, Codemasters will hit the sweet spot with their f1 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HundredProofSam Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 nice....i hope they can do it right....and going by Drit and Grid, im very optimistic peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshitij Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 this sounds great,,bt only if i had a ps3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightySkate Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 This great news indeed for us F1 fanatics I was just wondering what about EA signing Lewis a while back? wasn't that an F1 deal as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruckthefules Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 yah it's a gr8 news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 It will be awesome gaming from next season... and i can bet on it MT will buy it for PS3 and not X360 cos he would have forgotten his x360 by then after seeing the beautiful MGS4 edition LOL. I will buy it on the platform that its best played on. The X360 controller is damn good for racing games, so we shall have to see how this pans out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aditya Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 yah it's a gr8 news dude stop spamming to increase your post count....unnecessary posts in so many topics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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