Official F1 License To Remain With Codemasters

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Richard Walker

Codemasters has announced that it's to remain the home of Formula One games, extending its partnership with the official Formula One World Championship Limited with a multi-year deal that will see the developer's specialist racing studio in Birmingham continue to craft its F1 series.

"Codemasters has created some of the best and most successful Formula One games to date. We and the teams work closely with them and look forward to creating more award winning games together in the future," said diminutive F1 billionaire CEO, Bernie Ecclestone.

"We got off to a strong start with Formula One but we harbour ambitions to do much more. Formula One is front of mind at Codemasters and we give it the focus and attention it deserves. We have established close links across the sport and they know that, in Codemasters, they have a great partner," added Codies CEO, Rod Cousens. "We remain ambitious with our plans and want to take the series forward. We want to take it to new geographies, make it available on new platforms to new audiences."

Codemasters is also readying an announcement for a family-based F1 title that'll be due this holiday season, and no doubt we'll hear word of F1 2012 in due course.

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  • Good f1 2011 was fantastic.
  • Brillaint, love F1 2010 & 2011!
  • The best guys for the job.
  • At least Bernie has some sense!
  • Best decision ecclestone has made in a long time, codices are the racing masters and there just down the road from me yay for Brum.........
  • I have nejoyed F1 2010 and 2011. Not sure I'd buy 2012 though, might hold off till 2013 before I purchase a new one.
  • i love the f1 games, i really wish there was a game for the 2008 season though, they were by far the best looking cars in f1
  • "Codemasters is also readying an announcement for a family-based F1 title that'll be due this holiday season" Lewis Hamilton's F1 Kinect/Move Family Edition. Thats my prediction :) Seriously though can't wait for F1 '12, 2010/11 have got to be my most played games on 360 to date.
  • Its stupid that the season starts soon but there will be no game for season 2012 until fall when the season is almoust over
  • @9 That's because the season's not started yet, the cars were only unveiled last month, no-one has a clue how each team will perform, and one of the tracks isn't even built yet! Got to give real life a chance to get going before the game can be sorted...
  • I Love F1. Australian Grand Prix This Week!!!
  • Codies does really good work with their racers, love what the have done with F1, EA can eat it
  • Well deserved! Keep the F1 series going Codies! (maybe tie up with Sky F1 in future, the branding, menu layout etc.)
  • @9 what Mrt820 is unfortunately the reason. I too wish the new racing games like this would be able to come earlier so we can enjoy them alongside the real F1 guys but it's very hard to expect it done sooner than mid summer. Look on the bright side, the season goes well into November so we get a few months of racing in 2012 with them.
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  • I think EA will aim to grab the F1 license at the first opportunity since Sky Sports launched the new F1 channel. EA and SKy are always closely linked so Codies should try and get tied to a very long deal to ensure they do get a great price when the inevitable EA offer comes in.
  • Great news! Enjoyed both Codies F1 games so far, looking forward to more of the same.
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