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Welcomes its Lost Boys home.

Codemasters has said it will be taking over SEGA Racing Studio with immediate effect.

The studio was shut down by SEGA earlier this month because it wasn't looking likely to make enough money in the future.

Ironically it was from Codemasters (among others) that SEGA Racing Studio first built its staff base.

"In seizing this opportunity, we have created additional resources to escalate our plans in the racing segment," said Rod Cousens, who power-dresses for Codemasters.

"We hope to welcome more than 40 people to the company and we have enjoyed the full co-operation of our friends at SEGA in making this happen. It is good business for Codemasters, an exciting prospect, and there will be more to come as we are not content to stand still."

Evidently Codemasters is keen to expand its racing offerings, then, with most recent effort Race Driver: GRID looking pretty and playing well.

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ccfb #1 4 years ago

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Welcome to the collective. Good news for the talent in SRS. I wonder if the admin crew are as lucky?
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YoJimbo #2 4 years ago

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I dont know what to laugh at first
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alimokrane #3 4 years ago

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Sweet! good for those poor empoyees at least!
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kissthestick #4 4 years ago

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so they brought back their old freinds?

heh
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Ryze #5 4 years ago

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Good stuff.

Now get Sumo Digital making an all formats Daytona USA 2009.
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thefilthandthefury #6 4 years ago

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Great news. Sega Rally was brilliant!
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BBIAJ #7 4 years ago

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Fantastic news, was gutted when I learnt that SEGA was dropping them, the fools...
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Dizzy #8 4 years ago

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Nice... good for the guys.
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coojam #9 4 years ago

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Wonder what they'll do with the Colin McRae franchise.
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Triggerhappytel #10 4 years ago

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After Sega shut the studio down I was thinking how Sony should have re-hired them all and got them to work on bringing a new Rollcage and/or Speed Freaks to the PS3. Anyway, good news for them and a smart move by Codies.
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themorganator #11 4 years ago

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PLEASE CODEMASTERS, LET THEM MAKE A PROPER SIM - NOT ANOTHER ARCADE RACER
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jebus #12 4 years ago

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This should be the very definition of ironic.
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MrMarbles #13 4 years ago

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It's like the big bubble in The Prisoner.

I am not a number - I'm a free man.
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Mr_V #14 4 years ago

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Roll on DiRT 2 with deformable terrain! Now, please!

Sad news turns into glad. Great stuff.
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Triggerhappytel #15 4 years ago

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Since his death, will there even be any more McRae games? I suppose it depends how many games he had signed up to endorse, and whether his family will want to continue to licence his name out now.
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SomaticSense #16 4 years ago

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Not too pleased about this myself actually.

Really really used to like Codies, but their recent stuff has either been complete shit (Turning Point, Jericho, Emergency Mayhem), or disappointing US pandered watered down and derivative bollocks (DiRT, and GRID looks like it's going the same way).

To be honest, a lot of their publisher only stuff (the stuff not developed in-house) seem to have been of such low quality purely because of pressuring the dev teams to get it out, despite the games clearly not being finished. This is not a good sign, and has been a pretty consistent Codies tactic recently. In fact, I find it hard to understand how Ubi and the likes have been getting such a bad press and you all seem to love Codies, when Codies are just as bad if not worse.

I can't see how this is good news at all, as I loved Sega Rally and Outrun 2, and don't wish to see such talent spoiled.

Edited by 1 at 25/04/08 @ 13:40
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Ryze #17 4 years ago

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Yep - Sega Rally was excellent - but the people involved obviously didn't know how to present an arcade racer.

It's like an old Amiga game in terms of presentation - sparse and hollow. Makes a big difference.

Love the racing, though.
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Ryze #18 4 years ago

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Outrun 2 was (converted) by Sumo Digital.
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SomaticSense #19 4 years ago

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.... which was then named Sega Racing Studio.

I think anyway. I know Sumo did the Outrun 2 port, and I'm pretty sure I read somewhere the same guys also worked on Sega Rally.
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tomacwhite #20 4 years ago

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Sumo Digital and the SEGA Racing Studio are two seperate developers. Sumo ported Outrun 2 and Outrun 2006, whilst SRS developed SEGA Rally (Revo).
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DAN.E.B #21 4 years ago

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Well if you cant beat them buy them.

it seems to work for EA!
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actionfitz #22 4 years ago

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heh.
just so you know, theres a healthy amount of ex-Codies devs at Sega racing studio... so its more like rehiring old employees
I'm a former Codie artist myself
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chrisjm #23 4 years ago

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dizzy racing, come on!
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