Codemasters宣布获得F1版权 将会多平台发展

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2002年Sony以7500美金买断了2003-2007赛季的游戏开发授权，之后的F1赛车游戏都只限在Sony系的主机上开发。而据5月6日Tgdaily的报道，鉴于F1联赛老板Bernie Ecclestone的胃口实在太大，所以Sony与F1联盟的游戏授权续约谈判并不顺利，EA、Ubisoft或者Codemasters有望获得一份新的为期5年的游戏开发授权。

今天国外汽车网站autosport证实了此事，英国的Codemasters从竞争中胜出，获得F1方程式赛车的游戏授权，得以开发以2009赛季的F1赛车游戏。4月底，Codemasters收购了被关闭的Sega赛车游戏工作室，公司规模扩大到了350人，成为世界上最大的赛车游戏开发公司之一。

F1赛车最新一款游戏是Sony在去年基于2006赛季开发的《F1方程式赛车2006》之，只有其自有的主机版本，而Codemasters表示本作将回归全平台，将登陆PS3、Xbox360、掌机及PC平台。游戏将基于Codemasters的赛车游戏引擎研发，Codemasters已将其应用于《科林麦克雷拉力赛：尘埃》以及正在开发的赛车游戏新作《Race Driver: Grid》。


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

Codemasters secures Formula One video game rightsCodemasters, 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.

“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 Formula One audience and connecting them globally,” said Rod Cousens, chief executive officer, Codemasters.

“As a world-leading creator of driving games, this alliance with Formula One is the jewel in Codemasters’ racing crown and creates an undisputed segment champion. Formula One has gone with the best, the segment leader. It has gone to the home of the EGO Engine for quality; it has gone to the company that can host Formula One Online, to the company that is streaking away from the pack.”

“Codemasters’ success and recent innovations in the racing game space makes the company more than appropriately tuned for the challenge,” said Chris Deering, chairman, Codemasters. “The combination of Formula One’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.”

The worldwide deal provides Codemasters with rights to feature all Grand Prix circuits, Formula One teams, cars, and driver likenesses.

The FIA Formula One World Championship games will be developed using the evolution of the award-winning EGO™ Game Technology Engine, Codemasters’ highly versatile cross-platform middleware technology. Its advanced graphics and physics technology brings an unmatched cinematic quality and realism to interactive entertainment.

The EGO Engine is currently being deployed in the creation of Race Driver: GRID™, the latest in Codemasters Studio’s international circuit-based racing series. Set to be a landmark release when it launches on May 30, Race Driver: GRID was recently hailed as ‘The driving game of the summer’ by BBC Top Gear magazine.

Codemasters expects the first game based on the FIA Formula One World Championship to launch in 2009.


sony去死吧

msn1983

太好了！SONY终于死开了！烂SONY！

希望CodeM不要让我们失望，至少要和GTR系列有一拼才行哦

stanley_chan

太遥远的事情了

再说Codemaster出SIM...不看好

k_9999

代码大师这次的赛车手优化不错，但是SIM仍然可以说可怜。F1落在它手里实在有些渺茫。