The Need for Speed series gets a new developer AGAIN

The Need for Speed series of games has changed a lot of developers over its 28-year history. It started with the Canadian branch of Electronic Arts, then the series passed into the hands of Black Box studios, then Slightly Mad Studios, Criterion, Ghost Games, and - again Criterion, which is currently developing NFS for this year, worked on it. And judging by the new ad, another studio has been hired to develop this series.

It will be Codemasters Chesire, which in the future will collaborate with the development studio Criterion on the creative and technical performance of the new Need for Speed games.

It looks like Codemasters Cheshire will now be working on future Need for Speed titles indefinitely. pic.twitter.com/Q2o4MFYz5K

— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) April 25, 2022

Codemasters ’Chesire team is made up of several veterans who have developed a variety of racing games over the past 17 years. They have worked on the WRC series, Driveclub, and the recent DiRT 5. They have experience - this is not in dispute, although it cannot be said that their games so far have been particularly successful. Codemaster Chesire employees mostly came from closed studios, and among the titles that did not succeed were Motorstorm Games and Onrush from 2018.

Do you remember Onrush? Neither do I.