Codemasters

While we wait for the belated announcement of Dirt 4, Codemasters has given DiRT 3 a new lease of life by finally making the PC version support Steamworks after considerable pressure from the community, as it previously ran on Games for Windows Live.  As an added bonus, Codemasters are upgrading all existing owners of Dirt […]

With the Formula One 2015 season underway, it was surely a matter of time before Codemasters lifted the bonnet on F1 2015, which was already announced alongside F1 2014 simultaneously as part of Codemasters' strategy to introduce the franchise to current-gen platforms. And now, just in time for the Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend, we […]

Codemasters Racing is working on new entries in the Dirt and Grid franchises, according to a new job listing. As stated on the Graphics Programmer vacancy listed on the Codemasters Blog, the successful applicant will be assigned to tasks linked to future Dirt and Grid games. The announcement is significant in that it's the first […]

The first preview images of Codemasters Racing's upcoming title F1 2015 have been leaked, ahead of a presumed full reveal later this year. First posted on the F1 Game Memes page on Facebook (since removed), the pictures depict work-in-progress renders of the F1 2015 game from an in-house newsletter, complete with a first look at […]

Sad news as Codemasters, one of the UK's leading, long-standing racing game developers, are facing lay-offs affecting between 30 – 50 employees according to Eurogamer. Around 50 jobs are under review, with "north of 30 of those jobs set to go as part of a 30 day consultation period." The redundancies are said to affect […]

Just prior to F1 2014's official release tomorrow, Codemasters has announced all of the wheels that are compatible with the licensed racing game. Much like previous F1 games, F1 2014 will support a wide array of racing game peripherals from a variety of manufacturers, such as Fanatec, Thrustmaster and Logitech. However, whilst many wheels are […]

GRID Autosport's latest mini-expansion has been released, adding an all-new mode to the seventh-gen racing game. As the pack's name suggests, the DLC brings the drag racing game type to GRID Autosport, giving players an all-new auto racing discipline to master alongside the other motorsport genres currently featured in the game. Content-wise, the Autosport Drag […]

The latest trailer for F1 2014 has gone live, summing up the core new features for Codemasters's latest Formula One game release. As showcased in the 'Who Wins? You Decide' cinematic, this year's iteration aims to replicate the 2014 F1 season, with most of the focus being on the new cars and tracks. Other features […]

Just in time for this weekend's Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore, F1 2014 developer Codemasters Racing has unveiled the title's latest 'Hot Lap' trailer. Appropriately enough, the video in question features the Marina Bay Street Circuit, which has been a staple of the Formula One World Championship since the Singapore Grand Prix was introduced […]

Codemasters Racing has released its latest expansion for GRID Autosport: the 'Touring Legends' pack. As befitting of the name, the 'Touring Legends' add-on primarily revolves around the premise of touring car racing. For instance, three all-new singleplayer championships have been added to the game, all of which are dedicated to this genre of motorsports. The […]

Three new cars have been made available for GRID Autosport, courtesy of the first of three DLC packs for the seventh-gen-exclusive racing game. Featured in the 'Best of British' DLC are three high-performance road and racing cars which – as the pack's name suggests – were all constructed in Great Britain. The trio consists of […]

GRID Autosport developer Codemasters has revealed the first brief details on the endurance racing aspects of the game. According to the official announcement on the Codemasters Blog, the endurance racing in GRID Autosport will require a different approach from the game's other (and considerably shorter) race types: a combination of simulated tyre wear and race […]

Codemasters has ported over its Mario Kart wannabe racing game F1 Race Stars, for a new lease of life on the iOS marketplace. The fourth mobile racing game by Codemasters, and the third to be a port for a previously released title, F1 Race Stars is content-wise the exact same game that was released last […]

Codemasters Racing has unveiled the full details on the minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC version of GRID Autosport. According to the official announcement on the Codemasters Blog, the GRID Autosport development team has put a "put a lot of effort into the optimisation of our PC version of GRID Autosport", which shows […]

Codemasters has pulled the wraps off GRID Autosport's Trophy and Achievements, providing a vague-but-tantalising teaser glimpse at some of the game's core mechanics. Posted earlier today on the official Codemastera Blog, the sizeable Trophy and Achievements list is predominantly a standard fare by racing game standards, with a majority of the rewards being for unlocking […]

A whole range of driver options will be featured in GRID Autosport, developer Codemasters Racing has revealed. Confirmed in the latest entry on the Codemasters Blog, GRID Autosport will differ heavily from its Grid 2 predecessor, by allowing players to tinker with and tailor individual driver assists to their liking. Grid 2 dropped this of-the-norm […]

Mark your calendar for April 22nd everyone – this is the date when Codemasters will finally unveil their latest racing game project. Surprisingly however, it doesn't look like it will be the long-awaited DiRT 4, but a Grid sequel.  Of course, that's not to say DiRT 4 isn't coming at some stage – it's not […]

Three-times British Touring Car Championship title holder Matt Neal has teased about two upcoming driving games from Codemasters Racing. Making the announcement on his official Twitter feed, the triple BTTC champion declared there will be two "awesome" racing games from Codemasters in the near future, though didn't disclose in detail as to what these titles […]

Codemasters Racing has assured the McLaren Racing Pack will be added to the recently-released Grid 2 Reloaded racing game "as soon as possible". As was briefly mentioned in Team VVV's original report on Grid 2 Reloaded – a game that claims to come with all of the DLC that has been released for the standard […]

Codemasters Racing has released a digital-only special edition version of its Grid 2 racing title, under the guise of "Grid 2 Reloaded". As was the case when its legendary predecessor – Race Driver: GRiD – was given the "Reloaded" treatment, Grid 2 Reloaded is essentially the exact same as the standard Grid 2 game we reviewed last year, […]

Codemasters Racing has teased the possibility of the game developers producing and releasing more than one rally title in 2014. Responding a user who quizzed the studio on the chances of there being a new DiRT game in the works, Codies mentioned that "not working on [just] one" such racing game is currently being developed […]

With the penultimate race of the 2013 Formula One season upon us this weekend, Codemasters has released another hot lap trailer featuring the Circuit of the Americas. Through the combined assistance of Nico Hulkenburg's virtual Sauber C32 and the vocals of Sky Sports F1 presenter and handling consultant Anthony Davidson, the best way to eke […]

Codemasters Racing has released a duo of new DLC packs for Grid 2, adding a host of cars and an all-new track to the arcade racing game. Headlining the announcement is the 'Bathurst Track Pack', which not only includes a coiple of Mount Panorama-associated tracks to race on, but also a trio of new cars […]

Having sneakily revealed in the Spa Track Pack announcement last week that Bathurst would be coming to Grid 2, Codemasters has now released the first in-game teaser image relating to the fabled race track from Down Under. Showcased in the solitary teaser image (sourced from the official Grid page on Facebook) is what appears to […]

Codemasters has reached out to the racing game community, to help the the developers in an upcoming racing game project. As stated in the latest entry to the Codemasters Blog, the racing game developer wishes to enlist the help of its core fanbase to assist with the development of a "super-exclusive, super-secret" upcoming title, via […]

Codemasters has released its first post-launch race circuit DLC for Grid 2. under the guise of the "Spa Track Pack". As the bundle's name suggests, this new piece of downloadable content brings the fabled Spa-Francorchamps circuit to the game, along with a pair of homologated GT racing cars – the Aston Martin V12 Zagato N24 […]

Whilst Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing have both won their respective championships, we've still three Formula One races to go 'till the season is over, with the next globe trot on the calender being to the United Arab Emirates for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. As a result, Codemasters has released it's latest 'Hot […]

After last year's fairly bizzarre take on the licence that was F1 Race Stars, Codemasters has gone down the mobile app route with the newly-announced F1 Challenge game. Currently available only on iPads, IPod Touches and iPhones that can run on iOS 7 software, F1 Challenge features all the cars, drivers and tracks from last […]

To mark today's launch of Codemasters Racing's F1 2013 game, HMV is hosting a Formula1-themed celebratory event at its flagship branch down Oxford Street in London. Alongside the classic Lotus 100T Formula One car (driven by Nelson Piquet in the 1988 Formula One season, and one of the classic racers available in F1 2013) – […]

Even though Codemasters's final seventh-gen-only Formula One game F1 2013 is yet to be released,Andy Gray – Codemasters's Communicaton Manager – has already been discussing some new features and possibilities for next year's title. Speaking to Sportra, Gray revealed his studio has been "talking to a couple of teams about sharing their kind of physics […]

We've got some more F1 2013 gameplay for you all, and this time it's a trilogy of one-lap ventures in three of the game's contemporary Formula One cars. The three tracks we've got lined up are Sao Paulo (home to the Brazilian Grand Prix), Monaco (no introduction needed) and India's Buddh International Circuit, and all […]

Codemasters Racing has confirmed a rather enticing incentive to sign up to its RaceNet service: the gifting of a rather special vintage Formula One car. As a present for registering with RaceNet (you can sign up for the service here if you haven't done so already), Codemasters will allow players access to Niki Lauda's Ferrari […]

We've got some more gameplay videos of F1 2013's much-reported Classic content, and this one's a particular treat for mid-Nineties Formula 1 fans: a showdown between the Alan-controlled Damon Hill and an NPC Michael Schumacher around Imola. Being a tad too early to recite much feedback that hasn't been mentioned before in our previous videos, […]

We're on a bit of an F1 2013 roll here at Team VVV – after sampling Mansell's Williams on a rather sodden Imola circuit, our very own Alan Boiston is taking a spin at one of his favourite racing tracks: the fabulous Brands Hatch. Piloting Eddie Irvine's Ferrari F399 from the 1999 season, Alan also […]

We knew it was coming, but today marks the official unveiling of F1 2013, Codemasters' fourth entry in the annual F1 game series in what is starting to become the Fifa of racing games where annual instalments equate to incremental updates.  Indeed, all the usual rules and regulations updates are in place, as are the […]

Without even a teaser shot to go on at this moment in time (the image you see here is of F1 2012), very few outside of Codemasters Racing know exactly how far F1 2013 is coming along. An insight by Steve Hood – the Creative Director for the Codies F1 games – on Twitter does […]

This month marks the 13th anniversary of Codemasters' Colin McRrae Rally 2.0, a beloved title that many rank as the best in the series. Released in 2000, it came at a focal point in Colin's career when the world-renowned champion left Subaru and joined Ford to drive their new Focus rally car, which also starred […]

Codemasters Racing has released the first post-launch DLC car pack for Grid 2: the 'Super Modified Pack'. Available to download today from the Xbox Live Marketplace for 480 Microsoft Points and the PlayStation Store for £3.99, the 'Super Modified Pack' features four highly-tuned performance cars that, in the words of Codemasters themselves, have "been modified to […]

With this particular Grid 2 pre-order bonus being one of the more intriguing ones on offer, it's pleasing to know that Codemasters has finally revealed the final details we (until now) didn't know about the IndyCar Pack. On top of the Dallara IndyCar and the oval track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the IndyCar Pack […]

Codemasters Racing has finally pulled the wraps off the initial downloadable content plans and packs for Grid 2, ranging from the pre-order bonuses post-launch to the themes of initial DLC packs. In an official statement, Codemasters has confirmed it's now "working away at new content for the game already", and that the fruits of their […]

If you've been dying to know what tracks will feature in Grid 2 ever since the title was first announced, then you'll be pleased to know that Codemasters Racing has revealed the game's complete locale list. With a collection of 82 different tracks, spread across 14 different locations, Grid 2's track roster is certainly plentiful […]

With just five or so weeks to fo until the much-anticipated game ships, Codemasters Racing has released a new – and very content-specific – trailer. Titled GRID 2 Presents: BMW 'M' Cars, the 74 seconds-long clip depicts what we assume will be the full range of BMWs that'll come stamped on the disc: the E30 […]

So far, coverage related to Grid 2 has centred on its single player component and the inane waffling's of Patrick Callahan, the fictional face of the World Series Racing. Now however, with Grid 2 racing into stores in just six weeks time, Codemasters has finally lifted the bonnet on what should hopefully be the driving force […]