{"id":5324,"date":"2022-05-12T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/ea-combines-criterion-and-codemasters-cheshire-to-make-new-need-for-speed-games\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:20:25","slug":"ea-combines-criterion-and-codemasters-cheshire-to-make-new-need-for-speed-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/ea-combines-criterion-and-codemasters-cheshire-to-make-new-need-for-speed-games\/","title":{"rendered":"EA combines Criterion and Codemasters Cheshire to make new Need for Speed games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">EA combines Criterion and Codemasters Cheshire to make new Need for Speed games<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div>\n<p >Electronic Arts has merged Codemasters&#8217; Cheshire studio with Criterion Games to create a larger team to work on the future of the Need for Speed series, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2022-05-12-ea-expands-criterion-with-codemasters-cheshire-team\">GamesIndustry.biz revealed<\/a> Thursday. <\/p>\n<p >This follows EA&#8217;s 2021 acquisition of Codemasters, though it&#8217;s only the Cheshire studio that&#8217;s merging with Criterion. Codemasters maintains multiple other offices that will continue to work on games like the upcoming <em>F1 22<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p >The Cheshire studio came about after Sony shut down Evolution Studios in early 2016. Codemasters hired the team, which had developed the MotorStorm series and <em>DriveClub<\/em>, and turned it into Codemasters Cheshire. In 2020, the Cheshire team released <em>Dirt 5<\/em>, which many critics said felt like a modern version of MotorStorm, and cited as one of the best games to show off the then-new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X hardware. <\/p>\n<p >According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Codemasters\/status\/1524704763010502657\">the Codemasters Twitter account<\/a>, the studio merger will not mean that the two studios are combining offices, but that they will work together in separate locations. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/dnvsFfmlWzC-ZPd7jWmf1x22udc=\/0x38:1920&#215;1043\/fit-in\/1200&#215;630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/19021400\/need_for_speed_heat_art_1920.jpg<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23069098\/new-need-for-speed-games-criterion-motorstorm-dirt-5<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA combines Criterion and Codemasters Cheshire to make new Need for Speed games Electronic Arts has merged Codemasters&#8217; Cheshire studio with Criterion Games to create a larger team to work on the future of the Need for Speed series, GamesIndustry.biz revealed Thursday. This follows EA&#8217;s 2021 acquisition of Codemasters, though it&#8217;s only the Cheshire studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}