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Codemasters to Develop Official WRC Titles from 2023
British game
developer and
publisher Codemasters
has picked up the
official WRC license,
and will develop
titles in the series
from 2023.The initial
five-year deal gives
Codemasters two
different rally
franchises, and
official licenses for
two top-tier FIA
world championships.
Nacon — formerly
Bigben Interactive —
currently holds the
WRC license,
with WRC9 due out
later this year. In
fact it only recently
announced it had
secured the WRC
license through to
2022, and confirmed
future WRC10
and WRC11 titles. WRC
— the World Rally
Championship — is the
highest level of offroad
racing in the
world.
Officially starting
in 1973, the series
features around 20
point-to-point stages
spread over three
days, in some pretty
severe terrain. The
cars it uses are
quite loosely based
on production models,
currently three-door
hatchbacks producing
almost 400hp from
1.6-lite turbocharged
engines. A regulation
change due in 2022