{"id":760,"date":"2025-05-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=760"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:09:06","slug":"rumour-iconic-studio-codemasters-may-soon-close-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/rumour-iconic-studio-codemasters-may-soon-close-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Iconic Studio Codemasters May Soon Close For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EA! Stop!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a little while since any Codemasters-developed game made its way to a Nintendo system; in fact, the latest one may well have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/f1_race_stars_powered_up_edition\">F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition<\/a> for the Wii U in 2014. But the iconic studio has been a staunch support of Nintendo in the past, developing and publishing games for the Wii, DS, SNES, NES, and more. Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/micro_machines_64_turbo\">Micro Machines V3<\/a>? Good stuff, man.<\/p>\n<p>The studio hasn&#8217;t been doing so well recently. EA confirmed recently that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/05\/layoffs-at-codemasters-confirmed-as-developer-halts-all-work-on-rally-racing-games\">Codemasters would no longer work on the <strong>WRC<\/strong> series<\/a>, with employees either laid off or moved to other projects as a result. Now, according to a post from X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eXtas1stv\">@eXtas1stv<\/a>, EA may be looking to shut down Codemasters entirely, moving affected employees over to new projects in the <strong>F1<\/strong> and <strong>Need for Speed<\/strong> franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/05\/rumour-iconic-studio-codemasters-may-soon-close-for-good\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA! Stop! It&#8217;s been a little while since any Codemasters-developed game made its way to a Nintendo system; in fact, the latest one may well have been F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition for the Wii U in 2014. But the iconic studio has been a staunch support of Nintendo in the past, developing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}