Project Cars and Project Cars 2 shall be pulled from sale within the coming months attributable to expiring automotive and monitor licenses.

Developer Slightly Mad Studios mentioned Project Cars 2 shall be delisted on September 21, 2022, earlier than the unique title is yanked from cabinets on October 3, 2022.

The studio reassured gamers that each titles will stay absolutely playable, with all options — together with multiplayer — being preserved following the delisting.

“We stay targeted on making the perfect sim racing titles, and as talked about beforehand, we sit up for sharing extra on the following Slightly Mad undertaking when the time is true,” mentioned the corporate on Twitter.

Project Cars launched in 2015, two years earlier than it was adopted up with a sequel within the type of Project Cars 2.

The racing franchise has developed considerably since then, with Project Cars 3 veering away from the simulation gameplay of its predecessors into arcade racing territory when it rolled off the manufacturing line in 2020.

A spin-off title known as Project Cars GO was additionally greenlight by Slightly Mad, which enlisted Gamevil to develop the cell undertaking. The recreation, nonetheless, was despatched to the scrapheap simply seven months after it debuted.

Shifting gears

Slightly Mad was acquired by Codemasters for a reported $30 million in November 2019, with the British writer explaining it needed to work with the studio on “new racing experiences.”

“We are delighted to convey such an unbelievable racing recreation developer to the Codemasters household, and this unequivocally establishes us as a worldwide powerhouse within the growth of racing titles,” commented former Codemasters chief exec Frank Sagnier on the time.

“We share the identical ardour and imaginative and prescient and our new partnership will speed up our progress. With extra streaming companies coming to market and the following era of video games consoles due in 2020, that is the proper time for Codemasters to take its subsequent step.”

Codemasters was finally bought by EA for $1.2 billion simply two years later, with Sagnier departing the corporate shortly after the deal was accomplished.