A week after reporting their earnings, Electronic Arts shared some breaking and bad news today and that includes Car Racing fans, Project Cars and maybe original Codemasters fans.

Electronic Arts announced today that they will no longer pursue more games under the brand of Project Cars and that while delisting Project Cars 3 from digital store was not mentioned, there is a big chance that something happened at the development of what was supposed to be the next main Project Cars game.

"Today we announced internally an update to our racing portfolio. Following an evaluation of the next Project CARS title and its longer-term growth potential, we have made the decision to stop further development and investment for the franchise.

Decisions like these are very hard, but allow us to prioritize our focus in areas where we believe we have the strongest opportunity to create experiences that fans will love. We are focusing on our strengths in our racing portfolio, particularly licensed IP and open-world experiences, and expanding our franchises to be more socially-led with long-term live services that will engage global communities. Games are at the heart of sports and racing entertainment, and with shifting fan expectations, we recognise the need to evolve our games beyond pure play, providing experiences for fans to also watch, create and connect with their friends.

We are working with everyone impacted by this decision to place them into suitable roles across our EA Sports and racing portfolio, as well as other parts of EA, wherever we can. Our priority now is on providing as much support as possible to our people through this transition."

I can directly speculate that the game was having some troubles in development and probably Electronic Arts is cutting on whatever they feel is not working.

Quick short story, Electronic Arts bought Codemasters back in 2021 gaining automatically more first party studios and new intellectual properties (fun fact that Codemaster originally bought Slightly Mad Studios who are the original developers of the game) and this is the major changes that EA does to Codemasters since buying them.

Via Gameindustry.biz