Criterion Games and Codemasters Cheshire are now both under the Criterion banner Electronic Arts has merged Codemasters’ 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.
Codemasters maintains multiple other offices that will continue to work on games like the upcoming F1 22.
Codemasters hired the team, which had developed the MotorStorm series and DriveClub, and turned it into Codemasters Cheshire.
This follows EA’s 2021 acquisition of Codemasters, though it’s only the Cheshire studio that’s merging with Criterion.