Our Heritage
Founded in 2009, we’re the award-winning team behind the Project CARS franchise, and era-defining games such
as the GTR® series, Need For Speed® Shift™, Shift 2 Unleashed®, Red Bull Air Race – – The Game, and many
other top-tier games.
With over a decade’s worth of pedigree creating AAA-games, the studio is a 160+ strong group of
professionals working from either a central hub in London, offices in Singapore and Luxembourg, or worldwide via
a unique and award-winning distributed development system.

2021
Electronic Arts
18 February Electronic Arts, through its subsidiary Codex Games Limited, acquires Codemasters®
(incl. SMS) in a deal worth $1.2 billion. “This is the beginning of an exciting new era for
racing games and content as we bring together the talented teams at Electronic Arts and
Codemasters,” said EA CEO Andrew Wilson in a statement.

2002
GTR2002 mod
A core group of passionate motorsport aficionados get together online determined to create the kind
of motorsport simulation they believe is missing from the market. Working in their spare time from
home, this group of “modders”, going by the name SimBin, create the GTR2002 mod (based off EA’s “F1
2002” game). The mod is a massive hit. With Ian Bell at the helm steering a core group of developers
(most of whom are still with the company to this day), the studio now known as Slightly Mad Studios
is off to the races.