Codemasters Confirms Layoffs After Stepping Away From Rally Racing Sims

Codemasters recently announced that it was ending development for EA Sports WRC and that it was pausing development on all future rally racing sims. Now, as many suspected, the studio has confirmed that that change goes hand-in-hand with a wave of layoffs.

Codemasters has confirmed to VGC that as it winds down its rally racing development pipeline, it’s also “eliminating roles.” The studio doesn’t say exactly how many jobs it is cutting, though it does state that it will be reassigning some people across other studios and projects across EA Sports.

“As a business, we are constantly evolving to meet the growing needs of our players and driving greater focus across our portfolio,” a Codemasters spokesperson said. “This has led us to look at reducing some roles, while we redeploy as many as possible against our strategic priorities.”

Codemasters isn’t the only Electronic Arts studio to suffer layoffs. Last week, EA confirmed that it had eliminated roughly 300 roles across all of its studios, including Respawn Entertainment. Reports have claimed that Respawn alone had to cut about 100 jobs, along with cancelling a Titanfall spinoff extraction shooter.

Sadly, this isn’t the first time of late that Codemasters has suffered layoffs either. The developer also had to eliminate roles back in December 2023.