In a blog post today, EA Sports gave a troubling update about the future of the WRC, DiRT, and Colin McRae series.
The WRC Franchise
WRC or World Rally Championship has had a long lineage of games. While EA took up the mantle in 2023 and 2024, previous titles like WRC Generations came from Nacon. We reviewed that title, saying:
WRC Generations upgrades the general feel of Nacon’s yearly rally experience, tweaking the physics, handling, and smartly recreating the new challenges of the hybrid cars that are racing in the real-life series this season. The lower than usual price point is certainly very inviting, but it’s caused by the fact the game contains very little new content, with even the UIs, the career and practice tracks being virtually unchanged. There’s still a bit of “jank”, and the game is far from the best-looking racers out there, but WRC Generations offers a compelling middle ground between arcade and simulation rally, with a robust enough online and ranking system to push virtual drivers towards perfection for months to come. And now we wait for Codemasters’ first WRC game…
EA and Codemasters would take over the IP rights the following year with the well-reviewed EA Sports WRC. Two titles were released with EA Sports WRC and WRC 24. In a statement today, EA said that “we’ve reached the end of the road working on WRC.”
They are pausing all future development on Rally Racing titles, assuring fans that the game’s online aspects will remain playable for the time being. How long that holds up, we’ll have to wait and see, as no online game lasts forever.
Are you a fan of WRC titles? If so, please sound off in the comments below and let us know how this update has you feeling.
