The Dirt games are hit and miss. They release too many. D5 looks great though.

Because no one really cares about Codemasters.

I don't really care about them, and in the end taketwon is a third party as well so no one is worried it may skip one console or the other.

Impressed they lasted this long tbh. 34 years on their own. They were never THE studio for the best racing games. Just hit and miss. The odd times they published games outside of racing was often terrible. Bullet Witch. Overlord on Wii. Bodycount. Some others were at least mediocre. Codemasters is a poster boy studio you expected to go out in the 7th gen or get bought by EA or 2K a decade ago.

Sucks to lose the independence of yet another publisher, but this is probably not a very big loss.

Realistic racing games aren't really popular outside of the first party ones, so it's no wonder there's not that much fuss about this buyout. Still, it's sad to see how small-medium studios are being gobbled up by big publishers, after a decade or so we won't have A or AA development, it will be either indie or AAA.

Remember them mostly from the game genie, and that was not so fun.

I like F1 and MicroMachines back in the day, these days I am not too invested in them.

I had a good time with Overlord: Dark Legend.  I wouldn't call it a standout game, but it is decently fun.

They are the ones in charge of the official F1 games so probably a slight loss there but nothing too major