Project Cars 3 will likely be formally delisted from digital sale on August 24. A discover served on its official Steam web page confirmed that whereas the sport will likely be delisted, anybody who bought the sport digitally will nonetheless be capable to entry it and redownload it sooner or later.
The on-line modes for the sport will also remain active till February 24, 2026. That is successfully the tip of the racing recreation collection, because the earlier video games have been additionally delisted a number of years in the past. EA quietly retired the Project Cars collection in late 2022, as the corporate introduced that it had made the choice to “cease additional growth and funding” within the franchise. Project Cars 1 and a pair of have been faraway from sale as a consequence of expiring automotive and monitor licenses, and it is possible that this is identical cause for the upcoming delisting of Project Cars 3.
The collection first kicked off in 2015, and its two sequels have been launched in 2017 and 2020. Moreover, there was a cell spin-off known as Project Cars Go launched in 2021, and Barely Mad additionally launched an official–and terrible–Quick and Livid recreation in 2020. All three Project Cars video games have been initially printed by Bandai Namco, and the studio was later acquired by EA in 2021 as a part of a deal to buy Codemasters.
This is not the one racing collection that EA has moved away from, as Codemasters not too long ago introduced that it was “pausing” work on the WRC collection. The collection is not lifeless, nevertheless, as Nacon has reacquired the rights to the FIA World Rally Championship license.
This information comes amidst a time of elevated scrutiny surrounding possession of video video games. Final 12 months, YouTube host Ross Scott began the Cease Killing Video games initiative in a bid to problem the legality and ethics of publishers’ selections to close down video games after Ubisoft introduced that it was sunsetting The Crew. Throughout an Ubisoft shareholders assembly, CEO Yves Guillemot responded to a query in regards to the motion, and he replied that video games aren’t meant to “final without end.”