EA initially acquired Codemasters in late 2020, and at the time was considered a huge win for the corporation. In fact, Codemasters was more or less all set to be purchased by Take Two who made an initial offering of $973 million. A little more than a month later, EA gatecrashed the deal by going all in on the racing studio for an insane $1.2 billion. Soon after, the studio was made apart of the EA Sports umbrella. They released two titles this year, F1 23, and EA Sports WRC, both of which have been generally well received. 2023 has been a very rough year for video game studios, and we hope that the employees affected land on their feet sooner than later.