Project Cars is a series that has had an interesting life, I say that now as Electronic Arts have confirmed that the series will be no more, having stopped all development on anything related to it.

Project Cars was a game that spun up from developer Slightly Mad Studio, after their work on the Need for Speed series, Shift and Shift 2: Unleashed were done. Not happy with how the second game turned out, EA dropped the studio from working on the series, so they went ahead and did their own thing and thus we got Project Cars.

Then a few years ago, not long before Project Cars 3 released, Codemasters snapped up the developer, bringing them into their stable of racing studios. That meant the series would sit along side GRID, F1, Dirt and more, but then EA bought Codemasters.

Gamesindusty.biz are the ones with the full story, but here is the statement released by EA about the cancellation of the series.

"Today we announced internally an update to our racing portfolio. Following an evaluation of the next Project CARS title and its longer-term growth potential, we have made the decision to stop further development and investment for the franchise.

"Decisions like these are very hard, but allow us to prioritise our focus in areas where we believe we have the strongest opportunity to create experiences that fans will love. We are focusing on our strengths in our racing portfolio, particularly licensed IP and open-world experiences, and expanding our franchises to be more socially-led with long-term live services that will engage global communities. Games are at the heart of sports and racing entertainment, and with shifting fan expectations, we recognise the need to evolve our games beyond pure play, providing experiences for fans to also watch, create and connect with their friends.

"We are working with everyone impacted by this decision to place them into suitable roles across our EA Sports and racing portfolio, as well as other parts of EA, wherever we can. Our priority now is on providing as much support as possible to our people through this transition."

While the third game in the series didn’t score as well as the first two, thanks to its more arcade like approach, it was still a very well put together game. So seeing the series is done for, is a sad thing indeed.