Ian Bell, CEO of SILGHTLY MAD STUDIOS (Project Cars), leaves the company

Thirteen years after the creation of Slightly Mad Studios, Ian Bell, Founder and Historical CEO of the company, decided to sail to other horizons. The developer of the Project Cars, now in the codemasters fun and therefore Electronic Arts, loses his founding member but may, according to the latter, consider the future serenely.

And for good reason, the redemption of the company by codemasters for an amount of $ 30 million in 2019 and then that of the latter by Electronic Arts for the Coquette sum of 1.2 billion in February have installed the studio in a solid ecosystem, if we believe the words of Ian Bell: The future of the studio being assured, the moment has come for me to withdraw me. He declares. This has been an adventure and a privilege. to share our dreams with you. He continues in a brief press release on his Twitter account. The ex-CEO recalls that, if the studio was founded in 2008, its history goes back to many years earlier Slightly Mad Studios started as a crazy dream by a band of ambitious racing game fans in a room in the late 90s.

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First at work on the Need for Speed ​​ series with Need for Speed: Shift and SHIFT 2: Unleashed, before fork on Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, Slightly Mad Studios has definitely acquired its nobility letters by developing Project Cars, co-financed by the company and its community, without leaving a publisher, and released in 2015. Slightly Mad Studios even had a Game console project in its cartons, the Mad Box, but it will never see the light of day.

As our confreres de GameIndustry.biz recall, this is the third departure of an important member of Studios recently acquired by Electronic Arts. At Codemasters, CEOs and Chief Financial Officer, Frank Sagnier and Rashia Varachia, who left the company this year, while at Glu Mobile, Nick Earl and Eric Ludwig, respectively CEO and director of operation, took the same decision, after the acquisition of the company by EA for an amount of $ 2.1 billion.

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