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F1 debuts on next-gen July 16 as first joint EA-Codemasters racing game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Codemasters and its new parent company, Electronic Arts, will launch F1 2021 on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on July 16.

This game is the first joint title between Codemasters and EA since EA’s $1.2 billion purchase of the British company. It will help EA fill a light release schedule for racing fans, as the publisher gave the Criterion team a year off from its Need for Speed franchise and assigned it to help the Dice studio finish the next Battlefield game coming this fall.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.