Slightly Mad Studios

Ian Bell, founder and public face of Slightly Mad Studios, has announced that he’s leaving the company he created back in 2009.

In a surprising turn of events, Codemasters, developer of the DIRT and GRID series, has agreed to acquire Slightly Mad Studios (SMS).

If London-based racing game developer Slightly Mad Studios (SMS) didn’t already have enough on its hands at the moment, it’s also apparently working on something ‘enormous’.

Slightly Mad Studios took much of the gaming world by surprise in January when it announced it would produce its own console.

Slightly Mad Studios continues to be the topic of conversation as of late, and not without reason.

Slightly Mad Studios has been the topic of several discussions lately. Whether it be the studio working on its MadBox console, or CEO Ian Bell having a go at Soulja Boy.

After a flurry of concepts from Slightly Mad Studios, it looks like the team has settled on the final design for its upcoming console, the Mad Box.

In a series of direct-reply tweets, Slightly Mad CEO Ian Bell — creator of the Project CARS series and the recently announced “Mad Box” gaming console — mocked the 28-year-old rapper known as Soulja Boy with pictures of himself holding wads of cash and lounging on a yacht with five women.

Slightly Mad Studios has been dominated the news cycle in 2019 so far. Between an entirely new console and confirmation of Project CARS 3, the UK studio has been busy. We know to not expect the Mad Box before 2022, but it will be a bit of a wait for the team’s next mainline sim racer too.

2019 is off to a wild start for Slightly Mad Studios and its CEO, Ian Bell, after he revealed the studio is not only working on Project CARS 3 — it is building its own gaming console dubbed the “MadBox“. Yesterday, we got a preview of what the hardware looks like, and now we learn more about the software (and games) that will run on it.

This is our first look at the rather unexpected new player on the console market: the Mad Box.

We’re filing this as the first major surprise of 2019. Sim racing developer Slightly Mad Studios has a new project: an entire console platform.

In a post here on GTPlanet, Slightly Mad Studios founder and CEO Ian Bell has confirmed the design direction of the next Project CARS game.

File this under breaking news: a new Project CARS game is in the works. The good news comes courtesy of Slightly Mad Studios head Ian Bell on our forum.

It’s hard to believe, but Project CARS 2 launched way back in late September 2017.

Slightly Mad Studios has picked up a heavyweight name in video games to join its team. Paul “Rushy” Rustchynsky posted on Twitter that he has joined SMS as a game director for an unannounced project.

The sim racing season has begun. Okay, it arguably kicked off a month ago with F1 2017 (read our review), but for those looking for a game featuring multiple disciplines, Project CARS 2 is the real starting point.

Project CARS 2 isn’t even on store shelves yet, but the team at Slightly Mad Studios is looking towards its next project.

To say that 2017 is a good year for racing games would be an understatement. We’ve already had DiRT 4 and F1 2017 from the house of Codemasters and this fall, the Big Three of sim racing games is going to get involved.

The boys at Slightly Mad Studios have provided yet more details on the online aspects of Project CARS 2. The news, covering esports and multiplayer options, comes courtesy of the last official live stream.