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Good news on the game developer studio front. After months of studios shut-downs, Codemasters is making some UK based game creators very happy. indeed The publisher has announced a deal with Sega to take over their Sega Racing Studio which was shut down by Sega earlier this month.

The Sega Racing Studio was formed back in 2005 and released just one game, Sega Rally Revo, which was released in 2007 to solid reviews but low sales. Codemasters, which has a history of great rally based racing games, will now allow the over 40 team members of the Sega Racing Studio to work on upcoming Codemasters titles. Financial specifics were not disclosed but presumably the new studio will get a name change.

An already brutal year for game developers just got even rockier today with the news that Sega's UK based Racing Studio will be closing its doors. The studio, founded in 2005, released only one game; the 2007 racing title Sega Rally Revo (which was released on the PC as well as consoles). While it got decent reviews the game underperformed in terms of sales and that was apparently the reason for the studio's closure today. At one point Sega Racing Studio had about 60 team members. This move adds to the string of game studio closures in the past few months; Perpetual Entertainment, Iron Lore and Castaway Entertainment are among the other companies that have either shut down completely or are in the last grips of life.