After a brief time away, the official WRC licence has landed back at publisher Nacon.

The company has agreed terms with the FIA World Rally Championship, giving it exclusive rights to produce and publish officially licensed rally racing games from 2027 to 2032.

Nacon previously held the licence for many years, with developer Kylotonn Racing making annual official rally titles from 2015 to 2022, ending with WRC Generations.

The licence then shifted to Codemasters, which was subsequently acquired by EA. The studio released EA Sports WRC in 2023 and continued to update it through 2024, but it was recently announced that Codies’ work on rally titles is being put on ice.

So, now the licence is once again swinging back over to Nacon and, presumably, Kylotonn.

The developer’s last game was Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown, which didn’t set the world on fire when it arrived last year.

However, by the end of Kylotonn’s last run with WRC, the team had nailed down rally racing pretty well, with the last few all being robust, fun games based on the motorsport.

Hopefully, the developer can pick up where it left off and continue building on its past successes in this subgenre. We won’t see the fruits of its labours until 2027, but fingers crossed it’ll be worth the wait for rally fans.

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