How the developers of Driveclub survived the end of Evolution

Amid the great Driveclub U-turn the future looked bleak for many of the people at Evolution Studios.

Staff at the Runcorn, Cheshire-based studio faced redundancy even as they were working hard to turn the embattled PlayStation 4-exclusive racing game around after its disastrous October 2014 launch. It turned out they were made redundant when Sony closed the doors on Evolution in March 2016. But things have a funny way of working themselves out.

While Evolution is no more, its spirit lives on at UK racing game developer Codemasters, who snapped up the Driveclub team just a month after Evo shut down and set them to work on a new racing game that would become OnRush.

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