Straight4 Studios And Reiza Studios Form Strategic Partnership

Header image from AMS2 (Reiza Studios product).

Straight4 Studios and Reiza Studios today announced a “strategic partnership” working on Straight4’s upcoming racing simulation promising to be “the spiritual return to the glory days of sim racing’s past, featuring a new, bespoke physics engine, and cutting-edge graphics.”

Considering I work for S4 I’m unable to editorialize and make any guesses on things I actually know, so I have just included the press release below.

Edit: Renato, CEO of Reiza, has clarified this on his forum:

No impact whatsoever on AMS2 folks, and not much changing in the immediate future. At this point it is just a natural progression from a relationship we already had with Slightly Mad Studios, which has continued with Straight4.

Press release:

STRAIGHT4 STUDIOS AND REIZA STUDIOS CONFIRM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Munich, FRIDAY, May 19, 2023

Straight4 Studios today announced a strategic partnership with Reiza Studios, makers of classic sim racing titles such as Automobilista and Automobilista 2.

Straight4 Studios features many of the key talents that have shaped sim racing’s heritage for over two decades including AAA-bestsellers such as the GTR® series, and the two-time gamescom “Best Simulation” award winner and multi-million-selling Project CARS franchise.

The studios will combine their decades’ worth of experience creating iconic sim racing titles starting with Straight4’s upcoming sim racing title.

“Renato and I have been discussing this possibility for a long time, going back to when they were creating Automobilista 2 using our then proprietary MADNESS Engine. All of us at Straight4 were enormously impressed with what Renato and his studio were able to create in terms of feel and handling with Automoblista 2. Combining our studios’ talents is exciting news for all of us at Straight4, and I’m really confident this will also be fantastic news for the sim racing industry as a whole,” said IAN BELL, CEO at Straight4.

“Ian and I have been talking about this strategic partnership for some time but our studios have always ended up on varying projects at varying times, delaying any kind of decision. Finally, with Ian and his team working hard on their upcoming game, the time was right for us to join forces. Having seen inside the new project Straight4 is working on made this an easy decision for Reiza to sign up to a project we believe is going to be the next great sim racing title. We’ll have further news on our portfolio of games for our fans in the next few days,” said Renato Simioni, CEO at Reiza Studios.

Straight4’s new and as yet unnamed sim racing title will launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox, and will be the spiritual return to the glory days of sim racing’s past, featuring a new, bespoke physics engine, and cutting-edge graphics.

The new game will be published by PLAION.

For more information, please visit STRAIGHT4.com

About Straight4 Studios

Straight4 Studios features many of the key talents that have shaped sim racing’s heritage for over two decades. This exceptional legacy includes AAA-bestsellers such as the GTR® series, and the 2-time gamescom “Best Simulation” award winner and multi-million-selling Project CARS franchise.

With over 20 years’ worth of remote work experience and working from three continents, Straight4 Studios’ veteran staff have earned dozens of industry awards.

Merging the passion for motorsport and values derived from the sim racing community with the precision of a new, AI-driven physics engine and cutting-edge graphics, Straight4 Studios is hard at work developing the next generation of AAA-racing simulation.