The Curse of the WRC Game License: Why No Developer Keeps It

No official World Rally Championship game covers the 2025 season, and none will cover 2026 either.

Five regimes have held the official WRC game license since 2001.

World Rally Championship arrived in Europe on November 30, 2001, PlayStation 2 exclusive, and four annual sequels followed through WRC: Rally Evolved in October 2005.

The license itself sat unclaimed for four years, with no console WRC game between Rally Evolved and 2010.

No game license fee has ever been disclosed in any era of this, by anyone.