The Best Races is a classic game series created by EA, with a fast-paced race experience and a real car simulation, with 22 active works since its launch in 1995. However, according to the latest reports, the EA may have put on hold the Best Fly series project.
On Instagram, Matthew Everingham, one of the authors of the EA’s car culture website Spedhunters, wrote: “Speedhunters are stopped. EA has hidden the Best Race, which means that the website will no longer have financial support. Thank you for those journeys, stories and friends around. I’m still filming, but the focus is on more video content.” Speedrunters is an “international group of photographers, writers and drivers dedicated to discovering the most exciting car culture story in the world”. The website, which is funded by Art EA, has not been updated for more than three months and the last article was published on 8 April 2025.
To be honest, it should be no surprise to hear this news for the fans of The Best Fly. The series has continued to show a low performance in recent years, especially between 2015 and 2019, when three independent works developed by Ghost Gomes encountered a market-based Waterloo. Cliterion Game and Codemasters jointly developed in 2022, the Best Fly: Uninhibited, despite some improvement in the reputation of the player, continues to be “good or bad” and its sales still fall short of the level that supports continuation.
In 2023, EEA integrated the Criterion Games into the EA Enterprise sector so that it could also participate in the development of the field of new and competitive games. The situation may be that the new project is not progressing well, or that the EA has decided to engage the team in the development of Field 6 (the studio is also responsible for individual and multi-person model content). After all, for EA, the importance of the Best Race is far from comparable to the field series. According to well-informed sources, distributors are counting on Field 6 to achieve the 100 million player target. While seemingly ambitious, it is not entirely possible to achieve a great success. By contrast, the audience for the racing game is even smaller — even the most successful in recent years, Extreme Race: Horizon 5, the current number of users is “only” 45 million (this data includes Xbox Game Pass subscribers).
