Codemasters has acquired the worldwide publishing rights to FUEL from Asobo Studios. FUEL is in development at Asobo in Bordeaux, France, for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The result of over four years of development, FUEL will present players with a no-boundaries playfield over 5,000 square miles in size. FUEL will have players competing across different terrain and executing stunts as they race dozens of two and four-wheeled rides.

FUEL is set in an alternate present in which whole swathes of the globe have been ravaged by the effects of climate change brought on by decades of environmental abuse. Oil prices have rocketed, and yet a new breed of racing junkie takes to the wastelands, pitting their grungy home-tuned vehicles against each other as they compete to win fuel supplies. To triumph means traveling the wastelands to challenge the best; from the tsunami-wrecked Pacific coast through the Nevada wastelands, including the Grand Canyon, snowcapped mountains, thick forests, arid deserts, abandoned lakeside resorts and more.

Bringing this vast, open-ended landscape to life is a dynamic weather system with full day and night transitions, sunshine, rain and everything in between, plus destructive tornados, sandstorms, thunderstorms, lightning strikes and blizzards.

Complete with the ability to go online to explore this massive world and compete in hundreds of multiplayer challenges, FUEL is coming in 2009.