Codemasters has announced signing the worldwide publishing rights to FUEL from Asobo Studios. Promising to deliver a next generation addition to the racing genre, FUEL is in development at Asobo Studios in Bordeaux, France, for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, Games For Windows LIVE and due to release in 2009.

Creating the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience, FUEL will have players competing across wildly different terrain and executing spectacular death-defying stunts as they race dozens of varied two and four-wheeled rides and explore this epic world on an unprecedented scale.

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. Here 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 in an all-new extreme sport as they compete to win fuel supplies.