If you were beginning to think that Formula One games were starting to lose their spunk, there's some good news for you. Colin McRae's DIRT (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) and Race Driver: GRID (PS3, PSP, Wii, DS, Xbox 360, PC) creators Codemasters have secured an official licensing deal with the F1 Administration to develop games based on the world's most popular motorsport. A grand prix of details follow after the jump.

Last January, EA Sports announced that they will be releasing a new boxing game, titled Facebreaker. It seems this is just the first of three new original games. Peter Moore also reveals that, contrary to rumors, EA Sports will not pick up the license to Sony's Formula One. Details in the full article.

UK-based daily tabloid The Sun is now reporting that Electronic Arts has just stroke a deal with Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton amounting to a whopping five million GBP or roughly around US$ 10.40 million. The publication added that the driver will be featured on "Xbox and PlayStations around the world next year."

The last we looked, the Formula One video game franchise is owned by Sony with the PlayStation 3 title F1 Championship Edition being the latest iteration. However, there have been some buzz before hinting that EA Sports has got its eyes once more on the franchise.

To refresh your memories, EA Sports was supposed to do Formula One 2006. However, Sony entered the picture in the middle of production and development was ultimately continued by SCE Studio Liverpool. If The Sun's report is accurate, this only means that Sony has finally lost its F1 exclusivity.

Both EA and Sony has yet to make comments regarding the matter. Until they do, we're tabbing this one under rumor.

As part of the celebration for the European launch of Bizarre Creations' Project Gotham Racing 4, a giant good luck message created entirely with skid marks was emblazoned on the grounds of the Battersea Power Station.

The message went out to British Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton will be competing in this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix, which could see him walk away as Formula One World Champion.

The Skid Art theme is also being used as the theme of the Project Gotham Racing 4 TV ad currently airing in the UK. Top UK stunt driver Russ Swift had to go through three sets of tires to create the message. You can check it out in the images below. Project Gotham 4 is now available. A demo of the game was released earlier this month on the Xbox Live Marketplace.