French writer Focus Leisure has partnered with Maverick Video games to launch its debut racing title, Clutch.
Maverick initially partnered with Amazon Game Studios for the then-unannounced recreation in 2024. Amazon ended the agreement earlier this year to “give attention to tasks that leverage Amazon’s distinctive strengths and scale.”
Maverick co-founder and COO Harinder Sangha informed GamesIndustry.biz that the studio was in “energetic dialogue with companions who share our long-term ambition for the IP and look ahead to sharing extra later this 12 months.”
Focus Leisure said that publishing Clutch will “strengthen [its] portfolio with its first entry into the open-world racing house, pushed by a shared ambition to ship a standout expertise and set up Clutch as a serious new racing IP.”
Clutch is about to launch in Spring 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC.
“At Focus, we glance to companion with creators who’re redefining their style,” stated Focus Leisure Publishing deputy CEO Vincent Chataignier. “Mike Brown and his group are thought to be one of many defining artistic voices within the racing style, and Clutch embodies precisely the artistic ambition Focus Leisure needs to champion.”
Maverick founder and CEO Mike Brown added: “We based Maverick Video games to construct the open-world racing expertise we might dreamed about for years. Focus shares our artistic bar and our ambition for Clutch, and we will not await gamers all over the place to find this world.”
Focus Leisure is a French writer and a subsidiary of Pullup Leisure. Pullup operates three core divisions: Focus Leisure Publishing, the Arcade Crew, and developer studios together with Deck13, Streumon, Twelve Tenths, Leikir Studio, Blackmill, Dovetail, and Carpool Studio.
Former Playground Video games builders founded Maverick Games in 2023. Brown beforehand served as artistic director on the Forza Horizon sequence.