GTR dev SimBin not happy with Slightly Mad's claims of

EA’s Need for Speed Shift is being developed by Slightly Mad Studios who claim ”more than 25” staffers worked on GTR’s core development.

SimBin reveals that they’re taking ”legal advice and considering” to sue the pants off Slightly Mad. The GTR devs say the claims are ”incorrect, misleading” and hurting their street cred.

In response to SimBin’s ”absurd” assertions that Slightly Mad are telling big fibbers, studio boss Ian Bell reaffirms that ”more than 25 of Slightly Mad Studios’ current staff worked on and are actually credited in GT Legends and GTR2 including the majority of the core development team.”

”It saddens me when fellow developers make inappropriate statements like this in public but I think the fact that the first I heard of it was from you says everything you need to know about the credibility of the claims. Had there been any merit to them I am sure I would have heard sooner,” continued the Slightly Mad dev.

EA’s Need for Speed Shift focuses on more realistic car racing than its fellow brothers in the franchise. SimBin is seen as the forerunner for realistic racing simulators with GTR.

It was SimBin Studios’ Executive Vice President, Magnus Ling, that emailed Joystiq with news that his company ”is taking legal advice and considering to also take legal actions against Slightly Mad Studios, as a result of certain statements made by Slightly Mad Studios that we find to be incorrect, misleading and has a negative impact on our reputation as well as business negotiations.”

See below for a list of former SimBin staffers now with Slightly Mad Studios posted on their official website. The evidence does seem to suggest SimBin have gone bonkers.