Nacon said Tour de France 2025 and Pro Cycling Manager 25 switched to Unreal Engine 5

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On Mar 25, 2025, Nacon and Cyanide Studio said their two cycling simulation games, Tour de France 2025 and Pro Cycling Manager 25, had switched to Unreal Engine 5. The release said Tour de France 2025 would be available on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on Jun 5, 2025, and Pro Cycling Manager 25 on PC only the same day. The AMF, France's financial markets regulator, lists the release as inside information, its label for what a listed company must publish as soon as it can.1^,2^,3^,4^,5

Nacon said the switch to Unreal Engine 5 gave both games vastly improved graphics quality, naming landscape and environment fidelity and the rendering of visual effects. The release described Tour de France 2025 as the official game of the race, with 21 reproduced stages, and said the edition included new races, Flèche Wallonne and Circuit Grand Est, and improvements to the multiplayer mode. It said Pro Cycling Manager 25 put the player in the role of a team manager who handles budgets, recruits riders and courts sponsors, and that the competitors' AI had been improved.3^,6^,7^,8^,9

The release described Cyanide Studio as a French developer created in 2000 and based in Nanterre, with two subsidiaries in Montreal and Bordeaux, known for sports games such as these two series. It said Nacon had held a 100% stake in Cyanide since 2018.10^,11^,12

Nacon and Cyanide Studio said the games returned with the ambition to take things to the next level.2

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