MotoGP is the most exciting thing on two wheels, hands down. If you’re not familiar with the sport, you need to get onboard posthaste, as it’s growing faster than a hopped-up Kawa on a straightaway. With 18 Grand Prix races in 16 different countries, MotoGP is truly one of the most international of all motorsports. 800cc prototype bikes blasting sparks and melting rubber onto some of the hottest tracks on the planet, including Laguna Seca’s infamous corkscrew turn and (new this year) the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, aka “The Brickyard.” And now it’s all ours, for the next five years!

On Sunday, at the Circuito de Jerez in sunny Spain, Capcom announced that we have struck a licensing agreement with DORNA, the MotoGP organization. Capcom will be producing games for all platforms from now through 2012, from mobile straight through to PS3 and Xbox 360 and everything in between. In fact, we’ll be releasing a game for the 2008 season for 360, PS3, Wii, PC, PS2 and mobile this year.

We knew last year that we were going to be locking up the license, but we had to sit on the news as a few other MotoGP licensors finished their runs with the sport. This year, however, we’re going to be going all-out on the new game unchallenged by any other titles, which should hopefully knock out some of the confusion in the interactive space that we ran into last year. We’ll be bringing you more news on this year’s game soon!

Thanks to Ben L from Capcom Europe for the sexy pics from Spain!

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