James Allen

A recent Sumo Digital job vacancy listing has revealed the studio is working on a new entry for what's described as "one of the most succesful driving franchises of all time". The Sheffield-based game developer is looking for a Vehicle Handling and Performance Specialist, with (as stated in this listing)"a background of successful game design experience" […]

Sony has made the recently-released 'KAZ: Pushing The Virtual Divide' documentary film available to view for free on YouTube. Originally debuting on the Hulu video sharing network (and, as such, only available to view within the United States of America), KAZ: Pushing The Virtual Divide can now been given a worldwide release, via the official […]

SimBin Studios has released the first preview images of its Sonoma Raceway rendering for RaceRoom Racing Experience (R3E). As revealed in a recent entry on a SimBin 'Developer Spotlight' blog post, not only is the Sonoma Raceway – formerly known as the Infineon Raceway – already at a 'work in progress' stage that's worth showing, […]

Reiza Studios has announced the latest racing car for Game Stock Car 2013: the MetalMoro MRX Prototype. A home-grown competitor in the Brazilian Sportscar Endurance Championship, the MetalMoro version featured in the provided photograph – which we assume will be the version that makes its way into Game Stock Car – is the MRX 4C […]

The latest car pack for Forza Motorsport 5 – the 'Honda Legends Car Pack' has been released, available to all FM5 players for free. As the bundle's name implies, the Honda Legends pack features three of some of the more noteworthy cars to wear the instantly recognisable 'H' badge over the last thirty years: 1984 […]

RaceRoom Racing Experience (R3E) developer SimBin Studios has outlined its initial plans regarding future updates and content for its free-to-play PC sim title. As detailed in the official announcements on the SimBin blog, the Swedish studio confirmed a small selection of the many "amazing things in the plan" for R3E's expansion, ranging from optimising and […]

Ukranian developer Beatshapers has announced its latest project – the PS4-only arcade racing game 'Ready to Run'. Revealed to the world on a recent PlayStation Blog post, Ready to Race is described by Beatshapers CEO Alexey Menshikov as a "furious R/C car racing game" with a "unique retro-futuristic setting". Very little is known about Ready […]

Full AI compatibility will all the cars and tracks in Assetto Corsa headlines the latest update patch for Kunos Simulazioni's Steam Early Access PC sim. Having been introduced for a limited range of events in the previous Assetto Corsa update, 'v0.6' now allows players to select AI competition on each of the twelve tracks in […]

The much-anticipated Mario Kart 8 will be released sometime during May this year, Nintendo has confirmed. As revealed during the Wall Street Journal's live-blogging coverage of Nintendo's recent strategy briefing meeting, Nintendo's flasghip first-party racing game will debut as a Nintendo WiiU exclusive sometime in May 2014. No specific dates were mentioned in the briefing. […]

An alleged games industry insider has claimed Forza Horizon will "probably" be re-released on the Xbox One sometime in September 2014. Speaking on the NeoGAF forums, the user under the pseudonym of 'ntkrnl' announced that Playground Games'  Forza spin-off title will be remastered for an exclusive release on Microsoft's latest games console, bringing co-op gameplay, […]

The third major post-launch DLC pack for Forza Motorsport 5 – the 'The Smoking Tire Car Pack – has been announced by Microsoft Studios, ahead of its release next week on February 4th. Named after the popular web-based automotive video series, the The Smoking Tire Car pack will end up adding ten cars to the […]

Eutechnyx has unveiled the latest licenced track for Auto Club Revolution – the world-renowned Watkins Glen International. Released today on the free-to-play browser-based racing game, the fabled home of the Six Hours of Glen endurance race and former host of the United States Formula One Grand Prix now joins the likes of the Hockenheimring and […]

The Super Late Stock Car and the Ruf Rt 12R AWD road car are now available in iRacing, courtesy of a new update build for the popular PC racing simulation title. Whilst the automotive duo headline the latest build of the susbscription racing game, the update itself adds a host of new features and fixes […]

The first patch for WRC4 has just been released across all of its compatible platforms, adding an array of tweaks and bug fixes to Milestone's latest licenced rally game. As stated in the official changelog as provided by Milestone, the inaugural patch for WRC4 mainly addresses some of the more prominent known glitches in the […]

The latest batch of in-game 'Red Bull X Challenge' events headlines a fairly substantial 'V1.04' update to Gran Turismo 6. Carrying on from the initial two X Challenge trials which were added to the game in December's V1.02 patch, the final duo of events focus on two all-new cars to Gran Turismo 6 – the […]

A Euthechnyx employee has suggested there'll be "lots of exciting developments" coming to Auto Club Revolution. Dave Thompson, the Development Director at Eutechnyx, took to Twitter to hint at the possibility of interesting new additions inbound for the studio's free-to-play browser-based racing game.   Tiring first day, lots of exciting developments to catch up on […]

The all-wheel drive (AWD) version of the Ruf Rt 12R has appeared in the latest promo reel published by iRacing.com. Previewed in the trailer that also showcases the three other Rufs in the popular PC racing simulator – the rear-wheel drive (RWD) road car, the GT3-style C-Spec Race Car and the apprpriately named Ruf Track […]

UPDATED: Milestone's Playtesting oppurtunities are currently available only to Italian residents. It is unknown at this moment in time when this feature is opened up to those of other nationalities The Italian racing game studio Milestone has revealed it'll be eventually allowing play testers to help fine tune their upcoming titles. Unveiled alongside the recently-redesigned […]

Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed the "KAZ: Pushing the Virtual Divide" biopic will be launching on January 22nd through the popular video viewing service Hulu. Directed by Tamir Moscovici and filmed across twelve locations around the world, "KAZ: Pushing the Virtual Divide" is a documentary film centred on the Gran Turismo franchise and the creator […]

iRacing.com has unveiled the first preview renders of the two racing cars it's currently developing for the popular subscription-based PC sim – the BMW Z4 GT3 and the Dallara DW12 single-seater used in IndyCar races. Whilst iRacing won't go any further than say they're both "currently in development", it's speculated the Z4 GT3 will be […]

Kunos Simulazioni's latest 'Content Update' patch for Assetto Corsa has been released, most notably adding AI drivers to the still-in-development PC racing sim. At this stage, it's only possible to race against computer-controlled drivers on certain tracks in specific game modes in Assetto Corsa, though it's almost certain that Kunos Simulazioni will be adding AI […]

Slightly Mad Studios has confirmed the British racing driver and Project CARS handling consultant Oli Webb will be lending his vocals to the racing game's dialogue audio sequences. As part of his role as Slightly Mad's unofficial dialogue consultant for Project CARS, Oli Webb's voice will be featured in the game's pit-to-car audio during races. […]

Kunos Simulazioni's licencing manager has provided the most in-depth pre-releaselook yet of Assetto Corsa's LaFerrari car model Released on the Facebook page of Kunos's Licencing Project Manager, Marco Massarutto, the pair of off-screen photographs provide out first look at the studio's LaFerrari model, as it'll appear in Assetto Corsa. Kunos officially announced the LaFerrari licencing […]

UPDATE: The endurance race bug has now been fixed in a recently-released micro update. The issue regarding the end race standings still remains, but the game now classifies you in the actual position you finished the race in, and rewards you with the applicable Stars and Credits payout. The latest update patch for Gran Turismo […]

ETX Racing – the newly-created racing game sub-brand at Eutechnyx – has confirmed the official release date for the upcoming NASCAR '14 game. According to ETX Racing, this year's officially licenced NASCAR racing game will be released on February 18th later this year in the United States, and (according to a Tweet by NASCAR '14 […]

iRacing.com has released the first preview image of the latest new car that'll eventually be added to the popular PC racing sim: the Super Late Model stock car. Very little information on the Super Late Model (based off the same stock car that competes in the Pro All-Stars Series events held across the year in […]

Montreal's fabled Formula One venue, the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, will be one of the star new additions to Game Stock Car 2013 in the upcoming 'V1.15' update. GSC developer Reiza Studios has also confirmed the inclusion of Autodromo Floripa – a fictional track that's featured in previous Reiza racing sims such as Game Stock Car […]

Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital has confirmed the third major update patch for Gran Turismo 6 will be released on January 14th. Very little is known about what exactly will be added to GT6 in the 'V1.03' update patch, but Polyphony Digital has confirmed the fully-modelled interior for the BMW M4 Coupe – which was […]

Following on from our earlier look at the latest Project CARS build, we've returned to the realms of Assetto Corsa for another quick hands-on, hot lap session. Still using his trusty Formula Abarth single-seater racing car, Alan's this time around swapped the flat-out sweepers of Monza for the more technical cambers and corners of the […]

Polyphony Digital has confirmed the final two events in Gran Turismo 6's 'Red Bull X Challenge' series "will be available at the end of January" Responding to user confusion over the now-incorrect 'these events will be available on January 1st 2014' placeholder, the GT developer has now  the final two events in the special in-game […]

Another titan of the contemporary performance car world – the monstrous McLaren P1 – will eventually be incuded in Assetto Corsa, a Kunos Simulazioni employee has revealed. As announced by AC developer Kunos Sumulazioni's Licencing Project Manager, Marco Massarutto, the petrol-electric hybrid halo model for McLaren Automotive will be eventually added to Assetto Corsa's slowly […]

The inaugural DLC pack for Forza Motorsport 5 in 2014 is now ready to download from the Xbox Games Store, adding a dectet of daringly quick road and racing cars to the Xbox One's premier racing game. Officially christened the 'IGN Car Pack', the virtual car bundle is now available to install (along with the […]

Kunos Simulazioni has revealed the full details and a preview image gallery for its upcoming 'Content Update' patch for Assetto Corsa. Headlining the new additions to Assetto Corsa is the announcement of a drag racing mode in the PC racing sim, complete with its own purpose-rendered facility to set those straight-line-performance benchmark stats on. The […]

iRacing.com has confirmed the latest track it'll be laser scanning for its subscription-based PC sim title – the legendary Autodromo Nazionale Monza. According to the official statement, two of the tracks located at the fabled racing venue – the full Grand Prix circuit, and the shorter Junior complex – will eventually be featured in the […]

Whilst the Detroit Auto Show might be the focus of the car-savvy media's attention in the early days of the New Year, us here at Team VVV have our eyes set on something far closer to home: Autosport International 2014. Scheduled to be set at the vast NEC exhibition centre in Birmingham from January 9th […]

The second major patch for Gran Turismo 6 has just gone live, adding new features to the PlayStation 3 exclusive's game modes. Headlining the 'V1.02' update is the inclusion of an all-new series of events dubbed the 'Red Bull X Challenge': with the virtual help from tutorials by four-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel, players […]

Italian racing game developer Milestone has confirmed the online leaderboards for WRC3 will be reset, as the studio searches for a new server provider. As stated in the official announcement on the 'WRC the Game' Facebook page (embedded below), the requirement to find new servers for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita versions of the […]

 Mario Andretti's '48 Hudson Hornet stock car will be made available in Gran Turismo 6 on December 19th as a playable vehicle. Built as part of the GT6 First Love interactive project, the replica of racing legend Mario Andretti's first ever race car will be released in the game this Thursday, allowing players to try […]

Turn 10 Studios' creative director Dan Greenawalt has confirmed the Drag racing and Tag multiplayer modes will be headlining the imminent content update for Forza Motorsport 5. Speaking to IGN, Greenawalt revealed that – along with the headline-grabbing revised economy model for the game announced a fortnight ago – the popular drag racing mode that's […]

The second 'Content Update' patch for Assetto Corsa has just gone live, adding a trio of mid-engined British performance cars and two new track variations to the open beta PC racing sim. Flying St George's Cross for us Brits in Assetto Corsa are three of the country's most critically-acclaimed mid-engined performance cars in recent years: […]