James Allen

With just over 24 hours to go until the latest in a long line of Need for Speed games goes on sale, EA has released the official launch trailer for NFS Rivals. Carrying on the previous trailer's focus on the game's "Street Racers versus The Popo" narrative, the Need for Speed: Rivals Launch Trailer showcases […]

We've heard samples of Jeremy Clarkson's and James May's narration in Forza Motorsport 5, and now it's the turn of Top Gear UK's Richard Hammond to introduce a new section of the game's single player career mode. Whilst it would have been stereotypically obvious to provide the 'Hamster' with a selection of classic muscle cars, […]

Building on from Forza Motorsport 4's AutoVista narration by Jeremy Clarkson, Turn 10 has enlisted the voice over assistance of all three Top Gear UK hosts in Forza Motorsport 5 for both ForzaVista modes and single player career event intro cinematics. The latest Forza Motorsport 5 trailer showcases this expansion of the Top Gear licence, […]

With a week to go until Forza Motorsport 5's global release date, Turn 10 Studios has released a pair of all-new gameplay trailers featuring the title's most high-tech racing cars. First off is the Audi R18 e-tron quattro, the diesel-electric Le Mans Prototype that became the first hybrid to ever win the 24 Heures du […]

The final major update to Forza Motorsport 5's on-disc car roster has just been announced, with seemingly quite a few of the big hitters being saved for this final 'Showroom' post. The real headline grabber this week is undoubtedly the inclusion of the Lotus E21 F1 car that's participating in this year's Formula One season. […]

In a curious move by Polyphony Digital, the Nissan DeltaWing – one of the "halo cars", so to speak, for Gran Turismo 6 – has been removed from the game's official car roster. Given the DeltaWing has been prominently featured in Gran Turismo 6's promotional tools (such as the 'Start Your Engines' trailer embedded below, […]

With nearly 1,200 cars stamped onto every retail copy of the game, it's no surprise that Gran Turismo 6's extensive and incredibly diverse car roster is the game's headline-grabbing figure. The thing is, all those cars count for nothing if there aren't any good tracks to race them on, so it's good to hear that […]

We all knew Gran Turismo 6's car roster would be huge, and GT developer Polyphony Digital certainly hasn't disappointed us with just how many motors will be featured in 2013's last major racing game release. However, there's been a bit of fibbery in the official press release: Polyphony claims "over 1,200" will be present in […]

Microsoft has released the first snippets of info about the Forza Motorsport franchise's inaugural next-gen DLC content: the LaFerrari Car Pack. As the bundle's name suggests, the pack in question stars the LaFerrari, the latest in a long line of high-tech mid-engined supercars from Ferrari and a direct rival to Forza Motorsport 5's box cover […]

Chevrolet has unveiled a new Corvette Stingray concept for this year's SEMA aftermarket trade show, sporting several nods to the car's association with Gran Turismo 6. Revealed today in the initial image you see to your right, the 'Corvette Stingray Gran Turismo' concept features many cues inspired by the Corvette Stingray 15th Anniversary car that's […]

Project CARS's crowd-sourced 'WMD' members are now able to try out the first ever McLarens in the still-in-development racing title, courtesy of Slightly Mad Studios' latest update build for the game. Following in the wake of Slightly Mad's recent confirmation it had secured the licence to feature McLaren road and racing cars in Project CARS, […]

Turn 10's revealed yet another new direct-feed gameplay from Forza Motorsport 5, depicting the Sebring circuit in all of its next-gen splendour. The direct-feed footage isn't just noteworthy for the fact it's the first time we've seen the Sebring International Raceway in the game: the clip also displays the in-game debut of the KTM X-Bow […]

Hot on the heels of the Forza Motorsport 5 Car Pass announcement earlier this week, Turn 10 Studios has released the latest batch of in-game cars for its weekly 'Showroom Update' feature. And, perhaps for the first time so far, all of the motors depicted in the provided picture gallery are all new to the series: whether they're […]

After what seems like an age since the last licencing agreement was signed, Slightly Mad Studios has secured the rights to feature McLaren Automotive's legendary supercars in Project CARS. As part of the new deal, Slightly Mad will eventually end up adding five McLarens to the game throughout its development phase, ranging from the legendary […]

As if we haven't seen enough gratuitous cop chase carnage from Need for Speed: Rivals as of late, EA's released an all-new trailer for the game that shows off yet more high-speed action that we can expect to experience ourselves in the game. Edited in such a way that the unanitiated might even mistake it […]

Turn 10 has announced the first details of the season pass for Forza Motorsport 5, highlighting how cost effective it is for the DLC-purchasing Xbox gamer. Appropriately dubbed the 'Car Pass', the main benefit of purchasing this optional item is to recieve all the DLC car packs at a discounted rate when compared with buying […]

An unexpected "sequel" to 2010's underrated arcade racing game Blur has emerged on the Android Store, in the form of the free-to-play Blur Overdrive mobile title. Licenced by Activison and co-developed by Marmalade Play (the same firm that brought us the Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies mobile game), the new top-down perspective racing title […]

SimBin has added a pair of retro touring cars and racing circuits in the latest content update for the free-to-play PC sim RaceRoom Racing Experience (R3E). Those familar with SimBin Studios' previous racing games will have seen this new content before in their prior work: the automotive additions come in the form of the BMW […]

Turn 10 Studios has released the latest direct-feed gameplay video of Forza Motorsport 5, showcasing our first in-game look of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Beyond previewing our first next-gen peek at the fabled Belgian racing venue, the trailer also depicts a few of the viewpoint options (such as the bonnet cam and cockpit cam), along with […]

F1 2013 may have been on store shelves for the past few weeks, but that hasn't stopped Codemasters from releasing Hot Lap videos before the remaining Formula One races this year. With the FIA's flagship racing series rolling up in India this weekend, the Codies gameplay clip in question gives a brief guide of the […]

In a surprise announcement, it has been revealed the late great F1 driver Ayrton Senna will be associated in one form or another with Gran Turismo 6. Speaking during Sony's press conference at the Brazil Game Show, Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed that his studio and the Ayrton Senna Institute – the charity set […]

As we reach the "One Month To Go" milestone for Forza Motorsport 5, developer Turn 10 Studios has released the latest batch of in-game cars in this week's Showroom Update. As with almost every car that's been confirmed so far, a majority of the motors in this week's list will be familiar to players of […]

After our initial hands-on sessions with EA Ghost's Need for Speed: Rivals at past gaming conventions this year, we've been invited to try out a new build of the game. And, at last, we've been allowed to bring the video cameras! In the first of our three-part collection of direct-feed videos, Alan shows us his […]

Eutechnyx has revealed the first initial feature of next year's officially licenced NASCAR game. Appropriately christened by the UK-based game developer as 'NASCAR '14', the new game of America's most popular spectator sport will feature all of the drivers, cars and tracks in next year's Sprint Cup championship, as well as allowing players to relive […]

One of the more interesting aspects of EA Ghost's Need for Speed Rivals game – the online-centric AllDrive feature – has been flaunted in the title's latest trailer. Dubbed by the developers to be a "revolutionary" new addition to the Need for Speed franchise, the AllDrive component claims to allow gamers on both the single-player […]

We've known for a while that the Top Gear licence will be heavily integrated into Forza Motorsport 5, but we've yet to actually see the TV show's fabled test track in the game…until now! Turn 10 Studios claims that the improvised figure-of-eight test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome has been "meticulously recreated with unprecedented accuracy" in […]

Following in the wake of Ubisoft's recent announcements that open-world racing game The Crew and next-gen darling WatchDogs would be delayed until 2014, recent reports are suggesting the PS4 launch title DriveClub will also follow in their footsteps. According to an article by gaming podcast website The Same Coin, an anonymous source "revealed" that the […]

Turn 10 Studios has revealed a new batch of cars that'll appear in its soon-to-be-released Xbox One launch title, Forza Motorsport 5. Leading the charge in the 24-strong car lineup are a quartet of highly-strung performance cars, representing some of the technological pinnacles of their respective eras. These range from the iconic Lamborghini Miura (looking […]

Eutechnyx has announced the latest track addition to its free-to-play web browser racing game, Auto Club Revolution: the iconic British racing venue that is Brands Hatch. What makes Brands Hatch's introduction to ACR so unique is not due to the circuit's status as one of the finest race tracks in the UK: for the first […]

With Forza Motorsport 5 looming on the horizon, and seemingly being the only racing game this year to feature officially endorsed Top Gear content, a new trailer featuring the two popular brands has popped up on the official Top Gear YouTube channel. Prominently showcasing the Holden VF Commodore that'll be competing in this year's Bathurst […]

Forza Motorsport 5's official car roster has been given a thorough going over, following Turn 10 Studios's latest update for its upcoming Xbox One-excusive racing game. Headling the batch are perhaps two of the finest performance cars of the last five years: the Ferrari 599 GTO, with its high-end computer-controlled technology and its direct descendency […]

iRacing.com has revealed the first in-game look at its upcoming automotive addition – the Ford Mustang NASCAR stock car. Whilst the livery itself is the work of fiction, the rendering is a reproduction of the same stock car that's used by three of the twenty teams in the Nationwide Series, the semi-professional racing series in […]

With only a sleep to go before F1 2013 officially goes on sale in the UK, Codemasters has released the final pre-release gameplay footage of the title in action. Tying in with this weekend's Formula One Korean Grand Prix, the trailer showcases one of the franchise's staple features: Anthony Davidson's hot lap commentary, this time […]

Polyphony Digital has confirmed the legendary Mount Panorama Circuit – more commonly known as 'Bathurst' – will feature in Gran Turismo 6. Following in the wake of similar Forza Motorsport 5 and iRacing announcements, Polyphony claims that GT6's version of Bathurst will be the most accurate and realistic version we've seen to date on the […]

EA has released a new trailer for Need for Speed: Rivals, shedding some more light on the gameplay mechanics of the upcoming arcade racer. Though mostly focusing on cinematic shots of slidey-slidey action and OTT collision effects a la Michael Bay style, the trailer does showcase at moments what appears to be bonafide gameplay. There […]

iRacing.com has revealed the first in-game look at the latest track to the subsciption PC sim: the legendary Bathurst track. Following in the wake of Turn 10 Studios confirming the same Australian motorsports venue in Forza Motorsport 5, the solitary teaser shot showcases the Start/Finish line for the Bathurst track, along with some detail of […]