Media and Community

Two fans of the Mario Kart series have constructed a tribute to their favourite racing game with a one minute (and a bit) long real-life stop motion video. The video depicts a race between creators Rustic Bodomov and friend Kyle which includes item boxes, a green shell and a banana. The process took Kyle and […]

The guys over at Turn 10 Studios has given us the opportunity to follow Studio Manager Alan Hartman's journey every step of the way as he purchases a brand new 2017 Ford GT. In this very first video, we join Alan and Brian (the Forza Community Manager) at Turn 10 Studios as Alan unboxes his […]

Everyone has their favourite racing games series, from old-school arcade racers like OutRun, Burnout and Project Gotham, to serious simulations such as Assetto Corsa, Project CARS and iRacing. Sadly, many of these fabled franchises have since retired: we haven’t seen a new release from some of those aforementioned series at least a decade. So one […]

The 2016 racing seasons is soon to be roaring away from the starting grid, but, with so much racing; I will be choosing a select few series to follow. Here why these series are on my watch list! BTCC Formula 1 Formula E iRacing Pro Series (Road and Oval) Some honorable mentions are any 24hr events, […]

As a person who loves the stylised visuals of flat shaded polygons, and a fan of racing games in general, I was fascinated the first time I saw a screenshot of Sega’s Virtua Racing arcade game. So my first experience of Virtua Racing was Virtua Racing Deluxe on Sega’s 32X add-on for the Mega Drive. […]

Announce a couple of days ago, iRacing has a formal agreement with Renault to bring 2 of there single seaters to the PC based simulator. The 2 single seaters in question are the Formula Renault 2.0 and the ever popular Formula Renault 3.5.  In a statement by Executive Vice-President and Executive Producer, Steve Myres said that, […]

A few days ago, WMD announed that Project Cars 2 is coming and once again, it will be a crowd-source game with members of the racing communcity putting money in the pot to help support the game. I have a few things to say about this and though I share a video talking about it […]

To break up the Career Mode seasons, the game has a lot of other one-off Inivitational events that you can try your hand in, including this one, the German Vintage Touring Car Championship. How I will fare in a car that's as old as my Dad?  

Oh dear. Remind me never to use dry tyres on a wet Donington Park, ever again. WARNING: Incompetence level in this video is high. For that, I can only apologize. 😉  

In Episode 3 of my Project Cars "Dre Plays"adventure, I head to the Formula Rookie European Series over at the Circuit De Catalunya, and with some dramatic music and some late apex hitting, we have a whale of a time. Enjoy!  

The Project Cars Career Mode continues! In this episode, I break my controller and give my car a nickname as I struggle around Snetterton 200. NOT NOW KATO!  

Here's one of my favourite things about being on YouTube, answering some of of your questions! And in this half an hour special, I answer questions like: – My Top 3 F1 Drivers Ever and my Top 3 OUTSIDE of F1 – Should Customer Cars come back? (Spoiler alert: Yes.) All that and much, MUCH […]

In this episode of Dre TV, I talk about Bernie Ecclestone's comments regarding Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel as F1 drivers who are "bad for business", while he spoke about how great a promoter Lewis Hamilton has been since becoming World Champion last November. Does he have a point? Or is there more to F1's […]

Many column inches have been written and opinions viewed on websites about what should be done with Formula One. Regardless of what is done, the best driver in the best car normally wins. Over the last twenty years the title has been split across nine drivers – having had four years of Sebastian Vettel domination […]

Yesterday Reiza Studios released an update to Stock Car Extreme adding Superkarts, Kansai (aka Suzuka) and a few changes here and there: see the full list here. With the update installed I decided to start up the game and take the karts for a spin around Suzuka – quite literally. For those of you unfamiliar […]

Format: Sony PlayStation 4 Controller: DualShock4 Setup: Default settings / 60% AI The concept of Project Cars when it was first proposed is the embodiment for me, of the perfect racing game. No need to start off in a production Honda Jazz (or equivalent), or purchase and tweak components, be limited on progression in a game based on […]

When we think of racing games, we mostly think of a first or third person view. Mostly.  Back in the dim and distant past though, there was another kind of racing game… and it was, to be honest, somewhat limited. But we were young, and video games were new, so we didn't really know any […]

Absolute Drift, a minimalistic racing game where the goal is to (yup you guessed it) drift. The game was greenlit last August and has since developed greatly since the alpha demo that accompanied its greenlight campaign. It’s now in closed beta and is due to be released on Steam Early Access in the coming weeks. […]

iRacers have been voting for changes to be made on the ever popular Blancpain Sprint Series for the upcoming season, that is due to start on the 6th June. The changes include a short qualifying session before the start of the race and to have a mandatory pitstop, to follow suit with the series in […]

Arguments in the schoolyard like "My C64 is better than your Spectrum!" or "My PS4 is better than your XBone!" have been a thing for as long as there have been things to argue about.  One such disagreement, back in the early 80s, was over Atari's Pole Position and Activision's Enduro, both on the Atari […]

And in the second part of my Racing Game Chronicles two-part special, I look at the 2010 Arcade "Explosion-Up" racer that was "Split/Second Velocity" on the Xbox 360, from Blackrock Studio. Blackrock had come off the excellent and stupidly underrated "PURE" from 2008, and their third 360 racing game was pretty darn good too, despite […]

In the latest episode of The Racing Game Chronicles, I move back to 2010, and cover one half of the head-to-head Arcade game shootout that took place in May of that year, with Bizarre Creations "powered-up racing" arcader "Blur", and Blackrock Studios reality-tv style destruction fest that was "Split/Second: Velocity". In this video, I cover […]

Oldschool! No, seriously… really, really oldschool! Well… as much as a game crammed into around 4k (and before developers had really got to grips with the hardware) could impress. Played with the Atari paddle controller, this game has a look and feel all of its own that's simple unmistakable. 

MotoGP is a sport I have a passing interest in, so I looked forward to playing the game, and found myself somewhat surprised by it's steep learning curve. It's by no means a bad game, but for someone like myself who's looking for instant gratification, it doesn't quite hit the spot. be fun in a video game. I […]

MotoGP… a popular motorcycle racing sport, and a popular video game series that's been around on many platforms for quite a few years.  Hang on (no, not Hang-On)… I've said all of this already. MotoGP 14 is much closer to what I was expecting, and then a little more besides. "Motorsport Simulation" That's a phrase I […]

So, with the 2014 season long in the books, and talk already growing ahead of the first round of 2015 tests in 3 weeks time, I thought it would be a fun idea to go back and rank who I thought, were the Top 5 Drivers of the 2014 Season. And I think it's more […]

And in the 2nd part of my "New Era" series, I head towards Maranello and break down what's been going on with Ferrari, where the winds of change have certainly been blowing. Fernando Alonso replaced with Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen in the last year of his contract, the enormous resturctuing taking place in the team, […]

In the first of a 2-part series within a series (Huzzah!), I take a look at the changing dynamic of the Formula 1 field and the upcoming 2015 Season. In this first episode, I focus on the the new McLaren-Honda outfit, with Fernando Alonso coming in to (temporarily?) replace Kevin Magnussen, the new Honda partnership, […]

So, with the FIA making an announcement that they're changing and revamping the way they hand out their Super Licenses, I decided to take a look at the changes, and break them down myself, pondering why we will probably never have another guy like Max Verstappen enter F1 at 17 again, why I think the […]

Hey guys, Dre here. For those guys who may not know, me and fellow F1 Freelance Journalist Ryan King host our own Podcast, called "The Motorsport 101 Show", where we talk about Formula 1, MotoGP, and a bunch of other Motorsport related stuff, while throwing in some banter and a bunch of co-hosts you may […]

MotoGP… a popular motorcycle racing sport, and a popular video game series that's been around on many platforms for quite a few years.  Not always. Oh! It's fun, but it's not MotoGP.

Sometimes it's a struggle to know what game to record a video of, especially when getting back into the swing of things after the Christmas break. The Game Boy Color is not a system I have spent a lot of time playing, and am unfamiliar with its selection of racing games, but it's safe to say that […]

I got bored of playing Career Mode on every Codies F1 game they've made to date (No seriously, it's as stale as the 2 week old loaf in my cupboard), so I decided to mix it up, channel my inner Lewis Hamilton, and try to pound Nico Rosberg into submission across the 19 race F1 […]

Hey folks, Dre here, and welcome to Dre TV. In this series, I play a range of Racing games will talking over some real life Motorsport news. In this partticular episode, I talk about the sad collapse of Marussia's F1 team, from their bright moments, such as their first points back in Monaco 2014, top […]

Hey everyone, Dre here again with another episode of The Racing Game Chronicles, and in this episode, I go back to October 2007, and Project Gotham Racing 4, the last in the series from the sadly no longer with us, Bizarre Creations. (Fun Fact: Bizarre were one of my favourite developers, Geometry Wars, PGR and […]

Ah, it was the month of September 2004. The year was 2004. Tom Brady had just won his 3rd Superbowl, Google brought out Gmail to a skeptical audience, Halo 2 rocked the gaming world, and the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years.  But for me, none of that mattered. For me, […]