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It’s amazing how quickly time passes, the excitement leading up to a new console announcement, the reveal and moments of wonder as we look on at a new generation taking gaming beyond expectations. That’s how it was in years gone by, with console manufacturers pushing to maximise bang for buck, taking gaming forward, expanding the […]

All things considered, 2015 was a stellar year for racing games. The pivotal success of Project CARS brought hardcore sim racing to a new audience on consoles, while Forza Motorsport 6 proved to be another hit for Microsoft that improved on launch title Forza Motorsport 5’s shortcomings. Bike games also had a major revival, with […]

When Milestone announced they were retiring from the WRC game series following the release of WRC 4 in 2013, many feared they were abandoning rally games altogether. Turns out they’ve been working on something much bigger. This year Milestone is making their rally game with Sébastien Loeb Rally EVO, a new IP from the former […]

Despite not being a direct adaptation of the critically acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road, the recently-released Mad Max game still has plenty of fan-pleasing nods that suggest it takes place in the same post-apocalyptic world carefully crafted by director George Miller, despite developer Avalanche Studios insisting it’s not canon to the series. The game tells […]

More often than not, it's easy to dismiss the marketing speak from press releases highlighting a co-operation between two big brands. Though the content of the press statement may, at its core, be factually correct, we all know it's been created purely for publicity purposes. As a result, a majority are instantly forgettable. However, Bugatti's […]

There's no doubting that Sony had a strong showing at this year’s eventful E3. A departure from the clinical corporate presentations of the past with a firm focus on showcasing what matters most to gamers, i.e. new games, it had everything from surprise new IP reveals with Guerrilla’s Horizon: Zero Dawn and Media Molecule’s typically […]

Six weeks. That’s how long it’s been since the triumphant release of Project CARS, yet as I sat applying the finishing touches to the final Project CARS TeamVVV review currently in progress, the announcement of Project CARS 2 raced to the top of my inbox. Slightly Mad Studios may have just jump started their own […]

Is it really that time of year already? Yikes, yes it is: all aboard the E3 hype train! Yes, E3 has crept around once again, an event we games journalists love and loathe as we’re inundated with stacks of new game trailers, earth shattering surprises and juicy updrates on our most-anticipated releases as Microsoft, Sony and […]

Hardcore racing simulation games are traditionally reserved for PC, with iRacing, Assetto Corsa, RaceRoom Racing Experience and rFactor leading the pack. On consoles however, things are very different: a racing simulation that isn’t called Forza or Gran Turismo is typically destined to fail, and even those fabled franchises lack the depth found in PC racing […]

Hello Viewers, Today we are announcing the Team VVV Patreon and Community Project. Team VVV has always been self-funded but it has finally reached a point where we need to turn to our audience in order to keep the editorial integrity we’ve worked so hard to create, and use this opportunity to give more back […]

Comparing Project CARS to DriveClub seems like a futile exercise. Yes, both fall into the racing genre, but to most gamers the comparisons end there. Project CARS is a thoroughbred simulator, whereas DriveClub, well, isn’t, to put it politely. Project CARS features one of the largest real world track rosters to ever grace a racing […]

Driver: San Francisco was, in this writer's opinion, one of the most criminally underrated last-gen driving games. Its Shift mechanic was genuinely innovative for the genre, the heavily Hollywoodised, tail-happy car handling was a joy to drive and the licensed car list was the perfect love letter to movie car chases of yesteryear. It effectively […]

The enormity of expectation of the E3 Conferences never fails in producing a fever-pitched audience.  The hype, the buzz of excitement that fills the air waiting for new multi-million dollar franchises to be revealed.  That wave of excitement is renewed every year as we see new hardware or new developments pushing older hardware to previously […]

It’s been just over two years since my previous foray into the world of iRacing and getting back to it has been a challenging process. If you haven’t tried it before, iRacing is about as close as many of us will ever get to the experience of being an actual racing driver; the thrill of […]

In 2006, Eden Games’ revolutionary Test Drive: Unlimited pioneered the Massively Multiplayer Online Racing scene. Set in the idyllic Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, we still have fond memories of basking in its glorious open world paradise of multiplayer motoring exploits, fueled by the passionate petrol-head community. Pity, then, that TDU’s online roads were closed as of September […]

The size, scale and variety of The Crew’s open world USA is undeniably mesmerising. But what truly took me by surprise during my hands-on was the incredibly in-depth car customisation at your disposal. In Creative Director Julian Gerighty’s words, The Crew is the Pokémon of car games. It’s an apt analogy. For starters, there are […]

Looking back, 2013 was a seminal year for racing games. We had the return of several much-loved series such as Codemasters’ GRiD 2 and Milestone’s MotoGP ‘13, before the year culminated with an epic head-to-head duel between the two racing game titans: i.e. Gran Turismo 6 vs. Forza Motorsport 5. But now it’s time to map […]

In the first part of our DriveClub interview with Evolution Studios, we looked at the sophisticated suite of community features that drive the game across its multitude of game modes. In part two, we delve deep under the bonnet with Evolution to gain a technical insight into the exhaustive development process, from modelling the cars […]

As the current console generation enters its final lap, developers have frequently relied on social networking to invigorate the racing genre in the hope to make online multiplayer racing more compelling, rewarding and enduring. EA’s Autolog is a shining example of social networking done right in a racing game. Suddenly, racing online meant more than […]

E3: a time of year game journalists love to hate. A time where gamers gather to consume every nugget of new information for the year’s most hotly anticipated games and revel in its standout surprises. This year’s event is set to be particularly momentous, too. It signals the start of the next generation, with both […]

Next week will almost certainly mark the long-awaited announcement of Gran Turismo 6, which, contrary to popular expectations, will be released on the ageing PS3 if sources are to be believed. The fact that the event is being hosted in Silverstone just before E3 only heightens the probability. If the rumours turn out to be […]

Team VVV recently visited The Gaming Den in central London, a weekly community event hosted by The Average Gamer where like-minded gamers of all ages can indulge in their favourite hobby, try out the latest games on gigantic screens whilst reminiscing on retro titles and nab some freebies in competitions.   Grid 2 had a […]

Console racing games have been dominated by Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport for generations, but all that history could be about to change. London’s Slightly Mad Studios has come up with a brand new approach to developing motorsport titles. After creating Need for Speed: Shift and Shift 2: Unleashed, the studio decided to break away from the traditional […]

If you’ve been checking up on our YouTube channel in the last few days or so, you will have undoubtedly noticed that our five-part preview series on Grid 2 has been rendered and uploaded. Overall, I’m fairly impressed with what we’ve seen and experienced so far, if perhaps a bit miffed about the AI at this early […]

There’s no doubting that Spike Engine gave WRC 3 the graphical makeover the series sorely needed. And yet Milestone still needed to improve the overall presentation in order to give WRC3 a unique sense of character that would make it stand out from the crowd. “We tried to simplify the navigation menus and make them […]

As we know, the rallying genre has seen better days. Much like the real life sport it replicates, the ’90s was undoubtedly its heyday, as Colin McRae Rally set the standard for rally titles to follow. Ten years later, it’s now a very different story. Milestone’s WRC series faced a torrent of critical backlash for […]

After the mediocre reaction to the first two WRC titles and the rise of Codemasters’ domineering DiRT series, Milestone were all too aware that, if they were to do the license the justice it deserves, significant changes were in order for this year’s sequel, WRC3. As Head Designer Irvin admitted in the last part of […]

Just when you thought we were done and dusted with WRC3 after our exhaustive video blowout, Team VVV were invited all the way to Milan to visit Milestone, where we were given an exclusive behind the scenes look at the development of WRC3. We even got to sample the closely-guarded Vita version, which you will […]