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Three of the Radical Sportscar company's road and racing cars will eventually be added to Project CARS' vehicle roster, developer Slightly Mad Studios has confirmed. As stated in the official announcement, a trio of autos from the Peterborough-based car company – the open-topped Radical SR3 RS and SR8 RX prototype racers, along with the closed […]

The world-renowned Road America raceway has been added to Forza Motorsport 5 free of charge, as part of a new update for the Xbox One-exclusive racing game. Beyond being a mere add-on to Forza Motorsport 5, developer Turn 10 Studios has extensivley integrated the new track into the heart of the game's singleplayer and multiplayer […]

GT Academy 2011 winner Jann Mardenborough has been signed onto Red Bull Racing's intensive driver training programme, bringing the gamer-cum-racer one step closer to his ambitions of becoming a fully-fledged Formula One driver. Simultaneously announced alongside his new role in GP3 with the championship-winning Arden team, Jann Mardenborough will also take part in a bespoke […]

One of MotoGP '13's defining features was its motion captured rider animations, which heightened the realism considerably capturing the nuances of the rider and bike behavior with commendable authenticity. This is set to be repeated in MXGP as demonstrated in a new developer diary. However, in this case the point-of-focus is not a rider, but […]

Since its hurried release on Early Access last year in time for Christmas, it's fair to say I've been thoroughly enjoying BugBear's Next Car Game, a spiritual successor to FlatOut with hands-down the most impressive damage modelling in a racing game to date. Its initial release felt rather light on content however, with only a […]

The latest patch for Assetto Corsa has been released, adding a new licenced vehicle and extra damage simulation aspects to the Steam Early Access racing sim. Headlining the V0,6.5 update is a addition of an all-new car to Assetto Corsa – the McLaren 12C GT3, a homologated rcompetition car that recently just made its Australian […]

The open world racing game BeamNG.drive is now one step closer to a full release, having been recently added to the Steam Greenlight listings. Should BeamNG.drive recieve enough votes from the Steam community to be greenlit, the tech-demo-cum-racing-game will officially be available to purchase through Valve's popular PC game distribution platform. All purchasers of the […]

Nintendo has confirmed Mario Kart 8 will be given a global release later this year on May 30th. As revealed by Ninteno president Satoru Iwata in the most recent Nintendo Direct, the much anticipated family-friendly racing game will be launched exclusively on the Wii U in just over 16 weeks time. This announcement comes shortly […]

Cigarette Racing has revealed the one-off Vision GT Concept, a high-performance speedboat, inspired by the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo concept car. Unveiled in full at the Miami International Boat Show, the fifty foot long Vision GT Concept was created in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz and Polyphony Digital, and has been cosmetically enhanced to ape the […]

Image Space Incorporated (ISI) has released the latest rFactor 2 previews which depict the fabled Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Whilst they're not the first images to depict the world famous 'Brick Yard' in rFactor 2, this latest batch of previews gives us our closest glimpse yet at what the finished Indianapolis complex will look like once […]

Circuit of the Americas is the next track to be added to iRacing, unveiled in a new behind the scenes video over on iRacing TV. The US circuit, best known for hosting the US Grand Prix, is tentatively scheduled to be released for iRacing sometime in Spring 2014.  The video reveals the painstaking process of […]

Image Space Incorporated has released their revamped version of Silverstone for rFactor 2. Now at V1.14, the update effectively transforms the circuit thanks to the previously announced enhanced surface model that accurately simulates the track’s bumps and elevation changes from real data. Furthermore, the International layout has been added, the GP Layout has been replaced with […]

Eutechnyx has officially confirmed the Bentley Speed 8 will be coming to Auto Club Revolution by next Wednesday (February 19th) at the very latest. Having had its eventual release in the browser-based racing game teased not so long ago, the inaugural Le Mans Prototype in Auto Club Revolution will be available for players to pre-order tomorrow […]

Eutechnyx has provided the most tantalising evidence yet that the Bentley Speed 8 endurance prototype will be added to Auto Club Revolution. Whilst the racing game specialist has hinted previously that an immensely powerful, Le Mans-winning racing car from Britain will be added to the free-to-play racing game, the image seen here (posted on Auto Club Revolution's […]

Delivering on their promise, Milestone has released a new gameplay video for MXGP – The Official Motocross Videogame featuring Evgeny Bobryshev at Valkenswaard, which was showcased in the last batch of screenshots. The video acts as a demonstration of two key features: Track Soil Deformation and First-Person View. An optional feature, Track Soil Deformation will allow the surface to […]

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" […]

iRacing has partnered with automobile fluids-manufacturer Peak to offer iRacers a chance to race in a real-life Stock Car. The unique opportunity comes courtesy of iRacing’s virtual PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series, a special 12 week online racing series open to new and current iRacing members which runs from 1/27/2014 through 4/21/2014. Here, the […]

Twisted Pixel's bizarre bike game Lococycle, in which you control a karate-kicking sentient bike named I.R.I.S. while her Spanish-speaking engineer Pablo literally gets dragged along for the ride hanging on for dear life, is finally being released onto Xbox 360 February 14th after it first launched on Xbox One in November, despite original plans to […]

After months of silence, indie developer Refract Studios has released a new gameplay video of their Tron-inspired survival racer Distance, showcasing some of the new experimental developments that have been implemented into the game during the private alpha as a result of feedback from backers. Among the new features seen in the gameplay video include […]

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, […]

Milestone has released a third batch of screenshots for MXGP: The Official Motocross Videogame. As before, the purpose is to showcase a new track and star rider: in this case, the Dutch track of Valkenswaard and rider Evgeny Bobryshev, who begins his fifth season this year in the MXGP World Championship riding a Honda CRF450R. Despite suffering a […]

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 […]

We're all probably guilty of placing bets on there being another new Need for Speed game this November as a next generation sequel to Need for Speed: Rivals.- I even pondered on the possibility of a Need for Speed Underground sequel in my 2014 racing games preview, if not in name then in spirit. All bets […]

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, […]

Next Car Game is proving to be one of the biggest success stories for the indie crowd-funding scene, especially for a racing game, thanks to its innovative soft body damage modelling gaining widespread attention. Its initial Steam Early Access release, whereby Steam keys were sent out to anyone who pre-ordered Next Car Game, resulted in […]

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 […]