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Continuing our Forza Motorsport 5 coverage using the Lotus E21 Formula One car, Alan's been trying out the game's ultimate single-seater on one of the franchise's more renowned original tracks: the Bernese Alps complex that debuted two years ago on Forza Motorsport 4. Whilst there's no insightful commentary overlayed this time around, the various replay […]

Slightly Mad Studios welcomed a very special guest to a recent Project CARS test session – the Formula Three and Formula Renault 3.5 racing driver Oli Webb. In much the same vein as Ben Collins' visit to Slightly Mad's London HQ a few weeks ago was, the single-seater specialist gave his own feedback on the […]

Sony Computer Entertainment and Polyphony Digital have used the Gran Turismo 6 launch event in the Spanish town of Ronda to announce a host of new partnerships for the game with real-world auto makers and racing teams. As part of the presentation marking the worldwide launch of the sixth major installment of the Gran Turismo […]

Kunos Simulazioni is eyeing up potential new car licence acquisitions for Assetto Corsa, and is looking to the AC community to help them decide which ones to go for. Through the means of a poll on the official Assetto Corsa website, avid AC players and fans of the  can vote for the car brand they'd […]

Reiza Studios has announced it'll be updating its PC sim racer Game Stock Car 2013 in the coming months with a raft of new updates that are currently in the works. Whilt Reiza refused to delve into any specific details in the official announcement, other than that the content will be "a mix of licenced […]

Car combat racing games were once a very popular genre indeed, fusing the fast paced nature of racing games with the tactical gunplay of shooters. This generation saw a swift decline in the release of car combat games until the PS3 revival of Twisted Metal, which spawned a slew of imitators. One such title last […]

We've already dealt with one of the top-tier single-seater racing cars in the game, so now it's time to see what the IndyCars are like to drive in Forza Motorsport 5. With them being a complete unknown to us – they are, after all, all-new additions to the Forza franchise – we've decided to see […]

With a little bit of help from the Team VVV community (we're forever in your debt!), we've finally got some Forza Motorsport 5 gameplay footage of the Lotus E21 F1 car in action. And, as you can tell from Alan's in-game thrashing of Kimi Raikkonen's former track day toy, it seems the Prague street track […]

Having taken a quick look at the Prague street circuit and the Indianapolis GP track in the humble KTM X-Bow, we're now stepping things up a notch with our latest multi-cam gameplay video of Forza Motorsport 5. Now he's nabbed himself a Audi R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans Prototype in the game, Alan's recorded his […]

Sony Computer Entertainment has revealed the in-game bonuses for all the Gran Turismo 6 players who downloaded the GT Academy demo earlier this year. As a reward for trying out the in-all-but-name Gran Turismo 6 demo, players will be gifted a Nissan GT-R GT3 car in the game when the full GT6 game launches on […]

Forza Motorsport 5's micro-transaction-based monetisation has been the subject ot great debate over the past  week. As we revealed in a column I wrote last week, cars can be bought using real world money by purchasing in-game tokens. Some of the asking prices are absolutely astronomical – the Lotus E21 F1 racecar, for example costs […]

Since its launch last week, Forza 5 has had its fair share of controversy. Despite universally positive reviews from the critics, there's been considerable backlash from the community surrounding its stripped down car and track content, missing game features and of course the monetisation debacle which I recently reported on. And now comes the revelation […]

A Gran Turismo-supported interactive campaign has been announced, which will culminate in the Italian-American racing legend Mario Andretti being reunited with the Hudson Hornet he made his motorsports debut with in 1959. The unique promotional campaign – officially dubbed "GT6 First Love" – aims to engage with the Gran Turismo community in a way the […]

Sony Computer Entertainment and Polyphony Digital have shown off Gran Turismo 6's oft referenced GPS Data Visualiser feature in a side-by-side comparison trailer. The trailer depicts two versions of the same Scion FR-S lapping the Streets of Willow complex at the renowned Willow Springs International Raceway: one the left is the real car as fitted […]

Not contempt with having just one of the world's most high-profile supercars – the McLaren P1 – in the game, Microsoft has also confirmed it has currently exclusive rights to use the Macca's arch rival from Maranello in Forza Motorsport 5. To help celebrate the oddly named LaFerrari's inclusion in the Xbox One launch game […]

This week marked the launch of Need for Speed: Rivals, the series' first foray into the next generation powered by Frostbite 3 from EA Ghost. Like Criterion's Hot Pursuit, Rivals allows you to play as both sides of the law. Hair-raising high speed pursuits are the order of the day, and that's exactly what you're […]

BugBear has cancelled their Kickstarter campaign for Next Car Game after it failed to generate enough funding – with just over a week to go until the campaign was scheduled to finish, BugBear raised $81,772 since it started on November 1st, falling way short of its lofty $350,000 target. "Although our Kickstarter campaign has attracted […]

Kunos Simulazioni has pulled the wraps off all the new content that'll be added to the Assetto Corsa open beta in the upcoming update patch. Headlining the inaugural update for the PC racing sim are a batch of three extreme, stripped out track cars that were leaked a short while ago: the Pagani Zonda R, […]

It's been 11 years since the release of GeneRally, a delightful, diddy top-down freeware racing game downloaded by millions when it was released in 2002. It became an instant cult classic, with its accessible mechanics, addictive multiplayer and retro styling reminiscent of top-down racing arcade staples such as Super Sprint.   A sequel has apparently […]

While Forza Motorsport 5 looks effortlessly beautiful running in glorious 1080p with a rock solid 60fps, its next-gen rivals are lagging behind when it comes to frame rate. DriveClub struggled to stay at 30fps when we last played it (although it's currently undergoing some extra fine-tuning following its delay, so we remain hopeful that it […]

Codemasters has released what's expected to be its last F1 2013 gameplay video for this year, in the form of a hot lap clip featuring the famous Formula One circuit in the centre of Sao Paulo. Approrpiately, the virtual driver guiding us around the technical Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace is none other than the local […]

President of Polyphony Digital and creator of the Gran Turismo series Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed a release of Gran Turismo 7 next year would be a "best-case scenario". Speaking to Top Gear Magazine, Yamauchi-san revealed that, whilst the PlayStation 4 "is much better" than the PlayStation 3 in terms of game development ease, we'd only […]

The giant German auto maker Mercedes-Benz has confirmed two of its most exciting contemporary performance cars – the A45 AMG hot hatchback and the twin-turbocharged E63 AMG saloon – won't be represented in Gran Turismo 6. The announcement on the official Mercedes Twitter feed that "unfortunately, those vehicles are not included in the upcoming GT6" […]

Having been revealed in the real world last week, the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo has been given the full GT6 media blow out treatment by Polyphony Digital. In the latest cinematic trailer and batch of previews rendered inside Gran Turismo 6, the first of the game's 19 specially commisioned Vision Gran Turismo cars is […]

With this week's launch of Forza Motorsport 5 on Xbox One hogging the limelight, it's easy to dismiss Gran Turismo 6 lagging behind on the age-old PS3. And yet these ravishing new screenshots prove there's still life in Sony's old dog yet.  These latest screens serve to showcase GT6's recreation of the Ascari Race Resort, […]

A trio of circuit-honed track cars are set to feature in the first update build to Kunos Simulazioni's recently launched Assetto Corsa open beta. According to the Italian studio's licencing manager Marco Massarutto – who revealed in-game renderings of the three alleged autos – this Friday's update to Assetto Corsa will add the Pagani Zonda […]

Image Space Incorporated has released the latest in-game image of its AC Cobra 427 rendering for the rfactor 2 PC racing sim. Whilst ISI has confirmed there's still work to be done before the iconic Anglo-American roadster finds its way into an open beta rfactor 2 update, the solitary preview we've been provided with suggests […]

The latest batch of Forza Motorsport 5 direct feed gameplay trailers have been released, focusing entirely on big-block V8 powered performance cars. Kick starting the Forza videos this week is a short spin around Road Atlanta, courtesy of a true classic of the muscle car world in the form of the Chevrolet Chevelle SS-496, complete […]

Yet more details on Gran Turismo 6 have been released, regarding two big firsts for the popular PlayStation-exclusive racing game franchise. Come December 6th, PS3 owners with access to the PlayStation Network will be able to download Gran Turismo 6, marking the first time a main entry in the series will be available day one […]

iRacing.com has confirmed the Dallara DW12 – one of the fastest and most advanced single-seater racing cars in the world – will be coming to its subscription-based PC sim. Whilst no in-game renderings or ETA release dates were mentioned in the official statement, this new might be reassuring to theplayers of the popular racing simulation […]

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 […]

iRacing.com have revealed the next car lined-up for their subscription-based PC sim: the BMW Z4 GTE. A snapshot can be seen of the developers at work referencing materials for the car, which is currently in testing at Sebring. Based on their renowned GT3 class car, the Z4 GTE is being used as BMW's car of choice […]