Tag Archives: Racing

Let’s be totally clear: despite the ‘4’ on the name, this is categorically not a return to the bombastic, arcade-hued mayhem of Dirt 2. This is the still-beating heart of Dirt Rally, transplanted into the long-dead corpse of Dirt 3. The result is an incredibly hardcore simulation masquerading as an …

When the first Wipeout came out on the original PlayStation back in late 1995, I was but a freckled faced, ten-year-old whippersnapper. 22 years on, if Future Me could hop in a DeLorean and travel back to show that kid even 30 seconds of Wipeout Omega Collection running at 4K/60 …

A cut-down version of Gran Turismo Sport (opens in new tab) has been made available as a Closed Beta. Available to a select group of gamers, it lets Sony test the game’s defining aspect – its online racing. Offering three race events at set times every day, it’s a taster …

Second chances are great. They let you be late for work every now and then. Give you a free pass to be a drunken pillock at least once. Oh yeah, and they’re terrific when you bugger up a hairpin in a Koenigsegg CCXR while racing the Le Mans 24 Hours. …

Let’s paint a portrait: Nintendo sold 13.5 million Wii Us before sending the poor tablet controller out to pasture. It sold more than 8 million copies of Mario Kart 8 during that time, an astounding attach rate of 60 percent. If you happen to be one of the Wii U …

In creating amiibo (opens in new tab), Nintendo hit the emphatic fan (emfantic?) jackpot, with Nintendo devotees going to sometimes extreme lengths (opens in new tab) to to get their twitchy, grabby hands on these plastic idols to their favorite classic characters. But in addition to looking great and being …

Drivable vehicles have been absent from the Fallout series for some time, but today they make their comeback – albeit in a different game series. Forza Motorsport 6 (opens in new tab) developer Turn 10 has partnered with Bethesda to give players of its racing game a taste of Fallout …

Well, this must be irritating. With only a week to go until E3 2015 (opens in new tab), Xbox Japan just posted (and subsequently deleted) a glut of info and a few long, thin screenshots of Forza Motorsport 6 (opens in new tab). Well, their loss is our gain, as …

We all know what Driveclub (opens in new tab) really needs to get past those post-launch doldrums: Lamborghinis. Thankfully, you won’t have to wait too much longer to try out a quartet of the Italian supercar manufacturer’s finest offerings in virtual form… what? Why are you making that face? Ok …

A strange thing happened to me while I was playing a nearly-finished version of Project CARS at the weekend. I was using a single-seater ‘Formula C’ car at Oulton Park. I’d been using cockpit cam for a couple of hours, but I cycled through the other views just to see …