Tag Archives: Racing

This should be absolutely rubbish. You spend £20/$30 on a game that’s basically just a shell, then you buy more content from the download store to pad it out. A car here, a track there… building the game you want to play until you’ve paid more or less full-price. Sure, …

ModNation Racers: Roadtrip is really hung up on appearances. “Customize everything!” it cries. Choose a custom vehicle shell! Slap a sticker on your buggy! Dress up your little “Mod” person as a fursuiting cowboy! This is all you! You are expressing yourself and being creative! Isn’t that rad? To be …

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences conducted its 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (IAA) in Vegas last night, capping the 2012 DICE. Summit with a tribute to 2011’s top games and game makers. Chief amongst the night’s winners was Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (opens in new tab), …

The two purposes of a game map are to show you which direction you should be heading towards and more importantly, to indicate which area you’re yet to loot for power-ups and collectibles. But some maps are made with so much love and serve up so many with original ideas …

Sublime though Mario Kart 7 may be, and more than worthy of receiving our coveted 10/10 (opens in new tab) review score, it contains a glitch that can be exploited for ill-gotten gains (cue sharp intake of incredulous breath). Turns out the Maka Wuhu Loop – Wuhu Mountain Loop in …

It’s a bold step from Codemaster’s to split the DiRT franchise into two, rather than just making one complete package. But at least the needs of the arcade racer and simulation fan will be clearly catered for. The hardcore rally fan will have to wait a little longer to find …

Hey, remember how last week we heard that Shigeru Miyamoto was stepping down? And how that probably turned out to have been a bit of a misunderstanding (though Wired is sticking to the story)? Having clarified that Miyamoto “will continue to be a driving force in Nintendo’s development efforts,” Nintendo …

Sony has released US pricing details for the proprietary memory cards to be used by the PlayStation Vita. The cards will cost you $29.99 for 4GB, $44.99 for 8GB, $69.99 for 16GB or $119.99 for 32GB high-rollers. This is comparable with Sony’s own pricing on the PSP’s Memory Stick storage …

Instead of ushering itself in with a sprint, Need for Speed The Run began with a stumble when the first portion anyone saw when the game was revealed at E3 was an on-foot quick-time event. Later we were assured that these QTE moments were only 5% of the game. In …

Need for Speed The Run is looking to recapture the series’ more cinematic qualities with an overarching campaign story, Hollywood actors, and high production values including using Battlefield 3’s Frostbite 2 engine. EA chose to continue that theme by pulling in director Michael Bay to help an ad for the …