Anyone who has played online has experienced them. The lowest of the low. The people who guarantee that even if they can’t beat you, you’ll never really win. The rage-quitter, the person who pulls the plug on a match when they’re behind. Driveclub has an interesting system in place to avoid that problem. Making it […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AkgJZGspCM We do a lot of stories about real-life cars being licensed for games here, but this one is a bit of a topper. Mercedes, the dignified, upscale brand most not-associated with colorful karting and wantonly tossing blue shells at people, has signed a deal to have one of its cars featured in Mario Kart […]
Are you ready? Time to make new friends, get in fights with old ones, and dodge all colors of shells again. Mario Kart 8 is out tomorrow, May 30, for the Wii U. According to a press release from Nintendo the game will be on store shelves and on the Wii U eShop for $59.99. […]
This new trailer from Codemasters GRID Autosport focuses on endurance racing, one of the game’s five styles of racing, which also include street racing, touring cars, open-wheel cars, and drifting. The video intercuts footage of real endurance drivers talking about the sport and footage of the game, showing cars fighting for position and struggling to […]
One of the reasons given for Driveclub’s delays was to implement and improve the social sharing and networking features Evolution Studios and Sony have planned for the PS4 racer. Hands-on previews coming in today show that these are deeply embedded in the structure of the game. Sony held a hands-on event for invited press last […]
We’ve been drooling over Slightly Mad Studio’s Project CARS, but it turns out its sister project World of Speed is a looker, too. Slightly Mad recently released this trailer for the free-to-play racing MMO. It focuses on some glamour shots of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, McLaren MP4-12C & Pagani Huyara that will be in the game. […]
Driveclub Director Paul Rustchynsky confirmed that players can choose a female avatar if they want in Evolution Studios hotly anticipated game. Responding to a question from a gamer asking if his wife will be able to choose a female player in the flagship PS4 racer, Rustchynsky said “She will most certainly be able to.” The […]
If you live in London, Paris, Dubai, Montreal, New York, or Copenhagen, anyway. A work-in-progress version of the game is being made available to try at gaming centers in these places from May 16 to June 12. The New York center will be at World Gamer Nation, which is a LAN center on Long Island. […]
“It’s a fighting race. It’s not just a speed race,” says Fabrizio Giovanardi of Motorbase Performance in this trailer for GRID Autosport. Giovanardi is obviously talking about real-life touring races, as are the other racers in the video who get enthusiastic about aggressive smash-mouth racing, but Codemasters has filled the rest of the video with […]
You want “Watch_Dogs” when it officially launches in two weeks – this much is established. But now you want to pre-order the video game like the knowledgeable video gamer that you are but your brain hurts when you see all the pre-ordering options. If you want all 23 perks currently associated with the game, good […]