Is Ubisoft’s The Crew a racing game? Not to hear them tell it. They’d rather you think World of Warcraft than Gran Turismo. “The Crew is at its heart an MMORPG. It’s not just driving around,” Julian Gerighty, the game’s creative director, told Wired.co.uk. “It was hard to pitch this game internally because you tell them it’s a […]
Forza Horizon 2 will not feature the controversial “token” micro-transaction system from Forza 5. At least not at launch. Creative Director Ralph Fulton said there will be no tokens, they way to buy cars with real-world currency in the Forza series, in the game when it is released. “The approach we’ve taken is that we’ve […]
It won’t all be sunny days and clear skies in Driveclub, but you’ll have to wait a while after the Oct. 7 launch to see what the game’s weather can really do. According to Polygon, at E3 Evolution Studios demoed an early version of the weather system planned for Driveclub. The weather system is extremely […]
At its E3 conference this week Ubisoft gave a date for its ambitious upcoming open-world racing MMO, The Crew. The game will be out Nov. 11 on Windows, Xbox One, and PS4. Ubisoft also announced a closed PC beta for the game starting July 23. You can sign up for the beta here. E3 also brought the release […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBm9Q22uEQ The developers behind Forza Horizon 2 shared more details about the game at E3 yesterday, adding up to a seriously impressive racing game. Some highlights for the Xbox One version developed by Playground Games include: • A dynamic weather system with puddle generation and evaporation. Water beads on cars and affects handling on the […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F6uQn4LN1U At today’s Microsoft E3 conference a lot of hype was given to Forza Horizon 2. According to Ralph Fulton, the game’s creative director, the game has the technical muscle to live up to that hype, and will run at a locked 30 FPS at 1080p. “I think what we did on Horizon was demonstrate that, and this […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]