On “Forza Horizon”’s heels – sorta, since “Forza Horizon” came out in 2012 – is “Forza Horizon 2” with more open world racing and more music festival backstory only this time the music festival has shifted from pot-filled Colorado to wine and French person-filled France. The 2015 Lamborghini Huracan is the featured car of “hundreds” […]
“SpinTires”, the Kickstarter-funded 1980s-era Soviet Union truck maneuvering and skill game will be available for PC next Friday. Developed by UK-based Oovee Games, the video game employs mostly 1980s-era Soviet Union and Eastern European truck machines to tow stuck vehicles out of the mud, haul some logs around some sketchy terrain or just generally engage […]
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 […]
Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport 5 unveiled their latest pack – the Bondurant Pack, named after famed race car driver Bob Bondurant, who raced for Carroll Shelby’s teams and later became a driving school instructor for celebrities – and the clear winners of this 10-car pack are the Dodge Coronet Super Bee, Fiat Abarth 131 and Mazda […]
While everybody was preoccupied with the VW GTI Roadster which will be appearing in the Gran Turismo 6 Vision Series collection, Mitsubishi revealed their own Vision Series car – the XR-PHEV Evolution…
Volkswagen unveiled their real-life VW GTI Roadster – the one which will appear in the Gran Turismo 6 video game – at the Worthersee Festival in Austria, but it is for show only. You can drive the VW GTI Roadster when it becomes part of the GT6 Vision Series collection of cars already populated by […]
Considering the sales figures and the drooling anticipation, this was about the only way you’d hear “bomb” and Watch Dogs in the same sentence (unless maybe you’ve got a friend who really likes to call things “the bomb”). A very ill-advised publicity stunt led to a bomb panic at an Australian online publication. An Ubisoft […]
Five years of work and two years of white hot anticipation seems to have paid off big for Ubisoft with Tuesday’s release of Watch Dogs. The game broke the company’s own record for first-day sales. “I once said that the buzz around Watch Dogs was driven by the incredible passion of our early fans,” said Creative Director […]
World of Speed released their latest trailer showing off their realistic cars by splicing together real footage and gameplay footage of a McLaren MP4-12C screaming around Moscow…
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 […]