It's been a momentous week for major
racing game announcements, hasn't it?
It's incredible to think that in just six days we've had two major
racing game announcements in what is a...
It's certainly been a busy period for new
racing game announcements, hasn't it?
It seems, however, that EA didn't want to be left out of
the racing game announcement parade - today we can reveal that this year's iteration is called Need for Speed: Rivals.
Not exact matches
I have to admit I was floored when I heard the
announcement from Codemasters that their next
racing game was not going to be under the Colin McRae label, which they had used so strongly in the past.
During this year's South by Southwest, SEGA teased a number of new
announcements, including a new Sonic
racing game.
Description: Prepare to go over the top with Formula One's newly -
announcement karting
game, F1
Race Stars.
The
announcement of a new
game in the Grid
racing series appears set for Tuesday, according to a teaser video posted by the
game's YouTube account.
For
racing game fans there wasn't much actually at the show to get excited about in terms of news — however, the
announcement of the inevitable Forza Horizon 3 and it's trip down under to Australia did excite fans with it's new locale, vehicles and weather effects.
You probably didn't expect a video
game announcement to come from the show, however, but that's what Microsoft has done, revealing that a new title in its flagship
racing series Forza is on the way, with Lamborghini's Centenario to be the cover car.
waitaminute... weren't you complaining about Forza 5 not having weather or any day or night cycles... when was that
announcement made of every
racing game needing that when you were expressing your disappointment about Forza 5?
Following its
announcement a few months ago, Milestone has confirmed that its motorcross simulation MXGP 3 will be landing on Nintendo Switch on November 21st, thus filling the current void of bike
racing games on the system.
We look back at the week of
racing games news with the announcement of the Red Pack DLC for Assetto Corsa which is looking better and better every week in the run up to its console debut, F1 2016's recreation of the Red Bull Ring, Kazunori's revelation that developing Gran Turismo was a nightmare for PS3 and Aqua Moto Racing making a splash on Steam Early A
racing games news with the
announcement of the Red Pack DLC for Assetto Corsa which is looking better and better every week in the run up to its console debut, F1 2016's recreation of the Red Bull Ring, Kazunori's revelation that developing Gran Turismo was a nightmare for PS3 and Aqua Moto
Racing making a splash on Steam Early A
Racing making a splash on Steam Early Access.
Along with the
announcement of the
games release came some small details on a brand new feature being introduced to the series called the Young Driver Test: «Players will be introduced to the world of FORMULA ONE through a range of tutorials explaining how to handle
racing's most exciting and responsive cars, and challenged to earn a drive from a team for the 2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP» the press release happily proclaimed.
With the
announcement last month that Mantis Burn
Racing was coming to the Nintendo Switch, UK based indie developer VooFoo Studios have now announced that the
game will run at 60 fps on Nintendo Switch in both TV mode and Handheld mode.
The British
racing game experts are looking to continue this trend into next year with the
announcement of ONRUSH.
Following from the
announcement of Project CARS securing its target WMD funding, new information about one of 2013's most anticipated
racing games is slowly starting to trickle out.
Akin to miracle birth of Jesus Christ, one would think that, after the
announcement of the Xbox Play Anywhere initiative, millions of console
gamers were suddenly bestowed with gaming PC's from the heavens, overcoming the high costs and supposed headaches associated with the platform previously only available to what have been known as the master
race.
With Dirt Rally, I thought that it would be another 2 - 3 years before the next iteration in the franchise, but this surprise
announcement shows how Codemasters continues to be one the best
racing game developpers in the world.
As stated in the official
announcement, the two - door high performance sports car will be making its inaugural
racing game appearance in the PS4 - exclusive title, via a post-launch update.
It's also a
game that keeps on giving: recent surprise
announcements include some coveted car
announcements such as the fetching LaFerrari and mighty McLaren P1, making Assetto Corsa currently the only PC
racing game to offer two of the most publicised supercar hybrids on the market.
One of the best moments at the 2013 World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) was the
announcement of Anki Drive, a
racing game completely controlled by your iPhone or iPad.
Nintendo is keeping their mobile
games racing with their latest
announcement, Mario Kart Tour.
The
announcement we've been waiting for, and undoubtedly one of the biggest
racing game news...
The header image Eutechnyx used in its Ruf
announcement news piece on the official ACR website, also appears to depect the Rt 35th Anniversary Edition, heavily implying there will be yet more Porsche 911 - based performance cars coming to the browser - based PC
racing game.
After yesterday's entertaining
announcement regarding its E3 plans, Nintendo struck again with a surprise Direct special which debuted this morning, providing new details on its forthcoming
racing game, Mario Kart 8.
The
announcement trailer makes this
game look like an electronic music lovers wet dream, appearing to be a mix of an on rails shooter like REZ and a rythm
game like the the many car
racing style
games out there.
According to the official
announcement on the Codemasters Blog, the endurance
racing in GRID Autosport will require a different approach from the
game's other (and considerably shorter)
race types: a combination of simulated tyre wear and
race lengths of up to 40 minutes mean players will «need [to factor in] the long
game to win».
The
announcement of Sonic & All - Stars
Racing Transformed is one of the more memorable moments here at SEGAbits, as it was the first major
game reveal press event SEGA invited us to.
According to the
announcement made public by Kotaku, in this
game players will take control of an intelligent monster whose
race has been wiped out by humans.
Hopefully this means Assetto Corsa will be retail - ready in the short term, so do keep checking back to the Team VVV website for future
announcements on Kunos» eagerly awaited sim, along with all the latest
racing game news.