Category Archives: Racing

GRID 2 developer Codemasters has opened Steam pre-purchase incentives for its incoming racer. If you get your order down before May 27 you can get a boot-load of bonus extras.

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Gran Tusimo 6 has appeared over on another retailer’s website, along with a logo and place-holder pack art. It’s slated for a November 28 release, echoing claims from Sony’s Michael Denny, who said the game would hit PS3 this year.

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Codemasters wants the AI in GRID 2 to feel distinct, with each racer having their own typical behaviours and quirks – but also to occasionally get road rage and throw you off the track.

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Gran Turismo 6 has popped up on a retailer’s site for PS3. If the listing is to be believed the game will launch this November.

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GRID 2 developer Codemasters speaks with VG247′s Dave Cook about its separate multiplayer campaign, squeezing everything out of current-gen tech, and the studio’s future.

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GRID 2 developer Codemasters has sent us its latest trailer, focusing purely on the game’s multiplayer mode. The clip shows plenty of high-speed action, RaceNet features and a quick run-down of how the Rivals system will work.

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Further to news that Criterion Games is not, in fact, making a Need for Speed Underground reboot, studio boss Alex Ward has revealed while he, personally won’t be making another racing game, that he wasn’t speaking on behalf of the whole team.

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Need for Speed: Underground was rumoured to be getting the reboot treatment under Criterion Games, following an alleged logo leak last week. We called it out as bollocks at the time, but now the studio has performed its own t-bone takedown on the rumour over Twitter.

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Forza Horizon’s 100 Club DLC pack, which was outed by leaked achievements last week, is due on April 16. Multiple sites report the free pack includes the Ford F100 1956 and the RUF CTR2 1995; check out a couple of screens below.

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Eden Games has officially been closed and its remaining assets are being liquidated, according to a Eurogamer France report.

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Forza Horizon’s Xbox 360 achievement list has just been topped up with a handful of new challenges, suggesting another DLC pack is due for release.

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Need for Speed: Underground could be next on the Criterion reboot slate, following the alleged leak of a logo online. Now of course, we all know anyone can use Photoshop to mock up anything these days, so take this as rumour only. Seriously.

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Ridge Racer: Driftopia has been announced by Namco Bandai, and is a downloadable free-to-play title slated for release later in 2013 for PC and PS3. More details are to be announced soon, but to tide you over until then, a video for it is posted below.

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GRID 2 developer Codemasters has confirmed that its single player campaign is currently clocking in at over 30 hours to full completion during internal testing. The studio has told VG247 that it wanted to buck the trend of weak six-hour campaigns in the market today.

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GRID 2 developer Codemasters has blown the doors off the game’s bespoke multiplayer campaign, and has released a batch of shiny gameplay new screens into the wild. The studio is also live-streaming the game’s online modes tonight.

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Real Racing 3 developer Firemonkeys has released a trailer for its incoming Chevrolet pack, together with fresh details.

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Max Payne 3, Midnight Club Los Angeles, Rockstar Presents Table Tennis, Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Episodes from Liberty City are all on the schedule for a bustling Rockstar multiplayer event this weekend.

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As noted yesterday, Motorcross Madness is now available on XBL Marketplace. In it, players can freeride across various environments, “drift, trick and turbo boost” your through nine offroad tracks in single-player, ghost challenges and 8-player multiplayer. You can even combine stats with your friends in Bike Club which will rewards. Hit up Major Nelson to check availability in your region. It will cost you 800 MS Points.

Moto GP 13 developer Milestone has released a second trailer into the wild, this time showing off raw gameplay footage. Check it out here.

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Distance is the Kickstarter-funded racing game from Refract Studios that sees futuristic cars racing around Tron-inspired worlds. It mixes WipEout’s velocity and TrackMania’s stunts into one lovely-looking mix. The team has released some GDC gameplay footage, and we’ve got it right here.

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