Category Archives: Racing

Monster High: Skultimate Roller Maze is what happens when you cross roller derby with high school cheerleading, monsters and Mario Kart. I never thought I’d write that sentence in my life, but developer Little Orbit has just released the game’s launch trailer ahead of its 3DS release tomorrow.

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GRID 2 is heading to Europe, and a new trailer from Codemasters has shown off some of the game’s European locations. There are also some new details to go along with the clip.

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Super Time Force, Critter Crunch and Sword & Sworcery developer Capybara Games has joined forces with Double Fine for a special promotion at PAX East. EDGE reports the two companies will share a booth, and have produced a little OutRun style racer starring characters from both developers’ catalgoues called Capy Fine Racing GP. The game will only be available on 3.5″ floppy discs, inside the Capy Double Fine PAX combo, a boxed release of the Steam bundle. “We only made 200 boxes, and even then some of the floppies might not work, but the people who buy them will be allowed and encouraged to share the game,” Capy co-founder Nathan Vella said. PAX East runs March 22-24 in Boston.

Trials Evolution Gold Edition publisher Ubisoft has sent us some new screens and a trailer to mark the game’s digital launch today. The physical retail pack hits Europe tomorrow.

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Carmageddon: Reincarnation developer Stainless Games is taking its next instalment in the brutal racing franchise next-gen, thanks to a sizeable $3.5 million investment from Bullfrog founder Les Edgar.

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Need For Speed: Most Wanted developer Criterion has said that the game’s outstanding DLC packs will only hit Wii U if the studio sees enough support on Nintendo’s format.

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Project Cars will look rather lovely on Wii U, developer Slightly Mad Studios has confirmed.

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Real Racing 3 has done big numbers since it launched, according to an infographic from publisher EA. You can see it here. Now, vice president of EA’s mobile and social studios Nick Earl has stated that the “market has spoken” and that only the “vocal minority” took issue with the game’s micro-payments to begin with.

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Ea has released an infographic for Real Racing 3, and since its launch on mobile February 28, it’s been the number one free app in 90 countries on the iOS Store. Players have competed in 25 million races per day, with 350 million completed to-date. This was accomplished by users spending at least 25 minutes per day with the game, with a total of 14 million hours spent racing since launch. Check out more stats below.

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Need for Speed: Most Wanted U is out next week, digitally and through shops, so EA thought you might like to see a trailer for it. Watch below. Get it March 19.

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Codemasters has released a new GRID 2 video full of racing action and a soothing voice-over. Get it below. The racer is out on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 May 28 in North America and May 31 in Europe. New screenshots are posted below alongside the trailer.

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It looks as though Activision is to publish a title based on the Fast and Furious series, if a pre-order listing on EB Games Australia is any indication.

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Project Gotham 5 has been scrutinised heavily over on the NeoGAF boards, and collected evidence suggests that Rare has been hiring a lot of talent from top racing studios lately. Assess for yourselves here.

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GRID developer Codemasters has confirmed that the Mac edition of its acclaimed racer will hit Mac on March 28.

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ShootMania and TrackMania 2 have received Twitch integration, allowing gamers to stream their creations and matches live using the service.

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Road Rash creator Dan Giesler has told fans he’s going to talk to EA about the rights to the combat-heavy motorcycle racer, and possibly take to Kickstarter to fund a new game.

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Challenging top-down racer Fuel Overdose has pupped a demo, which arrives in this week’s North American PlayStation Store update and hits Europe the following week. The taster has one track, Prague; three characters, Odessa, Noa and Rosa; and three vehicles, Cadiz, Kashiwa and El Paso.

F1 Race Stars, the Formula One karting game from Codemasters has been heavily discounted this week on Steam.

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WRC Powerslide is out now Xbox Live Arcade at 1,200 MSP, and we’ve got the launch trailer here. Before you ask, yes the trailer is slightly old, but we never got it first time round, so you can play catch up here.

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MotoGP is back, thanks to former developer Milestone Studio, and is looking pretty sweet in this first batch of gameplay footage.

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