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• Real Racing 3 tourney offers trip to the WRC

  Real Racing 3 champs are offered a chance to win a trip to see the World Rally Championship in Monaco in January. The competition is powered by a partnership between Hyundai and EA, and follows a recent update that added a Hyundai i20 WRC rally car. Complete the Hyundai-specific Time Trial, and you’ll be prompted […]

• Real Racing 3: Chevrolet pack adds over 100 new events, gets trailer

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

• Real Racing 3 reviews begin, get the scores here

  Real Racing 3 is the realistic free-to-play racing sim from EA and Firemonkeys. It just hit iOS today, however, the constant micro-payment harassment has left some reviewers cold. Others don’t seem to mind at all. You be the judge below.

• Real Racing 3 dev cites "relatively low" interest in real-time mobile multiplayer

  Playing with friends in real-time is just too much work on mobile platforms, according to Real Racing 3 associate producer Michael De Graaf.

• Real Racing 3 going free-to-play, microtransactions included

  Real Racing 3 developer FireMonkeys has decided to take the next instalment of its critically-acclaimed racing series free-to-play under publisher EA. That – of course – means microtransactions will be involved, and it’s got fans upset.

• Real Racing 3 will have asynchronous multiplayer

  Real Racing 3 is something of a poster boy for iDevice gaming, and this latest developer diary shows one of its more droolworthy features – asynchronous multiplayer.

• Real Racing 3 developer diary talks graphical wow factor

  Real Racing 3’s appearance in the iPhone 5 reveal has alerted the rest of the world to something we already knew: Firemonkeys has a heck of a game on its hands. This new developer diary details some of the graphical grunt the developer has squeezed out of iDevice.

• Real Racing 3 trailer escapes EA Summer Showcase

  Here’s a game you will play on your phone which looks almost as fancy as any on your HD TV, even in pre-alpha state: Real Racing 3, the first title to emerge from the newly rebranded Firemonkeys.

• Aussie mobile devs Firemint, Iron Monkey merged

  EA has merged two of its mobile studios – Firemint and Iron Monkey – to form a new developer called Firemonkeys. You can see why this had to happen.