Tag Archives: Racing

Ghost Games is taking over the Need for Speed franchise just a year after Criterion took stewardship of EA’s flagship racer. The new Swedish developer told VideoGamer that the franchise needs the consistency of a single, dedicated team to stay ahead of the competition. “It cannot go from black to …

So GRID 2 (opens in new tab) is finally here after all those years of waiting. And, as our GRID 2 review (opens in new tab) will attest, it’s turned out to be a great racer. One thing that’s immediately obvious when you start to play is the quality of …

We decided to take on Codemasters at their own game – quite literally, in fact. We raced several of the development team around three different modes in GRID 2 (opens in new tab)’s multiplayer mode. Here’s how that went down… The cars’ ‘TrueFeel’ handling is designed to be simple enough …

Bugbear Entertainment, the team behind the original FlatOut games and, more recently, Ridge Racer Unbounded (opens in new tab), has announced its ‘Next Car Game’ and shown off a video of in-game footage to prove it. The team announced the project via its official website (opens in new tab) and …

Nintendo and Sony are bundling up their handheld systems with extra games and services in time for the holiday season. Nintendo and Sony both announced this week new packages arriving next week for portable gamers who have yet to get their hands on a 3DS XL or PlayStation Vita. The …

Welcome to the third annual 50 smashes in F1 video! Here for your eyes’ enjoyment are the finest cars and drivers in the world, getting driving wrong for your pleasure courtesy of Codemasters superb F1 2012, which is out now in the US and heading to UK stores this Friday. …

If DiRT 3 is an off-road game for the hardcore racing fan, DiRT Showdown is for everyone else. Automatic gears, forgiving handling and demolition derby races on lethal-looking figure-8 tracks make this a distinctly arcade-styled spinoff entry in the series. There’s undoubtedly a gap in the market for a cutting-edge …

When we received an invitation to come and see an ‘unannounced AAA Sega game’ with ‘something on offer for everyone’, we had a good idea of what it would be. Put it down to sharply-honed journalistic instincts, or the reliability of big publishers to iterate on big successes. But we …

In our sixth episode of Box Score, we have a special two-parter for our huge racing game retrospective! In the first part, Richard Grisham talks to former games journalist, current game developer, and racing game expert Greg Sewart about the history of racing games. Sewart comes by his expertise honestly, …

It wasn’t very long ago at all that we brought you hands-on impressions (opens in new tab) of Codemasters’ arcadey, X-Gamesy, videogamey DiRT spinoff. But we’ve since seen a newer version of the game and been given the go-ahead to capture our own footage from it in three events. How …