R8 at the Mount Beginning with the short-term offer, SimBin's free-to-play RaceRoom Racing Experience game has enabled weekend-long free access to a racing edition of Audi's impressive R8. Aligned with the Bathurst Mount Panorama 12-hour event that concluded earlier today, SimBin is temporarily allowing players of RRRE to sample Audi's R8 LMS Ultra until Monday morning. … [Read more...]
Forza Motorsport 5: Honda Legends Car Pack
Less than a week behind Forza 5's Smoking Tire Pack, Turn 10 has created a free bonus collection that's open to all Xbox One Forza 5 players – the Honda Legends Car Pack. In chronological order, here's the new trio of Honda Legends entrants: 1984 Honda Civic CRX Mugen 1994 Honda Prelude Si 2014 Honda Civic Si Honda Civic CRX Mugen (1984) Brushing quickly aside the … [Read more...]
Gran Turismo 6: Concept Cars, Updates and Fixes
Like what feels to be the majority of big-name games released these days, the sixth full release in the Gran Turismo series has had a somewhat shaky start – and an equally varied reaction from GT fans. A mere two weeks after the Version 1.03 update of mid-January, Polyphony Digital has created a new 1.04 revision of Gran Turismo 6. Some interim changes were pushed to consoles … [Read more...]
Forza Motorsport 5: Smoking Tire Car Pack
Turn 10 has just released a trailer as part of the announcement for its forthcoming Smoking Tire Car Pack. Following the usual template, ten cars will feature in this collection, with the bundle set for a February 4th release. The Smoking Tire... Quickly in the tracks of the LaFerrari content and January's IGN car pack, Turn 10 Studios is maintaining its monthly release … [Read more...]
GT6 Third Update: New Car, Possible Problems
Hot on the heels of its patch just ahead of Christmas, Gran Turismo 6 today receives a third update. Now reaching Version 1.03, the list of changes for GT6 doesn't show fixes but does portray new features that include a unique car and a full visual upgrade to a recent addition. Drive Toyota's FT-1 Concept Coupé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEPyUDzkvw8 Toyota introduced its … [Read more...]
Assetto Corsa: Early Access in the Steam Sale
A mere six weeks after its arrival on the Steam Store shelves, Kunos Simulazioni's new signature piece, Assetto Corsa, has found the good fortune of a two-day promotion within Steam's Holiday Sale 2013. Still an Early Access game, Assetto Corsa is just £22.49 for the brief period of this offer ($29.99 and €26.24). Originally a discounted £29.99/€34.99 on release, the current … [Read more...]
F1 2013: The Consoles Get A Plaster
Codemasters' Community Manager made a forum post last weekend to announce that the first F1 2013 update had been submitted for each of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. Along with the relevant revisions of the first four of the PC's current five patches, there was news of “a few” console-specific changes to come. Unfortunately, there were no details given back then but the list of … [Read more...]
F1 2013 Three Patches Good?
Only five days behind its second patch for F1 2013, Codemasters has released and described Patch 3 for the PC. As the list of changes clearly shows, there's no sign of the longest-living or most irritating 'features' being eliminated yet. However, I suppose that every step is progress and if they are ever to be fixed, some of the series' most persistent problems could be in … [Read more...]
MotoGP 13 All-Formats Update Version 1.2
With the news published on its Facebook page, Milestone has now released another patch to its official MotoGP game of this year. Taking MotoGP 13 to v1.2, the latest revision is ready for players of all hardware formats – Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Sony's PlayStation Vita! Steam versions will update on signing in and a patch file is available on various sites for retail and other … [Read more...]
F1 2013 Patch 2 Arrives, Price Drops
Right on the one-week point since the first update, F1 2013 has had a follow-up patch applied through Steam this afternoon. I'll stop the startwatch! At a smidgen under 45MB, the points addressed by Codemasters today are listed below. PC FPS Issues: We’ve made further improvements to the PC FPS issue whereby higher specification PCs had a considerable lap time … [Read more...]
Euro Truck Sim 2: Updates, Scares and Volvomobiles
One week after reaching 1.6.1, sleeper hit Euro Truck Simulator 2 reached Version 1.7.0 on Thursday. As usual, it is available as a direct download or torrent for owners of DVD and SCS-purchased versions with Steam editions updating automatically. Added Volvo The lone feature listed for this 1.7.0 revision is actually one that's been known about and wanted for rather a … [Read more...]
F1 2013 – Classics Content Out Now
Codemasters has released F1 2013's extra 'Classic' content as planned for all formats. The cars, drivers and tracks once included only in the Classic Edition of this year's official F1 game are now available in two optional packs. On Steam, £6.49 buys either of the 1990s packs – the F1 Classics: 1990s Pack or the Classic Tracks Pack. Select drivers... The '90s Car Pack includes … [Read more...]
World of Trucks and a Euro Truck Sim 2 Update
Continuing its support for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and driving on towards some expansive and optimistic goals for its projects, SCS Software has created a new Web portal, World of Trucks, following on from last month's European Going East! expansion and adding new features to ETS2 alongside some detail and stability changes. Euro Truck Simulator 2 reached Version 1.6.1 this … [Read more...]
Driveclub: Delay Confirmed
One of the PlayStation 4's first show-off games that fully caught our attention from its limited appearance at Sony's conference back in February, the electronics and media giant has acknowledged the bubbling end-of-week rumours that Evolution Studios' arcade-oriented, socially inclined racer will indeed be held off for a later launch window. Originally a centrepiece of … [Read more...]
F1 2013 Patch 1 Hits the Tarmac
Appreciably ahead of what we'd been led to expect, this year's addition to Codemasters' F1 stable received its first set of changes late on Thursday. Adding to the pleasant surprise, the adaptations relate to in-game play as well as an initial round of much-needed fixes to some key problems. As I repeatedly described last year with F1 2012, it's worth highlighting that … [Read more...]