The heightened involvement of the CARS community since the migration to Steam persists with access to daily versions for Team Members and above. Away from the minutiae of build changes, the Car Physics Focus Testing (CPFT) drives onward with its weekly car and track selections. Week 10 of the CPFT concentrates on the couplings below. The current set will be replaced on … [Read more...]
Green Man Gaming Mid-Week Codemasters Sale
Green Man Gaming has an 'Up to 75 percent off' promotion running at the moment – including a couple of old faves for, a little research tells me, less than the typical cost of a pint this year. There's quite a range of game types under the Codemasters brand and the entire list might be worth wander through, but we do cars, cars, cars at ORD. With some planes. As … [Read more...]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed – Steam Daily Deal
Steam's latest can't-pass-it-up offer has the titular platform-running erinaceinae hero's second – and much-improved – modern kart racer take a spectacular spin-jump down of 75 percent. That's a best-ever £3.74 until 6PM on Wednesday, UK time. But gather three friends and you'll pay just £11.74 for four copies of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed – an … [Read more...]
F1 2013 – Compatible wheels and hardware for all formats
Codemasters have released a list of the wheels and hardware officially supported for F1 2013. It covers F1 2013 compatible wheels and set-ups for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 version of the game. Given the success of using custom options in the earlier games, we don't foresee control problems with a far wider range of hardware than that of the current list. The … [Read more...]
F1 2013 – Early-Order Rewards and Discounts on Steam
Codemasters' latest entrant in its firmly established Formula One series now has a front-of-stage placing on Steam's home page. Set for a release on the 4th of October, it's now possible to order early on Steam at a 10 percent discount. Standard and Classic editions are available, the former carrying a £26.99 price tag (normally £29.99) and the latter rolling in at … [Read more...]
Project Cars – Build 557
Now working through Steam rather than the earlier isolated launcher, the rapid pace of development continues with Project CARS and sees a revision released ahead of the weekend for Junior Members and above. Daily builds continue to go out for Team Members upwards, as production staff concentrate concentrate on the physics of set groups of cars. A new set of car and track … [Read more...]
Assetto Corsa – Driving Impressions from Italian Racer Alessandro Balzan
Checking the Assetto Corsa page on Facebook for the regular image updates and news, it was interesting to see the impressions of professional racing driver Alessandro Balzan. He's an experienced racer, having won the Alfa Romeo 147 Cup in 2002, Porsche Carrera Cup Italian Champion 2009-2011, Ferrari Challenge European and World Champion in 2012, and finished 4th at the 24 Hours … [Read more...]
Ferrari Virtual Academy 2K10 – just 5 Euros in August
Ferrari Virtual Academy 2K10 is presently two thirds of the way through its 'August Special' period. Sold in the past as a single car and track base with a number of upgrade packs, the August Special now offers a feature-complete bundle of three tracks and three cars for those 5 Euros. Nothing has changed in terms of content or game modes and Ferrari Virtual Academy … [Read more...]
netKar Pro now at incredibly low price
netKar Pro is now available for the bargain price of €3.99 (roughly £3.40). That drop comes after earlier sales periods and the eventual fixed price of €6.99. I may have stumbled across the price drop whilst compiling all the latest progress of Assetto Corsa, but there are still great reasons to pick up netKar Pro beyond the low price. It may be limited in that it lacks any … [Read more...]
WRC 4 – Milestone’s Rally Returns
Italian developer Milestone is back with this year's sole entrant in the 'official' World Rally Championship stakes, WRC 4. Building on the 'sleeper' success of the preceding trio and echoing the developer's history of Superbike titles, the new FIA-authorised game sits on the annually improving foundations of those predecessors – a meritorious novelty in a world of roster … [Read more...]
Fórmula Truck Released
Adding to its short but well-considered list of titles that last paused at Game Stock Car, Reiza Studio's latest is now available to all after a brief period of a few weeks of being open to those that ordered before this final release, Version 1.01. Fórmula Truck is actually the officially licensed game of the Brazilian racing series that's barely known outside the South … [Read more...]
SRH reveal new dashboard for Fanatec’s ClubSport Wheel
Having recently been looking around again for hardware options made on the European side of the Atlantic for something obtainable closer to home, I spent some time browsing through the catalogue of SimRacingHardware.com, a company best known in our sim circle of late for its button boxes and Monsta display. What I'd missed during my initial perusing was a single image of SRH's … [Read more...]
netKar Pro – lower price including Assetto Corsa preview
After the extended €4.99 offer closed on last month, anybody sitting on the 'Should I, shouldn't I?' fence or simply missed the long-running price reduction might be interested and happy to read that Kunos Simulazioni have made an unconditional price drop to a mere €6.99 for netKar PRO 1.3 Final. As over the course of the earlier offer and for anyone that has already bought … [Read more...]
MotoGP 13 – Latest Game Footage
The 2013 MotoGP season started last weekend, giving us plenty of reason to be excited about Milestone’s forthcoming game. Jorge Lorenzo faces the return of legendary and on-form team-mate Valentino Rossi, whilst Dani Pedrosa is challenged by talented and controversial fellow Spaniard Marc Maquez Meanwhile British fans have plenty to cheer with Cal Crutchlow putting his Tech 3 … [Read more...]
World Racing Series Beta 3 (new release)
Having included the latest announcement of last month's GP Bikes update, it would be remiss of us not to better highlight its car-featuring stable-mate, World Racing Series. Included as part of GP Bikes' dual license and also in the development stage, WRS currently sits at Beta 3 - an update released immediately ahead of the one for GP Bikes. In the same fashion as its … [Read more...]