Early reports have proven true as Embracer Group confirms the sale of Saber Interactive to Beacon Interactive, a new company led by director and Saber co-founder Matthew Karch. Karch stepped down as Saber CEO in the summer of 2023 (He's still listed as President on LinkedIn, and remains a large shareholder in Embracer Group). Which makes the sale more intriguing than simply … [Read more...]
iRacing 2024 Season 2 Patch 1 Released
More improvements to the new iRacing Tempest weather system have arrived with iRacing 2024 Season 2 Patch 1 released, including more visible rear rain lights to help you spot other cars, and server optimisation when lots of wet races are taking place. These two tweaks should help you see other cars more easily, and reduce recent issues with disconnects from online races. A … [Read more...]
F1 Manager 2024 Announced With A Create A Team Mode
With an expected Summer 2024 release and various other gameplay improvements, we've now seen F1 Manager 2024 announced with a Create A Team mode. It'll sit alongside the normal career modes from the previous titles in the F1 Manager franchise, allowing you to create an eleventh, fictional team. So you could choose to add American Andretti, or emulate the garagistas like … [Read more...]
Forza Motorsport Update 6 Changes Car Tuning And More
One of the biggest issues with the flagship Xbox racing game has finally been solved as Forza Motorsport Update 6 changes car tuning and more. You can finally unlock new parts without increasing your Car Level, and use in-game credits to buy Car Points, so as long as you have enough points, you can immediately fit upgrades. At a ratio of 4,500 credits to 500 car points, you … [Read more...]
Le Mans Ultimate Patch 1 Arrives
Having launched into Early Access with a number of features absent or needing work, and after five hotfixes so far, Le Mans Ultimate Patch 1 arrives with a long list of solutions to many inital issues. While there's no new content or major features as part of the patch, it does add presets for Asetek wheels and the Moza R9 wheel base, proper AI gridding and race strategy, … [Read more...]
EA Sports WRC Update v1.6.0 Released
A fairly big list of changes arrive, with EA Sports WRC Update v1.6.0 released across all platforms, along with preparation work for future updates. Some of the notable fixes include adding Andreas Mikkselsen as an AI driver in WRC2, a balance of performance change for the Ford Puma and Hyundai i20 in Rally1, support for the new Turtle Beach Velocity1 wheel and pedals on … [Read more...]
TrackDayR Update 1.0.104.17 Released
A new patch has arrived for the motorcycle sim with TrackDayR Update 1.0.104.17 released, adding a new advanced setting menu with finer adjustments for tweaking your controller settings. The new menu allows you to fine-tune the direct lean, steer force, steer damper, in air lean influence and rider damping to set up your controls in the best way possible for the device … [Read more...]
2024 Probite eBritish Rally Championship SignUps Open
Organised by Motorsport UK and running on EA Sports WRC, the official eBRC is back to run across six rounds in parallel with the real British Rally Championship events. And the 2024 Probite eBritish Rally Championship signups open from today, March 8th, 2024. The winner will be crowned 2024 Probite eBRC champion and receive their trophy at the official British Rally … [Read more...]
Le Mans Ultimate Now Up To Hotfix 5
After a postponed launch and a switch to an Early Access release with some features arriving at a later date, fixes are arriving at a fast pace with Le Mans Ultimate now up to Hotfix 5. Launched on February 20th, the first Hotfix arrived within 24 hours. And it appears Motorsport Games and Studio 397 have opted for a little and often approach to support with four more … [Read more...]
DriftCE Toyota Supra Mk4 DLC Released
The first in a trio of paid content cars has arrived for the drifting game developed by ECC Games S.A, with the Drift CE Toyota Supra Mk4 DLC released. Costing £1.15, it's the first of three cars which will be available as DLC from the Japanese manufacturer, with the Supra Mk5 and Chaser JZX100 also coming in the next few weeks. They're all models which will be familiar to … [Read more...]
Monster Jam Showdown Announced For 2024
The latest in the long-running licensed monster truck series will be released soon, with Monster Jam Showdown announced for 2024. And in an interesting move, development has been assigned to racing game studio Milestone, with publication through Plaion. Monster Jam Showdown will utilise Unreal Engine 5 to replicate 66 official Monster Jam trucks, with 40 in the base game, … [Read more...]
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game Patch 1 Released
The first update for the new off-road game has arrived with Expeditions: A MudRunner Game patch 1 released by Saber Interactive. It's initially available for the PC version, with consoles getting the improvements in the next week. It adds Photomode, so you can capture beautiful shots of the wilderness, along with a lot of different fixes including issues with incomplete … [Read more...]
iRacing 2024 Season 2 Hotfix 1 Released
With the huge new Season 2 update bringing the Tempest weather system among other changes, it's not surprising that a few glitches occurred for sim racers on Tuesday night. But there's been a quick response to the major problems with iRacing 2024 Season 2 Hotfix 1 released within around 24 hours. Problems included many sim racers being unable to access the download or load … [Read more...]
iRacing 2024 Season 2 Update Released
Accompanied by some technical problems and news of a hotfix being published in response on Wednesday, March 6th, we've now seen the long-awaited arrival of rain in the racing sim with the iRacing 2024 Season 2 Update released. Following the usual schedule of a release on the Tuesday for Week 13 testing, many sim racers encountered issues downloading the update, and then … [Read more...]
MX vs ATV Legends Patch 3.01 Released
Lots of tweaks, changes and improvements have arrived from Rainbow Studios with MX vs ATV Legends Patch 3.01 released, but it does mean the Season 3 leaderboard times have been reset due to some issues with bugs now being solved. Other changes include the split screen countdown timer being removed to allow slower second players to finish races, tweaks to the threshold for … [Read more...]