Official Announcement for MotoGP 15, being developed by Milestone for Playstation 3 and 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Windows PC and Steam. The new game will include more bike, rider and team customisation with more than 100 accessories, including motorhomes. In addition to more career options, there is a new Beat The Time mode to race on a specific bike and course against a set … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Cadwell Clio Cup Preview
Whilst editing of footage for this sprint race continues, we thought we'd bring a little appetiser to the site. http://youtu.be/-ql7YERkwz8 Taking to the Cadwell Park Woodland Circuit, the perfect match for a first return to the venue was found in the Renault Clio Cup. It's all a bit... 'TOCA' and so much fun! Once the tyres are warmed up! The majority of the first lap … [Read more...]
Project CARS is ‘Gold’!
#ffd700 Aurum, 79Au, #ffd700... gold! As previewed by Slightly Mad Studios' Creative Director, Andy Tudor, in a tweet last week, Project CARS has reached the presses. https://twitter.com/realandytudor/status/588045893317820416 Since then, 'Final Build' status has been reached and an early May release for Project CARS has been confirmed. Those release … [Read more...]
Project CARS Alpine A450 at Silverstone
It's a busy racing weekend in the real world. From four wheels to two, following Formula One in Shanghai and IndyCar with the new Grand Prix of Louisiana to MotoGP and the beginning of the MotoAmerica series at Circuit of the Americas (CoTA), it's all go! Nearer to home, World Superbikes continue at Motorland Aragón and a European championship begins at Monza with 2015's … [Read more...]
Project CARS: An Eye for Detail Preview
In preparation for recording new Project CARS footage last night, we had a short session at the wheel of Slightly Mad Studios' soon-to-be released sim. Even the time running a couple of hot laps in one of this week's Community challenge events demonstrated some nice touches. After watching the footage from what began as a set-up check, we thought it'd be cool to include a few … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Halloween Trailer
As the nights draw in and October comes to its traditionally spooky close, the month has heralded the release of a new trailer for Slightly Mad Studios' Project CARS. Demonstrating the dynamic weather and time-of-day systems at a superb sim-racing location, the video was first shown in London during the 2014 Golden Joystick Awards. Halloween is here... Beginning … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Azure Circuit Huayra Video
Having a breather from race driving, we recently took Project CARS' Pagani Huayra to the Mediterranean Azure Circuit for an accelerated day. 24 little hours... That is, one full day – a complete twenty-four hour cycle and almost all seasons! With thirty other cars racing around the street course, over twenty minutes of game time are compressed into just two minutes of … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Besos National Radical SR8 RX Video
For today's one-lap run with Project CARS, we took another step away from the regularly featured single-seaters and more conventional road-going machines to run with a Track Day special. Thanks to a healthy selection in the game, the choice wasn't all that easy when faced with marques that also include Ariel, Caterham and BAC. It had been a long while since seeing one of … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Gamescom 2014 Trailer
Project CARS: Limited Edition Box Set
Now that its release day draws near, details have been released of a Project CARS 'Limited Edition' set. A little light reading... Enclosed in a 'steelbook' metal case featuring publicity and game graphics, the set will include a behind-the-scenes book that covers the development of Slightly Mad Studios' community-supported simulator – Project CARS: By Racers 4 Racers. A … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Eifelwald Short Atom 300 SC Video
Here's another small sample of the latest work from Project CARS using the current Build 784 of Slightly Mad Studios' work-in-progress sim. We last took the Ariel Atom 300 Supercharged for a short race at Silverstone. This second showing steps away from racing circuits for a short section of Eifelwald over 'Stage 1' of the full course. … [Read more...]
Project CARS: BMW Z4 GT3 Zolder Video
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Project CARS: Lotus 72D Florence Video
Hot on the tracks of our newest Project CARS videos, we're in Italy for a single lap through the short course of the racing simulator's Florence circuit. Classic Seventies with the Lotus 72 Piling legend upon legend, the racing car featured is the Lotus 72D known to anyone with a knowledge of early 1970s Formula One and long propelled along the tarmac by Ford's … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Cadwell Park Clio Cup Video
One week on from our session at Oulton Park's short Fosters course, we're back for a visit to another classy British circuit. 'Round the park... This time round, Lincolnshire is the county and the testing Cadwell Park is the spot for some driving. 'Short' being the order of the, er... week, the Club layout was chosen alongside a nippy little Euro racer known as Renault's Clio … [Read more...]
Project CARS: Start your engines… at Indy!
The Brickyard... Right on cue for the actual 200-lap event held last Sunday, Slightly Mad Studios announced the BIG news that IndyCar is coming to its simulator – with no less than the Indianapolis 'Indy 500' itself! Assuredly one of the motor sport world's best-known events, the legendary 2.5-mile 'Brickyard' Indianapolis Motor Speedway will feature in at least its oval … [Read more...]