There are plenty of racing game and sim racing deals in Humble's 2024 Summer Spectacular sale, with 239 titles and DLC packs discounted until September 2nd, 2024. You can shop the whole list here. It's for PC titles only, with codes redeemed via Steam, and 5% of each purchase is either donated to the featured charity of the month, or to a charity of your choice. In … [Read more...]
Save On Sims And Games With The Steam Racing Fest Sale
Sometimes you wait for game discounts for ages, and then two come along at once. Having already covered the motorsport titles on sale in the Epic Games Store Megasale, now the dedicated Steam Racing Fest is running until May 30th, 2022. And as you'd expect from a focused promotion, there's quite a list of discounted titles. So you're bound to find something you're tempted to … [Read more...]
Forza Horizon 4 Is Coming To Steam On March 9
In a move to boost the PC popularity of the game, Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Steam on March 9, 2021. It's not the first Microsoft Studios game to appear on the platform, but it's the first of the Forza series. Forza Horizon 4 was released for the Xbox One and PC via the Microsoft Store in October 2018. Developers Playground Game have partnered with Sumo Nottingham to make … [Read more...]
Racing and Driving Sims In Steam Sales: Sep 8, 2019
If you're looking to try a new driving game or racing simulator at the moment, it's a good time to check out the sales on Steam. While there's normally something going cheap at any time for PC owners, occasionally you can pick up a lot of quality titles for less. And that's certainly the case right now. Racing and Driving Sims In Steam Sales: Sep 8, 2019 American Truck … [Read more...]
Steam Sale: rFactor Series
If you're a PC racer in need of more SIM, the rFactor games are in a Steam sale. Scheduled to end at about 6PM today (7PM CET, 1PM EST), Image Space Incorporated's first self-published sim starts us off with a 75 percent discount. Usually listed at a slightly eyebrow-raising £18.99, rFactor is just £4.74 (€5.74 or $6.24) today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u99pIKUQWg As … [Read more...]
rfactor 2 – Now on Steam
Quickly following a significant program update, Image Space Incorporated's rFactor 2 is now available on Valve's Steam service. Introductory offer... Before we get into details, a promotion for rF2 will close in a few hours from now. Until about 6PM today (7PM CET), rFactor 2's off-line and 'Lifetime Subscription' packages are selling at a 40 percent discount. The … [Read more...]
Steam sale: Ridge Racer Unbounded and Project CARS
This weekend's Steam offers are in their closing minutes now, offering a mix of single racing game reductions and a publisher-themed sale. The promotional period ends at 6PM UK time, so let's rush through a selection of what's on the discount shelves. Bandai! Namco! Namco! Bandai! This post covers a Publisher Weekend with a range of games from Bandai Namco Entertainment that … [Read more...]
Ride: Three First-Person Views
Here's a final preview video before moving to races for the Ride demo's three bikes. We'll add longer coverage for each of the three models so that everything is included from the Superbike and Supersport classes to the 2014 Triumph Street Triple R 'Naked' bike that is seen from behind the bars in the recording below. For this tour, we return to the full-course Sierra … [Read more...]
Ride: On-Board PC Demo Preview
Before extending to more comprehensive Ride video coverage, we're uploading a set of brief previews. Starting off the series, we have an on-board mode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJMd4bBRKmY Ride includes two more first-person views. Another preview video will follow to show those this weekend before we move to races and the more comfortable third-person … [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...]
Video: Ride North Wales GAMEPLAY Trailer
With barely five weeks to go until its arrival, Ride has reappeared with a new gameplay trailer. North Wales is the chosen region this time round. At first glance, it's a fairly good blending of places within what's really a geographically diverse area that goes from wide sandy beaches to remote hills and lake-strewn mountain ranges. The game has a stylised look, sure – but … [Read more...]
F1 2014: Steam Pre-Order Open Now
Behind all of the F1 2014 and F1 2015 fanfare in recent weeks, one format remained oddly in the shadows for download pricing: the PC. As noted in our earlier Red Bull Hot Lap feature that included news of F1 2014 and Codemasters' general plans for next year, information on pricing was non-existent on F1 2014's Steam page. Thankfully, it has been updated. Released on the … [Read more...]
RaceRoom: Slovakia Ring GT Masters Video
RaceRoom's ADAC GT Masters challenges continue through July with this visit to Slovakia Ring. One of our fave cars of the moment in sims appears here in R3E in the guise of BMW's Z4 GT3. It will no doubt be sampled again before the competition moves to Nürburgring on the 11th of August! There's just a draw to the nature of the car and that sound... The Track and Car This … [Read more...]
GRID Autosport: The Tracks and Cars
Hot on the heels of GRID: Autosport's near-to-release announcement and early video footage, the first details of content have now come through. Beginning with the tracks, there's an alluring list comprising of some 22 locations and as they currently stand, a total of 115 configurations across those regions. To add some perspective to those figures, Codemasters has said that … [Read more...]
Euro Truck Sim 2: Version 1.9 Open Beta
Consistently the Steam community's most played game in my driving library, SCS Software's Euro Truck Simulator 2 continues to evolve as the latest update has now been released for testing in beta form. Expanding Euro... The producers have attempted to address both minor and more obvious parts of this driving and delivery game. Despite Euro Truck Sim 2's maturity, improvements … [Read more...]