The late 1990s and early 2000s are seen as a golden age of touring car racing by many fans, with Super Touring making way for the BTC Touring formula in 2001. And you can go back to that period of racing with the new VRC Tours Pack released for Assetto Corsa by the Virtual Racing Cars team. The bundle of three cars will cost you $12.97 (Currently discounted to $11.02), with … [Read more...]
Latest GT5 season event goes for German Touring Cars
It's the turn of German Touring Cars, as DTM provides the inspiration for the latest Gran Turismo 5 Seasonal Event, which has also provided an excuse to update the Online Car Dealership with lots of DTM cars available at half-price brand new to let you compete. The tracks included are: Eiger Nordwand Short Track (5 laps) Indianapolis Super Speedway (5 laps) Madrid … [Read more...]
Simbin announces WTCC 2010 expansion for RACE 07
In just a couple of days, the WTCC 2010 expansion for Race 07 will be released by Swedish developers Simbin, adding five cars from the 2010 touring car series in 26 different race liveries, and 11 tracks including one which has never before appeared in an 'authentic racing game'. The expansion will be released on May 19, 2011, costing 9.99 Euro for the PC racing sim. Despite … [Read more...]
Race Driver: GRID review 4/5
Justifying a review two years after release and earning a high score shows how well Codemasters' Race Driver: GRID has stood the test of time. Not only does it still have enough loyal followers to make it easy to find online games (On the Xbox version used for review, anyway), but with Race Driver: GRID Reloaded available for around £15 (Which includes the 8-Ball Pack DLC), … [Read more...]
Why TOCA shouldn’t be mediocre
I unashamedly loved the ‘TOCA’ series. TOCA Touring Car Championship was my first game when I got a PlayStation. TOCA 2 was still my favourite game by the time I upgraded to a PS2, and was only superseded by TOCA Race Driver. By the time Race Driver 2 came out I had upgraded my PC with the very latest software (remember Windows ME?) and bought myself a steering wheel in … [Read more...]