Justin Towell finds a few old gems in the retro racing quagmire.
Eugene Jarvis has been President of Raw Thrills for over 22 years, so when it comes to making enjoyable arcade – literal...
We get called a ‘s*** driver’ by the police radio, add neon to our cars and escape overly long police chases. It's...
Justin Towell nitro boosts over the Bay Bridge with a ‘woo-hoo', as Horizon Chase 2 delivers driving thrills on iOS devices –...
Justin Towell enjoys the most frantic kart racer in years, in what turns out to be one of the most surprisingly fully-featured...
We test Garfield Kart’s biggest rival, and aren’t left feeling blue. A full review of Smurfs Kart on Nintendo Switch.
Justin Towell casts his eye over Dinosaur Polo Club's Nintendo Switch port of road building strategy game Mini Motorways.
25 years after its launch, and with the Switch Online Expansion Pass offering up N64 games, does Diddy Kong Racing deserve a...
With Mario Karo 64 and F-Zero X now on the Nintendo Switch, via Online + Expansion Pass, these are the N64 games...
Splash Cars really could have been brilliant if it had been designed with the Switch in mind.
Give yourself your own John McEnroe moment. “I CROSSED THE LINE!”
Here are the seven greatest racing games for the Game Boy Advance, a portable console that is seeing a resurgence in popularity.
GRID Autosport represents the last flourish of ‘old’ GRID, and came at a strange time for Codemasters. By 2011, its racing games...
It’s been some nine years since the Forza Motorsport series got its first off-road spin-off. I’m not sure why, but I never...
I’ve just had one of the best arcade racing experiences of the past 20 years and I really didn’t expect it. Formula...
This is dreadful. There’s so much wrong with Gear.Club Unlimited 2 – Ultimate Edition, it’s hard to know where to start, so...
With the ‘Ultimate’ version now out now on Xbox and PlayStation, Switch owners receive a ‘Definitive Edition’ of Gear.Club Unlimited 2, which...
How can Ridge Racer on PS Vita be 10 years old? A full decade. It is noteworthy for being the last Ridge...
We’ve been lucky enough to have several great new rally games recently, not least art of rally and Rush Rally Origins. But...
Officially and legally emulating retro games is a great idea and Evercade is one of the coolest ways to do it. Released...
I think it’s time publishers were realistic about these Switch ports of titles that are already struggling even with PS5’s power and...
I think I’m over-stimulated. In Cruis’n Blast, everything’s shinier than everything else. It’s all ‘everything all of the time’ with no respite....
If you’re looking for pure driving gameplay on Nintendo Switch, look no further. This is rally driving distilled into short-burst arcade stages...
If the rather excellent Absolute Drift: Zen Edition on Nintendo Switch made you excited for a handheld port of its successor, art...
Every time I review a new racing game, I compare it to Race Driver: GRID in my head. And you know what?...
Need For Speed Shift 2: Unleashed is the latest game to turn 10 years old, and highlights the decade’s shift in racing...
Imagine being a Beatles fan and knowing you’d never listened to Polythene Pam. People have told you it’s not their best song...
This is the most baffling game I’ve played in years. CarX Drift Racing Online is objectively as full-featured a driving game as...
It’s pretty impossible for anyone under the age of 25 to understand exactly what made gaming so different in the 1980s and...
It’s 1993 and you see a red race car hurtling through a tunnel, before climbing from a suspension bridge through a rocky...
Codemasters has become the undisputed kings of console racers in recent years, thanks to DiRT Rally, GRID and, of course, the superlative...
I was amazed last week when my nephew announced he was sorry for people who had to play Rocket League at 60...
From F-Zero’s Mode 7 scaling on SNES to PlayStation’s Ridge Racer conversion, chances are you were once wowed by a classic racing...
There are some undisputed classics in the racing genre, yet you can’t play them all on a PS5 or Xbox Series X....
It sounds like madness, but one of the absolute most important things you can do in a racing game is learn how...
It’s hard to say what makes a great racetrack. Indeed, a simple oval can be better than another very similar oval, perhaps...
I reviewed Codemasters’ Dirt 2 for GamesRadar back in 2008 and awarded it 8/10. Looking at it now, even if you dislike...
The Switch has done so many things right in its life, but while platformers, RPGs and so many indie games keep their...
The grass is green and the girls are… well, there aren’t any. But by all means take me home again. They don’t...
When you start out playing racing games, the ‘Manual Gears’ option looks pretty scary and frankly, you can’t imagine anyone deliberately choosing...
Nobody wants to see anyone get hurt in real life motorsport crashes, but a nice explosion of carbon fibre, cascading sparks from...
Project Gotham Racing: Last seen 2007 on Xbox 360 This was a massive missed opportunity. Project Gotham Racing had four incarnations after...
You seem to be crashing a lot, Grasshopper There are several moments where Absolute Drift looks and feels like an isometrically-viewed rally...
Back once again with the barricade master When one of the best developers of action-packed racing games has a go at one...