Ross McGregor

Kylotonn and Nacon recently highlighted the breadth and quality of WRC 10 players’ painting skills as they held a worldwide competition to find the best custom livery painted in-game. The paint scheme editor is a new addition to the ever-improving rallying series, enabling the creation of some truly vibrant designs across all the game’s vehicles…Continue reading “WRC 10 livery competition highlights community’s creativity”»

Repixel8, the one-man development team behind the likes of Formula Retro Racing and Velocity G, has announced details of a further racing game set for release in January 2022. Gravity Chase is a futuristic racing game with hints of the classic PlayStation Wipeout series, featuring anti-gravity vehicle combat, three game modes and 16 tracks. Taking…Continue reading “Gravity Chase coming to Steam and Xbox January 2022”»

Tonight is the Grand Final of the Ferrari Esports Series, with three races from Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari – otherwise known as Imola, Barcelona and Mugello. Split into two groups of racers over the past four rounds, tonight is the night where the top 12 from each grid come together to fight it out for a place in…Continue reading “Ferrari Esports Series Grand Final preview”»

Growing up in the late 1980s and early 90s, I can scarcely believe that Mario Kart 64 was first released exactly 25 years ago. On the other hand, my bald patch and aching joints say it’s definitely been at least a quarter of a century. Fear not dear reader, this isn’t a middle-aged cry for…Continue reading “Mario Kart 64 is still a pioneering racing game 25 years on”»

Dinosaur Polo Club, the developer behind strategic puzzle game Mini Metro, has announced the Challenge City update to its successful follow-up, Mini Motorways. In our review, we described it as “Endlessly replayable, beautiful to look at and featuring engrossing gameplay, this is another roaring success.” The game tasks you with creating the road system of…Continue reading “Mini Motorways receives Challenge City update”»

BeamNG.Drive (commonly shortened to BeamNG) was originally released by developers BeamNG GmbH as a tech demo in 2013 and has been available as a Steam Early Access title since 2015. Way back in May this year, we described how we love BeamNG.Drive (BeamNG) for its amazing physics and soft-body crash damage simulation. Following the v.024…Continue reading “How BeamNG.drive came to be”»

A new update to drifting simulator DRIFT21 has just been released for PC, bringing the iconic Sprinter Trueno GT version of the Toyota AE86 to the game. Polish developer ECC Games S.A. has also brought a few other improvements to their drift and car mechanic sim, adding over 25 track challenges, Elite Drift Series stickers…Continue reading “Toyota AE86 update comes to DRIFT21”»

EA and Codemasters have confidently predicted the outcome of the pulsating F1 2021 title battle. Using their F1 2021 game, the team simulated the final race weekend of the season at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abui Dhabi, and the results were conclusive; Max Verstappen will win the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship! According to…Continue reading “Verstappen to win title according to F1 2021 game”»

Indie retro games publisher Tendokore has just announced colourful racing title Seaside Driving, where the goal is to drive along one of five randomly-generated coastal tracks while dodging obstacles, collecting coins and admiring the seaside views – accompanied by a 1980s-inspired synthwave soundtrack. In a year where retro-inspired racers such as Art of Rally, Circuit…Continue reading “Seaside Driving set for PC, Switch and Xbox One release”»

R8G Esports has just announced the signing of two of the quickest rFactor 2 sim racers around – Jiri Toman and Marcell Csincsik. Toman, 24, of the Czech Republic, has already won the LMP2 Virtual Endurance Championship (VEC) and has finished on the Le Mans Virtual Series (LMVS) podium this year, and has also proved…Continue reading “R8G Esports sign two new drivers”»