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Popular mobile racer CSR Racing 2 has just announced an exciting content partnership with the ‘Hoonigan’ himself, Ken Block. This comes off the back of CSR Racing 2’s (CSR2) Europe Series content update earlier this year. The title of the new in-game event is Hoonicorn vs The World: Season 2, in reference to the popular…Continue reading “Hoonicorn vs The World Ken Block challenge now in CSR Racing 2”»
Classic 90s style racing game Formula Retro Racing is now available on PlayStation. Created by British developer Repixel 8, Formula Retro Racing was released for Xbox One and PC 14th May 2020 to mainly positive reviews, but has now gained a release for Sony’s home consoles. Created by a one-man development team in the form…Continue reading “Formula Retro Racing now available on PlayStation”»
Digital Motorsports – the Irish sim racing retailer – recently played host to a World Cup of sim racing, where 33 of the fastest sim racers in the world battled against each other to win a share of a €20,000 prize pool. All the drivers took part in cars liveried up in their nation’s flags,…Continue reading “Maximilian Benecke wins Digital Motorsports World Cup 2021”»
With Christmas and the holiday season just around the corner, the time is now to sort out your gift purchasing. This is a gift guide for those in your life who own a gaming PC and enjoy racing video games and sim racing. Perhaps if you’re already knee-deep in cockpits and wheel rim collection, this…Continue reading “PC sim racing holiday gift guide”»
Way back in March this year, we published a guide to creating lifelike screenshots in Assetto Corsa Competizione. At the time we said “…despite the limitations in Assetto Corsa Competizione’s screenshot mode, it can undeniably produce excellent images. Although the user interface is a little clunky at the moment…” With the recent v1.8 update to…Continue reading “A guide to Assetto Corsa Competizione’s v1.8 Cinema HUD photo mode”»
Unbelievably, it’s 20 years to the day since English rally driver Richard Burns won the 2001 World Rally Championship (WRC) at the wheel of his iconic Subaru Impreza. As only the second-ever British WRC champion – after Colin McRae in 1995 – Burns matched devastating speed with sure-footed consistency to amass a total of 10…Continue reading “Richard Burns: 20 years on from his WRC title”»
Yesterday, we reported on Kunos Simulazione’s Assetto Corsa Compeitizione v1.8 Keynote, in which they talked us through several changes and improvements headed to their GT3 simulation, as well as the addition of the 2022 BMW M4 GT3. However, at the end of the video, eagle-eyed viewers may have spotted some interesting teasers as to what’s…Continue reading “Three new cars teased for Assetto Corsa Competizione”»
Kunos Simulazioni, the developer behind GT World Challenge simulator Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC), has announced an exhaustive list of new improvements to the popular title in their v1.8 Keynote on YouTube today. We revealed earlier this week that the BMW M4 GT3 was coming to the game as free DLC, as well as a few…Continue reading “Assetto Corsa Competizione v1.8 adds improved physics, 2021 BoP and new BMW”»
Fanatec has announced the pricing of its new dual-purpose steering wheel – developed for sim racing and the BMW M4 GT3 race car – that will be available for pre-order on 20th December. Developed by Fanatec in conjunction with BMW Motorsport, the wheel rim has been homologated for GT3 racing, so can in theory be…Continue reading “Fanatec announce price for BMW M4 GT3 Steering Wheel”»
As part of update 1.8, 505 Games have announced the addition of the BMW M4 GT3 to Assetto Corsa Competizione,(ACC) arriving on the 24th November. The new car is being made available to PC gamers first, with PlayStation and Xbox X|S users having to wait until 25th February 2022. The virtual car – coming to…Continue reading “BMW M4 GT3 comes for free to Assetto Corsa Competizione this week”»
