Wreckfest

Way before Wreckfest, and even before Ridge Racer Unbounded and FlatOut, there was Rally Trophy. The first game by Bugbear Entertainment, a then small Finnish development startup, Rally Trophy released on PC in 2001 as a serious rival to the likes of V-Rally and Colin McRae Rally. It focussed on stage routes, with a co-driver,…Continue reading “Celebrate 20 years of Rally Trophy with the latest Wreckfest update”»

As the night sweeps across the track, the moon bright in the sky, and a creepy chill in the air, it’s the perfect time to set lap times. However, those lap times will be spent in a ridiculous costume while competing for the best scores across a multitude of games. Halloween is here, and any…Continue reading “WATCH: Wreckfest, DIRT 5 AND F1 2021 Challenges! – Halloween Special”»

Time flies, and it only seems a moment ago Wreckfest added the Folk Frenzy and Carmageddon updates, but here we are again with Autumn Carnage. This Tournament update is free to all users on all platforms, and it sees you driving the Doomrig into oncoming traffic. The aim is to destroy as many cars as…Continue reading “Wreckfest’s new Autumn update brings on the carnage”»

Our favourite car-based smash-em-up, Wreckfest, will be coming to Nintendo’s diminutive portable gaming console later this year. The game was briefly shown during a recent Nintendo Direct presentation, and while in-game footage is only viewable via a severely compressed YouTube video, it’s still clearly significantly rougher around the edges than its gorgeous PC and home…Continue reading “Wreckfest is coming to Nintendo Switch later this year”»

Hey there Wreckfest fans, it’s time for a new Tournament update, and you know what that means – new stuff. In this month’s update, there are two new routes now available to all players for free. The Rally Circuit and Rally Circuit Reverse layouts for Firwood Motocenter offer mixed-surface racing, ideal for more folkrace madness.  To go with these new variants, there’s a new…Continue reading “Wreckfest Folk Frenzy Tournament update adds new routes, removes zombies”»

Carmageddon fans rejoice! This week, a new free Wreckfest update was released for PC, PlayStation and Xbox and it’s a good one. The Carmageddon Tournament Update brings these two equally loveable and chaotic worlds crashing together and as you can imagine, I was sent to go and clean up the mess. Ever wondered what a…Continue reading “WATCH: 1997 Meets 2021, Wreckfest Carmageddon UPDATE!”»

This one caught us by surprise. Popular, and controversial, violent driving game Carmageddon is making a comeback and it’s inside out favourite smash-em-up, Wreckfest. Entitled the Carmageddon Tournament Update, it throws things back to the original 1997 car combat release, with two environments – Bleak City and Devil’s Canyon – alongside the Eagle-R car. This…Continue reading “Carmageddon returns within free Wreckfest update”»

1113 days – that’s how long it has been since the then titled Next Car Game left Early Access and became Wreckfest, yet here we are still here talking about new updates to Bugbear’s masterpiece. As of yesterday, when the latest patch hit, PS5-owning Wreckfest-players can now use their existing PS4 game save in our…Continue reading “Wreckfest adds PlayStation save transfer, cross-gen multiplayer and new PC visuals”»

The Wreckfest renaissance continues apace with June 2021 Tournament update. The big-ticket item is the free new playground track, available for all players across all platforms. Wrecking Madness is a fresh area where you can test out the punishing crash physics, and a new ‘Extreme’ damage mode is also included to turn up the madness…Continue reading “Go back to the future with the latest Wreckfest update”»