rFactor 2

Racing cars that sound slightly odd include the glorious Wankel rotary-powered Mazda 787B, the tuned five-cylinder thrum of a Volvo 850 BTCC car and the unique warble of Colin McRae’s early 90s Subaru Legacy rally car. One of rFactor 2’s latest DLC additions, the all-electric eX ZERO race car, has to be up there with…Continue reading “WATCH: The strangest sounding electric car ever? RFactor 2 eX ZERO hands-on”»

Happy Chinese New Year! Whether it’s a holiday that you follow or not, there’s more than one reason to celebrate as Steam has dropped their annual sale on video games. We’ll be looking through the sale and help you find the best deals on racing games for your PC. One of the outstanding sales that…Continue reading “Lunar sale: the best discounts for racing games on Steam”»

Studio 397 have released a new build and for the first time it won’t be automatically pushed to your PC by steam. As outlined in the recent January roadmap, the development team are asking you to become their guinea pigs to verify the work before it’s pushed out to the masses. To do this, you’ll…Continue reading “New “release candidate” update for rFactor2″»

Formula E: Accelerate travelled to the virtual Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit for Round 2 of its inaugural season. After a spellbinding first event, Erhan Jajovski could not have done much more. The Macedonian only missed out on one point of the 29 maximum available and was largely untroubled for the entire 25 minutes. Slovenia’s…Continue reading “Jajovski fends off Rasmussen charge to make it two Formula E: Accelerate wins from two”»

As rFactor 2 fans will know, the end of the month brings an update from the developers about the progress of the development team, recent updates and forward looking to the future of the simulation platform. Last month saw the release of the new Endurance Bundle, and the release of the new competition platform. Additionally,…Continue reading “January 2021 Roadmap for rFactor 2”»

Formula E, by its very nature, is a championship that has captured the world’s imagination not just with its technological brilliance, but also its incredible racing standards every season. It’s these epic battles that the series is looking to be emulate in the 2021 Formula E: Accelerate season – a celebration of Formula E in…Continue reading “Erhan Jajovski leads the way at Formula E: Accelerate New York City race”»

As the 2021 Formula E Accelerate esports competition kicks off later this evening, Romain Grosjean has put together a brief circuit guide so you can see the tight and twisty New York City venue. Utilising rFactor 2, the competition will utilise Attack Mode for the first time in a virtual setting, much like the real-life…Continue reading “Let Romain Grosjean guide you around the Formula E Accelerate New York City track”»

Ahead of tonight’s Formula E:Accelerate esports event, the drivers participating have been announced. Whilst three of the drivers were pre-determined by the qualifiers on rFactor 2 hosted a few weeks back, teams were free to determine the majority of the drivers on the grid. Interestingly there are a number of drivers that represent other teams…Continue reading “Revealed – Formula E: Accelerate drivers”»

Since the last build update, the developers behind Studio 397 have been releasing a number of hotfixes to the game in order to attempt to resolve a number of issues with the most recent builds. These updates are small in size but they have been attempting to resolve on-going problems for users that have been…Continue reading “Graphics glitches for rFactor 2 get resolved”»