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One of our favourite arcade, retro-infused, racing games at the moment is Horizon Chase, and it will soon expand with a tribute to the late, great, Ayrton Senna. The Senna Forever Expansion will add a new set of cars, tracks and features inspired by the 41-time Grand Prix winner’s career. Far more than just a…Continue reading “Horizon Chase’s next DLC will celebrate the career of Ayrton Senna”»

It was a strong end to the week for Nintendo as they unveiled a lot of things to look forward to during Nintendo Direct on Thursday. One of the games we’ve been following since it was announced, Hot Wheels Unleashed, got a few seconds of love during the stream, giving fans a first glimpse of…Continue reading “First look at Hot Wheels Unleashed on Nintendo Switch”»

Merging the RPG gaming sphere with the racing games of the world, Nintendo announced during their Nintendo Direct stream on Thursday that Chocobo GP would be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2022. The Chocobo itself is a fictional bird-like animal from the Final Fantasy series of games. It’s a big, yellow bird thing that…Continue reading “Chocobo GP announced for Nintendo Switch, releases 2022”»

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”»

During a recent Nintendo Direct presentation, the Kyoto-based video game company announced that classic N64 games – and, surprise, Sega Genesis titles – will be coming to the Switch via the Switch Online subscription. Nintendo Switch Online is a monthly or yearly subscription that allows game saves to be store on the cloud, online gameplay…Continue reading “Mario Kart 64 coming to Switch via Online Expansion Pack subscription”»

When Hot Wheels Unleashed launches on 30th September 2021 it aims to provide a family-friendly recreation of diecast toy racing with a fresh twist of online multiplayer, livery creation and a track editor. While games based upon the popular toys have been around for generations, dating back to 1984’s ‘Hot Wheels’ on the Commodore 64,…Continue reading “How Hot Wheels Unleashed recreates your childhood dreams”»

This week on the Traxion.GG podcast, we are joined by Hot Wheels Unleashed’s Lead Game Designer Federico Cardini, who works for developer Milestone in Milan. We discuss the upcoming racing game, which features diecast models racing around miniaturised circuits, a track editor a livery creator and an extensive post-release roadmap and split-screen multiplayer. We learn…Continue reading “How Hot Wheels Unleashed came to be, with Lead Game Designer Federico Cardini”»

I think it’s time publishers were realistic about these Switch ports of titles that are already struggling even with PS5’s power and just cancelled them. Someone somewhere’s going to get a very nasty shock when they buy this. For a game that is graphically imperfect on the next-gen consoles, this Switch version of RiMS Racing…Continue reading “Hands-on with RiMS Racing on Nintendo Switch”»

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. Cars are flipping, barrel-rolling and boosting over huge jumps as a yeti pounds the ground below them, shattering the earth which falls away revealing a concealed underground route that just so happens to…Continue reading “Cruis’n Blast Nintendo Switch review”»