Andrew Evans

Racing games hit the mainstream last year, as pro drivers picked up their controllers (or expensive driving rigs) to fill in for the postponed motorsport season. In fact they even proved a big hit on television, drawing in viewers by the million.

Prospective participants in this year’s GT World Challenge Esports series can now register to take part in the Assetto Corsa Competizione-based event.

There’s a new set of GT Sport Daily Races starting today, with three new events for players to get to grips with over the next seven days.

The second qualifying event for the 2021 International GT League World Series, the Americas Classic, will get underway later today and you can catch it live right here on GTPlanet.

It’s less than a month since Milestone gave us a first look at Hot Wheels Unleashed, an arcade racer based on the immensely popular model cars, but already we have a second video of the game in action.

After a little coded teaser last month, Slightly Mad Studios has announced the fourth and final scheduled DLC pack for Project CARS 3 in a blog post on the official game site.

Goodwood, one of the UK’s best-known automotive culture hotspots, is offering a pretty special prize bundle for an online competition in Gran Turismo Sport. Prizes include tickets for the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed, a rally stage passenger experience, and a PC sim racing rig.

Fans of vehicular mayhem and destruction are in for treat this May, as Wreckfest is coming to PS Plus as a free game for PS5 owners.

Sony’s fourth-quarter and full-year financials are now in, and they reveal that the PlayStation 5 is on course to unseat its predecessor as the fastest-selling home games console of all time.

New footage of Gran Turismo 7 appears in a new video on Sony’s official channels promoting the features of the PlayStation 5’s new DualSense controller. It’s only a very short clip, within a very short clip, but it’s the first new video we’ve seen of the game since the initial reveal last year.

Although the 2021 GT Sport FIA Online Championship season has already started, Polyphony Digital has pushed out a small update to the Balance of Performance calculations.

The four-week cycle of Forza Horizon 4 is almost at an end again, with the final season coming later this week. That means it’s very nearly time for a new series — Series 35 — and the Forza team has been teasing us with what new content might be coming to the game.

GT Academy champion from 2011 Jann Mardenborough has signed a new driver management contract with MB Partners, run by former F1 driver Mark Blundell.

Qualifying in Formula One is set for its biggest change in a quarter of a century, with a new format that will debut later this season.

The last set of GT Sport Daily Races for April gets underway today, with three races on three quite different European race tracks.

The first qualifying event for the 2021 International GT League World Series gets underway later today, with the GT Nostalgia Selection Event.

The newest DLC pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione, the British GT pack, will arrive on consoles later this month, on April 28.

Gran Turismo is set to become an official Olympic sport, as one of five official partners for the first ever Olympic Virtual Series (OVS) later this year.

After a relatively brief period of teasing, sim racing peripheral manufacturer Fanatec has taken the covers off its new wheel base. It goes by the name of CSL DD and it is, as anticipated, a brand-new, entry level direct drive wheel base at a third of the price of existing offerings.

Nacon and KT Racing have revealed a first official trailer for the next game in the Test Drive Unlimited series, as Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown.