Andrew Evans

This year’s F1 Esports competition starts in just under two weeks, but if you want to find yourself in the hot seat next year the process begins right now.

If you like your racing game action well onto the arcade patch of the Venn diagram of driving, October looks set to be a decent month for you. Need for Speed Payback, the 2017 release from Ghost Games, will head to PlayStation Plus as one of the month’s two free games.

If you’re one of the console cadre of Assetto Corsa Competizione, there’s some good news for you today. The long-awaited GT4 Pack DLC is available right now, from both the PlayStation Store and the Microsoft Store for the respective consoles.

With the PlayStation 5 launch hoving into view, Sony has made a major change to its official landing page for the console. The update refreshes the look of that area of the site, but also gives more information on a variety of both first- and third-party games coming to PS5. Among the titles involved in the update is Gran Turismo 7.

GTPlanet’s European members who were unable to secure their PlayStation 5 pre-orders this week are in for a treat, courtesy of a treat. PlayStation has teamed up with gamer’s-favorite snack, Doritos, to give away more than 200 PlayStation 5s, both through instant wins in special packs and an unusual Augmented Reality (AR) quest.

The DIRT 5 hype train continues this week, with another look at some of the content coming to current-gen consoles and PC on November 6.

Despite GT Sport coming up on three years old now, there’s still the occasional new thing cropping up, and this week’s Daily Races are a case in point. There’s three new races for you to get to grips with over the next seven days, and among them a circuit never seen before in these events.

GTPlanet’s users are among some of the most dedicated, obsessed, and downright crazy players in the world. They do all sorts of unusual things in their devotion to the games they play, but this has to be one of the more ludicrous we’ve seen. WestRoadZ, a GTP user coming up on six years, is attempting a live-streamed speed run of the Gran Turismo Sport Platinum trophy.

Codemasters has revealed more information on DIRT 5’s mysterious “Vampire” teased with last month’s Playgrounds unveiling. It transpires that it’s a new multiplayer mode, based on DIRT 3’s Outbreak mode.

Ever since Microsoft revealed it would return to its own custom data storage solution for the Xbox Series X, we’ve been a little curious about what the cost would be to the consumer. Today it has lifted the lid: the cost is $220.

2020 marks an important milestone. It is 100 years since Jujiro Matsuda founded a company in Hiroshima, Japan, that would eventually become the Mazda Motor Corporation.

Players waking up to GT Sport this morning will find a fresh set of Time Trials starting today, to challenge them over the next two weeks. It’s a mixed surface offering this time round, with players needing two different skill sets, and one of the most challenging circuits of all.

This past weekend’s 24 Hour of Le Mans was the end of an era. After a history stretching back more than 25 years, the Le Mans Prototype (LMP) effectively bowed out as the event’s top category.

It may come as something of a surprise, but Forza Horizon 4 is nearly two years old. The open-world racer, set in a lightly massaged version of the United Kingdom, arrived on October 2, 2018 — or September 28 for Ultimate Edition buyers — and to mark the occasion Playground Games is holding a competition.

The latest Forza Monthly livestream has revealed the latest content heading to Forza Horizon 4’s Horizon festival. Though we had some idea of what to expect thanks to some unusual clues last week, the stream has put any doubts over what’s coming in Series 27 to rest.

You’ll get a rare chance to test out your oval racing skills in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races, with a new set of three events.

Sony has apologized for how it handled PlayStation 5 pre-orders, and has promised to rectify the situation with further console availability soon.

It’s fair to say that this year’s racing calendar hasn’t exactly gone to plan. That’s why we’re about to settle down for one of our favorite 24 hours of racing of the year in mid-September — for the first time since 1968 — rather than its more common summer time slot.

There’s a new clip available for the upcoming Dirt series title DIRT 5, again revealing more from the events, locations, and car list.

It’s been a good long while since we last heard anything about Project CARS Go, but it now looks like the mobile game is almost ready to, well, go.