Gaming

As April kicks off, Playground Games has given a sneak peek at the next upcoming content update for Forza Horizon 4. Series 34 will drop next week and bring a fresh helping of new cars and events. Let’s take a look and go through what is to be expected with the next update.

As Spring kicks off a new season in Forza Horizon 4, the pace is beginning to wind down for this week. Series 33 is now in the final stretch with one last push of fresh events.

If you’ve actually been able to get hold of a PlayStation 5, there’s a good chance you will have been getting your next-gen driving game kicks in Destruction AllStars over the last couple of months. The PS5-exclusive, cars-and-stars arena battle royale game launched on February 2, and has been available for free to PS Plus subcribers ever since.

The live stream for the next Forza Horizon 4 series update is almost upon us — it goes live at 1730 UTC on Thursday April 1 — but already we have a pretty decent clue for what cars S34 will bring.

A new set of GT Sport Daily Races is available today, and will see players head to three of the game’s real-world circuits. You’ll be using two GT Sport’s core vehicle classes — Gr.3 and Gr.4 — as well as a recent addition to the game in this week’s trio of events.

Rocket League players will soon be able to get their hands on official machinery from Formula One and NASCAR as the extremely popular car-based game enters its third season this spring.

Uniquely styled rally game art of rally will make the jump to consoles this summer, with a launch on Xbox and Xbox Game Pass — allowing mobile players to get a taste of the title too.

The Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), the organizing body behind many of the global GT3 race series, has announced three new esports series to run across this year, each consisting of two parts, in an expansion to its esports offering in 2021.

As snow returns to the UK, a new week of Winter is back up and running in Forza Horizon 4. Racing does not stop as more new events and content are now available.

A new major update is coming for DIRT 5 next week, bringing with it some more content for everyone as well as a DLC pack that’s a blast from the series’ past.

The latest update for Gran Turismo Sport, version 1.64, is now with us, and as expected it lands very firmly on the housekeeping side of things. It weighs in at a mere 158MB, which rather hints at a small selection of changes rather than oodles of content.

Although he left the Haas F1 Team at the end of the 2020 Formula One World Championship season, Romain Grosjean will be joining forces with the team once again, this time in F1 Esports.

Gran Turismo Sport is shortly going to get its second update this year, and the second in just over four weeks, according to a new in-game announcement.

Information received by Gran Turismo Sport FIA Certified Online Championship World Tour drivers has indicated that the 2021 season will be an exclusively online series and not return to the live event format of 2018 and 2019.

The first new GT Sport Daily Races of spring (or autumn if you’re reading this in the southern hemisphere) bring up a pair of one-make road car races for the classic front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout to get your teeth into for the next week. There’s two fictional circuits in the mix, and a blast from the past event based on a real-world endurance race too.

If you’re at a loose end this weekend, and you’re resident in the USA, you could fire up Forza Motorsport 7, have a quick race against Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay, and walk off with a brand new gaming chair.

Engines are roaring across the land as Autumn kicks into high gear once again in Forza Horizon 4. As the leaves change color, there’s a swathe of new events to try out around the UK.

Although Sony’s second generation of PlayStation VR won’t be releasing this year, the company has today revealed the new design and features dedicated controllers for the system.

Ferrari has announced a second season of its own Ferrari Esports Series will be coming this year, with the winner getting the chance to join the brand’s own esports squad.

After a hastily arranged but successful first season last year, the IndyCar iRacing Challenge will return for 2021.