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As players in Forza Horizon 4 are continuing to soldier on through Series 25, Playground Games has been working on what is set to come for the next update.

Although we’ve had a pretty busy summer of F1 esports, with the pro drivers and invited guests filling in for cancelled grands prix, it’s time for the best in the world to have their turn. The official 2020 F1 Esports Series will return later this month, with the traditional Pro Draft on August 27.

As we settle down to a first week in a long while without either FIA events or the Toyota GR Supra GT Cup, there’s a new set of GT Sport Daily Races to keep your eye in. It’s an odd set this week, with two low-speed one-makes — both previously seen combinations — and a little trip to the Spa to break things up.

The summer of sales continues to be kind to racers, with the Xbox Ultimate Game Sale offering some deep discounts for popular racing titles.

The FIA World Rally Championship is the latest motorsport discipline to turn to gaming to find the next generation of racing drivers. Starting in 2021, it’s launching a program called “FIA Rally Star”, using racing games to unearth hidden talent and launch their off-road racing careers.

It has been a roller coaster of a year for FIA Gran Turismo champion Igor Fraga.

A cold blanket of snow has settled across the UK for another week, signalling a new Winter season for Forza Horizon 4. The memories of Forza Horizon 3 are soldiering on, with Blizzard Mountain themed events.

There’s a new set of GT Sport Time Trials starting today, with a couple of interesting challenges that might be a little unusual. You’ll need to pick your car carefully for one, and choose your line even more carefully for the other…

There’s a new update now available for F1 2020, and it brings along an interesting additional offering. It’s a DLC pack that goes by the name of “Keep Fighting Foundation DLC”, and it’s all in aid of charity.

We suspected that it may be coming sooner or later, but now Turn 10 has officially confirmed the news: Forza Horizon 3 is reaching the end of the road.

Microsoft has officially revealed that the Xbox Series X will be on shelves this November.

Microsoft’s push to bring its Xbox services to the masses is taking another step forward. Almost two years after first announcing it, the xCloud streaming service has begun a limited rollout to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers.

The recent announcement of a new British Touring Cars Championship racing game has generated a lot of excitement, but there are still plenty of questions. It’s a title that isn’t coming until 2022, and naturally details are scarce.

There’s a good chance that the Microsoft Xbox Series S is already the worst-kept secret in gaming, but it seems to have just become even less secret somehow. Two different Twitter users have published images overnight that appear to confirm the console.

This week’s GT Sport Daily Races will feel like a bit of a time warp for long-time players. In fact not only were all three races possible right from day one of the game, but you’d have been able to race two of them in the pre-release Beta, a full three years ago now.

A few weeks ago, a partnership was announced between Gran Turismo and Getty Images, one of the largest providers of visual media services in the world.

A post on the official Project CARS 3 Discord channel seems to have confirmed that Slightly Mad Studios has some post-launch support in mind for the title, including new cars and new circuits, the latter of which it apparently intends to release for no extra cost.

Autumn may bring cooler temperatures to Forza Horizon 4 this week, but the latest batch of content is turning up the heat. Players can also try out new events that continue to bring back Forza Horizon 3 memories.

There’s another new DIRT 5 preview video out today, ahead of the game’s launch in October. This week, the clip shows off the Ice Breaker event type, marking the third week in succession that we’ve seen one of the game’s nine different types of event.

While there’s been an annual release of an official F1 game every year since 1996, F1 2020 is the 13th such game since Codemasters picked up the official licence.