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After a flurry of concepts from Slightly Mad Studios, it looks like the team has settled on the final design for its upcoming console, the Mad Box.

It’s not too often we get the chance to drive a car that is brand new in the PC sims. When Studio 397 asked me if I wanted to do just that, I couldn’t turn it down. The car? The brand spanking new GT3 Aston Martin Vantage.

Assetto Corsa Competizione is set for its fifth major update release next week. With it comes a new car and track combination, as well as new features.

A surprise septet of cars is coming to Forza Motorsport 7 next week. Say hello to the Barrett-Jackson car pack.

After a slight delay over the rest of its GT3 competitors, Aston Martin’s new-shape Vantage race car is now available in rFactor 2.

Ditch the winter coats and scarfs because a new season has sprung in Forza Horizon 4. The second seasonal change of the new year brings with it the calming breezes of spring.

Turn 10 has pencilled in the release date for the next content update in Forza Horizon 4, and players won’t have long to wait. The fifth update is scheduled for release on January 15.

The latest proof that racing esports are on the up comes from McLaren. According to the British car maker, over half a million gamers took part in its multi-platform McLaren Shadow initiative.

We’ve had some incredible races in the iRacing Endurance Le Mans Series over the last nine months. We’ve experienced wins, tight finishes and coming back from difficulty to good results. However, this race would make everything else look like a walk in the park.

Turn 10 has released details on the next episode of Forza Monthly, its show on all things Forza. To do so, it’s showcasing Porsche’s newest car, the 992-era 911, which suggests it’s coming to the game very soon.

Gran Turismo is back in Las Vegas for a huge trade show. No, we’re not talking SEMA: Sony is using its sim racing franchise to show off its new 8K resolution TV screens at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Sony ended the year with another milestone. As of the December 31, 2018, the PlayStation 4 had sold 91.6 million units since its 2013 release.

If you live in Japan and like to tinker around with your game saves or consoles, listen up. Thanks to a new law, you could find yourself in some hot water along with being out some serious coin.

We’re now just over a week away from the release of The Grand Tour video game. And the cost of entry just got much lower.

Michael Schumacher. That name will forever be synonymous with Formula One. That name could be the definition of success. He is a man that redefined the record books. A man filled with unrelenting desire and determination. He’s a man that became a hero to me and a legend to the world of motorsport.

In a series of direct-reply tweets, Slightly Mad CEO Ian Bell — creator of the Project CARS series and the recently announced “Mad Box” gaming console — mocked the 28-year-old rapper known as Soulja Boy with pictures of himself holding wads of cash and lounging on a yacht with five women.

Slightly Mad Studios has been dominated the news cycle in 2019 so far. Between an entirely new console and confirmation of Project CARS 3, the UK studio has been busy. We know to not expect the Mad Box before 2022, but it will be a bit of a wait for the team’s next mainline sim racer too.

The first update of 2019 for Gran Turismo Sport has just been confirmed by Kazunori Yamauchi in one of his famous silhouette tweets. According to the blacked-out image, eight new cars will be coming to the game on January 17, 2019:

2019 is off to a wild start for Slightly Mad Studios and its CEO, Ian Bell, after he revealed the studio is not only working on Project CARS 3 — it is building its own gaming console dubbed the “MadBox“. Yesterday, we got a preview of what the hardware looks like, and now we learn more about the software (and games) that will run on it.

This is our first look at the rather unexpected new player on the console market: the Mad Box.