Gaming

It’s a new year in Forza Horizon 4, and that means a new season change for players. Winter this week brings a plethora of new content and race challenges.

Whenever I see an alert telling me Race Sim Studio have released a new car, there’s this excitement that runs through my body. RSS is, in my opinion, the best modding team around. Everything it has released has been of a quality you’d expect from a game developer. I could make an argument for some of its mods being better than official Assetto Corsa content.

We’re filing this as the first major surprise of 2019. Sim racing developer Slightly Mad Studios has a new project: an entire console platform.

Slightly Mad Studios’ CEO has been busy on our forums as of late. Not only did he confirm the team was working on Project CARS 3 last month — now he’s offered clarification on the nature of the upcoming title.

A new drifting simulator is on the horizon. Called Drift 19, it hopes to be the most realistic smoking and sideways experience around.

Another year is wrapping up. We’re mere hours away from 2019, and thus, we’re looking back on what the last 12 months have given us in the gaming world.

In a post here on GTPlanet, Slightly Mad Studios founder and CEO Ian Bell has confirmed the design direction of the next Project CARS game.

Back in July, Steam gave an update on the best selling games through the mid-point of the year. Now that 2018 is coming to a close, it’s released a list of the year’s top 100 best selling games.

Technical presentations recently published by Polyphony Digital engineers have given us a fascinating look at the work that goes on behind the scenes at the secretive development studio.

Rally fans, take note: a free game will kick off the new year on Xbox, with WRC 6 part of the month’s Games With Gold lineup.

It’s that time of the week once again. A new season sweeps into Forza Horizon 4, with new races and prizes to be had.

Gran Turismo Sport will be one of the games to feature at the first esports competition in the history of Japan’s National Sports Festival next year.

Last year, Eden Games brought its mobile racer, Gear.Club Unlimited, to the Switch at a time when Nintendo’s platform desperately needed some racing representation.

GT Sport is one of the most visually detailed racing games in history. Polyphony Digital goes to great lengths to ensure that each and every car is representative of the real thing, whether it constructs the model in-house or outsources to other modelling teams.

Even though the GT Academy’s days may be over (Lucas Ordoñez, the original winner, officially parted ways with Nissan earlier this month), Nissan remains heavily involved with Polyphony Digital and the Gran Turismo franchise.

Over the past few months, Polyphony Digital observers have enjoyed a few peaks behind the curtain of the traditionally secretive software company. Back in September, Polyphony engineers published technical presentations that offered a look into how Gran Turismo Sport was built and other experimental projects they are working on.

Sebring International Raceway – one of the most iconic endurance racing venues in the world. It’s a track that is famed for its brutal, bumpy and unforgiving nature. It also played host to the first round of the new iELMS season, much to the dismay of my poor wrist.

While 2018 may be winding down, the racing game news keeps on coming. Studio 397 bookends the year with the release of the “GT3 Challengers Pack” for rFactor 2.

It’s almost Christmas, and Steam is giving racing game fans an extra reason to celebrate. The PC gaming platform has slashed prices on racing games, so if you’ve been considering any of them, now would be a good time to act.

As we revealed earlier in the week, if you’re into iRacing and Porsches, you could find yourself racing for a share of a $100,000 prize pot in 2019.