Hardware

In case you missed the news, Sony’s PlayStation celebrated its 25th birthday last week. Throughout the generations, the PlayStation has often been a platform leader when it comes to technology. Of the four Sony consoles released, the PS3 stands out among them.

The next 12 months is likely to be one long tease for gamers on both sides of the mainstream console wall. Both Sony and Microsoft are getting ready to launch their next-gen consoles around this time next year, to ignite another round of console wars.

Possibly the busiest shopping days of the year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday give gamers in particular a good opportunity to pick up some new hardware, upgrades, or even just a game they’ve been wanting to try.

It’s that time of year again where you can still taste the turkey roast and pumpkin pie, and retailers slash their prices. Yes, it’s Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the US calendar — and increasingly around the rest of the world too.

Fanatec has announced the latest addition to its Podium Series of high-end sim racing gear. Say hello to the Porsche 911 GT3 R Steering Wheel.

As we suspected earlier in the year, Sony’s PlayStation 4 console has now racked up enough sales to become the second best-selling home console of all time.

If you’ve been keeping an eye on Gran Turismo Twitter today, you’ll have spotted something rather unusual. A Tweet posted by racing driver Teruaki Kato showing the GT Sport World Tour stage build at the Toyota Mega Web venue has revealed a very unexpected equipment change.

Google’s new streamed gaming service, Stadia, will officially launch on November 19, at least for those customers who’ve already bought the Founder’s Edition package.

Sim racers are constantly hunting for that perfect sim rig setup. Now Fanatec is lending a helping hand with its newest bit of software, dubbed FanaLab.

Depending on who you believe, the future of gaming might be either a much more powerful console or outside the box altogether. While both Sony and Microsoft are working on next generation consoles for next year, Google is going the other way with the cloud-based Stadia.

With E3 2019 right around the corner, Fanatec has announced its latest offering. If the CSL Elite Wheel base looks and sounds familiar, it should. In 2017, Fanatec released the dedicated CSL Elite Wheel for the PS4. One year later, the German brand returned with the standalone CSL Elite Wheel Base +, also for the PS4.

If you read my last review with the Thrustmaster T150, you know I’m new to playing sim racing games without a controller. I’m so new in fact that I had to mount my wheel to a TV tray in order to use it with my PS4. This isn’t exactly ideal.

Fanatec has announced some changes to its upcoming Podium Series of high-end sim racing hardware. These include a bigger, more powerful engine at its heart — and corresponding price increase.

Slightly Mad Studios took much of the gaming world by surprise in January when it announced it would produce its own console.

Fanatec is back with an evolution of its ClubSport Formula wheel. And you can even get a brand new game with it, for a buck.

Thrustmaster continued its sim racing product offensive this week with a pair of steering wheels. The Sparco P310 and Open Wheel have both been available before with wheel bases, but now sim racers can pick them up a la carte.

Slightly Mad Studios continues to be the topic of conversation as of late, and not without reason.

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.

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

Audio. It’s an integral part of sim racing, but it’s safe to say it often takes a backseat to visuals, physics, and input devices.