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Criterion Made Need for Speed Confirmed for 2010

Need for Speed seems poised for a second Golden Age. The series, which captured the hearts of casual racing interested players with the Porsche based title and then with the cops and robbers mechanics inserted into the Hot Pursuit title, has this year returned to its racing roots, after a couple of disappointing rele...

12 November 2009
14:41 GMT

100 million Need for Speed Games Have Been Sold to This Day

1994 was the year in which the most popular racing game franchise was born. In that year, Electronic Arts released the first Need for Speed game for the 3DO console, but it would have never guessed just how much of an impact it would have. Right now, the game has gathered 14 sequels spread across 14 consoles. Today, ...

22 October 2009
13:01 GMT

Ubisoft Has Acquired a New Studio

Ubisoft has been really picking up the pace lately, with plenty of good games released during the year and even better ones to be expected in the very near future. Now, the company has even acquired a new studio to bring even more titles under its name. Nadeo, a Paris based game developer, better known for the multip...

6 October 2009
03:47 GMT

Activision Unveils Blur

Activision Blizzard is keen on creating a racing game that will blow the rival Need For Speed series from Electronic Arts out of the water and off the track. Its latest attempt is set to be named Blur and should be released during autumn for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC. Development duties are being han...

22 May 2009
02:38 GMT

N-Gage Has Need For Speed: Undercover

Those who own an N-Gage-compatible mobile phone have now even more reasons to rejoice, as another attractive game title is fast heading towards them, Need For Speed: Undercover. Racing enthusiasts will certainly enjoy this game in all its splendor on the N-Gage platform, just like those who played it on a desktop PC ...

19 March 2009
10:48 GMT

Redline (Racing Game) 1.0.5 Available

Ambrosia Software has released Redline 1.0.5, an update to its online racing game for Mac. Since clients of versions older than 1.0.3 cannot join Redline 1.0.5 multiplayer games because of newer functionality, Redline 1.0.5 is “a highly recommended update,” Ambrosia points out.Redline is a simple but addi...

9 September 2008
03:35 GMT

GTR Evolution Website is up

If you are not too interested in the battle between Gran Turismo and Race Driver: GRID and you'd rather spend some quality time enjoying a great gameplay, you might be seeing your dream come true from Viva Media's GTR Evolution racing game which is set to be released by the end of the year. And, in order to...

4 July 2008
03:16 GMT

Overspeed Brings Illegal Racing to PCs

Game publisher and developer City Interactive has created a new brand called Premiere Silver and it’s going to bring us pure gold with it - next-gen games priced at only £4.99! And if you're expecting some poor casual titles to keep you occupied for a few hours, you are wrong: City Interactive will bring you ful...

13 June 2008
02:27 GMT

Pure Wants to Reinvent Racing

Pure is a racing game coming from Black Rock Studio (which, under various names, has created MotoGp and ATV Offroad Fury) and it's coming out on the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The developers are billing it as an "off-road trick racing game", which might sound a bit weird but apparently it's wha...

15 May 2008
16:06 GMT

Stateshift Comes to the PC

Playlogic is an independent game publisher that aims to capture a significant portion of the retail market. Its latest weapon is the very futuristic looking racer that is Stateshift. It's not a driving game, it's not a simulation, but rather an over the top adrenalin infused experience.The game is set somew...

14 May 2008
16:16 GMT

Burnout Paradise Gets PC Version

Burnout Paradise is an open-ended, open world racing simulator that places the emphasis on the possibilities granted by the simulation of an entire Hawaiian island in the game. It was released for the Xbox 360 and on the PlayStation 3 and, apparently, it did well enough to warrant a PC port. Electronic Arts has just ...

13 May 2008
02:51 GMT

Gran Turismo Sells More than 50 Million

Sony Computer Entertainment is boasting that more than 50 million games of Gran Turismo, the company's racing simulation game, have been sold in the world since 1997, when the series first debuted. The game sold on all three of the game consoles that Sony has so far created, the PlayStation, PS2 and, of course, ...

12 May 2008
14:06 GMT

Race Through Los Angles with Midnight Club

Rockstar has revealed that Midnight Club: Los Angeles will be out in North America on September 9 and in Europe three days later, on September 12. The racing simulator will head to both PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 when it launches.It will be set in Los Angeles and will contain one of the most accurate representati...

22 April 2008
16:06 GMT

Test Drive Unlimited Gets New Cars

Test Drive is one of the longest running gaming franchises in the world or racing games and one of the most successful. The series has 15 games released and has proved to be a great racing simulator on both the Xbox 360 gaming consoles and on the PC.The one thing that the PC version of the latest game, Test Drive Unl...

17 April 2008
16:06 GMT

Sega Racing Studio Closing

Sega's UK-based racing games developer was created to revitalize the company and bring back to the public the joy of playing high quality racing games. It seems that they didn't manage to do it or, at least, bring big enough profit, since Sega has announced that they had to close the studio's doors.Dur...

10 April 2008
04:04 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Sells More Than a Million

There are times when being a gamer and a games journalist seems a bit alien. Times when you think of the way to introduce a story and it seems that telling it straight as it is will not suffice because of the apparent madness contained in the news itself. The headline above is proof enough.Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is ...

18 March 2008
06:18 GMT

Homie Rollerz are Rolling to Your DS, Bro

Wazzup, homie? Restecpa has to be earned, bro, and no wannabe can survive the jungle, yo! Ya know, they invaded toy stores, they pawned the television shows and totally owned the sales chart with over 140 million figures sold. Bling bling, baby, ka-ching, baby, hear the money rolling, fell the hydraulics pumping and ...

28 February 2008
02:43 GMT

Pure Promises to Re-Define the Extreme Road-Racing Genre

How many times have you heard game developers promising that their game will be the one that will re-define a particular genre? I know I've heard a lot of promises and most of them were nothing but dust in the wind. But, since you can't judge a book by its cover and a game by its screenshot (it looks incred...

14 February 2008
05:36 GMT

Race Driver: GRID Coming to the DS This Summer

The new racing experience from Codemasters announced for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 systems will actually be available for the Nintendo DS portable console, too, and it promises to redefine the genre with a bunch of interesting features, never seen in a portable console game before. Race Driver: GRID will be laun...

13 February 2008
03:43 GMT

Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Challenges the PS2

Fast cars, sweet tracks and the smell of hot rubber are a delight for every car lover out there. Not to mention the dream idea of driving a Ferrari. And if this seems like a dream that will never come true, System 3 is ready to prove you wrong with Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli. The game was initially announced fo...

25 January 2008
06:04 GMT


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