ORD at the NHRA Nationals

Greetings ORD fans around the world! Time for a little show and tell at this years BIR Lucas Oil Full Throttle NHRA Nationals in Brainerd Minnesota two weeks ago! This is the motorsports event of the year in the great north woods, and one I always attend with my trusty and knowledgeable sidekick "Cuda500" (a.k.a. Warren). Rather than give you a boring list of names of winners and losers from a sport that I realize many of you have no knowledge of, I'll just caption the following pictures for you. [gallery link="file" orderby="title"] Well, I hope I wasn't too brief and ...

Gran Turismo 5 – Hard Drive install, RPG mode and sequel already on the way

More information has been released about Gran Turismo 5 ahead of the November 2nd release date. The first up is the fact GT5 will include an optional hard drive install to run the game more effectively. Kazunori Yamauchi (Polyphony Digital CEO) revealed the news via his Twitter account, which says that to run the game, you’ll need just 256 MB, but for a ‘smooth play experience’ he’s recommending the install which requires 10 GB free. That’s one of the biggest memory requirements for any Playstation 3 game, and you might want to check you’ve got the space free before the game ...

The stuff racing dreams are made of

Racing games have come a long way since I was a youngster. My first experience of gaming in any form was a variation on ‘Pong’. I’m not sure who made it, but it was almost certainly possibly nearly identical to this. By the time I experienced my first racing game, things had developed a little, but only a little. My first console (I say mine, I didn’t buy it myself as I was five) was the Acorn Electron. What a machine. Connected to a cassette deck, this baby had 32 KB of ram and could load games in well under an ...

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ORD at the NHRA Nationals

Greetings ORD fans around the world! Time for a little show and tell at this years BIR Lucas Oil Full Throttle NHRA Nationals in Brainerd Minnesota two...

Gran Turismo 5 – Hard Drive install, RPG mode and sequel already on the way

More information has been released about Gran Turismo 5 ahead of the November 2nd release date. The first up is the fact GT5 will include an optional hard...

Flag threat to Gran Turismo 5

The November 3rd release of Gran Turismo 5 could, in theory, be under threat from the officials of the city of Siena in Tuscany in Italy. The reason is...

The stuff racing dreams are made of

Racing games have come a long way since I was a youngster. My first experience of gaming in any form was a variation on ‘Pong’. I’m not sure who...

The best selling racing games: August 2010

If you’re planning to buy a new racing game, then you probably want to know you’ll have people to race against online. Hence why we’re...

Time for the commentary to cease

Often confusing, irritating and hilarious in equal measures, commentary in racing games has for too long been appalling. The PlayStation’s F1 ‘97 was...

Looking forward to the best F1 game ever made

September 24th 2010. Get that date in your diaries – for it’s the release date of what looks set to be the greatest Formula One game of all time. Five...

iRacing 2010 Season 3 Raises the Bar

iRacing has long been setting a standard for PC sim racing and they have upped the ante once again for there members and potential members with the newest...

From virtual racing to the Spa 24 hours

The GT Academy competition was created by Nissan and Playstation to find new GT racing drivers from virtual racers on Gran Turismo. Lucas Ordonez was the...

DiRT and Racedriver: GRID sequels confirmed by Codemasters

In addition to the upcoming F1 2010 game (Find out why it could be the game ORD’s Tom Bowker has dreamed about for years) due for release in September,...

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Autolog – ‘Settling the score’

nail’d Gamescom 2010 video trailer

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit – Limited Edition

Tempted by the limited edition? To get exclusive access to the Alfa Romeo 8C Competitizione, and Ford Shelby GT 500, plus immediate unlocks for the Porsche Cayman S, Dodge Challenger SRT8, Audi TT RS Coupe and Chevrolet Camaro RS, you’ll need to pre-order Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit from Game straight away!