The Game Critic Awards are chosen from the selection of games on show at the E3 event, with 35 judges from North American videogame publications, and they've named Forza Motorsport 4 as Best Racing Game from the show. No racing game made an appearance in any other category, with Bioshock Infinite getting the big 'Best of Show' award, along with 3 more. Battlefield 3 also won … [Read more...]
GT Academy wins big award
The GT Academy competition has not only led to Lucas Ordonez finishing in second place at the LMP2 class at the 2011 Le Mans 24 hours with Signatech Nissan - now it's gone and won a prestigious award in marketing and advertising. It picked up a Cannes Golden Lion at the equivalent of the Oscars for ad types, for 'Best Use of Branded Content'. The reasons included being … [Read more...]
Kazunori Yamauchi honoured by Esquire magazine
It's always nice to see online racing appearing in mainstream media, and the December 2010 UK issue of Esquire magazine has featured Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi as one of their 10 'Man at the Top Awards 2010'. Individuals were selected as those who "rewrote the future through their works in the past year", and Yamauchi was placed fourth in the countdown. Within … [Read more...]