Simraceway: Senna McLaren MP4/4 Video
With Simraceway moving McLaren's MP4/4 Formula One car of 1988 to its open-to-all Events section, it just had to be taken for a run at Donington Park! The men, the machine... Both the #11 Alain Prost and #12 Ayrton Senna MP4/4s feature, with this recorded run being in - what else at Donington?! - Senna's #12 car. https://youtu.be/90viLp71v10 Moving away from memories of … [Read more...]
RaceRoom: Zolder Touring Classics Video 2
RaceRoom is back in Belgium! Our RaceRoom Racing Experience Touring Classics videos roll on with the arrival of a second BMW. Before we round off this collection with the Volvo 240 Turbo, the BMW M3 E3 Gr. A makes its debut appearance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgbdJdlc8Q Zolder-A-Round Whether through slightly improved familiarity with R3E's take on Zolder or via the … [Read more...]
RaceRoom Zolder Touring Classics Video 1
Thanks to some new RaceRoom competitions, we set out on the first of three R3E visits to Zolder earlier this week. BMW 6 Series For the founding part of this Touring Classics series, the BMW 635 CSi became the first entrant from the Historics car class. Touring Cars The Touring Classics Challenge is open to all R3E members and is a 'for fun' event that … [Read more...]
RaceRoom: Slovakia Ring GT Masters Video
RaceRoom's ADAC GT Masters challenges continue through July with this visit to Slovakia Ring. One of our fave cars of the moment in sims appears here in R3E in the guise of BMW's Z4 GT3. It will no doubt be sampled again before the competition moves to Nürburgring on the 11th of August! There's just a draw to the nature of the car and that sound... The Track and Car This … [Read more...]
Project CARS: BMW Z4 GT3 Oulton Park Fosters Video
Projects CARS makes a much-needed return to our YouTube channel through the latest video where we roll over Oulton Park's Fosters layout for a 2-lap trip in a race-ready BMW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_g0YvFPBbk&w Project CARS advances... With terrain fixes, new assets and textures having been baked in recently, the polish is being added to what is already a … [Read more...]
Simraceway: McLaren MP4-29 at Zandvoort
So we reach the final piece in this week's Simraceway video package! This round of Test Drive Tuesday closes with the Circuit Park Zandvoort, a track in the North Holland province of the Netherlands that's famously surrounded by dunes. It's certainly a fine way to conclude our introductory week with this free-to-play simulator... … [Read more...]
Simraceway: McLaren MP4-29 at Watkins Glen
The third of this week's Simraceway videos in which we took part in Test Drive Tuesday with the McLaren MP4-29 Formula One car: … [Read more...]
GRID Autosport: The Tracks and Cars
Hot on the heels of GRID: Autosport's near-to-release announcement and early video footage, the first details of content have now come through. Beginning with the tracks, there's an alluring list comprising of some 22 locations and as they currently stand, a total of 115 configurations across those regions. To add some perspective to those figures, Codemasters has said that … [Read more...]
Euro Truck Sim 2: Open Beta 1.9 (Week 2)
As a large number of Euro Truck Sim 2 fans already know, beta testing for the new Version 1.9 build has continued with near-daily revisions. Despite the explanations offered for it being a Steam-only testing programme, a fair few blog and forum comments have been left regarding that decision and its reasoning. Given what's unnecessary flak and the now-usual impatience of a … [Read more...]
Euro Truck Sim 2: Version 1.9 Open Beta
Consistently the Steam community's most played game in my driving library, SCS Software's Euro Truck Simulator 2 continues to evolve as the latest update has now been released for testing in beta form. Expanding Euro... The producers have attempted to address both minor and more obvious parts of this driving and delivery game. Despite Euro Truck Sim 2's maturity, improvements … [Read more...]
RaceRoom: Bathurst Weekend and Falken Tyre Event
R8 at the Mount Beginning with the short-term offer, SimBin's free-to-play RaceRoom Racing Experience game has enabled weekend-long free access to a racing edition of Audi's impressive R8. Aligned with the Bathurst Mount Panorama 12-hour event that concluded earlier today, SimBin is temporarily allowing players of RRRE to sample Audi's R8 LMS Ultra until Monday morning. … [Read more...]
F1 2013 Three Patches Good?
Only five days behind its second patch for F1 2013, Codemasters has released and described Patch 3 for the PC. As the list of changes clearly shows, there's no sign of the longest-living or most irritating 'features' being eliminated yet. However, I suppose that every step is progress and if they are ever to be fixed, some of the series' most persistent problems could be in … [Read more...]
MotoGP 13 All-Formats Update Version 1.2
With the news published on its Facebook page, Milestone has now released another patch to its official MotoGP game of this year. Taking MotoGP 13 to v1.2, the latest revision is ready for players of all hardware formats – Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Sony's PlayStation Vita! Steam versions will update on signing in and a patch file is available on various sites for retail and other … [Read more...]
F1 2013 Patch 2 Arrives, Price Drops
Right on the one-week point since the first update, F1 2013 has had a follow-up patch applied through Steam this afternoon. I'll stop the startwatch! At a smidgen under 45MB, the points addressed by Codemasters today are listed below. PC FPS Issues: We’ve made further improvements to the PC FPS issue whereby higher specification PCs had a considerable lap time … [Read more...]