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New Wheelman DLC screens and details

This week, new Wheelman downloadable content is available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. This Premium Street Showdown Pack will cost 400 Microsoft Points and will include five new street showdown ...
Driver: The Recruit is trademarked

Driver is a game series that has followed the stereotypical trend of a gaming series; it starts off good and then steadily becomes boring and repetitive. It is still a franchise though and that m...
Study sees possible link between racing games and automobile purchases

Motor Authority is reporting on an experiment performed at Carleton University in Canada. In an effort to discern the influence of interactivity on buying decisions, a group of subjects was given...
Banjo-Kazooie sequel is 80% vehicles

If you're one of the fans prepared to take a steaming dump all over Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts because it dares to be such a big departure from previous games, you probably won't like what G...
FlatOut: Head On PSP demo ready for download [Update]

Ready to put that PlayStation Portable of yours to good use? Great! A demo for FlatOut: Head On, a game based upon FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage, is now available for download. The demo contains a fe...
TrackMania DS revealed ... er, teased

It's not every day that I get excited about a DS game, but I'm willing to make an exception for TrackMania DS, which was announced for Q4 2008 by Focus Home Interactive today.Fans of the arcade...
E3 2007: Hands-on with FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage

You may be thinking, “With all the huge games at E3 this year, Chad, why are you taking time to write about something like FlatOut?”Well, young ones (*patting you on...
E3 2007: Stuntman: Ignition demo available on Xbox Live

If you're ready to take a break from the ongoing excitement of E3 2007 and you happen to own an Xbox 360, downloading the demo for THQ and Paradigm's latest game, Stuntman: Ignition, is a...
Where's my f**king Forza 2? And my three TVs?

Yeah, yeah - we know. Either you're one of those "f**k Forza, Gran Turismo fo' life" (PSTriple!) kind of people, or you've been impatiently tapping your foot, flipping off...
Are you ready for a Cars MMO?

Besides being a video game junkie I am also obsessed with Pixar movies. I love them all and pretty much worship the hallowed ground that John Lasseter walks on. Yes, I would even drink the Kool-A...
Microsoft releases Forza 2 fan site kit; Ron Workman fan site kit TBA

Available today on Forzamotorsport.net is a downloadable kit that supplies gearheads out there with all the tools necessary to build their very own Forza 2 fan site. I'm guessing that means w...
Trailer: Project Gotham Racing 4 is set to blow our minds

The latest trailer and images for Project Gotham Racing 4 are all about showcasing the game's stunning visuals and new weather effects. The biggest improvement from PGR3 seems to be the d...
PS3 Gallery: Gran Turismo HD makes real life look soooo last gen

In one word: stunning. The latest screenshots of Gran Turismo HD are not only nearly identical to their real-life equivalents, but they are also crisper and better saturated in most cases. The a...
Criterion officially reveals Burnout Paradise

I'm a big fan of all things Burnout, but it's even hard for me to swallow the name of the next-gen iteration. Officially called Burnout Paradise, a title that brings to mind palm trees an...
Fresh new Lexus whips hit Test Drive on the 360

Actually using the marketplace like maybe it should be used, Lexus and Atari have formed an unholy alliance and have just released a new, FREE, roster of cars from the Lexus line to players. Here...
Sony adds force feedback to Gran Turismo HD Concept

Well well, look who up and decided that rumble/force feedback was good idea after all. Sony has sent word that not only are they updating Gran Turismo HD on the PlayStation 3 for free with new f...
Ridin' DiRTy with new Colin McRae off-road coming in June

Oh, it's just filthy. Codemasters has released some new details on the next Colin McRae racer and confirmed that the game will be officially titled DiRT. What's with the lowercase vowel?...
Video games blamed for car accidents

Apparently my car accident Friday night could have been caused by something other than the other car driver being drunk or severely lacking the brain cells to drive a vehicle on the right side of...
New Forza screenshots, updated car list

Turn10 has released an updated list of the American production cars in Forza 2, coupled with four new screenshots and a look at the updated HUD. The exotic Saleen and the Chevy Chevelle SS are p...
Driving games create killers (or, at least, very unsafe missiles)

We do a lot of stories here about the media's fascination with video games turning people into killers and generally we snark and say something to the effect of 'the media is wrong, we&...
Super Dave fans rejoice -- Stuntman: Ignition leaping onto HD consoles

Are you excited yet? No? Not so much?While the teaser may not be very revealing (or original), THQ has nonetheless announced that it will be releasing the sequel to Atari’s Stuntman, entitl...
Forza Motorsport 2: I got King Kong in the trunk ... or Web site update

As we all patiently wait for Microsoft to roll out the second of their top-of-the-line driving series for the Xbox 360, the Forza Motorsport 2 team tuned up and put King Kong in the trunk on th...
Gran Turismo causing wrecks? No. Stupid kids causing wrecks [UPDATE]

The Times Online has a story up about one Christopher Hayden, a 19-year-old British gentleman, who undoubtedly is hated by both his parents and his local pastor for being an especially stupid bo...
FlatOut announced for the 360

YEEEEHAAAAWWW!!! OK, well, that's what you'd do if you played FlatOut, right ... right? Whatever. Well it was announced today, via press release, that the FlatOut series would be brought ...
New levels of insanity: gaming blamed for teens who suck at driving!

The New Zealand Herald ran a story earlier about three of their teenagers who, like most teenagers, are (were) terrible drivers and managed to get themselves into a high speed police chase that e...
The allure of free gaming melts the Playstation network

Nothing says "Holiday Joy" like sitting alone on a windy precipice drinking scotch until the idea of throwing yourself off and ending your miserable, lonely existence is palatable ... w...
Pac-Man eats safety dots

Motorists and police were fascinated to see a large Pac-Man painted on a stretch of Highway 55 in Buffalo. The highway had already been painted with large, white ovals as part of a program to s...
Don't bury the PSP yet ... Burnout Dominator on the way

Good PSP games are few and far between, but when they're good, damn are they good. One genre that has always sort of worked on the handheld is driving games, so the fact that a new Burnout ga...
Gran Turismo HD is gonna be free

Yeah, that's right, forget all that microtransaction nonsense we laughed about a few months ago, Sony has now decided that their flagship driving title Gran Turismo HD will be free of charge ...




 
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