Articles about Racing Game

It was a good decade for staying indoors to play

Split/Second's formula for great television is much the same as Top Gear's: fast cars and explosions. The game's futuristic reality-TV-show conceit was an excuse for the inclusion of 'Power Plays,' which allowed you to detonate the

Just not in real life

Jaguar knows how to design a pretty car, and even a handsome EV-the I-Pace is a looker, says us, and who'd dare disagree? But Jag's young team of designers has outdone itself here. This is the Vision Gran

It brings the drama

Since the original BAFTA-winning Race Driver: Grid back in 2008, the series of arcade racers has lost its way a bit. Time for an Xbox One and PS4 reboot then, with Grid, which is what everyone called the original game anyway,

It’s showing its age, but it’s a portable palate cleanser indeed

You might have heard there's a new Grid game coming out. Well this almost certainly isn't the one you're thinking of. Instead this is the exhumation of 2014's Grid Autosport, previously released on Xbox 360 and PS3, which

Teamwork is key

Team Sonic Racing, out now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, is the latest in a quietly successful, kid-friendly series of kart racers based on Sega's rapid blue rodent. It doesn't have the effortless genius of Mario Kart 8,

The latest in Codemasters’ venerable off-road series nails the handling

In history, there are many moments where soft, squishy humanity has triumphed over cold, unfeeling maths. Like when NASA worked out they could slingshot Apollo 13 around the moon, when Bletchley Park finally cracked the Enigma code, or when Russell Crowe scribbled

Game on

Regardless of what's been happening in the wider world, 2018 was certainly a good year for fans of racing pretend cars around. We had chaotic vehicular stampedes, inch-perfect replicas of racing wheels, and an idyllic version of Britain ripped straight

We love watching speedometers climb

Being able to drag race the world's finest supercars may forever remain a pipe dream for us, but at least we're able to live out that fantasy through video games. Sure, it doesn't feel the same

From games to wheels, petrolhead pressies for every type of racing game fan

Welcome to your official dual-purpose Top Gear Christmas gaming gift guide. On the one hand, you can use this handy list in order to select the perfect gift for your car-loving gamer friend.On the other, and as is more

This could be your shot

Motorsport is brilliant, obviously, but if you want to participate in it yourself the barrier to entry is pretty high. Most racing drivers have blown all their savings, remortgaged their house, and maybe even sold one or two of their organs on

German-accented screams of “blue flag, blue flag” not included

The company with objectively the funniest name in the video-game industry, Thrustmaster, is back with a new headset aimed squarely at Formula 1 nerds. The Thrustmaster T.Racing Scuderia Ferrari Edition, due for release on November 29, is a gaming headset

There are prizes to be won from CTEK

If you've dropped by the 2018 Philippine International Motor Show (PIMS 2018), chances are you may have noticed a bit of a commotion near the Top Gear Philippines booth. That's because Atoy Customs has been kind enough to lend us

A trip down memory lane

One of motoring's greatest icons is 20 years old. Nope, none of the cars scattered across this page. I refer to Gran Turismo (GT), which made racing simulations cool. It was inherently nerdy and unashamedly deep in its detail, yet comfortably

We have the PH price

Sony has announced it will release a PlayStation Classic--a modernized, miniature version of the console that started a gaming revolution. And now that we've composed ourselves and are done wiping away the drool from our faces, we can finally

Xbox racer will be set in the UK

Having traveled to exotic locations like the South of France and Australia's Gold Coast in previous games, Forza's Horizon festival lands in the bucolic countryside of England for Forza Horizon 4, which arrives on Xbox and PC on October 2nd.

A year of discoveries

Having played racing games pretty much from the moment our tiny infant hands could grip a game controller, it takes a lot to surprise us when it comes to driving pretend cars around. That's not to say we didn't learn

All in one game

If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, then somewhere out there Vin Diesel is blushing a rosy shade of pink. Need for Speed Payback desperately wants to be Fast and Furious, with its storyline centering around the same sort of

It's for free, and runs until October 8

Any Gran Turismo fans in the house? Since you're reading our website, we're guessing that a fair chunk of you are. If so, then you've probably been chomping at the bit to play the upcoming Gran Turismo Sport. While

Retro is in again

With Formula 1 reverting to wider cars and fatter slicks in 2017 in an attempt to hark back to the nebulous good old days of the sport, it's fitting that F1 2017, out now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, features

Heavy-duty gaming goodness

There's nothing worse when you're playing a racing game than having your machine suddenly glitch up and ruin your whole experience. When you're trying to beat your best lap time at 300+kph on your keyboard, you need a