Bizarre Creations have announced there will be no new DLC for Project Gotham Racing 4 in the foreseeable future and they have now handed over support to Microsoft. Earlier this year Bizarre Creations was acquired by Activision.
Ben Wand, Bizarre's Community Manager recently posted on the PGR 4 forums:
"Bizarre Creations won't be adding anything more to PGR4 in the future," he wrote. "We've completed the hand-over to Microsoft, so any further add-ons will come from them and not us I'm afraid."
Today Codemasters have released a demo for Race Driver : GRID on Xbox Live. The demo is available to all regions according to the Major Nelson blog and includes three regions playable in the full game; Europe Touring Cars at Jarama Circuit, U.S Muscle cars at San Francisco and Japanese Drift Racing at Yokohama Docks.
In addition the demo will also be available on the Playstation Network.
Codemasters is also giving away a BMW 3 series to whoever posts the fastest lap time in time trial mode. The top five drivers will be picked at midnight on Friday 23rd May 2008 and will then compete a week later at the Zavvi Store in London for the prize.
Eurogamer.net have a new Race Driver video focusing on Le Mans. In this video race drivers are interviewed and give their opinions on the game and how it compares to the real Le Mans circuit.
Unfortunately Eurogamer..net does not support embedding of videos (which is a pain in the arse) so you will have to go here to view the video: http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=8521
Engage who are Codemasters in-game ad firm have announced that eBay motors will be integrated into Race Driver GRID allowing players to buy and sell in-game cars in a realistic setting.
In addition eBay will also appear in the game as sponsor of "The eBay Motor Muscle Series," allowing players to race the eBay motors Mustang GTR concept car.
The guys over at Eurogamer.net have had a hands on experience with Race Driver GRID and talk about a new feature called "Flashback" which allows you to undo driving errors which may otherwise have been unrecoverable.
Ever since early man discovered sticks and fire and the wheel and Nurburgring Nordschleife, we've been hitting pause and restarting the track to make up for some terrible error. Whether it's letting a wheel slip beyond the rumble strips into a sandpit of doom, or screwing up the apex on a crucial hairpin, we've all been there, and it's always annoying, and it's always on the final lap, and we always shout, and unfortunately we can't all run away into the hills and blame it on Dietrich. So thank goodness for Race Driver: GRID, which has something called Flashback that you can use to undo catastrophic errors. In the 80-percent-complete preview build we've been pootling around for the last few days, it's exactly the sort of lifesaver you'd expect.
Read their full first impressions article here.
THQ are producing a new racing game based on the Baja 1000 race for the Xbox 360 and PS 3, Eurogamer have a first impressions post up. For those who have not heard of the Baja 1000 before (like myself) here is the description from Wikipedia.
Baja 1000 is an off-road race that takes place on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula in the fall. The event includes various types of vehicle classes such as small and large bore motorcycles, stock VW, production vehicles, buggies, trucks, and custom fabricated race vehicles. The course has remained relatively the same over the years with the majority of events being either a point to point race from Ensenada to La Paz, or a loop race starting and finishing in Ensenada. The name of the event is misleading as the mileage varies for the type of event (loop or point to point) and has represented Kilometers in the past.
Eurogamer have posted there first impressions of this game here. You can also view a trailer for the game here.
EA Sports have released the debut trailer for NASCAR 09 which can be viewed below. NASCAR 09 is the next game in EA's NASCAR franchise and will be released later this year on all major formats.
Codemasters have released a new gameplay video from Race Driver GRID. The video shows a Nissan taking part in a drift event.
Capcom have announced they have secured the license to MotoGP on all platforms, previously licensed to THQ. This gives Capcom the exclusive rights to produced games an peripherals based on MotoGP for the next five years with the first game to be released this year.
Gamespot have held a questions and answers session with game producer Fabio Paglianti about Milestone's latest game SBK 08 Superbike World Championship which will be released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year.
Microsoft Game Studios have released the list of new cars included in the DLC which was released today on xbox live. Car List 2008 Audi S5 2007 Audi TT Coupe S-Line 1971 BMW 3.0 CSL E09 2008 BMW E92 M3 1989 Ferrari F40 Competizione 1996 Ferrari F50 GT 2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia 2007 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 2007 Maserati GranTurismo 2006 Maserati MC12 Corsa 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR 2008 Porsche 911 GT2 (997) 2007 Peugeot #1 Peugeot 207 Super 2000 (Xbox Livery)
Microsoft Game Studios will be releasing more downloadable content for Forza 2 on the 19th March 2008.
The trailer below shows what you can expect to be included.
EA Sports have announced Jeff Gordan will be the NASCAR legend that will appear on the cover of NASCAR 09.
"It's exciting being on the cover of NASCAR 09," says Gordon. "The game is as real as it gets and it's been great being involved with it on this level. I look forward to helping gamers in NASCAR 09."
EA Sports Press Release:
EA Announces Jeff Gordon as NASCAR 09 Cover AthleteFour-Time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Jeff Gordon Featured on Cover of EA SPORTS NASCAR 09
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Start your engines! Electronic Arts Inc., (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced Jeff Gordon, legendary NASCAR® driver of car #24, will be featured as the cover athlete for EA SPORTS™ NASCAR 09. NASCAR 09 is scheduled to ship in North America on June 10 and will offer an authentic, exhilarating stock car driving experience for racing fans of all ages.
One of NASCAR's most celebrated and successful drivers for more than a decade, Gordon is ranked 6th all time in Cup Series wins with 81 and is a four time Sprint Cup Series champion. Gordon is a member and partial owner of Hendrick Motorsports.
"It's exciting being on the cover of NASCAR 09," says Gordon. "The game is as real as it gets and it's been great being involved with it on this level. I look forward to helping gamers in NASCAR 09."
Gordon's prestigious reputation aligns with the new NASCAR 09 career mode, "Sprint for the Cup." Gordon will bring the game to you as a guide and a mentor to help you build your reputation to become the next NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion. With a completely rebuilt handling model, the game will be more accessible to newcomers while continuing to offer options that will challenge even the most experienced virtual driver. NASCAR 09 is an authentic NASCAR experience that will appeal to every type of NASCAR enthusiast.
Developed in Orlando, Florida by EA Tiburon, NASCAR 09 will be available for the PLAYSTATION®3 and PLAYSTATION 2 computer entertainment systems and the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system.
EA SPORTS is the leading interactive sports software brand in the world, with top-selling titles and franchises including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL®, NBA LIVE, NCAA® Football, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® and NASCAR® racing.
Project Gotham Racing 4 was one of the games which featured at the Samsung Euro Championship this week at CeBit.
CeBit has just ended in Hanover, Germany however they hosted the Samsung Euro Championship. The winners are crowned European Champions and they go on to compete in the World Cyber Games, later this year. The World Cyber Games is the gaming industries equivalent of the Olympic Games and started in 2006.
Project Gotham Racing was one of the events at the Samsung Euro Championship and the final results were:
Project Gotham Racing 4 
Wouter "Handewasser" van Someren (2.500 €) 
Philippe "Yggdrasil" Vaillant (1.500 €) 
Niklas "Johnson" Krellenberg (1.000 €)
Jeff Gerstmann; one of the best games reviewers in the industry who was unceremoniously sacked from gamespot.com last December for "unknown reasons" (use google to find out why) has this week launched a new game site www.giantbomb.com along with fellow ex-gamespot editors, Ryan Davis and Alex Navarro.
One of the first reviews on www.giantbomb.com is for Burnout Paradise. Burnout being a arcade game is not usually a game I would feature on Motorsportgaming.com but I am going to make an exception as I have it, and it is great!
Read the review.
Eurogamer.net have posted an article detailing their first impressions of Race Driver Grid the next game in the Race Driver franchise.
"On our visit to Codemasters' HQ to see the reboot of the track racing series formally known as TOCA, one other game keeps coming up in conversation. That game is Project Gotham Racing 4, and it's not just the journos bringing it up. Codies developers are generous enough to praise PGR4's beauty, its structure, its weather effects, its difficulty balancing. Watching an Aston DBR9 tear around sunlit Milan esplanades and neon-lit Shibuya alleyways - and, later, feeling a certain credible but forgiving slide in the handling, when we go hands-on - it seems that the influence of Bizarre's brilliant series runs deep and wide in GRID."
Read the full article at Eurogamer.
Codemasters developers of Race Driver Grid have released a world trailer for the game.
Gamespot.com have posted a review for MX Vs. ATV: Untamed awarding the game a fair 6.5. "With high-profile games such as MotorStorm and Dirt already released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the bar has been raised for recent off-road racing games. Rainbow Studios' MX vs. ATV Untamed feels a lot like previous entries in the MX vs. ATV series and, as a result, doesn't meet that same standard of quality. Nevertheless, despite its problems, Untamed manages to be a worthwhile and jam-packed off-road racing experience. " Read the full review over at Gamespot.com
In this video interview an unnamed developer discusses Opencross a new event in MX Vs ATV: Untamed.
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