F1 2017 is due in August, and classic F1 cars are back on the menu

  When it comes to racing games, Codemasters’ F1 2016 was my biggest surprise of last year. Here was an F1 game that was tricky to master yet engaging and fun. More fun than watching the actual 2016 F1 season,

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta car review – ‘It talks a good game’

Alfa Romeo Giulietta: ‘The styling is beautiful.’ Ihave a generalised prejudice against the family sport car. It sounds ingenious, but the reality is usually a load of squashed people unable to see properly out of tinted windows in the back,

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Motorsport Manager is a car racing game where you don’t get behind the wheel — and it’s great

THE combination of asphalt, petrol, rubber and engine oil has a particular allure, both trackside in real life and virtually in a computer game. Most racing games put you in the driver’s seat and then task you with making sure

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GRAND THEFT RETRO Grand Theft Auto launches old-school car game which is certain to make fans of original game VERY excited indeed

A teaser released by Rockstar shows a rip-roaring battle with a birds’ eye view. Neon racing cars battle it out to be first on the finish line, smashing into each other and racing to catch ‘speed up’ bonuses as they

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What self-driving car software can learn from playing video games

Open-world driving games like Grand Theft Auto V aren’t just for lawless virtual joyrides anymore. They’re offering new learning opportunities for the artificial intelligence algorithms in self-driving cars. The video game’s worlds are so intricately designed they can easily be adapted to simulate real-life

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Porsche’s Forza Partnership Is About More than Just Cars in Video Games

  This week,Porsche and Microsoft began a six year partnership that’ll see Porsche cars return to Microsoft and Turn 10’s Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon franchises. You’re probably thinking that this is great and that you get to drive Porsches

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A second life for open-world games as self-driving car training software

A lot of top-tier video games enjoy lengthy long-tail lives with remasters and re-releases on different platforms, but the effort put into some games could pay dividends in a whole new way, as companies training things like autonomous cars, delivery drones

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BURNOUT CREATORS ANNOUNCE NEW CAR-CRASHING GAME DANGER ZONE

Releasing for PC via Steam and PlayStation 4 next month (priced at $12.99/£9.99/€12.99), Danger Zone puts players in a virtual crash test facility that features 20 single-player crash testing scenarios, each with its own distinct layout. In the game, which is built

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