Last year I said that racing games were stuck in a rut. The release of Forza Horizon 3 was the only real standout feature of the year. 2017 has thankfully featured a slew of high-end raging games. Some high profile releases have featured
Normally the games we cover here on TG.com are capable but conventional racers that focus on fast cars, exotic locations and cut and thrust racing. But beyond the polished paint-jobs of Forza and Gran Turismo there are more left-field automotive
Over the years, the presence that mobile games have had during the Super Bowl has been growing at an alarming pace. Instead of supporting web sites that cover their mobile games, top-tier developers would rather spend untold millions for mere
HIGHLIGHTS Forza Horizon 3 is an open-world racing game It offers a wide variety of races Forza Horizon 3 comes with great graphics, car detailing, and music The Forza Horizon series is about as big as it gets for arcade
Self-driving cars. They’re the future of transportation – and they’re getting smarter all the time. Thanks to advances in software and artificial intelligence, these machines are now able to distinguish between cars and cyclists, or between pedestrians and your pet. Many
HIGHLIGHTS Need for Speed Payback is out on November 10 Need for Speed Payback is out on EA Access from November 3 One of its pre-order bonuses is tire smoke NFS Payback or Need for Speed Payback is the successor
Microids/Eden Games Something felt a bit off after a few hours with Gear.Club Unlimited, the Nintendo Switch’s first semi-realistic racing game. The racing itself was more “real” than arcade games and more accessible than “real” racing games, and the balance worked.
Need for Speed Payback gets its first big planned content update on Tuesday, Dec. 19. The update introduces a new event series, new cars for it, and other features. Update: An earlier version of this conflated the free update content with the content
As 2017 coasts to an end, we ExtremeTech writers have spent a good chunk of our time this month looking back at what we enjoyed most. We all have our own specialties and tech predilections, but pretty much everybody here