It's been a year or two now since both Sony and Electronic Arts abandoned the official Formula 1 licence, with both companies struggling to make compelling and lucrative games from it. Given that gamers have been ...

Since the release of the original Dirt game, its namesake rally driver has sadly passed away. It's nice that Codemasters has kept the name of the legend that was Colin McRae, and indeed paid tribute to ...

Race On is actually a bundle of games built on Simbin's respected simulation Race 07. It includes the original Race 07, along with the Swedish Touring Car Challenge game. Then there's Race On itself, which adds ...

While PlayStation 3 owners have their patience tested to the limit by the continual non-arrival of Gran Turismo 5 (confirmed arrival in Japan is now March 2010), it's given Microsoft a window of opportunity to sneak ...

Yes, it may be a cliché that guys like nothing better than driving fast cars covered in decals, highly tuned to perfection and emitting a throaty roar like a cougar, but EA has made a tidy ...

As names go, Super Laser Racer sounds pretty hammy, but it actually suits the retro feel this arcade racer attempts to capture. In fact, this project gives numerous nods to computer gaming nostalgia. Its overhead view ...

Fuel is set in an alternate America where an environmental disaster has occurred. Citizens have carved out new living spaces for themselves away from the old cities and stomping grounds, which are now ravaged by storms, ...

Proof that in a games publishing world dominated by multi-million dollar projects and prolonged development cycles, one person can still churn out an interesting game, and at a very attractive price too. New Star Grand ...

Driving around in circles over and over again doesn't sound like much fun, but when you're sat in a small box on wheels doing 200mph, it gets a lot more interesting. Racing cars: you can't beat ...

The Need For Speed franchise has attracted a growing number of critics over the years, not least EA itself, which has restructured its development of the games and split them between two development studios. This means ...

Los Angeles is huge. We can still remember the first time we flew into the place at night, just marvelling at the city lights below stretching to the visible horizon in every direction. And Rockstar has ...

Bringing a console game - particularly a racing one - to the PC is generally a road fraught with problems. For one, people have a horrible habit of taking PC racing games terribly seriously, which is ...

It's perhaps surprising, in a games market awash with four-wheel racers covering everything from Formula 1 to off-road and ‘street', that there have been so few games given over to motorised two-wheelers. Most of the time ...

The latest game in the evolution of the Race Driver (formerly known as TOCA) series makes some interesting tweaks to the standard racer formula. Perhaps the most novel concept is the addition of flashbacks. One minute ...

Some kids want to be astronauts. Others stunt bike riders. Or perhaps pilots. Of course, there are those who grow up with an ardent desire to become bus drivers. Well, there must be. The allure of ...

So who started messing around with the Burnout franchise? For four games up to this point, it's proven to be the finest action-packed arcade racer on the market. Blistering collisions. Bracing speed. Tremendous, exhilarating and without ...

Racing around various European cities sounds like fun, doesn't it? Flooring it down narrow Parisian streets, roaring past all those pavement café tables and upsetting everyone trying to enjoy their morning cup of sludge (we refuse ...

This reviewer still remembers his first go on Sega Rally in the arcades, all those years ago. Graphically it made for compelling viewing, but behind the wheel the actual handling was rather shocking. Whether driving on ...

Ask any speed freak and he'll tell you that race bikes are to race cars what snowboarding is to skiing: faster, more thrilling, more dangerous, more adrenaline-pumping and more on the edge. It's therefore no surprise ...

If you live anywhere near a city or motorway, odds are you're a big racing game fan. After spending hours in yet another painfully predictable snarl up on the M25/M6/M62 (delete as applicable), when you finally ...