We’re not sure whether to file this one under ridiculous, or ridiculously awesome. At this very moment, provided you have bags of money with dollar signs painted on them laying around, you can drop $6995 for the Octane 120 from Dream Arcades pictured above. Compatible with the Playstation 3, this racing cabinet comes with a 120-inch [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The racing genre is really starting to fill up on Apple’s App Store, which is a great thing in my books. Even though it was one of the first, Pangea’s Cro-Mag Rally still holds it’s own when facing all of the newer competition. Cro-Mag Rally is a Kart Racer along the same lines of games like [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 8, 2008
There’s something you need to know about Baja: Edge of Control. Before considering purchase, you need to know that it is wickedly tough to get the hang of, and that this game will absolutely kick your ass as you swoop and spin across the hilly, winding desert tracks. But that’s just the catch. Almost everything else [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 1, 2008
My car sizzles along a highway, marginally evading interfering traffic in a thrilling freeway pursuit. A beautiful girl tells me my goal, and then I’m sitting in a vehicle as the pavement rushes beneath me. I’m playing Need for Speed Undercover, the latest of the popular racer series, due out in November of 2008. “A lot [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 19, 2008
If 14,000 square kilometers (that’s 5000 miles) of drivable environments being constantly rocked by lightning, tornadoes and sand storms doesn’t excite you, what will? Codemasters’ upcoming racer, FUEL, looks to do just that with its open-ended/free-roaming focus on tearing it up across a bunch of cool environments in dangerous races. Sounds good to us; the Codies [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 6, 2008
Race Driver GRID is neither a driving simulator nor is it an all out crash and bash Burnout style racer. Instead, GRID takes elements of both these styles of racing and mixes them to create what could be considered as the best driving experience on any console. To anyone who hasn’t played GRID this may seem [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 21, 2008
VS. Now that each next-gen platform holder has burned rubber, it’s time to evaluate the critical reception of their exclusive racing entries. Which console should gearhead gamers turn to for the ultimate driving experience. Metacritic gives Xbox 360’s Forza Motorsport 2 the edge in numbers at a cool 90% overall across all outlets, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 17, 2008
Burnout Paradise developer Criterion has given you the key to Paradise City, where traffic is appropriately paranoid and nitrous boost is the primary export. While initially slapped behind the wheel of a “beater” for a muscle car, you’ll work your way up the racing ranks through a series of events that stray from traditional three [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 14, 2007
Crash FM, Criterion’s weekly podcast returns this week with a show filled with listener questions. One particularly interesting question lead our jovial accented hosts to discuss the in-game music, and the situation of what’s included. To everyone’s surprise and ecstatic pleasure, every track from Burnout 1 and Burnout 2, as well as Burnout 3 tunes [...]
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