2010 Mercedes-Benz E500 Coupe Road Test Review
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2010 Toyota Camry Ateva Road Test Review
2010 Volkswagen Jetta V 125TDI, 147TSI, 77TDI First Drive Review
2010 Mercedes-Benz E350 Elegance Sedan Road Test Review
2009 Skoda Octavia RS Diesel Wagon And Petrol Hatch Road Test Review
2009 Honda Odyssey Road Test Review
2009 Holden Calais V AFM Road Test Review
2009 Suzuki Jimny Sierra Road Test Review
2009 Suzuki Swift S Automatic Road Test Review
2010 Hyundai Santa Fe First Drive Review
2009 Jeep Wrangler First Drive Review
FORZA MOTORSPORT 3 publisher Turn 10 has today released the full list of cars available in the latest instalment of the popular XBOX 360 title.
Launching on October 23, the new Forza will feature over 400 cars on the disc, with another 10 cars available for download at launch, and each month for the next [...]
THE TOYOTA FT-86 concept’s video game doppelganger has been revealed today, sliding around a track alongside the fan-favourite AE86 Corolla in a new Gran Turismo 5 video.
The first motion shots of the FT-86 (albeit in a virtual realm), the new video offers a glimpse of Toyota’s stylish new concept from a number of new [...]
NUMEROUS LAUNCH DATES for Gran Turismo 5 - rumoured, promised and proposed - have come and gone, but publisher Polyphony Digital announced at the Tokyo Game Show this week that a March 2010 launch in Japan is the real deal.
The March launch date puts the game six months out from the release of the [...]
FANS OF THE original Forza Motorsport, released back in 2005, will have fond memories of the fictional Fujimi Kaido track, its down-hill and hill-climb runs popular with drifting fanatics.
The release of Forza 2 saw Fujimi Kaido fall by the wayside, but this week Forza publisher Turn 10 acknowledged the fan outcry, announcing the return of [...]
MAKING ITS HOME in ‘Audi Space’, an area of Sony’s online PlayStation Home community, the all-electric Audi e-tron concept is set to feature in the upcoming Vertical Run driving game later this year.
The aim of the game is to defeat opponents by gathering the most electrical energy along the course, one which features enough [...]
WE MAY NEVER see the sporty Volkswagen Scirocco in Australian showrooms, but local fans can take some consolation in the release this week of a new iPhone game dedicated to the Scirocco R.
Following the successful launch of the Volkswagen Polo Challenge for the iPhone back in April, the Scirocco R 24 Hour Challenge allows [...]
FOLLOWING NEWS THAT Forza Motorsport 3 has gone gold, Microsoft and publisher Turn 10 have announced that a playable demo of the game will be available on XBOX Marketplace from September 24 - the day before the Tokyo Game Show, where Sony is rumoured to be announcing the launch date for Gran Turismo 5.
While [...]
DESIGNED TO EDUCATE young drivers on the dangers of mobile phone use while driving, VicRoads has launched its own iPhone game.
Called CityGT and developed in partnership with marketing group JWT, the aim of the app is to show young drivers the potential consequences if a driver becomes distracted by talking on their mobile phone while [...]
FOLLOWING YESTERDAY’S news that the upcoming XBOX 360 title Forza Motorsport 3 will feature the Bugatti Veyron and a handful of Holden and Ford V8 Supercars, today brings more exciting news for racing simulator fans.
Polyphony Digital, publishers of the legendary Gran Turismo series, has released five screenshots from the upcoming fifth instalment in the [...]
RACING SIMULATOR enthusiasts keeping score can tick off another pair of boxes today: games publisher Turn 10 has announced that the Bugatti Veyron, along with eight V8 Supercar race cars, will join the Forza Motorsport 3 line-up.
A new video released today shows developers at Turn 10 enthusiastically describing the challenges involved in accurately portraying [...]
FOR FANS OF racing simulators, the platform of choice is very rarely Nintendo’s Wii.
Game developer, Codemasters, is looking to change that with a new release for that platform, F1 2009. For the first time Formula One management has extended license agreements beyond Sony’s reach allowing the Wii to become the first games console to benefit.
F1 [...]
THE LAUNCH OF PlayStation 3 racer Gran Turismo 5 is drawing nearer, although publisher Polyphony Digital remains tight-lipped on a specific date.
This week, Polyphony released a short video demonstrating the introduction of visible car damage into the Gran Turismo series, first reported back in May.
Visible car damage has been a long time coming in the [...]
AS THE OCTOBER 23 release date for Forza Motorsport 3 draws nearer, more information about the highly-anticipated racing simulator continues to trickle out.
It has already been announced that over 400 cars and 100 race tracks will be offered in the game, but Forza 3’s developer Turn 10 Studios has released more details on exactly which [...]
MICROSOFT has confirmed that, despite fears to the contrary, the highly anticipated XBOX 360 title Forza Motorsport 3 has not been delayed until 2010. In fact, the latest instalment in the popular racing franchise now has an official launch date for the Australian and New Zealand markets, and that date is [...]
THE OCTOBER DEBUT of Forza Motorsport 3 for the XBOX 360 is drawing nearer, and this week comes the news that the game will feature not only a bevy of super and sports cars, but a range of SUVs and luxury sedans as well.
Publisher Turn 10 describes the selection as ‘Sport Luxury SUVs’ and [...]
THE APPLE IPHONE is fast becoming the mobile gaming platform of choice, allowing gamers burdened with a life on public transport to ditch their regular portable gaming unit in favour of the iPhone, a device they’re probably already carrying anyway. With the likes of Firemint’s Real Racing and RedLynx’s DrawRace, car [...]
EITHER THE DEVELOPERS of Gran Turismo, Polyphony Digital, are perfectionists to a fault, or they’re outright lazy. Because in the gap between Gran Turismo 4 and the upcoming Gran Turismo 5, Forza Motorsport 2 and 3 will both have seen the light of an XBOX 360 disc drive.
Arriving on shelves in October with over 400 [...]
WE’VE COMBED through the mountain of entries, sorted the wheat from the chaff and found the best submission to our Nokia N96/Need For Speed giveaway.
And the winner is…
Ren, with the short-n’-sweet entry below:
HSV R8 Wagon
Fast enough to keep up
Big enough for 1000 hamburgers
Tough enough for any pumpkin
It almost reads like a haiku, doesn’t it? For [...]
CODEMASTERS, publishers of the popular Colin McRae Rally franchise along with DiRT and Racedriver Grid, have been working hard on FUEL, a new arcade-style racer that features locations from across the western half of the continental United States.
Adding up to a total driveable terrain of 5560 square miles (or 8947 sq. km), FUEL offers not [...]
IT’S ALL ABOUT the racers at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in the US, with the hotly anticipated Turn 10 developed XBOX 360 racer Forza Motorsport 3 revealed yesterday, and now Gran Turismo 5 and Need For Speed: Shift trailers unveiled since.
Unfortunately, the GT5 presentation offered little more than the trailer and some details (you’d think [...]
THANKS TO THE kind folk at EA and Nokia, we’ve got a neat bag of toys to send to one lucky reader.
To celebrate the recent release of Need For Speed: Undercover on Nokia’s N-Gage mobile gaming platform, Nokia has sent us a Nokia N96 pre-loaded with the game, a Maisto Lamborghini Gallardo model car, some [...]
WE TOLD YOU about it last month, but now it’s finally here. Volvo - The Game launched yesterday , and we decided to kill some time research it further by downloading a copy, dusting off the gaming wheel and donning our e-helmet.
Produced by renowned racing game studio SimBin, Volvo - The Game had the right [...]
DEVELOPED BY the minds behind the madly popular Project Gotham Racing series, Bizarre Creations, and industry stalwarts Activision, Blur is set to hit the XBOX 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platform around September to November this year.
To get gamers hearts racing, Activision has released the first trailer for its upcoming street racer, and if anyone [...]
THE CHOICE of game might seem an odd one, but according to officials at Vail Christian High School in the US, a new school program is giving young drivers a better understanding of the dangers of driving distracted.
Using a Nintendo Wii video game console and a copy of the popular Mario Kart Wii racing game, [...]
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS hasn’t halted Citroen’s ambitious plans of launching a supercar, with the French manufacturer set to showcase its GTbyCITROEN concept car this weekend.
GTbyCITROEN will conduct a lap of honour before the start of the Nurburgring 24 Hour race, and will be on display at the stand of Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital [...]
No, there hasn’t been an official announcement on the Forza 3’s release date yet, but the gig may be up nonetheless.
It seems the German arm of online retailer Amazon recently listed a September 30 date for the release of the official XBOX 360 Forza Motorsport 3 strategy guide, and as any gamer worth his silicon [...]
Along with prize money to the tune of US$20,000 and an invitation to the FIFA World Player Gala 2010, Frenchman Bruce Grannec has scored a 2009 Kia Soul for his winning efforts in the FIFA Interactive World Cup Final in Barcelona, Spain.
Beating out 530,000 online opponents from 52 countries around the world, Grannec made his [...]
Perhaps the most frustrating element of most racing games but absent from the legendary Gran Turismo racing simulator for the Sony PlayStation, visible car damage is now expected to feature in the massively-delayed Gran Turismo 5.
Sure, there’s a perfectly good reason for it: without permission from manufacturers to show their cars getting visibly roughed up, [...]
After taking home top honours in the Nissan, Sony and Polyphony Digital GT Academy program, Lucas Ordoñez decided he could make something of a career in racing.
It turns out he might have been right, with last weekend’s efforts proving that Ordoñez’s win in the GT Academy experiment was anything but a fluke.
Ordoñez, along with experienced [...]
The winner of Polyphony Digital’s GT Academy experiment - a competition that put players of the popular Gran Turismo racing game into the cockpit of an actual race car - has announced that he intends to continue with a career in motorsport.
Lucas Ordonez beat thousands of other contenders to win a spot in a Nissan [...]
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