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Red Bull teamed up with gaming rig maker Playseat to make their own Red Bull Racing F1 rig. You can buy it now — as long as you're willing to drop $1,500. You do know that you can buy a real, functional car for that kind of money, don't you? More »
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Considering how many gaming apps are published each week in a mobile gaming gold rush that shows no signs of slowing, finding one that is simply average feels almost like a win. Streetbike: Full Blast, the latest excreted onto the iTunes app store, will suffice at a buck. More »
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Powered by an AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics card, Chad Smith's five screen racing simulator looks like it provides almost the same thrills as the military's simulators, without requiring the military's budget. More »
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This is just your everday home-built rig for running race simulations. It's one anyone could build for a few thousand dollars and a basic understanding of PVC cement. Except the rig you see below helped Tommy Milner win the 24 Hours of LeMans. More »
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iRacing may be the World of Warcraft for obsessive racing geeks, but that doesn't mean it's not a fine game. The Boston-area company will release version 2.0 this August, having upgraded the graphics, aero and tire modeling. Red mist, meet basement. More »
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Lucas Ordoñez won the first GT Academy time-trial contest, giving the gamer-racer his start in the FIA GT4 series. Now he's signed to Team Signatech Nissan, and will compete in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mind-blowing. More »
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Sony and Nissan are giving drivers a chance to race in real life by competing in Gran Turismo 5 GT Academy. The problem? Someone's discovered a "cheat" in the current time trial. More »
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A new study's discovered players of racing video games like Need For Speed take bigger risks, are ticketed, and crash into stationary objects more often then their non-gamer counterparts. But frequent gamers do pass driving tests in fewer attempts. More »
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With the approach of arcade racing game Test Drive Unlmited 2 comes this video hawking the game's "customization" mode, which appears completely focused on turning you into a trend-obsessed wealthy Eurotrash wannabe jagoff. It gets worse. There's clothes shopping... More »
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Here's the full car list for Test Drive Unlimited 2 — Atari's cross-platform arcade-style car game. We've got the full list of over 75 cars, including eight Astons, five Bugattis, 13 Ferraris and one crazy Volkswagen SUV, below. More »
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No one seems to agree when Gran Turismo 5 officially goes on sale, but someone is already playing it. [Kotaku] More »
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While Gran Turismo5 edges closer to reality, one sharp shopper saw that at least one part of Sony's own website puts the release date in December. That'd certainly comport with what Kazunori Yamauchi told us at SEMA earlier this week. More »
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The Tokyo Game Show 2010 Trailer for the soon-to-arrive (no really) Gran Turismo 5 gives us more insight into the cars, the gameplay, and the creepy and lifeless digital eyes of rally driver Sebastien Loeb. More »
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A clever tagger in Portland, Oregon has painted the Williams Avenue bike lane with various items found in Nintendo's Mario Kart racing series. Bikers can power up with stars, mushrooms and shells, but beware the banana peel. More »
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One German man badly wanted to play the canyon-carving racing game WipeOut in real life. So he reverse-engineered it with a gigantic, multi-level cardboard track he can race on with a video-equipped R/C car controlled by a real racing cabinet. More »
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Sony announced at the E3 conference today that the long-awaited Gran Turismo 5 is coming to the PlayStation 3 in full 3D. Now you can race in a circle... in 3-D! It'll also be released on November 2nd. For real. More »
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Don't believe the Porsche 911 GT2 RS really spanks the Nissan GT-R around the Nürburgring? Buy a copy of Gran Turismo 5 and you'll be able to test the limits on three different configurations of the Green Hell. More »
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We've got some lovely screen shots Test Drive Unlimited 2. The follow-up to the original has, you guessed it, faster cars, better graphics and more ways to simulate the digital lifestyle of an auto journalist. More »
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No plastic wheel matches the familiarity of a real car. That's why these Finnish geeks plugged a PC directly into this VW Scirocco's on-board computer and, with some clever coding and a projector, created an incredibly immersive gaming experience. More »
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If the cover, NASCAR simulation or screenshots didn't have you drooling for Gran Turismo 5 this latest trailer will leave you stuffing Bounty paper towels into your lower jaw. More »
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Yes, NASCAR is coming to GT5 and now we have new racing video and a clip of Kazunori Yamauchi himself running around Texas Motor World speedway watching a real stock car race. Let's hope their backhair modeling improves. More »
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This is an ad for Epson projectors and running it means we're promoting their "viral marketing" effort. We don't care. Playing Need for Speed everywhere you go by shooting HD video from your chest is heroically awesome. More »
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If you're one of the million gamers laying virtual tracks in Forza Motorsports 3, the Hot Holiday DLC pack offers ten cars with a combined 5,649 HP. Below, discover why you'll want these bruisers in your virtual garage. More »
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Following the release of all 830 cars from Gran Turismo PSP, Turn 10 has released their list of all 400+ cars from Forza 3. Below, the entire garage. More »
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Gran Turismo 5 won't be coming out until March of 2010 in Japan, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi announced at a press conference yesterday. This after almost a year of Sony saying the game will be out in 2009. More »
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When we showed you pictures of the Mercedes SLS AMG in Gran Turismo 5, those were not in-game photos, but rather over-photoshopped real photos. We now have both for comparison below. More »
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It seems Ferrari asked both Polyphony Digital and Turn 10 to show their new supercar in Gran Turismo 5 and Forza 3, respectively. Compare the two vids to each other and to our live shots below. More »
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Microsoft and Turn 10 have announced that Forza Motorsport 3 has taken its last step before production and a demo will hit Xbox Live in ten days. Details below. More »
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Sony's released the first screenshots from the long-awaited Gran Turismo 5. In addition to slick graphics, expect 1,000 vehicles, realistic damage and a whole mess o' GT-R love, including this Nismo GT-R Super GT. Gallery below. More »
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AOL's gaming site Joystiq has exclusive video of the newest addition to Forza Motorsport 3 — the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. Are you ready to take the wheel of the $1.6 million, 1000 HP hyper car? More »
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No matter how many driving sims there are for the iPhone, we'll always find the idea of this large CTA Digital steering wheel attached to an object esteemed for its smallness to be a shade ridiculous. [CNET] More »
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The tease continues with this newest release of Forza 3 images, but this time they contain something we never expected — SUVs. And here we thought only irresponsible teens raced BMW X5s and Land Rovers. More »
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Another week, another release of exciting new Forza Motorsport 3 screenshots. This time, they epict our favorite super cars from Italy, Germany and American in a super car tango, driven by a plethora of black Stigs. More »
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Over the weekend, the developers from Turn 10 released these gorgeously detailed, high-resolution images of their new Forza Motorsport 3 racer, all but confirming the inclusion of the Le Mans famed Circuit De La Sarthe. [Update: one lap video] More »
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When the first details emerged for Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo Mobile, we were infinitely curious how the little guy compared to its much larger brother, GT5. Check out this gameplay footage and decide for yourself. More »
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Hot and bothered by yesterday's look at Forza 3? Polyphony Digital's no slacker, evidenced by this über-slick look at the retail version of Gran Turismo 5 and Gran Turismo Mobile. More »
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Just released at E3 is this tasty new HD Forza Motorsport 3 trailer as well as some gorgeous high-res screen captures that help us think the new game will give Gran Turismo 5 a huge run for its money. More »
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Audi has taken its super-Bruce R8 to the Nurburgring to make some direct comparisons between real-world track driving and GT5: Prologue driving as well as letting loose some secrets on the upcoming non-glorified-demo GT5. More »
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It's no surprise the Forza Motorsport franchise has garnered such a following in the console racing game wars. The newest incarnation, Forza Motorsport 3, is coming right around the off-cambered, dual-apex corner. More »
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Are you still trying to eek out that last achievement in Forza 2? Hurry up because Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport 3 is filling your rear view mirror. More »
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