Maps are among the essential items to take whenever you're in a car. These days they mostly come in GPS form, but back in the day there were times when you'd have to figure out exactly where you are based on nothing but the surrounding features and a map.

MI6 has a French agent being chased by five enemy operatives. Her only chance of survival is you, and your only method of communication is a command line chat window. Can you somehow guide her away from danger and capture the enemy operatives for interrogation?

John Hennessey, who builds the monstrous 1,200-horespower Venom GT, sent us this video of a gamer hooning up one of his cars in Fourza. The track action is awesome, but his explanation for the video is even more interesting.

Have you been drinking tonight, sir? Oh. Crap. If you're in a car, that's not a question you want to hear from a man in uniform. And if the answer is yes, you're in for the worst pop quiz of your life: the field sobriety test.

Believe it or not, Frogger has been skipping his way across busy highways for thirty years now. And to celebrate his anniversary, Tyler DeAngelo created this updated version of the arcade classic that now has the frog dodging the realtime traffic on New York's Fifth Avenue.

I usually love me some FPS games but there's something off putting about fake shooting up the real world in Google Maps Street View with an assault rifle. Try it out yourself, put a location Pool Worldwide and start shooting fake real people and things in Google Maps. Is it weird for you?

The team at Turn 10 Studios tried to design the best road race course ever for Forza Motorsport 4. The result? The all-new Bernese Alps track. Here's a first look at the track and how they made the magic happen.

We're all in favor of getting children interested in cars at an early age, but leave it to Toyota to take the idea and run with it through an iPhone game that lets preschoolers steer along with their parents.

Mario Kart's a fun game. Little Big Planet's fun too. If you combine 'em into a mega-customizable, completely share-able racing game where you build cars, characters and tracks it ought to be riotously fun, right? That's ModNation Racers for PS3.

We're skeptical Polyphony Digital will ever release the actual Gran Turismo 5, sort of like Duke Nukem Forever, but Mercedes has released these images and claimed their exotic Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing will be included in the game. We'll see.