Jalopnik: Xbox

Red Bull’s Gaming Rig Costs As Much As A Used Car

Raphael Orlove — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:30:00 EST

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 »

Dirt Showdown is Gymkhana with a heaping helping of destruction derby

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:30:00 EST

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I'm going to tell you a secret. My favourite racing series of this generation has been neither Gran Turismo nor Forza. It's been Codemaster's Dirt series. A new game in the franchise should be cause for joy, then, but, well. Hrm. More »

Ferrari 458 Italia steering wheel for XBox is a knob-fest

Mike Spinelli — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:30:00 EDT

What's the next best thing to owning a Ferrari 458 Italia? Forget it, you can't afford her. But a few things down from that is this: a replica 458 Italia steering wheel for XBox. More »

How Forza Motorsport 4 will change car culture forever

Ray Wert — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:15:00 EDT

With Forza Motorsport 3, Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios tried creating the greatest racing game of its generation. Arguably, it was. On October 11th, when Forza Motorsport 4 is released for Xbox 360 they're setting their sights higher — creating the next generation of car enthusiasts. More »

Watch the 12 Hours of Sebring on your XBOX this weekend

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:30:00 EDT

If you want to watch the full 12 Hours of Sebring live this weekend and you're not in Florida the best way to do so is with ESPN 3, which you can now stream through your XBOX. More »

The Cars Of Test Drive Unlimited 2

Matt Hardigree — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:00:00 EST

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 »

Watch An Entire Season Of Racing Live On Your Xbox

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:30:00 EST

The American Le Mans Series will be the first U.S. racing series to broadcast an entire season of racing live, online, and unedited via ESPN3 and Xbox Live, including the 12 hours of Sebring you've been poorly recreating in Forza. More »

vHow Stolen Footage Ended Up In The Forza 4 Trailer

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:00:00 EST

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As we reported yesterday, the trailer for Forza Motorsport 4 contains video taken from another filmmaker without his permission. The cause? A well-meaning but short-sighted director with a first language that isn't English. More »

The $500 Craigslist Rally Car Hits Forza Motorsport

Sam Smith — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EDT

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Last week, we told you the amazing story of how Bill Caswell took a $500 Craigslist BMW to a World Rally Championship event. Now a Jalopnik reader has dropped the car into Forza Motorsport 3. Wanna drive it? More »

This Is Why Hummer Is Dying

Ben Wojdyla — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:00 EST

The fundamental problem with the slowly dying Hummer wasn't the product. The brand was long ago usurped by knuckleheads and used as a symbol of conspicuous consumption and this tuner abomination is part of the problem. Unleash the hounds! More »

Sega Rally Fan Turns Car Into Video-Game Star

Sam Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST

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An AtariAge forum member got a bug up his tuckus and decided to turn his 1995 Toyota Celica into a replica of the Celica ST205 GT-Four from the classic video game Sega Rally Championship. Here's how he did it. More »

Inside Forza Motorsport, Part III: The Physics Of Driving Games

Sam Smith — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:00:00 EST

On Monday, we took a look at a pretty cool office. On Wednesday, how to make a fake car sound real. Earlier today, a Jalopnik-liveried Shelby. Now, we look at the guts of Forza's digital world. Welcome to the machine. More »

Inside Forza Motorsport, Part II: Making The Cars Sound Awesome

Sam Smith — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

On Monday, we took you inside Turn 10 Studios, the outfit that created Forza Motorsport and teamed with us on the Forzalopnik download pack. Now it's time for a deeper dive. This is how they make the XBox game loud. More »

Inside Forza Motorsport, Part I: Where The Magic Happens

Sam Smith — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:30:00 EST

Voting for the Forzalopnik downloadable car pack may be history, but the next phase of the project — making your choices reality — has begun. Welcome to Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios. This is where it all goes down. More »

Toyota's Gullwing Door Monster XBOX Halo Warthog Pickup Truck Concept

Ray Wert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:45:00 EST

What happens when you combine a Toyota pickup with four XBOX systems, a Warthog from Halo and a Monster energy drink dispenser? You get Toyota's Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer (ATG) concept, the SEMA award-winner for greatest number of marketing gimmicks. More »

All 400+ Cars Of Forza Motorsport 3

Matt Hardigree — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

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 »

Forza 3 To Feature Luxury SUV Racing

The Auto Insider — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EDT

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 »

New Forza Screen Shots Shows A Super Car Tango

The Auto Insider — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:30:00 EDT

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 »

Forza 3 Updates Car List, Gives Us More Hot Screen Shots

The Auto Insider — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Another week, another batch of jaw-dropping screen shots from Microsoft's Forza Motorsport 3. This weeks travels brought back all the best from the JDM so they could do battle on the famed Suzuka Circuit — in a Toyota Yaris? Yes. More »

Forza Motorsport 3: Le Mans Screen Shots, Partial Car List

The Auto Insider — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:00:00 EDT

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 »

First Forza Motorsport 3 High-Res Trailer Gives GT5 Run For The Money

The Auto Insider — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:00:00 EDT

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 »

Drawing Awesome Hot Rod Sleds On A Nintendo DS

The Auto Insider — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Christian Pearce, illustrator extraordinaire, sees no limits when it comes to his hot rod art, proving that even the touchscreen-enabled Nintendo DS and the homebrew app, Colors can be a deadly combo for imaginative creation. More »

Forza Motorsport 3 Logo Revealed

The Auto Insider — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:15:00 EDT

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 »

New HD Sega Outrun Arcade Sumo-Stomps The Original

The Auto Insider — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:30:00 EDT

Outrun, Sega's original arcade racer, is back, but not in its old pixelated, quarter-poppin' form. Instead, it's back with a vengeance featuring stylish, new game play and killer HD visuals. More »

Leaked Forza Motorsport 3 In-Game Artwork Reveals In-Game Race Posters

The Auto Insider — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:00 EST

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 »

Burnout Paradise Gets Flying DeLorean, Calls It Jansen 88 Special

Wes Siler — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST

Pushing the boundary of copyright infringement to its limit, Criterion Games is committed to bringing customers an expansion pack complete with the "Legendary Cars" they’ve always wanted to drive. First up is the Jansen 88 Special — capable of lighting its tire tracks on fire at 88 MPH and hovering at around head height. We’ve never heard of a Jansen, so we can only assume that either Burnout Paradise players are more car savvy than we are, or it’s a slightly generified version of another, more legendary car. In addition to the DeLorean DMC-12 rip-off, the pack brings with it four other vehicles that could happen to resemble some of the most famous cars ever. More »

Barack Obama Advertising Inside Online Racing Video Games, Attempts To Pick Up Crucial Xbox 360 Vote

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:24:00 EDT

Barack Obama has begun advertising on billboards within the virtual world of an online video game in what appears to be a first for a presidential campaign. Players of the online racing video game Burnout Paradise on the Xbox 360 Live network noticed billboards promoting Barack Obama and the website VoteForChange.com, which helps people determine how to register to vote and where to vote. This was later confirmed by a representative for the game's publisher, Electronic Arts, who said: More »

Jalopnik Holiday Gift Guide: Xbox 360 Wireless Wheel

Matt Hardigree — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:30:00 EST

Because we can show love to the Xbox fanboys out there, our gift list also includes this mighty fine peripheral, a must have for any serious Project Gotham or NFS racer. In their review last year, Gizomdo called the Xbox 360 Wireless Wheel "the best racing experience we've ever had." And good news, you can get it for just $129.99 online. More »

Forza Motorsport 2: Twin Ring Motegi

Davey G. Johnson — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:00:00 EDT

Project Gotham Racing 4 Delayed

Mike Spinelli — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:12:25 EDT

With every passing day Gran Turismo 5 isn't released, competitor Project Gotham Racing has another chance to narrow the gap between the two vids. And although GT5 rumors indicate it'll be so real you can smell the Swisher Sweet hanging off Jean Todt's lips, it's still at least a few months away. PGR is already preparing its fourth release, though the game's developer Bizarre Creations says it's pushing back the release date to October 2 in the US and October 12 in Europe. We once said whichever of the respective fourth and fifth iteration of the games arrived first would dictate our next console purchase. Point, X-Box 360. [Kotaku] [via IGN] More »

Art and Science Indeed: Cadillac Does Xbox 360

Mike Spinelli — Mon, 22 May 2006 11:33:16 EDT

Cadillac announced today it would offer a free, promotional content pack for Project Gotham Racing 3 on Xbox 360. The package includes all the accoutrements needed to race Caddy's three high-performance V-Series models: the 400hp CTS-V, 469hp STS-V and 443hp XLR-V. What's more, gamers who can finish in the top 100 in any of the models on the virtual N rburgring Full F1 Circuit can gain "Cadillac Elite" status, which will probably entitle them to certain privelages (prizes, downloads and some such) at some undetermined point in the future. No word on the existance of any hidden vid-game easter eggs or, say, cheat codes for a 1964 Coupe deVille or 1979 8/6/4-powered Seville. Well? More »

Volvo Creates Xbox Advergame to Showcase Products

Mike Spinelli — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:44:40 EST

It's either a groundbreaking advertising feat or the setup for the most boring driving simulator in history. Volvo is becoming the first carmaker to create a driving game around its products, with its "Volvo Drive for Life" game, released this past Friday for Microsoft's Xbox. The company's description, though, is like a big, fat Percodan: "Players will experience firsthand the benefits of Volvo's world-class safety features such as Dynamic Stability and Traction Control (DSTC), Four-C Chassis, and Roll Stability Control (RSC), while testing their skills in the challenging game environment." Yikes. Extra points for picking the kids up on time and getting the dog groomed before soccer practice. (Image from Grand Tourismo 4.) More »