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F1 2016: The F1 Game We Have Been Waiting For
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When I reviewed last year’s F1 Game, I was surprised at how far the game had come from the previous year, 2014, but was disappointed by the lack of a real career and how the engine felt during races. A solid effort, but hamstrung by time and dealing with new hardware. All of that came together…
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Porsche will return to sim racing with Assetto Corsa
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv-cPGa9Zsg[/youtube] This is really happening. Porsche is returning to sim racing! For real! This is a big deal because for the last decade or so, Porsche has been locked in a licensing deal with EA Games granting them near exclusive use of the legendary brand in racing games. The now infamous deal is the reason…
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The Forza 6 Porsche Expansion: Worth every penny.
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Ever since EA got the exclusive rights to have Porsche cars in their racing games, even the best games and sims have felt a little empty. So when Turn10 announced that the legendary Stuttgart brand would be once again coming to Forza 6 I was all aboard. Usually, a car pack includes just a handful…
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Forza 6: The Best Yet
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When Forza 6 starts you at a track they have made themselves, you know they must be proud of what they have to show you. They plop you in the bucket seat of the 2017 Ford GT, and they line you up against some of the most impressive GT cars in the world. You line…
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Consumerism Be Damned: A Cars and Cellphones Metaphorical Musing
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When your cellphone contract expires, the generally expected thing to do is to stride immediately into your local telecoms agency and sign yourself up for a fresh deal on whatever phone grabs your fancy. The contract for my cellphone expired last march and, well, I really didn’t know what to do. I had been nailed…
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Motorboat Monday: SEALEGS:- The Boat With Wheels.
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By now we all know the score with amphibious vehicles: to whit- duality of purpose usually means a massive compromise. The Amphicar, for example, was pretty wretched on the road and didn’t make a terribly good boat, either. The astonishing Gibbs Aquada was hugely better in every respect, but was also toweringly expensive. Though a…
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BeamNG.drive Tech Demo and Alpha Now Available for All
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If you think back to last year, you may remember a series of videos from a startup company’s ambitious project that focused on bringing a realistic, highly-detailed, and real-time soft-body physics engine to the video game world in beautiful, destructive harmony. That startup is called BeamNG and their incredible videos of digital cars being wrecked in…
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Lord Baby Jesus Does Exist, and He Has Given Us the Chevrolet "LS12"
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Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, don’t even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent. We just thank you for all LS-powered V8 swaps you have brought us, but this right here is a second coming of greatness. Introduction video after the jump.
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Wagon-esque Camera Car built from a Porsche Panamera
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I don’t know why, but I loves me some camera car build stories. The various outlets that build these vehicles all seem to have made a switch a few years back to utilizing luxury sport utility vehicles. The stable platforms and their smooth suspension setups helped create the types of platforms necessary for camera work.…
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Contest TIme: Forza Horizon Limited Collector's Edition is up for grabs UPDATE: It's clear who won
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Want to play Forza Horizon, but you don’t want to pay for a copy? I’ve got you covered… well, one of you anyway. Sitting on my desk, still wrapped in its protective plastic wrapper, is a copy of Forza Horizon. This is the Limited Collector’s Edition, which nets you a few goodies inside the packaging…