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Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends – Track List

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Atari, Rombax Games and Bigben Interactive have revealed the full track list of their upcoming Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends title that is due to be released in March.

The title will include a wide variety of tracks, including such notable tracks like the Nürburgring Nordschleife, Spa Francorchamps, Monza & the Hockenheimring. Furthermore, several tracks will be available as historical versions as well to go along with the historic cars available in the title.

Track List

  • Circuit de Catalunya – Spain GP
  • Circuit de Catalunya – Spain National
  • Circuit de Spa Francorchamps GP (1980) – Belgium
  • Circuit de Spa Francorchamps GP (2004) – Belgium
  • Casino Riviera-Cote d’Azur – France
  • Cote d’Azur Monte Grande – France
  • Cote d’Azur Monument Loop – France
  • Cote d’Azur Port Boucle – France
  • Donington Park GP (2009) – United Kingdom
  • Donington Park National (2009) – United Kingdom
  • Enna Pergusa – Italy
  • Fiorano – Italy
  • Fiorano Alternate – Italy
  • Hockenheimring – Germany GP
  • Hockenheimring GP (1982) – Germany
  • Hockenheimring National – Germany
  • Hockenheimring Short – Germany
  • Imola (1981) – Italy
  • Imola (2005) – Italy
  • Misty Loch – fictitious Circuit
  • Monza GP (1958) – Italy
  • Monza GP – Italy
  • Monza Junior – Italy
  • Motorsport Arena Oschersleben – Italy
  • Motorsport Arena Oschersleben B – Course-Italy
  • Mugello GP – Italy
  • Mugello Short – Italy
  • Nordschleife – Germany
  • Nordschleife Aremberg – Germany
  • Nordschleife, Karussell – Germany
  • Nordschleife Nurburg – Germany
  • Road America Circuit dummy
  • Rouen (1956) – France
  • Rouen Short (1952) – France
  • Silverstone GP (1959) – United Kingdom
  • Silverstone GP (1975) – United Kingdom
  • Silverstone GP (2009) – United Kingdom
  • Silverstone International (2009) – United Kingdom
  • Silverstone National (2009) – United Kingdom

To go along with the track list, a bunch of new previews have been released, showing off various cars like the Ferrari F430 & the F458. Test Drive Ferrari Legends will include a wide variety of prancing horse race & street cars from several decades.

Test Drive Ferrari will be coming to the PC, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 starting March 30 2012 according to the publisher and various retailers.

SimRaceWay – Mclaren MP4-12C GT3 Available

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Ignite Skill Gaming has added the newest car to their free-to-play SimRaceWay title as the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 is now available for purchase.

Part of SimRaceWay’s licensing deal with Mclaren, the MP4-12C GT3 can be bought for $4.32

Powered by a 3.8 liter V8 bi-turbo engine, the MP4-12C is build to the FIA GT3 regulations based on the MP4-12C road car. The car made its competition debut in the British GT Championship last year and went on to compete in various events, including the Spa 24 Hours race. The car became an instant success as all 20 cars built for the 2012 season have already been sold to customers.

The base content of SimRaceWay is free for everyone to try, giving players access to the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X as well as Mid Ohio & Zandvoort. Additional content is available for purchase with prices ranging from a few cents to several dollars.

The title puts an emphasis on online racing, using a real-time skill matching system to offer close racing. Like SimRaceWay’s past website that was based on rFactor & other simulations, the new title will again be offering paid online races where players have to pay an entry fee to compete, free online events are available as well.

Forza Motorsport 4 – Car Making Of Video

Monday, February 27, 2012

Turn 10 have released an interesting making off video of their Forza Motorsport 4 title for Xbox 360 that was released last fall.

Fanatec Software Driver 116 – Released

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Fanatec has released a new beta version of their driver package for all their PC wheels, including the Porsche line and the recently-released CSR & CSR Elite.

The new driver addresses various issues as listed below, it’s available both as 32bit & 64bit version.

Changelog
1. FFB damper effect now available (and reimplemented, from SW -> HW)
2. FFB damper and spring effects now could be played simultaneously (due to layering in HW)
3. Auto-center spring disabled completely from driver and property sheet (for all wheel models)
4. Diagonal D-pad arrows hidden for CSR and CSR-E models

Project CARS – New Full Member Tier Available

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Slightly Mad Studios have added a new membership tier to their WMD-powered Project CARS title as members can now choose to upgrade to “Full Member” level.

Full Members receive the same benefits as Team Members, including a weekly development build of Project CARS and full access to the busy WMD forums. On top of that, Full Members are also entitled to receive the finished retail version of Project CARS free of charge once it hits the shelves.

Full Member status is available for a one-time payment of 45€. Juniors & Team Members who don’t wish to upgrade will receive a discount on the finished title based on their membership commitment (Juniors will receive the title for 10€ less while Team Members get a 25€ reduction off the retail price).

WMD members can upgrade their membership by clicking here. For more info on all the membership features & benefits, please check out the membership overview table here.

Shift 2 Unleashed For Five Euros

Friday, February 24, 2012

EA has launched a sale on their Origin platform, including a very interesting offer for sim racers as Slightly Mad Studios’ Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed now sells for just 5€.

Shift 2 Unleashed was released back in March 2011 and features a mix of road going cars and racing machinery, including the FIA GT1 & GT3 championship and lots of iconic tracks including the Nordschleife.

Even though Shift 2 is surely no thoroughbred simulation, the fast-paced career mode and lots of quality content make it easy to get your money’s worth – Especially if it sells for just 5€. 

For more info on Shift 2, check out the VirtualR review here.

Similar to Steam, Origin is EA’s platform for downloadble games, follow the link below to get to the Shift 2 offer.

Shift 2 Unleashed for Five Euros Here

Gran Turismo 5 “Photo Stream” to Debut in March Update

Thursday, February 23, 2012

A new feature will appeal to all the Gran Turismo shutterbugs, named “Photo Stream”.  This feature allows you to share your finest images, anonymously, with the entire Gran Turismo community through an as-yet unpublished URL:

With the coming Gran Turismo 5 update planned for March 2012, we will be starting a new service on gran-turismo.com worldwide, called “Gran Turismo 5 Photo Stream”.

In GT5 Photo Stream, photographs taken in the photo mode of Gran Turismo 5 and set to “Share” will be shown in a list on a webpage, and be made possible to view by anyone.

The photographs will continue to change periodically, the online ID’s of the photographer will NOT be shown or made public, and there is no evaluation system or the like for the photographs. This is a service which simply introduces what kinds of photographs are being taken in Gran Turismo 5 by players around the world.

Please be aware that any photographs set to “Share” after the start date of this service will be released publically on the web by GT5 Photo Stream.

We hope you’ll look forward to the start of this new service.

* Photographs that had been set to “Share with Friends” before the start date of this service will not be shown in GT5 Photo Stream.
* Due to limitations of time and the number of photograph displayable, not all photographs set to “Share” may be shown in GT5 Photo Stream.

At present gamers can view a specific user’s Shared images on gran-turismo.com, but only if the user is on their friends list. While Photo Stream will be anonymous it will allow you to browse photographs made by any user so long as they have been set to “Share”, as a showcase for the Photomode part of the game.

Tnx GTplanet

World's First 3D Laptop with Dual Graphics Cards in SLI

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Gaming PC's are making a come back due to the consoles lagging in gaming performance edge.  So we are seeing some pretty awesome gear coming out which would have filled a room and cost a fortune hitting the shelves.  I am not sure how much this "lappy" would weigh in but it would sure kick out some rev's for sim racing.

ORIGIN PC announced the availability of their new EON17-X desktop replacement laptop, the most powerful laptop for gamers, artists, and professionals. Today ORIGIN PC announces the world's first 3D laptop with dual graphics cards: The EON17-X3D featuring the latest Intel X79 chipset, 2nd generation Intel hexcore processors, and dual overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards in SLI. The EON17-X3D marks the first 3D laptop from ORIGIN PC with a customizable backlit keyboard with three lighting zones and seven color options.

ORIGIN PC's EON17-X3D Laptop features:

  • Built-in 3D Emitter and 1080p 3D Display
  • NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 Wireless Glasses with LightBoost Technology
  • Customizable Backlit Keyboard with Three Lighting Zones and Seven Colors
  • Intel X79 Chipset with 2nd Generation Intel Hexcore Processors
  • Up to 32GB 1333MHz Corsair Quad Channel Memory
  • Up to 16GB 1866MHz Corsair Vengeance Quad Channel Memory
  • Up to Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M Graphics Cards with ORIGIN Professional Overclocking
  • Up to Three Hard Drives with up to 3TB's of Hard Drive Space
  • Industry Leading Free 24/7 Lifetime Support Based in the United States
  • Fully Customizable starting at $3,032

Automation – New Engine Designer Video

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Camshaft Software has released a new preview video of their car tycoon & design game Automation, showing off some graphical improvements made to the title’s engine designer, one of the title’s core components.

Automation lets you run your own car company all the way from post WWII to modern times, allowing players to build and sell all kinds of cars, from small hatchbacks to full blown supercars.

The title will feature a highly detailed car and engine designer, both of which are based on quite sophisticated physics. Aside from the building components, the title will feature a realistic & dynamic world market & realistic buyer demographics.



Camshaft software is currently looking for funding via the Rockethub website, so far over $12.000 have been collected.

Fanatec CSR Elite Wheel – Review

Friday, February 17, 2012

Rob over at Virtualr has produced another one of his great reviews.  This time its the much anticipated Fanatec CSR Elite wheel.

Check out the un-boxing video below and the review here.

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