Whether or not you have strong ties to the Hot Wheels brand in 2021, I'd say that based on the first gameplay trailer for Hot Wheels Unleashed, Milestone's upcoming arcade racer could easily still click. The cars look suitably cool, the wi...

Remember that scene in Akira where Tetsuo steals Kaneda's bike and gets the ever-loving shit kicked out of him by a street gang? If you've ever watched that scene and thought "Man, that could be me!" then you might want to look into RUNNER,...

If there is one genre that has been all but perfected for mobile gaming, it's the racing sim. Gameloft's Asphalt series has been killing it since it jumped to iOS in 2009, and even if its monetization systems get more aggressive with e...

In today's contest you can win Taxi Chaos for Switch, PS4, or Xbox One! Do you want a free game? The answer, of course, is, "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!" In today's joint we're giving away an...um...homage to the classic Sega cabbie game in T...

In today's contest you can win Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame 4! Look, I just refuse to put the "The Official Videogame" part in this title. It's just too long. Monster Energy Supercross 4 is a perfectly fine title witho...

The latest entry in the long-running World Rally Championship series finally got the green flag on Switch today, as WRC 9 finally launches on the Nintendo platform, following its September 2020 release on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC WRC 9 for...

[Update: Forza Horizon 4 launched today on Steam and there's a free car for all platforms. You can get the 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS if you sign into your Xbox profile before March 14 at 10:00 am Pacific.] Playground Games' crowd-favorite rac...

Chocobo Racing was an absolutely staple '90s game. I mean, it came at the tail-end of the '90s, but it epitomized Square Enix's attempt to spin off anything and everything Final Fantasy related after VII hit it so big. And mascot kart racer...

Gran Turismo games arrive precisely when they mean to. As a fan of the series since the start, they're not on what I'd call a regular schedule, especially after the third game. What was once a two-ish year cadence became three, then six, th...

Buckle up for safely, because it appears that Sweet Tooth and his maniacal pals are revving their engines once again. But this time, David Jaffe's violent world of Twisted Metal has been given the green-light in a whole other fashion, joini...

In today's contest you can win a Switch copy of Lonely Mountains: Downhill from Super Rare Games! I was just talking with my wife yesterday how I really, really want to ride a tandem bicycle. I've never done it! It looks relaxing and fun an...

Electronic Arts has spoken of its delight in the publisher's acquisition of developer Codemasters. EA purchased the racing games specialist back in December 2020 for $1.2 billion - the sudden bid pulling the sale out from under the nose of ...

We're only two weeks into 2021 and publishers are already ripping off the delay Band-Aid. We haven't seen or heard much from Riders Republic – just enough that it's on the radar for Steep fans and people who wanted to like that game b...

It's a good day when I get to talk about F-Zero. I feel like I only get the chance a few times a year at most, but this Nintendo series has been dormant for far too long, and deserves a relaunch. Former producer (and now Yakuza franchise de...

Full game trials are something I'd like to see more of in general and also specifically for multiplatform games. Sometimes you want to see – and feel – how a particular game runs on Switch, y'know? This week, Nintendo is hosting...

Late last week, Slightly Mad Studios CEO Ian Bell dropped a few tweets demonstrating his excitement for the company's upcoming road-ripper Project CARS 4, which is currently in development for next-gen platforms. In messages since deleted f...

[Update: It'll be available tomorrow, seemingly for everyone who plays the game.] Forza Horizon players can rip around England with some futuristic flair. CD Projekt and Playground Games have collaborated to make the Cyberpunk 20...

Forza Horizon 4 is one of the best Xbox games in years and it just keeps getting better. Playground Games has supported it far beyond the treatment these games usually get -- that might be a pleasant byproduct of being an Xbox Game Pa...

At a certain point in my life, religiously chasing racing games kind of passed me by. Don't get me wrong, I'm always up for a digital drive: I just might not be partaking in every single entry of a franchise. Although Codemasters has been a...

PS5 fans are finally getting some details and extended footage taken from the brand new platform exclusive Destruction AllStars, in development at Lucid Games and WuShu Studios. Publisher Sony Interactive has released an extended trailer fo...

In today's contest you can win DIRT 5 Amplified Edition for PS4, Xbox One, or Steam! No disrespect here, but man how does a game called "dirt" sell so many copies? It's crazy! You've gotta have some cajones to name your game after stuff you...

During almost any other time, I would not be interested in Dirt 5. I say this confidently because I was not interested in Dirt Rally 2.0 or Dirt 4. There have been seven previous Dirt games (!!) and I did not have a lick of inter...

[Update: After sitting on the listings for two months, Sega has finally confirmed the double-packs officially. They are: Team Sonic Racing + Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces + Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD. They're out today for $39.99...

The essence of a lot of the Forza Horizon experience is "Go fast, go as fast as possible." That's not always true for racing and its strategic braking and positioning. But, for speed traps, stunt jumps, drag races, etc? Yep, just go re...

Even when it comes to games we've known about for a while, the PlayStation 5 launch lineup isn't set in stone just yet. Today, Codemasters confirmed Dirt 5 will make the November 12 deadline. In a tweet, the studio also reiterated several f...