BRGoF25 - When Southam Ruled The World

..after getting their sea legs under them with their new game engine, it was time to put the hammer down and make the two best racing games the Southam-based developer and publisher has ever made.

Project Motor Racing has a Nazi Problem

If there is one Nazi game developer in the room with ten other people working with them, how many Nazi game developers are there on the team?

BRGoF25 - The Wipeout That Lost It's Way

It it a mastery of environmental storytelling never seen in racing games before, or since.

BRGoF25 - The Honorable Mentions

Both this game and the game it got one-upped by left nothing on the table when it comes to expressing the racing condition it wanted to express.

The Realities Facing The Desire for Racing Sims To Go Mainstream

With that in mind, would a AAA publisher want to greenlight a hyper-realistic racer or "racing sim" with those expectations that it must overcome?

BRGoF25 - An Introduction

Welcome to BRGoF25, a look at the Best Racing Games of the First 25 years of the 21st century.

In Memoriam: Project CARS 3

I can't think of any other racing game that should be talked about in death in this way: because I have never seen a racing game so utterly wronged in it's birth, and in life.

Is there NASCAR Life on Mars?

Simply put, we are not racing on Earth anymore.

One More Win - A Love Letter to The Racing Game Made With Love

The team at Namco made Ridge Racer Type 4 the way they wanted it to be from the very beginning: crisp and cool with immediately recognizable shapes and colors in the menus and in the liveries of the teams you race for.

Memoirs of a EA Sports WRC League

I needed to give myself a second opinion on this game, one that looked a bit deeper at a game that while ticked a lot of the boxes of what a licensed WRC should be, left too much to the imagination to be called anything other than a ok video game.

My Playstation Settings for The Trimui Brick

These games will always be worthy of play, and for me it was money well spent being able to play Playstation games on the go.

Returning to Postmodernism: Reflecting on "Split 22"

Did these kids really "destroy" sim racing as the clickbait title from Boosted Media likes to claim when they broke the gentleman's agreement?

Need For Speed

There's a Need For Speed Carbon Arcade Cabinet?

At it's core, it is still Need For speed Carbon and it fulfills one of the basic principals for a console racing game to nail in the port to the arcades: the base game should be good in the first place.

Formula Legends

Giving the Formula Legends Demo a Test Drive

...to say that we are well beyond due for another open wheel racer that's done in a chibi and cartoony art style that's more kid-oriented is not a stretch of the imagination.

Forza

Sorry, But BDS Includes Forza Horizon 5

You get your Forza Horizons and the like at home, and you also get Microsoft supporting Israeli operations in bombing civilians walking in the streets...

Gran Turismo

Every Skyline a New Experience

Every individual Skyline GT-R that's in GT7, as well as any other car in the game, can be a new experience in it of itself where the only restriction is what the player's mind wants the car to be.

Need For Speed

Taking The Wrong Way in Need For Speed Undergound

There is an immediate satisfaction the times they choose 9th & Frey or 7th & Sparling when you played Need For Speed Underground for the Gameboy Advance as a kid that stands the test of time for those who now Speedrun the campaign to completion.

Gran Turismo

No, Steve Alvarez Brown, The GT7 Car list Isn't a "Total Mess"

"But if all he's effectively is asking for is for new, and some older, racing cars to be added to GT7 some three years after initial release, it makes me beg the question: Does Super GT actually know what's going on in a Gran Turismo car list?"

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The Powerhouse Begins Here.

Welcome to Powerhouse Takahashi. A home for my musings and thoughts on the world of racing video games, a genre that can attest to being there since the very beginning of video games as we know them in the 1970s. However, the early origins of the medium goes back to