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Powerhouse Takahashi and No Games For Genocide

Powerhouse Takahashi says No Games for Genocide.

A black and white photo of the BMW M Hybrid V8 at the first corner of the Nurburgring GP-Strecke in Project Motor Racing.

The November Postmortems: The Game That Sold The World

Unlike Rennsport, this was meant to be Project Motor Racing's moment.

The VGX light up sign against a pull down projector wall, with the Vancouver Game Expo event banner alongside.

A Few Hours at The Vancouver Game Expo

..Saturday's main fixture was visiting the inaugural Vancouver Game Expo at the Roundhouse Community Centre..

Gameplay of Formula 1: Built to Win, with a Mini Cooper splitting flames out of it's exhaust at a forested track. Jeff Gertsmann is in the corner, locked in.

An Ode, To The Second Highest Ranked NES Racing Game

Landing itself just outside of the top seventy of the list was the 1990 release of Formula 1: Built to Win: and can be seen as a turning point in the evolution of the console racing video game.

The start menu for NASCAR Thunder 2004, with Tony Stewart doing a cool guy pose while in his white and orange Home Depot race suit.

BRGoF25 - 20 Years The Prototype

Twenty-plus years on, the foundations that made NASCAR Thunder 2004 great still ring true with NASCAR 25 doing those things the right way in it's wake...

A blue, white and green Nissan GT-R LM NISMO race car crossing the finish line at a race, from the perspective of the flag man.

Memoirs of a GTWS Exhibition Series

So, on maybe a half hour worth of practice for each race, I did five of the six rounds of the championship in their last time slot. I was in it for the credits and to have a little fun, it was a Exhibition Series after all.

A open wheel racing car spinning off track at turn 9 of the Barcelona circuit. A plume of smoke hides the car as it heads towards the gravel trap.

A Work of Fiction - One Spin in Barcelona

A seemingly innocent spin would set the course for Alberto Cara, rookie teammate Fu Wen and how Yangwang has operated the entire season.

A loading screen from DiRT 2 that gives event details, with a polaroid snapshot of the next race location replaced with the GRiD title screen

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?

The title menu for Wipeout Fusion, edited to be black and white.

BRGoF25 - The Wipeout That Lost It's Way

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

Four cars lined up side by side at the start of a race in Burnout 2: Point of Impact. They are about to drive across a dam at the Crystal Summit Lake track.

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 start of a GT World Challenge race at the Nurburgring, with a swarm of GT3 cars under braking for the first turn. The photo has been edited to be black and white.

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?

A screenshot of Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 showing a red and white stripped Ford GT side by side with a Lamborghini Reventon police car.

Announcements

BRGoF25 - An Introduction

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

Project CARS

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.

NASCAR

Is there NASCAR Life on Mars?

Simply put, we are not racing on Earth anymore.

Ridge Racer

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.

A Skoda Fabia rally car going through a corner at speed, dirt being flung from it's tires. It's driving through a clear-cut forest, with the Fabia mostly white with blue and orange.

WRC

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.

A red Trimui Brick handheld console behind held up against a steering wheel in a car. On the scrren, the intro of Ridge Racer Type 4 is playing.

Hardware

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.

A black and white screenshot of a Ferrari 488 GT3 being run into by a McLaren 720S GT3, as another McLaren drives by to their left.

iRacing

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.

A four door sedan that has been destroyed by shelling from the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza. It is in front a multi-storey apartment complex that has been partially blown apart with Pal

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.