Powerhouse Takahashi (Page 2)

Jon Bois is standing by a corner wall, with some text showing the cases for being Pro and Anti Union. The case for anti-union is that you're an asshole.

Union Busting on Tarmac, Gravel, and Snow

The easiest way to prevent a strike and the need to union bust, is to give your workers what they are asking for.

A Ford Escort RS Cosworth rally car on a paved backroad, with boulders to it's right and a sheer cliff guaraded by a armco barrier to it's left in DiRT Rally 2.0

Racenet and The Clubs No More.

It's time to get off my high horse, because what's being lost with Racenet's closure is the loss of community.

Agent Smith, played by Hugo Weaving, has a defiant grin on his face as he attempts to choke out Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, in The Matrix

Balance of Performance, Behind Closed Doors

You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.

Minkara #1: The harness that rights a wrong.

To learn that a company made a harness to revert that process to resemble what is raced on Sundays before paddle shifts became the norm caught me by surprise.

Full Game Teardown: Tokyo Xtreme Racer

The new Tokyo Extreme Racer feels like home, and it is good to be back.

The title screen to a demo of Burnout 3, with text saying the full game is Coming in September 2004. It's the same start screen as in the full release, but missing the Takedown by-line

Test Driven: Burnout 3, SLUS-29113

This PS2 demo of Burnout 3 Takedown may be just one race, but it's one race that led to a lasting legacy that cannot be understated.

A Sony Honda Afeela 1 sedan parked beside an Maoi on Easter Island.

An Afeela Out Of Time

Are we surprised the equivalent of an NIST standard electric car would be dead on arrival even if it wasn't of it's own doing?

BRGoF25 - From Alba to London

Burnout 3: Takedown was a revolution that redefined the idea of what a racing game could be when it was released in 2004.

The red and white Target sponsored Chevrolet NASCAR stock car of Juan Pablo Montoya driving to a garage area

The Car of Tomorrow, The Formula 1 of Today?

Redefining how Formula 1 races to where drivers and fans are comparing it to Mario Kart in the interim is going to work itself out, right?

Full Game Teardown: iRacing Arcade

...two separate IPs full of self-confidence in what they are now being given the chance to compliment each other in ways that previously hadn't been tried in the genre.

A screenshot from the intro to Gran Turismo 3, where the number 3 gets a outer glow effect superimposted in front of a moving race track.

BRGoF25 - Raising The Bar

Polyphony Digital threw everything they could at Gran Turismo 3 to make it everything they visioned it to be, and the industry stopped and looked on in wonder as an impossible standard to reach was raised ever higher.

The Other Thunder 2004, The Closing Chapter

But before that, we have a game that quietly accepted it's fate as the end of the line on the Playstation and did so with as much grace as it could.

A side shot of the Bubble Gum Fellow Umamusume Porsche 911 GT3 R while it's driving at Suzuka. The car is blue with white, yellow and orange.

Gran Turismo

The Cases For, And Against the 911 GT3 R

There is no doubt that the 911 GT3 R is going to get a lot of mileage out of players no mater what, though it remains lost in the quagmire of a class that doesn't really engage and challenge drivers in terms of racecraft.

Assetto Corsa

Assetto Corsa EVO, Lost to Gentrification

My mind's eye had Assetto Corsa Evo being a dream game for car and driving enthusiasts, not as a pure sim racing game.

A green, with blue red and yellow striped Volvo brick of a sedan on a gravel rally stage in a forest.

Opinions

Thinking Outside The World Rally Box

What if rallying in video games, started to mirror the physical realities of rallying a little bit more? What would that look like?

BRGoF25

BRGoF25 - The King of The Monsters

GTR2 is the total package when it comes to realistic racing games on PC.

A rally co-driver in a teal and pink drivers suit giving a handshake to Johaan driving on a wooden sim racing rig while wearing a VR headset.

Miscellaneous

When A Awesome Realistic Racing Game Got Done Quick

The Richard Burns Rally exhibition put on by Johann is a milestone run, and the most fitting realistic racing title to be on a GDQ stage as Richard Burns died as a result of a brain tumor four years to the day after he became World Rally Champion.

We are in a bedroom looking out at a snowy countryside with a chapel in the distance. The drab, yellow room has a small CRT tv on a desk in the corner.

Amistech

Ai in Your Finnish Winter Wonderland

Toplessgun using Generative Ai in this regard within My Winter Car for music, textures and videos is especially disappointing. Using such technology as a shortcut as to not make art himself takes away so much from what makes his games special.

A from behind look at the start of a race featuring five GT3 cars at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. The start/finish banner says For Racers, From Racers.

Rennsport

The November Postmortems: Filling Up The Grid

Rennsport is just here and I don't know what it will take for it to be much more than that...

SEGA

An Encounter With The World Drivers Championship

... one of the cabinet racing games I had to find a way to play didn't require flying abroad to give it a test drive.

Announcements

Powerhouse Takahashi and No Games For Genocide

Powerhouse Takahashi says No Games for Genocide.

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.