Powerhouse Takahashi (Page 2)

A black and white image of a BMW M4 GT3 about to go up the Eau Rouge-Radillon section at Spa-Francorchamps.

Beyond Rennsport.. What Is The Point of All This?

It's time to dig deep, get curious, and see there is more to something needing to have "a point."

The pair of Cadillac Formula 1 cars going side by side at the Madring.

Formula 1's Quiet Tin Anniversary

We used to dream of Formula 1 games like this, and that reality started a decade ago.

The title screen to Kaido Genkai, featuring a collage of all the different cars and scenery seen in the game.

Test Driven: Kaido Genkai, Steam Demo

I need a small town, slow and small cars, and above all else, modesty. We all do.

The anime title card for Screamer, featuring the five teams of three drivers each all posing together.

Full Game Teardown: Screamer

A better racing game genre is possible, and it starts with Screamer.

The two main characters from Clutch, Theo and Cass Martial, leaning against a Porsche 911 GT3 S/C on the side of the road.

The Payback and The Clutch

The next step forward for the AAA racing game is on the horizon, but we've been here before right?

Danny Devito offering you a white Renault Twingo while driving behind the wheel, from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Can I Offer You A Nice Twingo?

While this road may be leading to Le Mans, it's easy to forget the nugget we drove to get there.

Glowing green pedals in the footwell of a car. There's the longer gas peal on the right side, with the more square brake and clutch pedal alongside.

Minkara #2: I Saw The Pedals Glo

A set of universal pedals from the tuner-era weren't meant to survive, but here they are.

The front left corner of Kyle Busch's M&Ms Toyota Camry driving through a garage area.

Of Myths, Pineapples, and Wild Things

Two legends that created history in real time in front of our eyes, but one of them I took for granted.

A Porsche 963 Le Mans Prototype race car entering the chicane at Watkens Glen International, with the armco barrier at the start of that corner sequence to it's inside.

A Drago Never Meant To Last

Real racing teams naturally come and go, but why is it unnatural when a top virtual team closes?

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

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

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

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.

Sony

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

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

Actual Racing

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

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

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.

NASCAR

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?

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