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Split/Second DLC Wheels In Later This Month

The Facebook page for Split/Second promises three packs of new cars – one of them free – later this month, and a “major DLC pack” that includes a new environment in September.


February 25, 2010
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Split/Second Hits This May

Part racing game, part blowing stuff up, Black Rock Studio’s Split/Second hits May 21 in North America, Disney Interactive Studios announced today.


January 30, 2010

Split Second Preview: Happy With Second Place

I can be happy in second place, happier in third. At least if I’m playing Disney and Black Rock’s upcoming racing game Split/Second.


January 29, 2010
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Things We Don’t Need To See, Such As Speed

I just finished racing a couple of laps of Disney’s Split/Second racing game. Impressions to come. But first an observation about something I couldn’t observe: the racing game’s speedometer. It had none. And I didn’t miss it.


June 9, 2009

Split/Second Preview: Race Track Go Boom

E3 2009 gave us another opportunity to get our hands on Disney’s explosive, course-altering reality show racer, Split/Second.


May 8, 2009

Split/Second Preview: Power Play

There have been plenty of racing games that pump up the action by arming cars, but Split/Second allows you to use an explosive environment to take out competitors and change the course.


April 23, 2009
News

Pure Devs Want To Revive “Dying” Racing Genre

Pure developers Black Rock Studios feel that the video game racer, as we know it, is “in a dire way,” that the genre “is in many respects dying out.” What can save it?


March 12, 2009
News

Disney Makes Split/Second Official With New Screens

Following last week’s early reveal via GameTrailers, Disney Interactive Studios makes battle racer Split/Second official, with a couple of new screens to sweeten the deal.


February 13, 2009

Video Shows Pure Devs Working on New Title

Tagged Burnout Paradise, and Pure, this “leaked” video seems to show a footage of a street racer in the works by Disney Interactive-owned Black Rock Studio.


August 21, 2008
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Pure – But Slightly Censored – Bliss

The Pure press party wasn’t much to look at – a huge dark room with some faux Italian statues and sweet-looking bikes you couldn’t touch – but that might’ve been Disney Interactive Studios’s plot all along, because compared to the party, Pure itself looked awesome.

This is due in no small part to the visuals. Each track in Pure is loaded with smooth-looking graphics and lush backgrounds that almost distract you from racing. The bikes themselves don’t look half-bad, either. Though there are no licenced models, each part of the bike is licenced and if that means anything to you, you can look forward to cobbling together some pretty sweet custom bikes with some of the best parts; there must be more than a thousand combos you could come up with. Bikes either skew towards fast racing models, or slower trick bikes. An auto-build-your-own mode lets you get as crazy with customisation as you can stand without having to go through each and every bolt and frame choice.