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What Would You Do With The World’s Largest HD Screen?

8:00PM May 12, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Why, you’d play video games on it, just like NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr did at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. As website Joystiq points out, it took 57 workers four months to complete the 332.5 ton, 720p screen, which is comprised of nine million LEDs. More »

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Sponsored By Games, But Racing For Gamers

7:00AM April 3, 2011 | Owen Good

Most single men don’t pay much attention to which brand of laundry detergent they buy, beyond whatever’s cheapest. But back in North Carolina, I had a friend who was adamant about using Tide and could identify others who used it by their scent. More »

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NASCAR 2011′s Delay Isn’t Due To Points System Change

12:30PM January 22, 2011 | Owen Good

Earlier this week Eutechnyx, the studio behind NASCAR’s revival on console gaming, delayed NASCAR 2011 to March 29. Then word passed that the racing series will refining its championship points structure for the next season. Were the two related? More »

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Quick, How Many Ads Can You Spot On This NASCAR Box

12:30PM January 13, 2011 | Owen Good

Let’s thank the crew behind the Activision Eutechnyx NASCAR 2011 The Game Lowe’s GoDaddy Cheerios Impala. They gave us some super box art that run real good today. The game releases March 29, part of a sportspocalypse month in gaming.

In Real Life

Race A Toilet With NASCAR’s Five-Time Champ

3:30PM December 9, 2010 | Owen Good

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.viddler.com/player/279233e7/","customParams":{"flashVars":"fake=1"},"width":500,"height":301.25,"ratio":0.5625,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"viddler","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); The motto of Jimmie Johnson, who clinched his fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup championship last month, is “Anything With An Engine.” With dumpsters, coffins and lawnmowers, this upcoming arcade racer bearing his name takes that to an illogical extreme. More »

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The First 22 Drivers Of NASCAR 2011 The Game

10:30AM December 4, 2010 | Owen Good

NASCAR The Game 2011 dropped another 22 names of drivers (and their crew chiefs) who’ve licensed the use of their images in the game. There’s a lady driver on this list, but it’s not Danica Patrick. More »

NASCAR 2011 Screens Get Loose In Turn Three

10:20AM November 6, 2010 | Owen Good

The flaps go up to keep Jeff Gordon from going airborne in this new batch of screenshots for NASCAR 2011: The Game, due next year from Eutechnyx and Activision. More »

A New Kind Of Busch Beer

9:20AM October 21, 2010 | Owen Good

Alcohol references of any type usually mean an ESRB rating stricter than E. This isn’t new to NASCAR games. But it’s amusing to see Kurt Busch, driver of the Miller Lite No. 2. get his own brand of beer. More »

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First Screens Of Activision’s NASCAR Game

12:30PM October 1, 2010 | Owen Good

Not sure what the point is of a site countdown when the game is confirmed and, today, 15 screens for NASCAR 2011: The Game were get put up on the new site. But that countdown’s still a-tickin’ anyhow. More »

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New NASCAR Game Confirmed

8:20AM September 30, 2010 | Owen Good

As was rumoured last week, Activision now holds the NASCAR licence and racing-focused studio Eutechnyx will be building “NASCAR 2011: The Game,” according to an official site launched today with a countdown clock that hits zero in five days. More »