In Real Life

Awesome New Racer Drives Outside Your TV Screen

Hobbyist Blair Kelly has been working on a project called Arduino Wifly Mini, which takes a remote-controlled Mini Cooper, crams it full of cameras and has you controlling it with your choice of video game peripherals.


January 26, 2012
News

There’s A Lot More To Do In Final Fantasy XIII-2 Than Save The World

While Final Fantasy XIII was all about getting the job done in a timely fashion, Final Fantasy XIII-2 gives the player plenty of time to relax between tasks. Check out some of the more entertaining diversions tucked away in next week’s sequel.


September 1, 2011
News

Bone-Chilling Run Through The Deadliest Road In Colorado

Despite living in Colorado for 10 years I never drove through Independence Pass. Not in bad weather. Certainly not with snow on the mountain pass.


August 24, 2011
In Real Life

Building Need For Speed Mega Blok By Mega Blok

Who would want to buy Need for Speed-branded Mega Bloks construction sets? That’s the question I asked myself when I first heard the LEGO competitor had taken on EA’s racing game licence earlier this year. Now that the sets are hitting store shelves, I have an answer: me.


June 16, 2011
Retro

Star Rider Races Into My Fantasies

Check out this psychedelic trip of a game, courtesy the bygone days of laserdisc. In the laserdisc/CG arcade game Star Rider, racers are superimposed over a futuristic dreamscape, enabling the background to display much more advanced graphics than were typical at the time.


May 24, 2011
In Real Life

The Geekiest Cars On Earth

For Japanese otaku, itasha – literally “painmobile” – are about as geeky as they come. This past weekend, diehard itasha gathered and gawked in Tokyo’s Odaiba.


May 4, 2011
PlayStation

Motorstorm: Apocalypse Crashes Into Game Reviewers’ Hearts

After pausing to pay its respects to victims of Japan’s earthquake crisis, the latest Motorstorm races to store shelves today, but first it must navigate the assembled video game critics in the Motorstorm: Apocalypse Frankenreview.


April 3, 2011
News

Sponsored By Games, But Racing For Gamers

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.


March 13, 2011
Mobile

Here’s One Tricked-Out Ride On Shift 2 Unleashed

Here’s Shift 2: Unleashed being played at PAX East on three extremely large television screens, shot by our man there, Stephen Totilo.


January 22, 2011
PlayStation

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

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?