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You’ll Be Able to Build and Customize Pretty Ridiculous Rides in NFS Unbound
Are you excited for Need For Speed Unbound? Colour me “cautiously optimistic,” because I could use a good old-fashioned open-world street racer back in my life, with cop chases, unsavoury characters thrust into cliched plots and off-the-wall cosmetic customisation potential. Today, developer Criterion Games chose to focus on the latter, posting a few short videos…
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Need for Speed Unbound Chases Those Underground Vibes With a Divisive New Look
Electronic Arts finally revealed Need for Speed Unbound on Thursday, the next instalment in the long-running racing franchise, due out on December 2. It’s the first made by Burnout-dev Criterion Games since 2012’s Need for Speed Most Wanted, and it’s going for something notably unlike any of its predecessors.
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Logitech Is Finally Getting Serious About Sim Racing With a $1,500 Direct Drive Wheel
Early last year, I reviewed the Logitech G923, an entry-level sim racing wheel and pedal set. It was fine, but hardly innovative; Logitech has been producing the same gear-driven force feedback systems and flimsy pedals for generations, going back to the G25 wheel released in the mid-aughts. The peripheral giant has slowly watched the likes…
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Rage Software’s Lamborghini Was Canceled, But It Still Lives On
In 2003, U.K.-based Rage Software announced it had entered into a three-year licensing agreement with Lamborghini to produce a series of racing games based around the Italian automaker’s many sports cars. The first entry — titled simply Lamborghini — was to be released on Xbox and PlayStation 2 in spring of that year; GameCube was…