Despite a rather tepid stack of releases last console generation, I still have a soft spot for the Motorsport line of Forza games. While Forza Horizon has dominated the market with its perfect mix of…
October 4, 2023 | 03:05 EDT
Of all the American motorsports the country has to offer, Motocross has to be the most exciting product in some time. The perfect mix of NASCAR’s repetition, sprint car unpredictability, and raw…
March 9, 2023 | 11:00 EST
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined campy 50s B-movies with Life Force or R-Type-style shmups? If you have, then your weirdly specific musings have been realized in the form of …
September 23, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
The futuristic arcade racer is dead. Nintendo brought the genre to the popular consciousness with the launch of the SNES and strangled it through neglect over the coming decades. Other developers…
July 9, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
When it comes to next-generation hardware, few games have truly taken advantage of the power that comes bundled into these new consoles. Forza Horizon 5 is one of the games that, as the series has…
November 4, 2021 | 03:05 EDT
The metallic little racecars and plastic orange tracks of my childhood have come back to haunt me once more in the form of a video game: Hot Wheels Unleashed. Milestone, the Italy-based racing game…
September 27, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
If you’ve ever wanted to fulfill any fantasies about driving at top speed with reckless abandon as you let the road tell you where you need to go, well, this is NOT the game for that. In Can’t Drive…
March 19, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
There is nothing more exhilarating than hurtling around a corner at sixty miles an hour and waiting as your car slides further and further off the road before the tires find traction and you jerk…
November 2, 2020 | 08:00 EST
When it comes to racing games, it's not too hard to find something that fits in any specific niche, whether it is an accessible casual arcade racer like Mario Kart or Forza Horizon or something more…
July 13, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
I've never had much luck with cycling. Every time I took it up as a kid, something got in the way. Once, my bike fell apart. Another time, it was stolen. Sometimes it just didn't work in the first…
February 21, 2020 | 11:00 EST
The tenth game in Codemasters' long-running TOCA race franchise, GRID is meant to be a soft reboot of the entire GRID sub-series. Most of the overall design fits with that paradigm, with Codemasters…
October 8, 2019 | 04:00 EDT
Everyone has a kart racer that they enjoy especially back when home consoles were new, if you were on a Nintendo 64 you were going to be a Diddy Kong Racing or Mario Kart person, if you were on a…
July 1, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Sonic is once again giving his feet a break and hopping into a car. This occurrence isn't wholly uncommon for our favorite hedgehog throughout his career, but it still feels noteworthy. In his latest…
May 31, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Forza Horizon has always held a position in my mind as the “fun Forza” series. Not that the Motorsport games aren’t good, but the breezy, easy-going festival vibes of this series have always focused…
September 29, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
1999 was a more innocent time for a Star Wars fan. Long before the fandom raged against the corporate machine that is Disney, everyone was wide-eyed and excited at the prospect of The Phantom Menace…
May 24, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
Any franchise burdened with a yearly release cycle is going to suffer. Outside of simple roster updates and virtual puzzle books, a game takes more than twelve months to fully come together. Add the…
November 13, 2017 | 09:00 EST
Lifespeed is a new futuristic racing game for the New 3DS. It is the debut game of independent studio Wee Man Studios, a company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lifespeed makes a few interesting…
February 24, 2017 | 09:00 EST
Rocket League has been a massive hit as of late, and for good reason. It's one of those ideas that is the perfect elevator pitch: cars playing soccer. From the onset, Rocket League seems…
July 30, 2015 | 10:00 EDT
There is more than a little empathy to be had for the poor souls who work on annual sequels, for it is one of the most treacherous tightropes to walk alongside the licensed game and the sports…
January 14, 2015 | 09:00 EST
One of the great things about racing games is the sheer versatility and ability to run the gamut of different experiences. The racing game world has seen basically everything from cyberpunk future…
January 2, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Futuristic racers are seldom seen nowadays. At some point in history, they were all the rage, with F-Zero and Wipeout being some of the more popular and still very well-known. So how does a new…
November 27, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Everyone knows what the Forza series brings to the table; fast cars, great driving mechanics, and tons of customization options, but the second game in Forza's spinoff series, Forza Horizon 2, offers…
October 5, 2014 | 12:00 EDT
Most gamers have fond memories of Mario Kart in their lives...whether it is from the first time playing Super Mario Kart or 4-player chaos on the N64. With only a few minor hiccups in the series...…
June 9, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
As you boot up Trials Fusion, a song bursts out, welcoming you to the future. Despite this confident statement, the future of Trials isn’t really worth singing about. Trials Fusion is a really…
May 14, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
One of the most mixed-reviewed Xbox One launch titles is finally coming down to the Xbox 360, LocoCycle. Will it be a better fit here than the Xbox One? Let’s take a look and find out. NOTE - Upon…
February 14, 2014 | 09:00 EST