Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
RSC contains a database of 153 developers, 468 software titles, 374 cars, 42 bikes, 242 tracks and more...Legendary British game developer whose career spanned a 20 year period and included groundbreaking simulations of Formula Three and Formula One, including arguably the first ever racing sim: Revs (1984).
Most famous for his Grand Prix series that were published under the MicroProse label until 2000, his career unceremoniously ended when his studio was shut down by Infogrames and the Xbox version of Grand Prix 4 cancelled just prior to release.
RSC Podcast Episode 7 – Management Simulations, F1 Managers, Always Used To Be Better?Join Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley, Simon Croft and guest(s) as they discuss sim racing and racing games past, present and future.
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Sector3 yesterday released an update for their Raceroom simulation. They also announced an official DTM eSports championship and (unless I misunderstand) that the new DTM 2020 car is free to entrants.
Update details:
Download size = 500MB
Client version = 0.9.0.987
Client BuildID = 5471906
Dedi version = 66.0.1185
Dedi BuildID = 5471940
Changelist:
DTM 2020 – Tweaks to their handling and default car setup after feedback from DTM driver.
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup – Tweaks to its new sounds
Suzuka – Updated the track to 2020 visuals. (note: HUD track map is currently off-sync, will be fixed as soon as possible)
RRE/R3E is a free-to-play racing simulator that allows sim racers to race a variation of cars and tracks from all around the world.
