Video game development is full of names that have made groundbreaking steps you’ve never even heard about. Shawn Nash is a behind-the-scenes pioneer responsible for SODA Off Road Racing’s incredible physics, Papyrus’ graphical advancements and iRacing’s use of laser scan data for the physical track surfaces.
This interview with RSC, published in 2021, details his early life and career, through both his own company, Papyrus, Electronic Arts, to his time at iRacing.
As a direct ancestor of iRacing, the ‘Grand Prix Legends engine’ had multiple stock car racing false starts, before eventually releasing as NASCAR Racing 4. The original NASCAR 3, cancelled and replaced by one that used NASCAR 2’s engine, is barely remembered.
Slightly Mad Studios today announced on social media that Steam will de-list Project Cars 1 on October 3, 2022 and Project Cars 2 on September 21, 2022 due to licensing.
What this means, in real terms, is that those titles no longer bring in enough revenue for the developer to renew the licenses. However, if you purchase the titles now then you should still get access to the full-featured titles and content long past that deadline. This is the same reason why you can still buy Steam keys for de-listed F1 titles from Codemasters and use them to activate the product you can no longer buy via Steam itself.
If you’re interested in buying a PCARS2 Steam key from a legal source and want to help RSC at the same time, check out Humble. (This is an affiliate key that gives RSC a percentage of the sale).