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.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
Header image from Assetto Corsa.
Back in March this year Digital Bros, owners of 505 Games and the Assetto Corsa franchise, mentioned Assetto Corsa 2 was on target for “Spring 2024”. In a new financial update this week they have now labeled it for released Q2, 2024, basically around the same time.
The report – 497KB
It’s a good sign, I suppose, that they didn’t push the release date back at all. While the numbers are trending downwards for the parent company, AC2 is seen as a reason to be positive, though the language does specifically state that only the PC version is being referred to. The console version of AC2 is now labeled as a “long-term publishing plan”.
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