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.
Better known today as the developer of Skyrim and Fallout, Bethesda once had a well-respected racing game franchise and were deep into development of a licensed Skip Barber Racing title that never released.
The SIMBIN Studios lineage can be tracked through Sector 3 Studios (now known as KW Studios) and also through Ian Bell’s Blimey! Games and Slightly Mad Studios.
The company are most famous for their GTR franchise titles.
Volvo Car Corporation and SimBin Development Team released Volvo: The Game in May, 2009. It was completely free, and could be downloaded originally from the Volvo Web site. A fairly interesting marketing experience, the software was downloaded more than 50,000 times in two days.
It included the Volvo S60 Concept road car and Volvo S40, Volvo 850 Estate, Volvo 240, Volvo C30, Volvo S60 race cars. Just two circuits were included: Gothenburg Eco Drive Arena, Sweden and Autodrome Chayka, Ukraine.
GTREvo was available as a standalone game that included Race 07 and as DLC for Race 07.
GTRE, STCC, RaceOn, FR, STCC2, GTPower, WTCC10, retro, Injection addons.
GTR 2 – FIA GT Racing Game is a sports car racing simulator developed by Blimey! Games and SimBin Studios for PC and is a sequel to GTR. The game simulates the 2003 and 2004 FIA GT Championship racing series. It uses Image Space Incorporated’s rFactor engine as a codebase.
GTR – FIA GT Racing Game is a sports car racing simulator developed by SimBin Studios for PC. It was the first release for the studio who formed from modders going pro. The game simulates the FIA GT Championship racing series. It uses Image Space Incorporated’s rFactor engine as a codebase.