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.
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.
Join Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley, Simon Croft and guest(s) as they discuss sim racing and racing games past, present and future.
Just four months after they acquired the well respected Ratbag Games studio (recently renamed Midway Australia), Midway Games have reportedly decided to shutter the studio, put 70 people out of work and remove a major player from the industry for no good reason whatsoever.
Perhaps buying a studio for stocks worth $7 million wasn’t the best decision when your company Q3 losses totaled $29 million, eh Midway? It’s incredibly sad that we’re going to lose Ratbag because of this, their products really added something to the genre.