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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Studio 397 published their monthly roadmap today and here are the bullet points:
– New laser scanned Formula E track coming (not named).
– Endurance fixes a part of the next release. They seem confident they are fixed.
– Beta UI nearly (more nearly than last time) at stage to become default.
– Beta UI includes ability to edit materials on cars (like seen in ACC since a few versions back. rF2 screenshot of the UI below).
– Important update to the plugins coming for stock cars. I assume this is for race rules.
– New modding documentation coming for PBR.
– Loch Drummond will be available in dev mode.
– Next build out very soon “this month”… Which probably means next month (September)?
– Updated Bentley Continental GT3 and new Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo cars won’t be out for a few weeks.
– Nordschleife PBR updates releasing soon (screens below).
– Attack mode from Formula E coming to online racing (with mod support for other series if wanted).
– Paul Jeffrey of RaceDepartment now works for Studio 397.
rF2 is a simulation designed to simulate any type of multi-wheeled vehicle of any era, supports modding directly, and features an advanced physics, suspension, and tire model.
