Se volete divertirvi a giocare in rete LAN con l'ottimo Need for Speed Underground della Electronic Arts, vi sarà certamente di aiuto la comoda utility denominata NfSU Lan, giunta oggi alla release 0.9.9:

Updates 0.9.9:
* Fixed send challenge bug
* Fixed recvtimeout bug
* Added win32 service mode

E' disponibile la nuova versione 047 (4,3MB) del divertente simulatore gratuito denominato Sirocco Racing: il suo autore, Ashley McConnell, prosegue verso la strada dello sviluppo e del perfezionamento della fisica.

I've finally cracked the secret of getting a smooth track! I know its a little too smooth, but its a good start and I can add bumps later on .
I have also made a change to allow you to set the Field of View in the ./data/options.ini file.
I have made some changes to the car handling. I have dropped in a 400BHP engine. I have also changed the acceleration / braking grip curve to give it a flatter (more like a racing tyre) curve. As there is a little more grip to play with I have increased the brake strength.

Il portale di Team XBox ha pubblicato una interessante intervista a Gavin Raeburn, uno dei responsabili esecutivi del nuovo ed atteso Toca Race Driver 2 della Codemasters.

Are you making any changes or improvements to the physics model for TRD2?

Gavin R: The car physics have been rewritten from the ground up for Race Driver 2. We wanted to start with a 100% pure simulation, built around a realistic test bed. This test bed included a high quality force feedback steering wheel with analogue gas, brake and clutch pedals and a six-shift gear stick. The idea was that we should be able to accurately model any car within this test bed and we could then apply any driving assists needed to tame the cars down for use on a standard pad controller. The surprising thing was that in the end we didn't actually need to add any driving assists as the physics model felt very natural, even through a regular analogue pad. This has meant that we have been able to lock down the handling very early on in development so we can spend the time tuning all of the many different vehicle types we have in the game.

Il portale italiano NextGame.it ha pubblicato un'esauriente recensione su Sega GT Online in versione X-Box. Per leggerla interamente cliccate qui.

Sega lancia sul mercato il nuovo capitolo del suo "quasi simulatore" di guida. Nato come semplice appendice ed evolutosi come titolo a sé stante, Sega GT Online si propone sul mercato carico di tante promesse. Le manterrà?

Il nuovo Vermin Design Team ha annunciato l'intenzione di realizzare un nuovo simulatore di guida gratuito basato sulla fisica e sul codice di programmazione del netKar di Stefano Casillo: il gioco, già alla sua prima versione alpha, rappresenterà la stagione di Formula 1 del 1977, alla quale però bisognerà arrivare passando per la F2 del 76 ! Per maggiori informazioni leggete le FAQ ufficiali e consultate il forum dedicato.

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Vermin Design Team are proud to announce its plans to release a stand alone racing simulation based upon the F1 1977 season. The sim will be built around NetKar's game engine with the help of Kunos, who is the creator and developer of the netkar game.

As a team we are aiming to produce a realistic racing simulation, which captures the feel and the spirt of racing in 1977. This includes introducing a progressive season to play through, allowing car changes to happen throughout the season as per real life. Also there will be a F2 1976 training season with all the respective cars from that class. Please see FAQ's for a full list of planned features.

Our current progress status is at Alpha stage 0.2. The below list is a guide to what we have already started to do.

- Developing car models
- Design features
- In game menu designs
- Compiling research for the cars physics

Please see attatched pictures of our current progress with the car models, the rendered pictures are our game models, rendered in Cinema.

We will release more information regarding our progress in our next press release. Please keep checking our forum, link can be found below, for updates. In the meantime we will leave you in suspense on what else we have to offer.

Should you have any questions please see FAQ's, if then should your question remain unanswered please post a thread on our forum and we will see if we can answer it.

Techland ha rilasciato una cartella stampa in cui spiega le caratteristiche principali dei tracciati di gara e degli scenari realizzati in Xpand Rally: trovate le informazioni e nuove immagini a questo indirizzo.