Dopo mesi di silenzio ecco altre novità riguardo Racing Legends, il tanto atteso titolo dei West Brothers:

Racing Legends will feature various 'diorama' areas. We have ideas for a number of these areas eventually and the accompanying images show the current progress on one of these areas. This is the classic courtyard scene. This is where all off track work will be based. Initially a lot of the garages will be empty but as you add more cars to your collection each will be allocated its own garage area and the various cars can be wheeled out and inspected at anytime. When all the bays are full you can transfer some of the less used cars to the storage area to make room. There will be workshop areas where the cars will go to be dismantled, inspected and race prepared and somewhere to display all the trophies you win.

Per maggiori informazioni riguardo il progresso dei lavori vi consigliamo di visitare la pagina ufficiale di Racing Legends.

La data di rilascio del nuovo Nascar Thunder 2004 si avvicina sempre di più e la Electronic Arts ha comunicato oggi che sarà Tony Stewart, campione Winston Cup, ad apparire sulla scatola del gioco ed in tutto il merchandising ufficiale:

Electronic Arts announced today that reigning NASCAR® Winston Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart will be the official cover athlete for NASCAR Thunder™ 2004 from EA SPORTS™. Tony's likeness will appear on all NASCAR Thunder 2004 packaging and merchandising.

"Being on the cover of NASCAR Thunder 2004 is an honor for the entire Joe Gibbs Racing team," commented Tony Stewart. "I look forward to working with EA SPORTS and playing NASCAR Thunder 2004 while on the road and against other drivers and my crew."

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In just four years of NASCAR Winston Cup Series competition with Joe Gibbs Racing, Home Depot driver Tony Stewart secured one of the most coveted honors in all of motor sports-the NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship. It was Stewart's ninth driving title since he first wheeled a go-kart at a racetrack in 1978.

"We feel that Tony Stewart epitomizes the competitive spirit that we are capturing in this year's game," said Chris Gray, Executive Producer for EA SPORTS NASCAR Thunder. "The grudges and alliances gameplay makes you feel like there are real drivers inside the other cars, an experience that is unmatched by any other driving game on the market."

NASCAR Thunder 2004 is slated to ship this fall for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the PlayStation console, the Xbox video game system from Microsoft, and PC CD-ROM next week. NASCAR Thunder 2004 is being developed by EA Tiburon.

Il sito di RacerPlanet ha pubblicato una completa preview dedicata al prossimo ed atteso Need for Speed Underground della Electronic Arts:

Well I hope you have learned a lot about NFS Underground and are getting as excited about it as I am for the game. I think this game will more then make up for the HP2 disaster. I think this game is very visually stunning, they use layers for the cars like in photoshop. What about car physics you say? Well I'd have to give you a rough guess and say that while it's still a bit arcadey, like all NFS games have been recently.

Con la nuova utility GNL.tv potrete controllare in diretta le classifiche in tempo reale di una gara online disputata con Nascar Racing 2003 Season della Papyrus; ecco le caratteristiche del programma:

GNL.tv is a open source racecast system for Papyrus Nascar Racing 2003. It allows thousands of people to watch live the standings of a NR2003 race. This is the first step to providing the online racing community a true live experience watching other racers competing in their leagues.

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A small server application connects to a NR2003 installation on the same computer and collects standings data during the race. A PHP based webpage connects to the server application and displays the results.

Originally developed for the german Virtual Racing e.V. league, GNL.tv has now been released as open source software. The goal behind this step is to provide a solid framework for building a sophisticated TV application with the help of the racing community that addresses all requirements for a unique watching experience.

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