Con un messaggio su Facebook, la Kunos Simulazioni annuncia il ritardo nell'uscita dell'atteso update per console di Assetto Corsa. La software house romana non è riuscita a completare il lavoro entro il mese come previsto, ma, oltre ad alcuni screens inediti, ci viene confermata la presenza delle lobbies personalizzate, dei campionati ed altro ancora.

Despite our best efforts, we are unable to launch our next major console update at the end of this month, as hoped. However, we’re pushing hard and fingers crossed, we should have a release date to share with you all very soon. We’re almost there!

Thank you all so much for your continued patience and support - It means so much to the team! This update is full of incredible content and features, including Custom Online Lobbies, Custom Championships and much more. Stay tuned for more info...

Il team Studio 397 ci mostra finalmente i primi screens in game del suo rFactor 2 spinto dal nuovo motore grafico in DirectX 11. Vi ricordiamo che la nuova release del software sarà disponibile dal 1 maggio. Come si nota dalle immagini di anteprima, il miglioramento estetico sarà più che notevole!

Il team Slightly Mad Studios torna a parlarci della modalità rally cross del suo prossimo Project CARS 2, mostrandoci anche una manciata di spettacolari screenshots inediti.

How Rallycross went from Lydden Hill to King of the Hill to Project CARS 2

Rallycross celebrates its 50th anniversary this year as a global, elite motorsport. It’s come a long way from Saturday afternoon TV fluff as last-minute substitute for a cancelled horserace in the winter of 1966

La Codemasters ci presenta ufficialmente per la prima volta in video il suo nuovo DiRT 4, che sarà disponibile dal 9 giugno su tutte le piattaforme. Il trailer, dal titolo "be fearless" (ovvero sii senza paura), condensa in 1 minuto di azione pura, tutto quello che dovremo aspettarci dal racing game della casa inglese.

We’re delighted to be able to show you the first official gameplay trailer for DiRT 4, which showcases the breadth of racing that fans will be able to experience on the PlayStation® 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and Windows PC from 9th June 2017. You can view the new DiRT 4 gameplay trailer right here on our blog:

DiRT 4 is available to pre-order now on PS4, Xbox One and Steam with exclusive goodies – pre-order now to reserve your place in our special Founders Event at launch!

Pre-order on the PlayStation Store >>> http://bit.ly/DiRT4-PS4EU
Pre-order on the Xbox Store >>> http://bit.ly/DiRT4-XboxOne
Pre-order on Steam >>> http://bit.ly/DiRT4-Steam

In case you didn’t notice it, the new trailer features the absolutely banger of a track that is ‘Instigators’ by Grace Potter – just one of the songs from the amazing in-game soundtrack that has been created for DiRT 4 in an exclusive partnership with Globe, Universal Music UK’s in-house sync team. The agreement with Globe will see over 40 licensed tracks appear throughout the game, matching DiRT’s unique style and tone, and including exclusive tracks from artists such as The Amazons, Sigma, Freak and Pretty Vicious alongside tracks from The Chemical Brothers, Disclosure, Queens Of The Stone Age and Bastille.

Con il trailer di preview che vedete qui sotto, il team di iRacing annuncia il prossimo arrivo della nuova modalità di gioco "time attack", completamente libera di vincoli ed anch'essa legata ovviamente ad un ranking. Nel video è possibile anche ammirare la nuova interfaccia di gioco.

Time Attack will be a new additional way to compete on iRacing - a single car hotlapping competition. Hop in any time you want, at any track in the schedule, and watch your TA rank soar from Novice to as high as World Champion. It also features a preview of iRacing's new user interface. Stay tuned for further details.

I fans più accaniti ed attenti lo avevano già capito da tempo, ma oggi è arrivata la conferma ufficiale da parte di Polyphony, con tanto di immagini e trailer di anteprima: il brand Porsche sarà presente nel prossimo Gran Turismo Sport.

Siamo felici di poter confermare che Porsche comparirà per la prima volta in un titolo della serie Gran Turismo, quando "Gran Turismo Sport" verrà pubblicato durante l'anno. Settimana scorsa, dopo l'avvio della beta chiusa europea e la pubblicazione dell'aggiornamento 1.04, abbiamo mostrato in anteprima le immagini della bellissima Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

Questa nuova collaborazione è una grande emozione per noi. Porsche si fa valere da sempre nel mondo dell'automobilismo e, grazie alle numerose vittorie in prove di endurance, è nota come "Regina dell'Endurance". I nomi di vetture quali Carrera, Targa e Panamera, derivati direttamente dalle competizioni, sono un chiaro segno del rapporto che lega a doppio filo questa casa col mondo delle corse, da sempre presente nel DNA Porsche. La casa produttrice non gareggia per il prestigio, ma per sviluppare e migliorare continuamente i propri prodotti, grazie a tecnologie derivate dalle competizioni.

Anche Polyphony, negli ultimi anni, ha creato un legame sempre più stretto con l'automobilismo sportivo, con Kazunori Yamauchi, produttore della serie, che ha preso parte alla 24 Ore del Nürburgring e ai nuovi campionati FIA Gran Turismo.

Polyphony e Porsche sono unite da una filosofia comune, con l'obiettivo di promuovere un automobilismo sostenibile di nuova generazione. Gli appassionati di auto sportive che speravano di poter impugnare il volante di una Porsche in Gran Turismo Sport possono gioire: nei prossimi mesi di quest'anno, il sogno diverrà realtà.

Dopo avercelo anticipato alcuni giorni fa tramite Facebook, il team Slightly Mad Studios annuncia ufficialmente il prossimo arrivo per il nuovo Project CARS 2 del tracciato realizzato in laser scan del Red Bull Ring. La lunga presentazione è accompagnata da una serie di spettacolari screenshots inediti, che trovate anche qui sotto.

In the idyllic Styrian Mountains, there in the valleys and forests, meadows and vineyards that locals call the “Green March”, lies a racetrack that has intimidated and challenged the very best drivers for generations. For many old-timers, the Red Bull Ring is but a reminder of the old track before Herman Tilke’s new layout came with the new century. But find your groove on the Red Bull Ring, and you will be rewarded by a track that retains much of the aura of the fabled Österreichring, a track that still honors the brave and the good …

A quasi un mese dal lancio dell'ultima build "dirt", ovvero dedicata alle gare su sterrato, il team di iRacing rilascia la nuova patch 4 Season 2, che implementa anche la nuova serie USAC (United States Auto Club), grazie alla quale potremo metterci al volante delle divertenti Sprint Car da terra senza alettoni che vedete nelle immagini qui sotto. Per l'acquisto a $11.95 delle Dirt Sprint Car correte a questo link.

Looking to channel your inner Parnelli Jones, AJ Foyt or Tony Stewart in a 360 or 410 USAC sprint car?  Have we got a deal for you.   iRacing's USAC sprint car bundle gets you both the 360 and 410 non-winged sprint cars for one low price:  $11.95. Better yet, our 20% discount automatically applies to anyone who owns 40 or more pieces of content.  Which is another way of saying you can get both cars for $9.56. So take your pick: a great deal or an even greater deal.

Season 2 patch 4 CHANGE LOG:
SIM
- Fixed an application certificate signing issue that could occur when using the app with Microsoft Edge.

Paint Kit
- All cars that have never been painted by a user, including new purchases, will now automatically have the user's helmet color scheme applied to them along with a random pattern and a random set of sponsors. The helmet color scheme will also be applied to the user's suit if it has never been painted.
- - If a user has never painted their helmet, they will now be given a random pattern and color scheme that in turn will be applied to the user's suit and cars as described above.
- - Remember, you can change your helmet, suit, and car colors, patterns, and sponsors at any time using the "Customize Paint Schemes" page found under the "Account" menu on the iRacing.com membersite.

Dirt
- The dirt and dust thrown by digging into the cushion has been updated.

Peripherals
- Improved the pedal calibration routine.

CARS:
Dirt Late Model
- (ALL) - 1st gear has been removed.
- (Pro) - Improved engine sound samples.
- (ALL) - Opponent cars' wheel positions have been adjusted so they should now appear to contact the track surface better, and not appear to stick into the fenders.

Dirt Sprint Car
- (ALL) - Fuel economy has been adjusted.
- (ALL) - Damage modeling has been updated.
- (360) - Improved engine sound samples.
- (ALL) - Opponent cars' wheel positions have been adjusted so they should now appear to contact the track surface better.
- (ALL) - Crossweight (CW) bounds have been increased.
- (ALL) - The garage tech constraint on tube heights has been removed.
- (ALL) - Maximum rear stagger in the garage has been reduced from 17" to 14" based on real-world driver feedback.

Dirt Sprint Car - Non-Winged
- NEW CAR!
- - While some organizations - most notably the World of Outlaws - have gone the route of winged sprint cars, the United States Auto Club (USAC) has remained faithful to the traditional, non-winged sprint cars that have served as the bedrock of grassroots open wheel racing since World War II. This is the Dirt Sprint Car you know and love, but without the stabilizing wings. This classic dirt car is guaranteed to provide even the most experienced dirt racers with a truly challenging and exciting racing experience.
- - There are two classes of this vehicle available, both of which are included when purchasing this new vehicle. The classes are:
- - - Dirt Sprint Car - Non-Winged - 360 C.I.D. engine (Based on the USAC 360 West Coast Sprint Car)
- - - Dirt Sprint Car - Non-Winged - 410 C.I.D. engine (Based on the USAC 410 Sprint Car)

NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Chevrolet SS
- Additional vehicle setups have been added.

NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Ford Fusion
- Additional vehicle setups have been added.

NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Toyota Camry
- Additional vehicle setups have been added.

NASCAR XFINITY Toyota Camry
- This vehicle's ambient occlusion texture map has been updated.

NASCAR XFINITY Chevrolet Camaro
- This vehicle's ambient occlusion texture map has been updated.

NASCAR XFINITY Ford Mustang
- This vehicle's ambient occlusion texture map has been updated.

TRACKS:
Eldora Speedway
- Starting stalls have been angled slightly to the right.

USA International Speedway
- (Dirt Configuration) - Starting stalls have been angled slightly to the right.

Volusia Speedway Park
- The pit entry area should no longer cause off-track penalties.
- Starting stalls have been angled slightly to the right.

Williams Grove Speedway
- Starting stalls have been angled slightly to the right.

La Codemasters ha appena pubblicato un nuovo road book dedicato al suo prossimo DiRT 4. Questa volta l'attenzione è focalizzata sulla nuova modalità denominata "Creating Your Stage", che guida appunto il giocatore alla creazione della propria tappa rally personalizzata.

Creating Your Stage environments

Right, that’s enough from me! It’s time for a juicy technical feature on one of DiRT 4’s awesome new features. So, let me hand you over to Lead Technical Designer on DiRT 4 and one of the many brains behind our Your Stage system, Jason Evans. Want to know how Your Stage environments are created and how it enhances the player experience? You’re in luck, because those are the questions I asked him – and that’s exactly what he delivered. It’s all gold, so get yourself comfortable and enjoy. :)

In terms of the new opportunities Your Stage has brought to the table, what are you excited about being able to offer players?

Your Stage has opened up many opportunities for us as a developer and for the player experience. One good example of this is the ability to add more ‘straight’ sections into our tracks. In the past this has been avoided to a certain extent, because in order to try and maximise the amount of gameplay within the very tight track budget it was always deemed as a lesser feature. Your Stage now allows us the ability to show just what a feature section of straights can be – and not only can we add a few more straights into tracks, but we have control over how many and how long these sections can be.

We can now have some sections of straights at different lengths, some around 1km long, and these often prove to be truly fearless sections of track. Their straightness encourages the player to go flat out, but the changes in the track surface, undulation, objects and trees keep the player alert – as the consequences of going wrong when flat out could easily end your rally. This provides a great new experience for the player that comes in all shapes and sizes but is always exhilarating; sometimes you look for your next corner as safe place to catch your breath.

This system has been likened to an (albeit more technical) Scalextric track – how have the studio gone about ensuring variety within each different environment?

Your Stage has not just provided solutions for us, but also brought its own difficulties. One of the key problems we had to solve was how to ensure we could create enough variety of corners, straights and junctions for each location that would be able to provide plenty of replayability and unique experiences for the player. To achieve this we continued to research track locations to the same standard as you’ve seen in DiRT Rally, to maintain the level of detail required for a realistic experience.

This ranges from us researching the track surface and edge details through the different road shapes, through to the experiences of racing within that location and environment. The corner sequences and gameplay detail remain a high priority as with our previous titles and with Your Stage we have been able to capture many of these unique elements for the different locations. So, using Your Stage technology we are able to bring a vast quantity of the elements that make up each of these unique locations into our game for the players to experience in huge variety of different combinations. Each section of track the player experiences has been processed by our Level Design and Environment Art teams, all based on the research to maximise the detail of the player experience.

This system has an almost infinite amount of combinations of track, corners, junctions, etc – how have you used this to your advantage in the game’s Career Campaign?

Another wonderful thing with ‘Your Stage’ is that we now have the ability to tailor and tune our game for a much wider variety of players than ever before. Built into the Your Stage technology are two key components that allow this to happen: length of track and complexity of track. With these two adjustments we (and the player) have control over the two main factors for creating a progressive game with a learning curve.

The complexity covers many internal factors such as camber, corner severity, undulation, width and more. We now have the ability to create nice short tracks with simple complexity (more straights and shallow, visible corners) – and these tracks are ideal for introducing new and less experienced players to the world of rally. With the system being completely scalable we can then ramp this up to longer, less complex stages, short complex stages, and all the way to 16km technical monsters. Under the hood there is a lot more going on, and we have a huge amount of control over many additional factors including elevation and different rule sets that allow unique track construction per location. This means we can use the same system to make Spain feel like Spain, whilst Australia is made to feel like Australia, which is completely different in terms of stage composition.

All this control and flexibility has allowed us to curate the career with different tracks that allow the structure to increase the challenge as you progress and develop your skills – something we’ve not been able to do in the past. This presented its own challenges to us, but after much hard work the player should now get a much more in-depth, progressive experience from the Career Mode – as well as a colossal variety of unique tracks through the freeplay mode!

What kind of work has Your Stage required from different parts of the studio to make it feel so authentic?

The development of the Your Stage content has been a new and difficult challenge for all our content creators, and the results are testament to their skills, perseverance and the close communication between our various teams. From the initial designs, the crafting of road shapes and gameplay surfaces to the creation and detailing of the environment art, we have overcome many problems to create the authentic, seamless experiences. The Level Design, Environment Art and Tech teams have worked closely to achieve this and utilised mass quantities of real life research for each location. We have conquered the difficulties with some of the very specific requirements that needed to be met to achieve the Your Stage experience, and have processed more data than ever before.

Integration into the different landscapes has also been a huge challenge –and this was one of the big things we needed to tackle to polish and complete the player experience. Many new techniques have been created to help – and despite initial teething problems the solutions developed are providing excellent results. As a result of the team’s innovation, their new techniques have allowed Your Stage to offer the full environmental experience for each and every track.

Despite the content creation still being an expensive part of our processes we are now able to achieve a massive boost in value from our content whilst still retaining our superb attention to detail and feeling for being in a specific location.

Overall, everyone in the racing studio has worked incredibly hard – and despite the challenges and problems faced, we have achieved something truly incredible. We believe Your Stage really is a game-changer for off-road racing games and there are many plans in place to further develop, improve and expand this technology.

And that’s all from us this week – have lovely weekends, and we’ll see you back here soon!

P. S. For the eagle-eyed amongst you, yes, I did slide a couple of new screenshots into this. Well-spotted. ;)

Una occasione da non perdere per tutti gli appassionati di simracing: a partire da oggi e solo fino a lunedi 24 aprile, è possibile acquistare tramite Steam con lo sconto del 50% (quindi a 14,99€) l'Assetto Corsa della Kunos Simulazioni, inclusi tutti i vari pacchetti DLC ! Correte a questo link.

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