Il comunicato stampa che trovate qui sotto annuncia finalmente la data di rilascio ufficiale del nuovo Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box: il gioco sarà disponibile in Europa per PC a partire dal prossimo 6 febbraio e, come è già noto, conterrà tutti gli extra e addons rilasciati in questi mesi per Playstation e XBox.

Feel the adrenaline course through your veins as you take to the road for the first time in Paradise City, where the action is all around you. Explore the city, discover events, and look for the best opportunities to crash, jump and pull signature takedowns.

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In Burnout Paradise you’re given the keys to the city, but it’s up to you to earn the keys to the meanest and most dangerous cars on the street, and earn your Burnout licence.

With true open world freedom, seamless 'EasyDrive' online multiplayer, four unique single-player events, and hundreds of online Freeburn challenges, Burnout Paradise thrusts gamers into an incredibly vivid HD. The white knuckle action explodes as players pull up at any stoplight and spin their wheels to jumpstart the action.

Spectacular bone-crushing crashes and an unparalleled sense of speed will always be a hallmark of Burnout games but Burnout Paradise ups the ante with an all new game design that expands the experience into a deeper, ever more immersive driving dream.

Burnout Paradise delivers an open-world environment built for intense speed, excitement and exploration and sets a new standard in the seamless transition from single-player offline to social online gameplay.

Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box is a special edition release that includes the award-winning Burnout Paradise game, the previously-released Cagney and Bikes downloadable content updates, plus the brand new Burnout Paradise Party pack. The Party pack brings the social fun of Burnout Paradise into an offline multiplayer mode where players compete in different stunt, speed and skill events. The mode is designed to allow up to eight friends to “pass-the-pad” in dozens of quick-fire, turn-based challenges. The Party pack will also include a host of new features including a restart option added for racing, easier control of the early vehicles, and for the PS3 the new Burnout Paradise Network. Burnout Paradise Network is a live news page that enables players to keep track of friends and keep up with all the latest Burnout news from either inside or outside the game.

Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box marks the debut of the game on PC. The PC version specifically includes multiple monitor displays support, ultra high resolution graphics, motion blur, soft shadow effects, expanded multiplayer, enhanced online features, and community driven content.

Some of the key features that set Burnout Paradise apart include:

    * The entire city will be available from the outset, giving players the freedom to explore this immersive world known as Paradise City. Experience open world driving Burnout style as the action begins with you, but it doesn't have to end.
    * See your friends online with the EasyDrive Friends List and connect with them instantly without having to wait or exit your game. Burnout Paradise is revolutionizing the way players jump on and offline, making it as simple and quick as possible.
    * Choose from Race, Marked Man, Road Rage, and Stunt by pulling up to the numerous stoplights in the game to initiate the event. The action isn't forced any longer, as players have the freedom to start and even end a challenge at their leisure.
    * Includes the Cagney Pack update, Bikes Pack and the forthcoming Party Pack.

Burnout Paradise is currently available worldwide on PS3 and Xbox 360, while Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box is scheduled to launch on PC in Feb. 5 2009, while the Party pack will be downloadable through PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box will be available in stores on Feb. 6th in Europe for the PS3, Xbox 360 and the PC. The Party pack will also be sold separately in Europe Feb. 5th on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace.

Steve Myers, che è uno degli sviluppatori dell'interessante iRacing, ha confermato in un lungo messaggio sul proprio blog, che arriveranno prossimamente per il simulatore targato Kaemmer numerose novità, come ad esempio la patch di fine mese ma anche nuove vetture "europee", delle quali sono state acquisite le licenze e server ancora più veloci per diminuire il lag dall'Europa.

For what may be a cruel tease on the licensing side of things, we are getting very close to being able to announce a handful of SIGNIFICANT deals we are working on that I think will be incredible for all of us. For those who have been asking for more tin-tops, I will tell you that I expect to be signing one of those significant contracts that will put at least three in the development queue.

La Codemasters ha diramato oggi un nuovo comunicato stampa, corredato da alcuni screenshots inediti, dedicato al prossimo FUEL, travagliato titolo di guida in fase di sviluppo da parte del team francese di Asobo Studio, attualmente previsto per il secondo quarto di quest'anno.

Set to revolutionise multi-terrain racing with the largest environment ever created in race gaming, Asobo Studios' Fuel promises a truly next generation addition to the racing genre, complete with the ability to go online to explore this massive world and compete in hundreds of multiplayer challenges.

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Born of Asobo Studios’ cutting-edge proprietary engine, the result of over four years in development, Fuel will present players with an astonishing no-boundaries playfield that’s over 5,000 square miles (14,000+ km²) in size. Creating the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience, Fuel will have players competing across wildly different terrain and executing spectacular death-defying stunts as they race dozens of varied two and four-wheeled rides and explore this epic world on an unprecedented scale.

Fuel is set in an alternate present in which whole swathes of the globe have been ravaged by the effects of climate change brought on by decades of environmental abuse. Here oil prices have rocketed and yet a new breed of racing junkie takes to the wastelands, pitting their grungy home-tuned vehicles against each other in an all-new extreme sport as they compete to win fuel supplies. To triumph means travelling the wastelands to challenge the best; from the tsunami-wrecked pacific coast through the Nevada wastelands, including the Grand Canyon, up treacherous snow-capped mountains, thick forests, arid deserts, abandoned lakeside resorts and much more.

Bringing this vast, open ended landscape to life is a dynamic weather system with full day and night transitions, brilliant sunshine, torrential rain and everything in between, plus destructive tornados, sandstorms, thunderstorms, lightning strikes, and blizzards requiring mid-race strategy changes.

Fuel is in development at Asobo Studios in Bordeaux, France, for the PS3, Xbox 360, PC and due to release in Q2 2009.

Segnaliamo a tutti i modders ed appassionati creativi di tracciati la nuova versione aggiornata 0.5.0.2 del potente ed efficace programma Bobs Track Builder, un must have per tutti quelli che si vogliono dedicare alla creazione o modifica di nuove piste per vari simulatori.

* Removing a track would sometimes cause a crash.
* rFactor material chroma blemd amount now set correctly. Improves the look of trees.
* After a “Save As” material changes were still being done in the old venue.
* “Unselecting” XPacks only removed upon saving.

Come ricorderete, nell'agosto del 2008 la 10Tacle dichiarava la bancarotta, mettendo in grande difficoltà anche il neonato team Blimey! Games di Ian Bell, che fra l'altro lavorava già ai nuovi Ferrari Project e Kart Attack. La buona notizia di oggi è che la Blimey! può considerarsi finalmente salva, grazie all'intervento della David Rubin & Partners (società specializzata in "salvataggi" di questo tipo), con l'acquisizione da parte del Slightly Mad Studios. Speriamo che ora arrivino novità a breve riguardo ai due titoli...

Joint Administrators were appointed to Blimey! Games Limited, the games software developer on 8 January 2009. This follows the insolvency of Blimey!’s German parent company, 10tacle Studios AG in the summer of 2008.

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David Rubin and Asher Miller of London firm, David Rubin & Partners, were appointed to save the business as a going concern when it became apparent that Blimey! was insolvent and couldn’t survive on its own – after the demise of 10tacle and the knock on effect it had on those funding some of Blimey!’s projects.
“We kept things going as long as possible” commented Ian Bell, the former director of Blimey!, “because of the amazing work the team was doing on our one surviving project and the patience of our publisher. However it was commercially unsustainable and it soon became clear that unless decisive action was taken we would lose that”. A sale of the business and assets was therefore agreed by the Administrators with Slightly Mad Studios Limited, a company established by Ian Bell.
The successful sale will also result in creditors of Blimey! hopefully receiving most if not all of the money they are owed and will preserve the jobs of all Blimey!’s workforce.
Commenting on the sale, Joint Administrator David Rubin said, “I am delighted that we have managed to preserve such a fantastic team. To be able to save these jobs and skills when we see so much gloom elsewhere in the labour market is a real testament to the Rescue Culture that my profession and our firm strive to support.”
Mr Rubin went on to say that “Directors who face up quickly to the challenges posed by the current economic climate stand a better prospect of a rescue procedure working. Mr Ian Bell, the director of Blimey! moved quickly to take appropriate advice from his solicitors Sheridans who involved us at a very early stage. That prompt action was key to finding a solution to the company's problems.”
Ian Bell went on to say, “This sale has ended months of uncertainty and worry for all concerned. We can now look forward to the development of our exciting existing and future projects.”

I fan di Burnout Paradise saranno certamente al corrente dei vari contenuti scaricabili in lavorazione presso gli studi Criterion, denominati Big Surf Island, Boost Specials, Toy Cars e Legendary Cars.

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Riguardo a quest'ultimo, in particolare, è arrivato un aggiornamento tramite il sito ufficiale degli sviluppatori, che hanno mostrato le altre tre vetture - oltre alla già vista 88 Special - che faranno parte del pacchetto. Come potete notare dalle immagini, è molto facile indovinare quali siano state le fonti di ispirazione per la Manhattan Spirit, la Carson Nighthawk e la Cavalry Bootlegger (nell'ordine, il film Ghostbusters e le serie televisive Knight Rider e The Dukes of Hazzard).

[Fonte Nextgame]