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DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road is set to be the most diverse and exhilarating off-road racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world over. Events will include the series’ intense point-to-point races and then take players further off-road than ever before.

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Race in challenging heavyweight 850bhp cars, drifting on the loose gravel and high-speed blind corners of Hill Climb events along perilous cliff edges. All 12.4 miles of the world famous Pikes Peak International is included, with over 150 precarious turns to negotiate through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

How about engaging in multiple car races with Dakar-style trucks and super-powered 4x4s on the toughest desert terrain in Rally Raid competitions? Then there are Rally Cross events, switching between dirt and road racing, where the competition is always tight, fast and collisions with your opponents are inevitable.

With more off-road racing styles to be revealed, DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road will also offer a dedicated mode for European, International and Global rally championships featuring official 2WD, 4WD, Classic and RWD rally cars.

DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road will deliver the wheel-screaming exhilaration of off-road racing with the next generation of the series’ sublime car handling and physics system and a devastating new damage engine that ensures players experience every bump in the track, every loose rock, every inch of shifting dirt through the reactive environments.

With an incredible range of off-road vehicles, thrill-packed tracks, modes that make the most of online multiplayer, and more varied events than any other single-championship rally game, Colin McRae is being reborn as a bigger, faster, wilder racing experience.

Codemasters revealed that DIRT will now add races from the U.S.-based C.O.R.R. (Championship Off-Road Racing) series to its already heady mix of Rally, Hill Climb, Rally Raid, Rally Cross and Crossover events. DIRT is planned to launch this June for the Xbox and the PC, with the PS3 edition following shortly thereafter.

Already set to deliver an exhilarating thrill ride through a massive variety of off-road racing experiences, DIRT’s new C.O.R.R. events see up to 10 drivers going head-to-head in fierce off-road circuit races. The combination powerful vehicles, including Super Buggies and Pro 4 Trucks, along with tracks packed full of tabletop jumps, drop-offs and moguls will make for an intoxicating mix of racing action and will test players’ driving skills to the limit.

In addition, gamers will be able to relive those intense and often breathtaking moments behind the wheel with stunning replays. DIRT’s replay system includes dynamic cameras that follow, capture and focus on the most exciting moments during each race, and for the first time in the series players are given full control over the replays action.

Get ready for total mud splattering, gravel churning, handbrake turning, off-road racing in DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road, coming June 2007 for PS3, Xbox360 and PC.

Vi segnaliamo, seppur con qualche giorno di ritardo, il rilascio dell'ultima versione 0.5.3 beta 5 del sempre ottimo e divertente Racer, simulatore di guida completamente gratuito ed open source. Numerose le novità presenti in questa release, certamente da provare con attenzione.

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Changes:
- Bugfix: texture caching didn't work for shaders
- Bugfix: data/cars/default seemed to be missing from the installation
- Bugfix: fog works again
- Timing no longer using QueryPerformanceCounter() to avoid trouble (slowdown/skipping) on dual-core machines
- Added ellipsoid drawing for racer.ini's gfx.show_car_bbox
- Added car.ini body.box_offset to move collision box around
- Added process.cpu_affinity_mask to limit Racer to run on only certain processors
- Support for compressed textures; default is to use compressed textures (not used for fonts and some others).
- Fixed rendering order issues with smoke & transparent car materials
- Started particle definitions through data/renderer/particles.ini (not complete yet)
- Added mirror update rate (mirrors.texture.update_rate) and visibility (mirrors.texture.visibility)
- F4 now loops through mirror OFF/Texture/Full instead of just on and off
- Omitting default/car.ini is no longer allowed; it would lead to subtly modified car behavior
- dbg_car.warp_rotated was deprecated
- Added collision.report_car_trk option to report when car-track collisions take place (in the console)
- Added warning for cars that still use body.restitution_coeff in their car.ini
- Improved shadow hiding; when flying high, the simple shadow could flicker on and off
- Added resolution.x/y parameters to position non-fullscreen window
- Framerate throttling details can now be set with renderer.min_detail/max_detail
- Switching realtime speed (i.e. 'realtime 2') no corrects timing to avoid stalls/catchups
- Bugreports (crashes) now add the latest QLOG entries to the report