Game Bridger Entertainment, a global publisher and distributor of interactive online entertainment media, announced that the open beta test for its highly-anticipated free-to-play parkour racing game, FreeJack, will begin on Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 13:00 EDT (18:00 BST). Players that sign up for the open beta using Facebook Connect prior to the October 1st start date will be automatically entered into a contest to win an Apple iPad and other great prizes! The FreeJack open beta will be playable for both North American and European players. Read the rest of this entry »

Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games are notoriously difficult to review, due to their constantly evolving feature set and rules. Akin to providing a match report of a football game at half-time, an MMO review can only serve as a document of the game at a certain point in time. Need For Speed World has recently exited its ‘beta’ status, meaning the game can only now be considered a finished product, though much is still up for change. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite it’s super, super long development cycle and seemingly never-ending series of delays, it looks like Sony’s finally ready to unleash the beast known as Gran Turismo 5 this year, and as you might imagine, there’s cause for celebration. Make that SUPER CELEBRATE for lucky Japanese fans of the world’s most prestigious racing simulation, as the game’s home country is set to receive not one, but two special-edition bundles to get things started. Read the rest of this entry »

Activision has announced that the multiplayer demo of Blur has gone live on the European PlayStation Network. To celebrate this launch, the publisher is organizing a competition that has as its biggest prize a real-life BMW 125i series car. Anyone who downloads the demo and ranks up to level 5 will be automatically entered into the contest. Three runners-up will receive a full copy of Blur for the PlayStation 3. Of course, players must be 18 years old to participate. Read the rest of this entry »

The release date for “Need For Speed: World” is right around the corner on July 20, which makes now the perfect time for EA to work out the last of the game’s kinks via an open beta test. That test is scheduled to be signing in users as of 10:00AM PST today, so if that’s something you want to be a part of, you may want to get behind the wheel soon, so to speak. Read the rest of this entry »

Golvision Innovations, a consumer-based innovations development company, and experienced game developer Gametelligent, are proud to announce the development of Odyssey X for the Windows PC. The beta opens to the public in the fall 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Gran Turismo 5 finally has a launch date, with publisher Sony and developer Polyphony Digital saying that the racing simulation will be delivered to North American gamers on November 2 and with the dates for Japan and Europe coming later in the year. Read the rest of this entry »

Not only is it in the making as casually mentioned on a few occasions, the development of Dirt 3 is “well underway,” developer Codemasters has revealed.

Brand manager Edward Newby-Robson has recently spoken quite openly about the unannounced game and the studio’s approach to its development. Read the rest of this entry »

TalesRunner, a fantasy casual MMO, introduces its biggest chapter since its launch, Chaos Genesis. The new content will be updated starting from June 1, and the highly-anticipated Chaos Battle will begin on June 17! Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts announced that Need for Speed World, the massively multiplayer online action racing game, will go live on July 20, 2010. Need for Speed World thrusts gamers into an enormous, socially-connected white-knuckle Need for Speed experience featuring an all-new power-up system and deep RPG style progression. Read the rest of this entry »

Blur is certainly an interesting title. Developed by Bizarre Creations (the same studio behind the famed Project Gotham Racing sim series), Blur is a mix of arcade and kart-style racing. It’s definitely an unorthodox mix, but leave it to the team behind one of the biggest names in simulation racing to pull off this impressive title. Though the interface can take a little getting used to, Blur definitely is the most memorable automotive title of the year thus far, and it definitely deserves a spot of the shelf of any automotive or racing fan. Read the rest of this entry »

As much a Kart racer as an arcade racing title, Split/Second is as predicated on screwing over other competitors as finding a perfect driving line. The premise is simple: as a contestant on the television show Split/Second, you’ll race against other drivers on a track designed to be destroyed. Read the rest of this entry »