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Ford will unveil Mustang-themed pinball games at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show.
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Anki Drive: Fighting, Smart Slot Cars Learn As You Race: Video
Anki Drive cars use artificial intelligence to make decisions on the fly and learn over time.
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RaceRoom Racing Experience Shows Off Cars And Tracks In New Video
Gran Turismo 6 and Forza 5 might be inching closer on the horizon, but many virtual racing fans are already locked down thanks to the world of computer-based racing sims. There are a handful to choose from, with SimRaceway and iRacing seeming to be the go-to simulators of choice. A few competitors...
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BMW's DesignworksUSA Builds The Ultimate... Gaming Mouse?
BMW has long been known for building the “Ultimate Driving Machine,” but now a division of the Munich-based automaker is taking “Ultimate” in an entirely new direction, designing what may be the pinnacle of computer gaming mice. We didn’t know there was a market for...
Kurt Ernst -
Classic-Car Spotters: We Found Your Board Game
Looking for something fun to play at your next car-club meeting, cruise-in, or car-guys' get-together? You might want to pack Carnology. In this new trivia/identification game, players race around the board toward the checkered flag, trying to guess the car make, model, and year, based on a deck of...
Bengt Halvorson -
Race Of Champions Game Screeches Onto iPhone, iPad, Android
As naming norms for sports events go, Race Of Champions is fairly self-explanatory. Take top drivers from the highest reaches of motorsport including Formula 1, NASCAR, the WRC and more, and pit them against each other in front of a stadium audience. The trouble with all this is that it's very much...
Antony Ingram -
Urban planning games are nothing new - the seminal Sim City title has been around since 1989 and we've probably been playing it all that time. Facebook games are a more recent phenomenon and you've probably heard of Car Town, the best of the bunch for gearheads. "GreenSight City" looks like combining all of that into one online package. Developed in conjunction with Daimler AG, owners of Mercedes-Benz and Smart, GreenSight City was launched at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto show on the Smart stand. Frankfurt and Smart are all about urban mobility and clean technology, and this is reflected in the...
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Smart Brings Back Gaming Classic Pong... With Two Fortwos!
All the attention on Smart at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show might have been directed at the Forvision electric drive concept and the latest, third-generation 2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive, but Smart still had a use for the previous version. Nestled next to a Ford driving experience was "Smart...
Antony Ingram -
NASCAR Unleashed Game Looks To "Cultivate" New Fans
The official NASCAR game franchise is one of the gaming world's longest running series. Though development may have moved from the brilliant Papyrus games through EA Sports to latest developers Activision, the games have provided authentic thrills for NASCAR fans since the 1990s. The latest NASCAR...
Antony Ingram -
Beat An F1 Star In "World's Biggest Race" On Gran Turismo 5
For everyone who has ever uttered the words, "I bet I could beat that guy" when watching motor racing on television, getting a chance to actually go head to head with a Formula 1 driver could be your opportunity to prove it. European gamers will do just that on September 5, when Gran Turismo 5 fans...
Antony Ingram -
Friday Fun: Our Top Ten Retro Console Racing Games
Occasionally, the All Car Tech team gets pangs of nostalgia for times gone by, and we often yearn for the days of 1980s excess, when braces were red and Porsches were white with whale-tail spoilers. Inevitably, the subject of video games will pop up. We love a good racing game here, and the...
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Video: Creating Hockenheim For The Forza Motorsport 4 Game
The 1980s was an exciting time to be a young person. The reason? Video games. From coin-operated arcade games to the advent of home games consoles a whole generation had a new form of entertainment and for the budding gearheads, the best fun was provided by racing games. Just as car technology has...
Antony Ingram -
If you think the racing sim setup you have in your living room is impressive, think again. Audi's racing simulator on show at videogame show Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany makes a mockery of your steering wheel and pedals combo. That's because Audi has created an entire R8 LMS GT3 race car replica and with help from Sony PlayStation and Gran Turismo 5, turned it into the ultimate racing simulator. It looks so authentic you might think that Audi took one of its actual, highly successful R8 racers and converted it, but the whole simulator was designed from scratch, so as to feel as realistic...
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Fulfil Your F1 Racing Dreams With Free-To-Play Online Game
We're huge Formula One Grand Prix racing fans here at AllCarTech. Unfortunately, we lack the skill and certainly lack the money to become involved in the sport to any meaningful level, so computer games are the next best thing. We also love getting stuff for free, so combine the two and you've got...
Antony Ingram -
Jeremy Clarkson To Voice Forza 4 Game, Can Be Turned Off
Many consider the Forza series of XBox racing games to be the best console racers... in the world. One thing is for sure though, it's the only racing game that's voiced by BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson. Known as "Motormouth" to some and several unrepeatable things to many other people, the...
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Citroën Sponsors Nationwide Game Of Hide-And-Seek For The DS4
U.K. readers: how'd you like a brand new car? Well as it turns out, Citroën is running a nationwide game of hide-and-seek, and if you play your cards right, you could drive off in a Citroën DS4. To participate, all you need is a computer, Android, or iPhone and a heaping helping of...
Richard Read -
NASCAR Jumps On The Facebook Game Bandwagon
It's no Farmville--but in NASCAR's new Facebook game, you'll be sure to take a faster spin around Car Town.
Kurt Ernst -
Microsoft Goes Wireless For Next XBox 360 Steering Wheel
Anyone into racing video games should own a steering wheel controller. The extra dimension it adds to any racer over a traditional joypad hugely improves the gaming experience. As with any peripheral device though, gaming wheels usually require several wires to be trailed across your living room...
Antony Ingram -
If you were paying attention last week, you probably heard about model/actress Estella Warren's run-in with the law (which happened shortly after her run-in with a row of parked cars). Well, if you thought you'd heard the last of Ms. Warren, think again, because TMZ has made her the subject of a new game called "Drivin' With Estella". In the game, you play Estella, weaving her way home after a long night of partying with her fellow supermodels. (Additional supermodels not included.) From the looks of it, Estella has chosen to go the back way -- meaning, the wrong way down a one-way street...
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Video: 2012 Range Rover Evoque Stars In 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Game
It's Friday, the sun is shining (well, mostly), and yet, there you sit, stuck in your cubicle, slaving away for The Man. Of course, we'd never encourage you to play hooky, but we can suggest a pretty good way to goof off and still look busy. It involves a new choose-your-own-adventure game designed...
Richard Read -
Need For Speed Shift 2 Unleashed: Full Review
Brushing the red line, grabbing top gear and clipping the apex, AllCarTech brings you our full review of the latest racing title to hit your PlayStation 3, Need For Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed. Last week we brought you our first impressions of the EA Games and Slightly Mad Studios racer and with a few...
Antony Ingram -
Need For Speed Shift 2 Unleashed: First Impressions
Thanks to the kind folk at EA Games we've got hold of a copy of the latest game in the long-running Need For Speed franchise, Shift 2 Unleashed (S2U), in PlayStation 3 format. As with the previous Shift title, Unleashed errs more on the simulation side of racing titles rather than the franchise's...
Antony Ingram -
Car and track listing announced for Need for Speed: Shift
For the driving simulator fan, the Need for Speed series holds a certain nostalgia as one of the first really fun and engaging car games. For the past 15 years the franchise has expanded on that theme, evolving to a level of realistic graphics and fun-focused gameplay that everyone can get on board...
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‘Volvo - The Game’ now available for download
Many carmakers have ventured into the field of video games, from the Gran Turismo and Need for Speed series to one-off games made for the iPhone and other platforms. Volvo is now joining those ranks with a new game to promote the S60 Concept as well as its racing efforts. Some of the other vehicles...
Nelson Ireson