Video games

Here’s what we know about Codemasters’ latest racing game, Grid 2: it promises realistic graphics, includes both track and street racing environments and promises to deliver an entertaining array of cars, including the Pagani Huayra, the Chevy Camaro, the Ford Mustang and the McLaren...

You’ll have to wait until the third quarter of this year to take delivery of a 2014 Corvette, but if you own a Sony PlayStation 3 and a copy of Gran Turismo 5, you can be driving the new C7 Corvette as early as tomorrow. Like the camouflaged C7 Corvette (downloaded by almost 500,000 gamers)...

Nissan, together with Sony, held the first GT Academy in 2008, and since then the event has gone on to become a global phenomenon with gamers-turned-drivers from all parts of the globe now competing. Nissan’s GT Academy essentially pits gamers, playing the popular racing simulator Gran...

Audi was the first automaker to create a space in Sony’s PlayStation Home network, and the Ingolstadt-based brand describes it as a “living, breathing Audi AG world featuring Audi AGtv and a calendar of content.” In the past, that content has included virtual lectures on Audi...

The Nissan Juke Nismo isn't on sale until early next year, but you can drive it now--virtually, at first, and then in real life. Asphalt 7: Heat, the latest in the Asphalt series of mobile driving games, offers the Juke Nismo for your hoonish delight. And if you're the fastest driver in the Juke...

The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette will be making its world debut in January, but the first test drives of the car won’t be available until the sales launch later in 2013. If, like us, you just can’t wait, dust off your PlayStation 3 or visit a friend that owns one and get ready to test drive...

If you like your racing sims filled with bump drafting and fender-banging action, we’ve got good news for you: Activision is releasing NASCAR The Game: Inside Line to stores today. Developed by Eutechnyx, Inside Line gives players over 40 drivers and teams to choose from, as well as a...

For the past 10 years at the SEMA show, Sony, together with the people behind Gran Turismo, has picked a winning design that eventually appears as a playable car in its next version of the popular Gran Turismo video game. This year the winner was this 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 40 hot rod, which was...

There are many things wrong with America today, but foremost among those things are the abhorrently low speed limits on our streets and highways. You want to speed up the economy? Speed up its arteries! Vote for Prop 130, a new national speed limit of 130 mph. OK, so this is just a clever video...

In the first behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Forza Horizon video game from Turn 10 Studios, we saw how the Horizon Festival would be the focal point of the game, centering the racing, drifting, and general hoonage around one setting. This time around, we see more action and learn why...

The new trend in racing sim games centers around expanding the play environment. Driving on a track, no matter how detailed and accurate, gets old after a while since there’s nothing new to see or explore. Enter games like Need For Speed: Most Wanted and Forza Horizon, which base the action...

When it comes to driving games centered around running from the police, the best rules are no rules at all. While we’re at it, it would be great if we had access to any car we wanted at the start of the game, and better still if the ability to roam freely throughout an almost unlimited...

Last week, Codemasters released a gameplay trailer and a demo of the upcoming F1 2012 racing sim. Today, a few laps of the United States' own Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, has been made possible through the game. The video, from YouTuber Frooglesim, shows the COTA in all of its virtual...

If you're into Formula 1, you're probably aware of Codemasters' F1 racing series. The latest installment, F1 2012, is nearly upon us, and to tease you with its visual delights, Codemasters has released a new trailer--and a free demo. The demo is available on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. It will only let...

If you want to race an SRT Viper GTS-R in competition, your options are somewhat limited. One way is to prove that you’re significantly faster around a race track than Jonathan Bomarito, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dominik Farnbacher, Marc Goosens, Tommy Kendall and Kuno Wittmer, then show up in the...

Coinciding with the recent launch of the new video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Ford’s Australian subsidiary has presented via its official Facebook page a conceptual design for a new Transformers character based on its Falcon sedan. Called Falcatron, the new Ford Falcon Transformer...

Driving simulators such as Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo and Need for Speed are well-known--and well-loved--here at Motor Authority. However, there is a new title in the works that may upset these video game heavyweights, and that’s GRID 2 from Codemasters. The sequel to 2008’s GRID...

Pro drivers, despite living the dream, don't always get that much track time on a given race weekend. So what do they do to get an edge--or even just to get familiar with a trak they haven't raced on before? They use simulators--and some of them use familiar, retail sims that us regular folks can...

Another month, another selection of automotive wonderment just begging to be downloaded by Forza Motorsport 4 racing gamers. The August Playseat car pack arrives on August 7, containing the usual mix of classics, rally cars, modern coupes and race cars. You can watch the trailer above to see some...

The final round of the second season of the joint Nissan-PlayStation GT Academy North America is about to get underway, with the top 16 contenders from the thousands of entrants headed to the U.K. Silverstone racing circuit for an intensive week-long race camp and competition series. Spike TV will...