Review by Harvard L. Tiny Racer by IceTorch Interactive is not a great game, nor even a good game. But I’m going to try my best to meet it on its terms, and find some positives as much as I can. If you’re interested in racing games there are dozens…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Urban Trials Tricky is fun, agreeable, and plain. It’s the fourth in Tate Multimedia’s Urban Trials series of motorcross-trials videogames, and like the others before it, there isn’t really any vastly distinguishing factor setting it aside from previous games in the series, or the similarly named…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Over a number of years now, Codemasters has steadily built the F1 series into a top-flight racing game contender, and one of the few in the genre that manages to straddle the line between a serious simulation for fans of the sport, and something accessible to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Assetto Corsa is a property that finds itself in a difficult position. It doesn’t have the licensed pull of the F1 or Rally titles. Nor does it have the slick marketing machines of Sony or Microsoft that Gran Turismo and Forza enjoy. Nor does it have…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Many of us would love to see a new F-Zero. It’s one of those properties that you just have to assume that Nintendo is sitting on for a reason. For his second retro Let’s Play this week, Harvard takes a look at F-Zero, the SNES classic…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Out Run is a true classic of the racing genre. It’s a notoriously difficult genre to create something that lasts, as racing games tend to require complex physics models that can make older ones feel unplayable to people comfortable with newer ones. However, Out Run is…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. When you’ve had a tough week, you need to just zen out sometimes. You’d never think that a vroom vroom racing game would be the tool to do that, but as Harvard explains in this Let’s Play of indie masterpiece, Absolute Drift, that’s exactly what you…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Need for Speed is a franchise which needs little introduction; it’s celebrating its 25th anniversary with 2019’s entry, Need for Speed: Heat, and for its long and illustrious history it’s always been a fixture on the console market. The series has been EA’s eminent basically-one-release-a-year homestay…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Get trash like Asphalt 9 off game consoles. Just as Apple is taking steps to mitigate against this kind of delinquent free-to-play nonsense with its Apple Arcade, the Nintendo Switch gets a high profile example of it. Opening your device to stuff like this isn’t the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Nintendo’s latest mobile effort, Mario Kart Tour, has a release date. The game will launch on September 25, for both Android and iOS. In Mario Kart Tour, you’ll get to zoom around classic Mario Kart courses, as well as courses modeled after real-world cities. It features…
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