Defying the supposed death of indie programming and taking on a genre that's regularly stamped with teams of artists, coders and designers that run into dozens, Australian group DownforceFX has set itself quite a task. Comprised ...

The great British buying public, of which this reviewer is a paid-up member (with the credit card bill to prove it) has, for the past few years, chosen to bestow the honour of Christmas Number One ...

Last year, when we first took the original GTR out for a spin on the medium (semi-pro) difficulty setting, we could have had Miss Daisy along for the ride, happily knitting away without dropping so much ...

Make no mistake about it, this is a cracker of a bike racing game. In fact, if it was Christmas, this would be one of those deluxe twelve packs of silver-plated crackers with not just party ...

Quietly chugging some way behind the leading pack of racing games, currently spearheaded on the PC by the likes of TOCA, the Ford Racing franchise has never won many plaudits, yet steadily satiates its fan base. ...

Full Auto on the Xbox 360 should, in principal, work. At its core, it aims to take the wild arcade racing of Burnout and add guns to the mix. It then throws in wanton destruction on ...

TOCA Race Driver 3 proves that there is a third way. It sits in a racing genre that has effectively split into two splinter groups. On one side there's the deathly-serious simulation, where everything has to ...

Back when the original Xbox launched, it had the desired killer app from day one in the form of Halo. Yet the Xbox 360, in spite of its useful specification and performance, still lacks the killer ...

Looking for evidence of how the reviewing fraternity is out of touch with the buying public? Then let's talk Need For Speed. Few would stand up in the middle of a pub and argue that the ...

If you took all the sports cars out of Jay Kay's and David Beckham's respective garages, and got them to mate (assuming a universe where cars could indeed go forth and multiply), and then left them ...

Broadly speaking, there are two types of racing games; the arcade affair and the simulation. The former is for those who like to experience the raw thrill of the tarmac flashing under their bonnet, squealing around ...

Let's get the good news over with first. Colin McRae Rally 2005 is an exceptional rallying game, and certainly the finest in the genre ever to grace a PC. Its graphical prowess is undisputed, it's extremely ...

Sometimes, you start playing a game and realise that reinforcements wouldn't be a bad idea. It's an experience that will be endured by anyone who tries to tackle Colin McRae Rally 04 without the appropriate equipment. ...

This scribe was taught harsh lessons in his youth about how 'hate' was a very strong word, only to be used in the most extreme of circumstances. I hate Crazy Taxi 3. But then hate, in ...

Arguably console gaming's finest rallying experience ever, the Colin McRae franchise is now settled into a cycle of heading for the dedicated games machines first, with a PC version some six months down the line. And, ...

Riddle us this - what's the difference between "F1 Career Challenge" and "F1 Challenge". Not much of a riddle we know, no doubt a certain fictional green-suited fop is spinning 'neath his enigmatic epitaph, but it's ...

We suspect that many people stuck in heavy rush hour traffic jams have had the fantasy of stepping on the accelerator, veering onto the pavement and pelting past the queued masses, sending sandwich boards and lampposts ...

We loved Gran Turismo and all its little Gran Turismo offspring, but there occasionally came a point in the evening, usually after the fifth pint, when it all turned silly and people started driving the wrong ...

Power meetings. Power lunches. Power creeps in the shadows and corners of today's world like a small, creepy thing that shuffles its feet softly yet makes its presence felt everywhere. Power can be fun too of ...

Game producing, much like film making, can boil down to clichés. Just as an Arnie action film must have at least a dozen excruciatingly crafted unsubtle one-liners and several explosions the size of a city, a ...