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Car mechanics, rejoice: new video game Pacific Drive requires you to maintain your vehicle to survive

Published 26 January 2024
By Matt Robinson
New PlayStation 5 game places the emphasis on garage spannering skills to keep you alive in a dangerous, apocalyptic environment.
F1 Manager 2022 by Frontier Developments

F1 Manager simulator coming this summer

Game creator Frontier Developments has unveiled a new cross-platform Formula 1 management simulator, F1 Manager 2022, due to arrive this summer.
Published 08 March 2022
Dirt by Codemasters

Five best PlayStation driving games

Video games let us live out our virtual driving fantasies. Here are the best ones for PS4 and PS5.
Published 26 November 2021
Tech clinic: how did video games become so popular?

Tech clinic: how did video games get so popular?

Britain is the world’s fifth-largest market, with about half of us gaming in 2017 and spending £5.11bn, more than on music and video combined.
Published 09 September 2018

$1m eRace gives driver second chance at stardom

When Graham Carroll climbed into his parents’ loft and sat down in front of a car racing computer game he could never have imagined that it would
Published 05 January 2017
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News: Graham Hill’s Lotus racing car shows evolution...

At the British Grand Prix this weekend, the cars racing around the track will, apart from having four wheels and a driver, be far removed from those...
Published 01 July 2014