Formula 1 The state of play in F1 Esports’ ‘relentless’ new season F1 Esports gets back underway this week with races at Silverstone, Spa and Monza. Nathan Quinn recaps the key talking points from round one
Gaming Opmeer wins again in second straight rain-hit F1 Esports race Defending F1 Esports champion Jarno Opmeer has taken his second consecutive win in the 2021 Pro Championship to take the lead of the drivers’ table
Formula 1 Blakeley and Opmeer split victories in F1 Esports opener Lucas Blakeley and defending champion Jarno Opmeer split the victories in the first round of this year’s F1 Esports Pro Championship
Formula 1 F1 2021 Esports driver line-ups ranked from worst to best With the fifth Formula 1 esports season fast approaching, our gaming expert Nathan Quinn ranks the driver line-ups from worst to best
Gaming The beloved racing game franchise finally returning next year The much-loved Test Drive Unlimited racing game franchise is returning next year after a decade-long absence. Nathan Quinn reflects on the original two games and why they are still held in such high regard
Formula 1 How Alfa Romeo’s virtual F1 champion is getting on at Mercedes The reigning F1 esports champion Jarno Opmeer has swapped Alfa for Mercedes. He discusses his chances in his title defence, a threatening rival at Red Bull and what more resources at Mercedes mean for his chances
Formula 1 The long and strange history of F1 drivers in non-F1 games From Lewis Hamilton in FIFA and Call of Duty to Jacques Villeneuve’s personal vision for motorsport in 2027, Formula 1 drivers have a habit of popping up in unlikely ways in video games
Formula 1 Verstappen downgraded in latest F1 2021 driver ratings update Max Verstappen now has a lower rating than his Formula 1 title rival Lewis Hamilton in the official game, after Codemasters released a new update for F1 2021
Formula 1 Senna-inspired F1 content coming to retro racing game Three-time Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna is the focus of an upcoming expansion to the retro-inspired Horizon Chase Turbo racing game
Gaming Crash costs Yamaha’s Daretti MotoGP esports points lead A fall in the Philip Island race for the two-time champion Lorenzo Daretti has cost him the points lead in the MotoGP eSport Championship and has given last year’s champion Adrian Montenegro a seven point lead at the top of the table
Gaming How the king of rally gaming rose from PlayStation 2 roots Having won three of the six esports World Rally Championships held so far, Lohan ‘Nexl’ Blanc is rally gaming’s benchmark. This is his journey from PlayStation 2 games to the top of his discipline
Gaming The unique racing game genre with huge potential While top-down racing games are often arcade-focussed, a new title has shifted things far more towards simulation, as Nathan Quinn explains
Formula 1 Grosjean’s choices among latest F1 Esports field Ahead of the start of the F1 Esports Pro Championship next month, all 10 teams have revealed their driver rosters for the upcoming season
Gaming Button among real-world stars in Le Mans Virtual Series Drivers from Formula 1, F2, Formula E and IndyCar will all feature in the Le Mans Virtual Series championship, headlined by Jenson Button
Formula 1 Portimao added to official F1 2021 game Codemasters has added the Portimao circuit into F1 2021 in the first of three major updates coming to the official Formula 1 game
Gaming Is there room for a realistic mobile racing game? Our gaming expert Nathan Quinn takes you through the mobile gaming options on the market, weighing up the approaches each take in terms of going for a realistic approach or a more catch-all arcade style
Gaming Blanc becomes three-time WRC esports champion After narrowly losing out on the win in last month’s 2020 final, Frenchman Lohan Blanc won the 2021 WRC eSports final to become a three-time WRC eSports champion
Gaming Is the esports stigma around mobile racing games justified? There’s often a stigma attached to esports competitions on mobile racing games. Nathan Quinn evaluates the current mobile scene to see if it’s justified
Gaming WRC 10 Review: A franchise finally ready to rival DiRT Rally While it still can’t match the simulation elements, WRC 10 might finally be a rally game to rival the market-leading DiRT Rally with an extensive classic car list
Formula 1 What’s behind the recent F1 game update controversy The league racing scene in the F1 gaming community has taken a huge hit with the revelation that official F1 Esports drivers have been given updates to the F1 2021 game ahead of everyone else
Formula 1 McLaren opts for all-new F1 Esports driver line-up McLaren has unveiled an entirely new driver line-up for the 2021 F1 Esports Pro Series, including the 2018 runner-up Dani Bereznay
Gaming Champion Simoncic ends his FSR season with another win Jernej Simoncic had already been crowned Formula SimRacing world champion for a third straight year, and now he’s won over a third of the 2021 season’s races
Gaming Four winners in four races in MotoGP’s 2021 esports series The 2021 MotoGP esports title race remained wide open as the season hit its halfway mark, with the third and fourth race producing new winners
Gaming Review: How ex-MotoGP developers’ new hardcore bike sim stacks up New bike racing simulator RiMS Racing is a bold and uncompromising first attempt for motorcycle obsessives – but does it work as a game?
Gaming Simoncic seals third FSR world title after race cancellation The cancellation of the penultimate round of the Formula SimRacing World Championship means Jernej Simoncic has been crowned the drivers’ champion for the third year in a row
Gaming Lebanese teenager wins delayed 2020 eSport WRC grand final After a one year delay to the running of the event, Sami-Joe Abi Nakhle won the 2020 eSport WRC grand final – beating over 15,000 players including the 2019 champion
Gaming GRID’s new story mode will make or break the game The success of the latest instalment in the GRID racing game franchise will hinge on whether or not its brand-new story mode will deliver.
Gaming Charting IndyCar’s recent racing game history Following the news there will be a new IndyCar game, we chart the sporadic history of IndyCar in racing games since the last official title
Formula 1 F1 creates new free mobile esports competition Formula 1 is launching its second mobile based esports competition, this time taking place on the free app Real Racing 3 which is published by EA
Gaming The changes needed to reverse the decline of the GRID games The last GRID game was a far cry from the original release, we assess which features should be brought back – and which shouldn’t – to reverse the franchise’s decline
IndyCar The lessons IndyCar’s new game can take from its last attempt You have to go back 17 years to find the last official contemporary IndyCar racing game. Nathan Quinn unearthed it, put it through its paces and pondered which features – if any – would return in the new IndyCar game in 2023
Gaming Suzuka win puts Simoncic on brink of Formula Sim world title Jernej Simoncic all but sealed the Formula SimRacing drivers’ championship with a lights to flag victory at Suzuka in the 10th round
Gaming Redline 1-2 in iRacing Spa 24 Hours, Verstappen fraught fifth Team Redline claimed a 1-2 in the iRacing 24 Hours of Spa, while a disconnection ended Max Verstappen’s hopes of a third iRacing special event win of 2021
Gaming Red Bull 1-2 in Spa round of Formula Sim world championship Red Bull Esports took a 1-2 in the Belgian round of the Formula SimRacing World Championship with Dennis Jordan taking first place and moving closer towards title contention
Formula 1 Which ‘Icon’ is the best team-mate in new F1 2021 game? The latest official Formula 1 game – released this week – features seven legends who you can sign in the team management mode. Nathan Quinn ranks the performance of all seven
Gaming IndyCar to launch new official video game in 2023 After a long hiatus from commissioning its own fully fledged video game, an officially licensed IndyCar game will be released in 2023
Formula 1 Ricciardo to Mercedes – Has F1 game’s driver market changed? Our gaming expert Nathan Quinn assesses the driver market on Codemasters’ F1 2021 to see how random and realistic it is (or isn’t)
Formula 1 Undercooked and unnecessary: F1 2021’s story mode assessed There’s a lot of hype around F1 2021’s Braking Point – the first fully-fledged story mode to appear in the official Formula 1 game. But our reviewer Nathan Quinn says it’s a disappointment execution of a feature that most players won’t even be interested in
Formula 1 F1 2021 game review: Improvements don’t make up for what’s lost Nathan Quinn delivers his verdict of the latest official Formula 1 game, F1 2021 which releases later this week
Formula 1 F1 2021 driver ratings unveiled as Verstappen equals Hamilton Ahead of the release of F1 2021 next week, developer Codemasters has revealed the driver ratings for this year’s crop of drivers
