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Lamborghini brings cars to Web3 games with Animoca, Motorverse partnership
2.10.2024
Lamborghini has teamed up with Animoca Brands to launch its first interoperable blockchain-based digital vehicles, bringing the cars to Web3 gaming
Ubisoft Promises Offline Modes For The Crew 2 & Motorfest
10.9.2024
Last year, Ubisoft yanked The Crew from digital stores and a few months later killed its servers, making it impossible to play the driving game even if you bought it on disc. People didn’t like this and now Ubisoft is promising not to kill its sequels, The Crew 2 and The Crew: Motorfest. Read more
People Who Paid Extra To Play The New Test Drive Early Can't Due To Server Issues
6.9.2024
Test Drive Unlimted Solar Crown, the long-awaited next entry in the popular online open-world racing series, launched yesterday for folks who purchased the game’s $90 Gold Edition. Unfortunately for them, the game has been mostly unplayable due to server issues. Read more
A Sims Game Is Finally Coming To The Nintendo Switch, Sorta
23.8.2024
For years fans have been saying things like, “Why aren’t there any Sims games on Switch?” and “Will we ever see a Sims game on Switch?” Well, now their desperate pleas have been answered with a port of a a Sims spin-off from 2007. Kotaku understands that a remaster of MySims of sorts is headed...
Where To Find Astro's Playroom's Special Gran Turismo Bot
12.8.2024
Astro’s Playroom has added its third Special Bot since it began counting down to Astro’s return in his upcoming full-length adventure, the aptly titled Astro Bot. This latest bot pays homage to Sony’s long-running racing sim franchise Gran Turismo.Read more
Daytona USA Arcade Cabinet Was Hiding $400,000 And A Gun
30.7.2024
Daytona USA was a hit ‘90s arcade racing game by Sega that helped millions of kids pretend they were bad-ass NASCAR drivers, and sported a famous theme song that certain Kotaku editors still get stuck in their heads to this day. This week, it was discovered that one of the old cabinets was hiding...
Gran Turismo 7 Update Breaks Cars, Turns Them Into Wacky Missiles
26.7.2024
Gran Turismo 7's most recent update was meant to improve and tweak the racing sim’s car physics. But something went wrong (or right, depending on how wacky you like your racing games), leading to flying cars and an apology from the devs. Read more
Toys 'R' Us' New AI-Generated Ad Is Truly Horrible And More Of The Week's Takes
29.6.2024
Toys ‘R’ Us—or, more accurately, the brand’s reanimated corpse—made waves this week with the release of an AI-generated ad that inadvertently reveals so much about this era of widespread “enshittification.” Our piece on that, as well as a lament for the way expiring licenses are killing Forza...
Forza Horizon 4 Is Disappearing And It's All Because Of Stupid Licenses
26.6.2024
News has arrived that Forza Horizon 4's DLC is getting unlisted from all gaming stores, with the entire game getting entirely pulled from sale this December 15. This is one of the most beloved racing games—hell, most beloved games—of the last decade. And in a few months, it’ll just be gone. Why?...
Fortnite's Free Cars Will Get You Killed Faster Than Its Paid Ones, New Video Shows
3.6.2024
A new viral video shows that many of Fortnite’s premium cars—which can only be unlocked by purchasing them with V-Bucks—are safer to drive around in compared to the free models in the game. This is proving to be a problem in Fortnite’s newest car-focused season, and it seemingly goes against Epic’s...
MotoGP’s Gresini racing goes crypto with new fan sponsorship program
1.6.2024
MotoGP race team Gresini Racing is embracing elements of decentralized ownership through a new program allowing fans to purchase personal team sponsorship packages
The Legally Distinct Not-Bloodborne Kart Is Out Now And Looks Incredible
31.5.2024
We may never get a sequel to Bloodborne or a PC port, but we do have the next best thing: a PSX-style kart racer inspired by it. Nightmare Kart, which has raced down a long and winding road to get to this point, is finally available and it’s entirely free.Read more
Dogecoin Price Prediction as DOGE Bounces 4.5% in a Day – What’s Causing the Pump?
14.5.2024
DOGE has gained by 4% in the past 24 hours, with the Dogecoin price racing to $0.1504 after the return of GameStop trader 'Roaring Kitty' to X sent meme coins flying yesterday.
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Dave & Buster's Will Soon Let You Place Bets On Arcade Games
30.4.2024
Starting later this year, popular family entertainment restaurant chain Dave & Buster’s will offer its customers (who are 18 years or older) the ability to place “friendly wagers” on various games using the company’s app. Read more
Recall Initiated For Mario Kart Ride-On Racers After Stuck Accelerators Cause Multiple Crashes
26.4.2024
Tesla was recently forced to recall every Cybertruck it’s ever built — all 3,878 of them — because the cover on the accelerator pedal could come loose, causing unintended acceleration. As it turns out, though, you don’t even need to be old enough to get your driver’s license to deal with unintended...
This Is The Best Mario Kart 8 Build, According To Math
23.4.2024
You ever play Mario Kart 8 and get absolutely dusted by your friends? Maybe, after losing all four races in a single cup, you take your build back to the garage, tinkering with the stats in an effort to create the fastest racer your friend group has ever seen. Well, science has now given us...
Bitcoin Halving Has Crypto Miners Racing for 'Epic Sat' Potentially Worth Millions
15.4.2024
Bitcoin's once-every-four-years "halving" this week may be very different from those of earlier epochs, typically ho-hum affairs. Now, an intense competition is underway to mine the first block after the halving, which could contain a rare and collectible fragment of a bitcoin known as an "epic...
Next Big Thing in Crypto? Why Everyone’s Racing to Get This Unlisted Web3 VR Token
3.4.2024
Web3 token 5SCAPE is well on track to achieving its target of raising an eye watering $15 million in an ongoing presale. The ICO is only on round 3 of a dozen so far and has already raised $3,674,797, a hefty 24.5% of the target. 5SCAPE has a leg over all the competition, because it’s...
VeChain launches Marketplace-as-a-Service platform with MotoGP’s Gresini Racing and ExPlus
28.3.2024
VeChain introduces a no-code white-label marketplace platform named Marketplace-as-a-service (MaaS). The first release was done with the MotoGP team, Gresini Racing, and ExPlus backing. The complete version is slated for the end of the year, opening the doors for individuals and enterprises. MaaS...
Crypto Experts Eye New Web3 Meme Coin, Racing to Invest Before It Hits Exchanges
20.3.2024
Eagle-eyed watchers of emerging small market cap projects are pouring into Sponge (SPONGE), a new Web3 meme coin that comes with its own staking and video gaming community, ahead of the token’s listing on major exchanges. SPONGE has jumped over 9,000% since the original iteration (SPONGE...