After releasing two big MMO games in Champions Online and Star Trek Online, publisher Atari heads back to more familiar ground for its next big release, Test Drive Unlimited 2. The racing simulation with a persistent online element is heading back to gamers with the previous game's developer Eden Games also coming back to work on the sequel.

The new game will still have an offline single player mode but the emphasis once again is on the persistent online world that gamers can race in with their super sports cars. The sequel will have new elements such as weather, vehicle damage and day and night cycles. At the moment the game is set for release sometime this fall.