race-07 posts

Race07, the European racing sim game from Sweden-based SimBin, was first released four years ago. Yet the game continues to sell and be updated with new patches. Today SimBin announced that Race07 will be getting no less than five mini-expansion packs that will be made available via download.

The first expansion, Formula RaceRoom, will add the super fast car Formula RR to the game along with three layouts of the Hockenheim Ring track. The expansion pack will be free to download at the raceroom.net web site with a release date to be announced later. The other expansions will cost between $5 to $10 each and willl be available to download at the Raceroom.net web site as well as Steam.

SimBin announced nearly a year ago that it was working on an all new GTR racing sim game but so far details of that game have yet to be revealed.

The first day of GDC is usually pretty slow but there were a few bits of cool info today including the Serious Sam 3 reveal. Neat stuff.

• Steam has new automatic updates for Painkiller Redemption, Race 07 and the Steam client.
• Google continues to push high end PC gaming in a browser.
• Watch a non-gamer get frustrated at playing Portal. Cool.
• Read an interview with the makers of a Half-Life 2 mod based around school shootings. Not cool.
• Do Portal 2's achievments give hints about Half-Life 2 Episode 3?
• Devil May Cry's movie rights have been bought by the same studio that does the Resident Evil film series.

Racing sim developers SimBin recently completed and released Race Pro, a title for the Xbox 360. This week the developer announced that they will be releasing the similarly named Race On for the PC, both as a stand alone game and as an expansion pack for previous owners of their PC title Race 07.

The press release goes into far more detail than we could in a brief news post on what is contained in this game. In summary Race On has a total of 37 cars (including 16 new vehicles), 30 different tracks (a number of which have never been seen in a SimBin PC game) and several different racing circuits. Race On is due to be released sometime this spring.

The folks at Valve continue to give Steam customers (at least those in North America) some cool package deals on games on their service. The latest is for the upcoming SimBin developed racing simulation GTR Evolution. This latest game is actually an extension of the previously released RACE 07 and contains nearly 50 cars, 19 different tracks and both a simulation and arcade racing mode.

GTR Evolution actually contains the full RACE 07 game and Steam is offering people who pre-order GTR Evolution 10 percent off its regular $39.99 price before it launches on September 1. If you already own RACE 07 you can download GTR Evolution from Steam; it is also priced at 10 percent off its regular price of $19.99.