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Famed indie game creators Cactus and Messhof showed their latest creation this past Tuesday. Its a 3D racing game with two player mode in split screen as well as online. It was a very retro feel to it but looks very dynamic and fun, it also has enough flashing colors to cause you some severe seizures. Its like that old Pokemon anime episode they banned but 100X more extreme. They dont have a name for the game yet but I’m putting in my vote for EPILEPSIA or something witty like that, it would probably also serve as a legal disclaimer in case of any  lawsuits.

[Messhof / Via IndieGames]

Hello again, dear DDN readers. Today I’ll show you one of my favorite racing games: the latest installment of the Wave Race franchise, Blue Storm.

I won’t lie, from the first time I picked up the N64 game from the nearest Toys’R'us I knew I’d love this game to no end, just like the F-zero series (on console, I didn’t like the GBA game). Excellent graphics, water physics, challenging AI, and the classic ride-the-dolphin trick: this racer gave us a lot without asking for anything in return. And that’s just the N64 version!

The Gamecube version included new stages, better soundtrack, more characters, character color and jet-ski handling customization, and an even more difficult AI. Needless to say, the upgrade from anonymous helmeted characters on the N64 to complete personalities and names on the GC title was an excellent feature, giving us greater quality in our Wave Race experience. I completely love how your guide changes depending on your racer. It makes it a more real experience, being in a tournament and all.

The 2 videos below are almost the same, but in the first one I fail miserably because of my lack of practice over these months. . . and the other is the third try. What a difference! Enjoy!

By the way, I’m playing on expert on Souther island on Sunny day.

Here’s the other one. Yay for me!

Liked it? I really had fun recording these! Wait for more some time later!

Checkout this video of the original Super Mario Kart running with the Force Dynamics 301, one of the most advanced driving simulators. Pretty neat stuff, but can it simulate the brutality of being hit by a blue shell in the new Mario Kart games? Can it spin around franticly when playing F-Zero? More importantly, will it work with a quarter? If not there’s still much room for improvement, lets break some necks!

[tag]Video Games, Racing, Mario Kart[/tag]

Ubisoft is bringing 8 launch titles to the Wii, it is without a doubt the Wii’s biggest 3rd party supporter. One of those launch titles is GT Pro, a racing game, which apparently, will be packed with a steering wheel.

While this is clearly a digital rendition of the wheel it is the final design. Many complain that this kind of cheap to make accessory with zero extra functionality will cheapen the experience of the Wiimote. I beg to differ, accessories have, for a long time, been expensive, heavy, and many times fragile. With attachments like this, mote than an accessory this is a prop, a toy. And you know what? Toys are still cool in my book.

The game, on the other hand, doesn’t look very good, at least graphically. The game is cel shaded but that style evidently doesn’t come off as well in the screenshots. Ubisoft promises a game that is better done and full-featured than most racing titles out there.

[IGN]

Eidos Interactive will develop a game called Ford Bold Moves Street Racing named after the Ford’s Bold Moves campaign. It is not the first time that Ford releases a game for advertising purposes. I’ve in fact played some of the older Ford racing titles, and while the games usually sucked, you could drive a Ford Ka!

Yes, I finally found an excuse to put a picture of the kind of car I drive here!

[Joystiq]

Ubisoft announced yesterday that they will provide five more Wii titles for launch day. Thats a total of 7 launch titles for the Wii if we count Red Steel and Rayman Raving Rabbids. The list includes a couple of war games and racing games. Its starting to show that FPS and racing will be strong genres for the wii. Here’s the full 5 titles.

• Far Cry
• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
• Monster 4×4 world circuit
• GT Pro Series
• Open Season

Ubisoft is also making it a strong point that ports are no good for the Wii, Far Cry will have exclusive features built around the Wii and we can probably expect that from every multi-platform title from Ubisoft.

I wake up, stumble to my chair almost falling and with greatly blurred vision I find that EA has revealed a launch date for Need For Speed: Carbon. Hmm, November 3rd, ‘ok’ I think to myself. About 30 seconds later (some of which i slept through) it hits me, the Wii just might launch that day! Hey, we even talked about that this week! So a November launch gets even more support and I’m left with a big lesson: Don’t write when you just woke up.

[VB]