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iRacing: Hardcore Online Zoom-Cars

By Kieron Gillen on August 28th, 2008.

Griefing iRacing, I suspect, would be the highly amusing. Man! I'm immoral.

This was brought to my attention by comrade Hobbes, via an Xconomy article. iRacing is a new motorsports based MMO. Except “MMO” isn’t really the phrase the developers would like. They’d prefer “MMIS”. That is, “massively multiparticipant Internet sport”. It’s a serious endeavour, to say the least – it’s minimum spec includes a steering wheel and pedals, for example. More details beneath the cut…
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