Rock, Paper, Shotgun

It’s the 8th of October! There’s not been much choice out there for rally folks who wanted something other than Codemaster’s heavily coolified Dirt 2, so it’ll be interesting to see how Black Bean get on with the old fashioned tea-in-a-Thermos rallying licence of the WRC. Limited details and a brief trailer (is that poking some fun at Dirt 2?) are available over on the official site.

RPS know almost as much about bike-racing as foot-to-ball. As such, we’re all sure to be absorbed in SBK-X when it hits. Until then, here’s a demo, featuring the Portimao track, where you have to dodge between portable miniature Communist Chinese Leaders without dying or something. Four weather modes are included, plus two drivers: Max Biaggi and Cal Curthlow, who are the quick but fast characters and the speedy but nippy characters respectively. You can download the 700Mb demo from here or watch some footage below…
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Motorbikes have never been sensible. I mean you can’t fall off a car, can you? Anyway, they do nevertheless produce racing excitements unlike any other, and the videogames which accurately portray the about-to-die experience of going very fast on a motorbike are few and far between. SBK 09 Superbike World Championship is hoping to get close with its licenced high-speed shenanigans, and you can play the demo of this latest superbike game right now, unless you are reading RPS at work or something. Naughty you. The demo includes a single track from the full game, which will apparently appear on PC on the 29th of May. Footage after the click.
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