Assetto Corsa Series

In the world of driving simulators, a lot of attention has been focused on Assetto Corsa recently. The highly-regarded PC sim is finally coming out on consoles in the next 2 weeks and thanks to Los Santos Sheriff on Youtube, we have some honest impressions about how the game is shaping up on PS4.

After Kunos posted their own video highlighting how Assetto Corsa controls with a regular gamepad on console, many fans of the game on PC felt it wasn’t very representative of how the game actually behaves with a controller.

With Assetto Corsa due to launch this month, the official Assetto Corsa Youtube channel has uploaded the above video to highlight what those on controller can expect against those with a dedicated steering wheel in terms of car control. Due to the PC-centric development approach that many sims have these days, the handling on controller has become an important metric when players factor in if they should purchase a game.

While they’re certainly a far cry away from the 442 found in the original PC game, the list of Xbox One achievements for Assetto Corsa have been outed by tracking website Exophase ahead of its release later this month.

As has been talked about all week long, the Summer Special episode of Kunos’ developer stream, Look What the Cat Hacked In, revealed a respectable portion of what the team has planned for the future of Assetto Corsa over the coming months. Kunos’ Marco Massarutto had even more to share regarding the racer; the immediate focus becoming what wouldn’t be included, at least not in the first game.

If for some reason or another you’ve missed the news, Assetto Corsa has gone “gold” for consoles. There won’t be any further bumps along the road affecting its scheduled release dates later this month. With that in mind, things have been steadily heating up over the past several weeks and with no end in sight, there’s even more content to look forward to.

When the team at Kunos Simulazioni originally announced that the Stuttgart manufacturer would be coming to Assetto Corsa later this year, it was a bombshell reveal no one expected. The partnership would result in 20 of the most iconic machines manufactured by the brand across 2 individual DLC packs. As it stands, things have taken a turn for the better.

Well now this is an odd pairing. Kunos Simulazioni has continued to tease the contents of its upcoming Porsche expansion packs for Assetto Corsa, hot on the heels of previous hints (first the 935/78, then the Carerra RSR 3.0). The latest two additions certainly cover a broad spectrum: the 2017 Porsche Panamera and the 1973 Porsche 917/30.

Assetto Corsa has been one of the most sought-after sims since Kunos announced that the acclaimed PC racer would make its way to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One more than one year ago. Console players anxious to try the game for themselves have been reassured on more than one occasion that the physics would not be ‘watered down’ when it debuts on both platforms.

The fourth round of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship happened at the Nurburgring this past weekend. Held on the Grand Prix circuit, it was a hard-fought battle between the Porsche and Audi prototypes, with the Stuttgart manufacturer clinching it at the end of 194 laps.

As has been the story for the past several weeks, Kunos Simulazioni are full steam ahead leading up to the games release on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later next month. Recently the team have begun to trickle content relevant to the game that will be available on the day of the console launch, or some time thereafter.

It isn’t everyday that you sit behind the virtual wheel of a racing car so capable that it outright demands the very best of its pilot, and seemingly gestures an insult of grand proportions when those demands aren’t met. The Ferrari SF15-T is one such racing car, and it was introduced to Assetto Corsa in the Red Pack.

For the past several weeks the team at Kunos Simulazioni have been riding a hot streak; the news just keeps coming without an end in sight. With Assetto Corsa’s console release imminent, it appears the team are full steam ahead leading up to its launch.

The team at Kunos Simulazioni continue to ride the hot streak after last week’s release of the anticipated Red Pack, bringing seven all-new Italian rides to the game, in addition to the Red Bull Ring.

The folks at YouTube channel SurrealCar are back at it with another video comparing Assetto Corsa with the real world. This time, the star isn’t an Audi hatchback or a carbon-tubbed Alfa Romeo, but the fearsome Lamborghini Aventador 750-4 SV. The big Italian bull arrived as part of the Red Pack earlier this week, and the video highlights how accurately the digital version replicates its physical counterpart.

The day has finally come, the Red Pack is now available to PC players for Assetto Corsa. Named after Italy’s national racing color, the pack pays tribute to Italian machinery and is dominated by a certain Italian automaker more synonymous with the color than any other: Ferrari.

Leading up to tomorrow’s release of the Red Pack, Kunos continues to tease the remaining cars left to be revealed. While we may have already suspected the GT3 racer to be included in tomorrow’s DLC, the team have officially confirmed that the successor to the 458 Italia GT3 will make way to the Red Pack.

Once you witness the level of immersion VR headsets have to offer the driving genre, the world of racing as you know it will likely change tremendously. With VR being one of the most advanced and anticipated additions to the driving genre, we’re excited about all the possibilities. We’re not alone, either: Marcel Pfister has been presenting its abilites using green-screen technology, to better convey what players will witness when they strap in. His latest video highlights one form of driving where being able to look out the side windows is of the utmost importance: drifting.

It looks like the cat is out of the bag in relation to the final three cars that will be included in the Red Pack for Assetto Corsa releasing later this week. Eagle-eyed viewers were able to spot the final three cars in the latest Kunos developer stream, Look What the Cat Hacked In at a little over 24 minutes in.

This one slipped through the cracks. In a week that’s seen a new trailer focusing on the game’s tracks, as well as the addition of Ferrari’s 2013 F1 contender, it’s been hard keeping track of all the news surrounding Assetto Corsa. To wrap up the weekend, we’ve got a collection of over a dozen images of what’s sure to be a popular car in this week’s Red Pack: the Maserati 250F.