Assetto Corsa Series

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.

If you weren’t hyped enough consider yourself lucky, the entire team at Kunos Simulazioni have certainly become masters of that craft with these recent string of trailers. Whether it be further building the already high anticipation for the upcoming console release, or a slow trickling of reveals for the upcoming Red Pack – Kunos certainly knows how to get the job done.

The folks at Kunos Simulazioni don’t seem to understand what rest is. During E3 last month, where every single developer was vying for the spotlight, Kunos announced arguably the biggest, most surprising sim racing news: a little company named Porsche would be joining Assetto Corsa’s stable.

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Assetto Corsa has been on a hot streak as of late, and with the recent bombshell that a certain Stuttgart manufacturer is due later this fall, it doesn’t look to be ending anytime soon. Console racers on the look-out for the acclaimed title still have a little wait until it lands on the PS4 and Xbox One.

Highly-praised racing simulator Assetto Corsa is currently under the microscope, mainly due to latest confirmation of Porsche’s imminent arrival in the game. Although the console version received its third launch delay earlier this year (moving the release for late August), it was available to try at this year’s E3 conference. The exclusive gameplay footage above was captured by Team VVV and should give you a very good feel of how the game will look when it comes out later this summer.

Talk about being taken by surprise. While Kunos Simulazioni, the brains behind the critically-acclaimed Assetto Corsa, may not have made the buzz at this year’s E3 that many were perhaps expecting, the small Italian studio, alongside publisher 505 Games, have made their mark elsewhere, having just announced a partnership no one was expecting.

As Assetto Corsa’s console launch approaches the new summer release date of August 30th, coverage of the game continues to gain traction. Just a few weeks ago, Kunos Simulazioni held a special event at the Autodromo Vallelunga circuit where lucky members of the press got to play the console version of the game before heading out on-track in reality to drive some of the most impressive supercars on the planet.

People who enjoy spending much of their time in drifting lobbies could find the following video quite delightful. The Mixed Reality video series created by Marcel Pfister continues, this time focusing purely on drifting, a discipline that can definitely benefit from the freedom VR provides. Watch the video above and enjoy the beauty of tandem drifting.

It has been quite a while since we shared anything related to the groundbreaking gaming accessory known as the virtual reality headset. Who’s to blame, you’re no doubt asking? We don’t know if you heard, but a little game by the name of Gran Turismo Sport had our attention for most of last week…

First revealed in the final Developer Diary entry discussing the 1.5 update alongside the future prospects of the title, the Japanese Car Pack introduces a number of vehicles from the Land of the Rising Sun as has been requested by the community.

One reality against another – that is exactly how we could describe this latest split-screen comparison video, meticulously prepared by Youtube user Marcel Pfister. His Mixed Reality gameplay and tutorial videos (previously highlighted here and here) show off the advantages of owning an Oculus Rift VR headset, a device that could soon change the experience of playing a video game tremendously, driving games in particular. Just look at the level of immersion, all without going far from your sofa!

We recently spotted another video game channel – 60fps Sim Racing – pitting the virtual world against the real, featuring none other than that most illustrious of German courses, the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Using real lap footage of the BMW M4 (narrated by BMW development driver Jörg Weidinger), the channel peruses the technical achievements of one of the newer players on the sim racing block: Assetto Corsa.

If there is a novelty in hardware technology that could rapidly change interaction with future video game driving simulators, the virtual reality headset certainly could be leading the way. Ever since becoming commercially available in March 2016, VR has been at the centre of talks relating dropping players directly into the world of virtual reality, a matter particularly interesting to the driving game genre.