<![CDATA[Kotaku: Nascar]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Nascar]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/nascar http://kotaku.com/tag/nascar <![CDATA[What Would You Do with the World's Largest HD Screen?]]> Why, you'd play video games on it, just like NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. did at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. As website Joystiq points out, it took 57 workers four months to complete the 332.5 ton, 720p screen, which is comprised of 9 million LEDs. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5801158&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sponsored by Games, but Racing for Gamers]]> Most single men don't pay much attention to which brand of laundry detergent they buy, beyond whatever's cheapest. But back in North Carolina, I had a friend who was adamant about using Tide and could identify others who used it by their scent. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5788331&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NASCAR 2011's Delay Isn't Due To Points System Change]]> Earlier this week Eutechnyx, the studio behind NASCAR's revival on console gaming, delayed NASCAR 2011 to March 29. Then word passed that the racing series will refining its championship points structure for the next season. Were the two related? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5740258&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Quick, How Many Ads Can You Spot On This NASCAR Box]]> Let's thank the crew behind the Activision Eutechnyx NASCAR 2011 The Game Lowe's GoDaddy Cheerios Impala. They gave us some super box art that run real good today. The game releases March 29, part of a sportspocalypse month in gaming. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5732195&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Race A Toilet With NASCAR's Five-Time Champ]]> The motto of Jimmie Johnson, who clinched his fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup championship last month, is "Anything With An Engine." With dumpsters, coffins and lawnmowers, this upcoming arcade racer bearing his name takes that to an illogical extreme. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5709865&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The First 22 Drivers Of NASCAR 2011 The Game]]> NASCAR The Game 2011 dropped another 22 names of drivers (and their crew chiefs) who've licensed the use of their images in the game. There's a lady driver on this list, but it's not Danica Patrick. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5705609&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NASCAR Screens Trade Paint In Pretty Ways]]> Another five screens for NASCAR The Game 2011, due next year from Eutechnyx and Activision, show off the wear and tear on the cars, walls, and pavement - such as the patch job at Phoenix International Raceway. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5694810&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hope Tomorrow's Race Isn't Delayed, Too]]> Just to screw with you, GameStop's put Gran Turismo 5, which was originally planned to release on Tuesday, on the hood of Joey Logan's No. 20 Toyota for tomorrow's O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. Seen via GoJoeyLogano.com More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5682986&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NASCAR 2011 Screens Get Loose In Turn Three]]> The flaps go up to keep Jeff Gordon from going airborne in this new batch of screenshots for NASCAR 2011: The Game, due next year from Eutechnyx and Activision. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5682985&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Good Gosh Amighty Joey Logano And GameStop Done Made The Big Time]]> Thing about Joey Logano, driver of NASCAR's No. 20 GameStop Toyota, is when he pits for a splash of gas and two driver's side tires he trades in the used ones for $6.75 in store credit. (/laugh track) More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5671344&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A New Kind Of Busch Beer]]> Alcohol references of any type usually mean an ESRB rating stricter than E. This isn't new to NASCAR games. But it's amusing to see Kurt Busch, driver of the Miller Lite No. 2. get his own brand of beer. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5669189&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The First Batch Of Screens For Activision's New NASCAR Game]]> Not sure what the point is of a site countdown when the game is confirmed and, today, 15 screens for NASCAR 2011: The Game were get put up on the new site. But that countdown's still a-tickin' anyhow. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5652674&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New NASCAR Game Confirmed [Update]]]> As was rumored last week, Activision will publish a NASCAR-licensed game and racing-focused studio Eutechnyx will be building it, according to an official site launched today with a countdown clock that hits zero in five days. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5651360&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Report: NASCAR Coming Back Under Activision]]> Gamasutra this week reported that NASCAR - whose 12-year run with EA Sports ended in 2008 - will return next year under Activision and the developer Eutechnyx, known for its focus on racing games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5648264&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Joey Logano, U R MR NASCAR]]> Four races into a 21-race sponsorship with GameStop, NASCAR driver Joey Logano averages a fifth-place finish with games sponsorship on his hood. He looks to change that in Kentucky tomorrow with an intimidating Super Mario Galaxy 2 paint job. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5555851&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Kotaku 'Shop Contest: NASCAR Edition]]> Been awhile since we heard from our friend Joey Logano, whose No. 20 Toyota routinely sports some kind of GameStop hood ornament touting a current or upcoming game. Let's fix that. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5550996&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Yo Dawg, We Put a Race Car Game on Yo Race Car]]> As part of our neverending mission to tell you what video game is now turning left four times at 100 mph on Saturday tonight, let's check in with Joey Logano and the No. 20 GameStop Toyota. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5528460&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[In Turn Two It's Yoshi, Waluigi and Logano ...]]> After a week in which potholes played havoc with the Daytona 500 field, now it looks like Joey Logano and the No. 20 GameStop Toyota team are gonna rain shells and bananas on Fontana in the next Nationwide Series race. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5476063&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Is A Driver Not Entitled To The Hood Of His Own Car?]]> No, says the man in Daytona, it belongs to BioShock 2. By way of GameStop. Joey Logano's gonna run real good in the No. 20 GameStop BioShock 2 Toyota in tomorrow's Nationwide Series race. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5470851&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Modern Warfare 2 Deployed To NASCAR Paint Job]]> Just as DJ Hero, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Guitar Hero have done before it, Modern Warfare 2 will grace the chassis of GameStop's NASCAR Nationwide Series entry car. It'll do so this weekend, too! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5409586&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mario Goes Round And Round In NASCAR Race]]> If our glowing review for Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. doesn't convince you to buy a Wii, perhaps seeing Mario, Luigi and his Toad followers on a NASCAR chassis will! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5404371&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[DJ Hero Does NASCAR]]> Target and Activision have teamed up to plaster Martin Truex Jr.'s No. 1 Chevrolet with giant DJ Hero logos at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in North Carolina this Saturday. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5382406&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Peter Moore: No More NASCAR Games from EA]]> In an interview, EA Sports boss Peter Moore says his division's plans for doing more NASCAR games have, like Ray Earl Don's No. 78 Chevy in turn four at Rockingham, done blowed up. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5351420&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Activision Teams Pros With GI Joes]]> Activision is teaming up with nonprofit troop support organization Pro vs. GI Joe for the Activision Showdown series, pitting pro-athletes against our troops overseas in games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5315350&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Guitar Hero Car Repeatedly Turning Left At Daytona 500]]> Activision will once again throw tons of cash at the Guitar Hero franchise via NASCAR endorsement, as it sponsors cars at the Daytona 500 race and beyond promoting "upcoming Guitar Hero titles." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5147420&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[LittleBigPlanet Meets...NASCAR?]]> Halo 3 on a NASCAR? Predictable. The Wii on a NASCAR? Understandable, since everybody has a Wii these days. But we're struggling to find just where, exactly, the NASCAR fanbase and the LittleBigPlanet fanbase dovetail. Yet dovetail they did over the weekend just past, this GameStop/LittleBigPlanet racer finishing a respectable 5th place. Not bad for a car that looks like it was knitted by my gran. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5070767&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Video Games Aren't Real Life, Even For NASCAR Drivers]]> Most of us out there who have played a racing game for any period time have fantasized about being in the game while we're driving real cars, but the important thing is that we don't act on such fantasies. Tell that to NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, who attempted to defeat rival and two-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson by...purposefully bouncing his car off a concrete wall.
"I planned on hitting the wall, but I didn't plan on the wall slowing me down that much," Edwards said. "In video games, you can just run into the wall and run it wide open. That's what I did, but it didn't quite work out the same as the video game."
*rubs temples* Oh my head. How are we supposed to keep our children from setting people on fire when their role-models decide that driving at top speeds on a crowded raceway is a good time to see how accurate the physics in GRID are? Johnson wins, Edwards hits wall on purpose [HamptonRoads.com] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5056328&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GameStop Sponsors Race Car With Call of Duty Skin]]> Watch NASCAR much and you notice the winning driver's post-race genuflection to his sponsors can get to be a mouthful. So it's probably a good thing Joey Logano finished 16th in last night's Food City 250 at Bristol, Tenn. in stock car racing's Nationwide series. Otherwise Logano would be like: "Well, Jerry, we just have a super group of guys on the Call of Duty World at War GameStop Joe Gibbs Racing Number 20 Toyota team. Just a great car, ran super good and I'm glad we could get a win for the Call of Duty World at War GameStop Joe Gibbs Racing Number 20 Toyota team. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5040940&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Does NASCAR]]> Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you living, speeding proof that Activision is officially marketing the living hell out of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Presenting the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Target Chip Ganassi Racing number 40 Dodge, appearing June 29th at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway to commemorate the launch of the game. This beast will be piloted by Ganassi's Dario Franchitti, who is just pleased as punch. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017547&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Peter Moore Goes NASCAR]]> By John Gaudiosi More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=325188&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Halo Car Red Rings, Wii Car Takes Second in Race]]> With the release of Halo 3 just days away the ultimate faceoff went down over the weekend at the Dover Speedway: Halo 3 took on the Wii in the form of a NASCAR racing pitting Greg Biffle versus David Stremme. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=302820&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wii Versus Halo 3 At Dover]]> This weekend at the Dover Speedyway, it isn't a battle of Ford versus Dodge. It's not #16's Greg Biffle versus #40's David Stremme. This is a battle between the Wii and Halo 3. Last week we told you about the Halo 3 car that would be racing at the Nextel Cup preview event, but Nintendo dropped us a line to let us know that more than one gaming property would be represented on the track. I see one of two things happening here. Either the Halo 3 car will start early and be disqualified, or the Wii driver's steering wheel will slip out of his hands and he'll end up with his car stuck in the Halo car's windshield. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=302321&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Halo 3 The Ride, The Car]]> We've shown you the ride—now drive the car. Planned for the Dover NASCAR race, it's encouraging to see the Halo 3 The Ride finally making its way car form. We hope to get a hands-on sometime in the future, but given the media blitz that this news will become, we hope that Bungie's latest creation is not endangered in the process. For this we can only hope...and pray. Halo 3 + NASCAR + Target + Hype = Dover 400 Nextel Cup Race? [olgn] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299677&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nintendo Sponsoring NASCAR Car]]> Nintendo looks to expand its reach to more 8 to 80 year olds as the company is sponsoring a Wii branded NASCAR this season. Greg Biffle's Ford Fusion will sport Wii colors at the NASCAR Nextel Cup at the Glen on August 12 and the Dover 400 on September 23 reports the Sunday Hauler. If you're into NASCAR, Wii or collecting tiny toys, a diecast model of the Wii version at 1/24 scale is up for pre-order. Can it possibly get any better than driving around in an oval at high speeds with waggle white and blue? I think not! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=274851&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Madden Team Snares Tiger]]> Job security at EA's Tiburon Studios just got that much more rock solid, as the dev house responsible for the NFL-licensed cash cow Madden has taken Tiger Woods under its wing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=251550&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Games of the Week: Yakuza!!!]]> Now that I've got some free time on my hands, I'll be able to put on my comfy PJ's, pour myself a tall glass of red wine, and beat the life out of some Japanese gangster thugs. That's in Yakuza of course. My choice for purchase of the week. Here's what's shipping this Tuesday. More »
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