Drinks It Took to Make Me Bad at Mario Kart 8 » 9/02/14 12:35pm 9/02/14 12:35pm

The MMO tie-in to SyFy's upcoming Earth-plus-aliens series Defiance is in full swing, or as full a swing as it can manage, given the shaky start. While we're waiting for Trion Worlds to fix wehat needs fixing, there's at least one activity that'll never let you down. Vrooom. » 4/05/13 1:30pm 4/05/13 1:30pm

Transformers Prime for the Wii U isn't a particularly spectacular game, but it does hint at big things to come for racing games on the console, transforming that bulky control pad into a capable little steering wheel peripheral. » 11/21/12 2:30pm 11/21/12 2:30pm

I told you not to bother them. Now they're doing stunts, participating in illegal street races, and jumping from car-to-car with larcenous intent. BAD DOGS. » 3/29/12 12:45pm 3/29/12 12:45pm

How do you create a competitive driving game with only one car? Bernhard Handler's Roadeo offers a simple and elegant solution. Player one drives the car, and player two steers the road. » 11/01/11 2:20pm 11/01/11 2:20pm

When a semi-truck carrying 30 metric tons of sand jackknifed through the concrete barrier into oncoming traffic on Ontario's Highway 401 Friday morning, driver Matthew Krizsan narrowly escaped what might have been a fatal accident. » 1/24/11 11:00am 1/24/11 11:00am

It's awesome enough that Rooster Teeth would rig up a Ford with a third-person camera, to attempt to drive like one does in a video game. What really makes this video shine are the Yakuza extras karate-kicking the test subjects. » 4/06/10 8:30pm 4/06/10 8:30pm

EA's casual installment of the Need for Speed franchise is coming to the Wii next month, and we've got a first look at the colorful car lineup for Need for Speed: Nitro. » 10/07/09 4:20pm 10/07/09 4:20pm

I get apprehensive whenever a developer announces a driving part of their adventure game. It's like, what's their motivation for putting that in there? Do they even know how to design driving levels…? » 9/23/09 5:00pm 9/23/09 5:00pm

From CTA Digital, creators of the Wii Bowling Ball, comes an innovative steering wheel controller and stand for the iPhone. » 8/05/09 12:40pm 8/05/09 12:40pm

Allstate Insurance and Posit Science, a San Francisco start-up, are looking into brain-training video games as a way to give drivers a discount on auto insurance. » 6/08/09 8:20pm 6/08/09 8:20pm

A nine year old boy has been arrested in Japan for stealing his parents car to visit his grandmother. And how, pray, does a nine year old kid learn to drive? "It's my first time driving" he said, "but I learned from watching dad and playing at the video arcade." Police in Gifu prefecture received a call on Monday… » 11/06/08 4:20pm 11/06/08 4:20pm

Remember the Hawaiian bus driver who got in deep trouble because he was playing a PSP while driving? Turns out he was not shitcanned. A Honolulu TV station reports that the driver was just suspended (without pay) for two weeks, and has since returned to his job.The mitigating factors that saved this guy's job: he had… » 10/19/08 1:00pm 10/19/08 1:00pm

Why don't more cars come with a beer tap? Oh yeah, the whole wasted morons killing people thing. Well Dream Arcades has just released the next best thing to getting wasted and hitting the road with the Octane 120, a custom built driving arcade cabinet featuring a 120 inch HD projection screen, a 5.1 audio system, a… » 10/15/08 12:40pm 10/15/08 12:40pm

Look, I know that Hawaii is a very laid-back sort of place. Bright sunshine, sandy beaches, news reporters who wear Hawaiian shirts on broadcast television even when not covering a luau, but it can be taken too far. For instance, if you are driving a city bus filled with passengers on a busy street in Honolulu, it's… » 9/25/08 2:00pm 9/25/08 2:00pm