That's a good get, as not only does Ubisoft fill a hole in its line-up—the publisher is weak in the racing genre—it also helps the company expand "within the on-line gaming sector," according to CEO Yves Guillemot. TrackMania has some 700,000 unique players per month, according to Ubisoft, with 10 million registered players and nearly 15 million user created tracks.

"We are excited about the idea of introducing TrackMania to an ever-wider audience and sharing the expertise of Nadeo's teams with our Group's other developers," Guillemot said in a statement.

Nadeo is equally excited to have been swallowed by Ubi.

"Nadeo's team was keen for this acquisition to happen," said Florent Castelnérac, CEO of Nadeo. "Like players in a community, we see ourselves as being a complementary fit with Ubisoft and believe that we can share and quickly move ahead together."

But, hey, don't let this warmhearted mutual admiration for both corporate entities stop you from coming up with new TrackMania titles, such as Imagine: Track Driver, Petz Carz or My Ramp Jumping Coach. It feels to good to deny oneself the pleasure.

While you're taking in that shakycam above, this Twitter feed says Trackmania 2 will be a PC release at launch ("No XBLA, PSN or Mac ports. Nadeo only want to focus on PC.") and will feature four splitscreen modes: Cup, regular championship, team, and cooperative. Nadeo is said to have spent three years working on it.

TrackMania 2 Revealed [Blue's News]

TRACKMANIA NATIONS FOREVER - FULL FREE GAME AVAILABLE NOW

TrackMania Nations Forever is available today as a free download.

The highly awaited sequel to TrackMania Nations (launched two years ago), TrackMania Nations Forever offers a new complete 'Forever' version of the stadium environment, a complete solo mode and 65 brand new, progressively difficult tracks.

TrackMania Nations Forever will unite an even larger number of players thanks to its engaging multiplayer modes, innovative online functions and revolutionary interactivity between players.

TrackMania Nations Forever will allow the convergence of the huge TrackMania community. For the first time, players of the free versions will now be able to play online with players from the retail version of the new TrackMania United Forever. This is achieved by using servers dedicated to the Stadium environment common to both games.

In addition to being compatible with Nations Forever, the retail release of TrackMania United Forever has many more bonuses - including tracks that have never been seen before, new design blocks (build your own tracks) for the game environments and a spectacular graphics update for the Desert, Snow and Rally environments.

TrackMania Nations Forever features:
• 65 brand new, progressively difficult tracks
• A new 'Forever' version of the Stadium environment
• Engaging multiplayer modes
• A solid solo mode
• A brand new track editor
• Innovative communications between competing racers via PC

Links to download the free game TrackMania Nations Forever (500 MB)
FileFront
http://files.filefront.com/TrackMania+Nations+Forever+Free+Full+Game/;10013754;/fileinfo.html

Worthplaying
http://www.worthdownloading.com/game.php?gid=3261

GamersHell
http://www.gamershell.com/download_24766.shtml

ComputerGames.ro link:
http://computergames.ro/en/downloads/viewitem/id/10640/name/trackmania-nations-forever-free-full-game.html

Internode
http://games.internode.on.net/filelist.php?filedetails=16799

Sorry, but it just doesn't get much cooler than this. My apologies to all the other videos that have ever been posted on Kotaku and the editors who have posted them. They all pale in comparison.

Titled "The 1K Project II", it comes from a cobbled together set of 1000 replays running on the same track in the PC stunt racer TrackMania. Not only is it beautifully shot and edited, it does not, I repeat NOT, contain any nu metal.

Thanks to Crunchman for the tip! Michael McWhertor