CarBattlers.com

Great interview with former Ratbag Games CEO Greg Siegele, and the sequel to their post-apocalyptic racer that was never released:

Good Gear Guide: Ratbag Games

The greatest car battling game I never got to play:

Auto Assault

I bought the game, but was afraid of becoming addicted – so I put it off since I had a lot of work to do. Then I heard they were going to be shutting down the servers, so I rushed to install the game and sign on – only to be told that during the last month of operation no new accounts could be made

RIP Auto Assault.

“Now that Rage: Mutant Bash TV has landed on the App Store, id Software’s John Carmack is already talking about what’s next for the developer on Apple’s iOS platform: more Rage. Specifically, a game focusing on the driving aspect of Rage on consoles and PC..”

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/18/next-rage-game-for-ios-to-focus-on-vehicles-carmack-talks-mobil/

I generally don’t like the Twisted Metal series, but this does look good!

http://www.fz.se/filmer/20100616/twisted-metal-ingame/

PS3 version of the Windows game that came out last year. It performed so poorly on my somewhat outdated PC, that I couldn’t really play it at all, though I suspect I didn’t miss much.

Death Track: Resurrection review

Seems David Jaffe, the creator of the Twisted Metal series, posted a semi-complaint about Microsoft’s new Scrap Metal car combat game having such a similar name. This caused a misguided post that at least mentions a number of good related games:
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9024016

Also, Obsolete Gamer provides a good article about Spy Hunter:
http://obsoletegamer.com/cgp-spy-hunter-1937/

Very nicely done:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/191084

This game is looking great, but even more importantly, the writer used the term “car battler” to describe the game!

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/gaming/2010/03/blur-multiplayer-beta.html

Good review of Maxis’ rather strange car battling “Sim” game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi60A2-PcpM

It was obviously very much inspired by Interstate ’76, but not nearly as good, and not at all focused.

I learned about two new car battling games today while watching this review, “Auto Destruct” (PS1) and “Impact Racing” (Sega Saturn), and have already bought them on eBay!

Nice to see new stuff being written about the game. A bit of history, and brief interview with the game’s creator, Zack Norman:

http://www.gog.com/en/editorial/month_of_activision_interstate_76_retrospective/