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Slightly Mad Studios today announced that its innovative crowd funded development platform "World Of Mass Development" is running successfully. The first title, with a working title of Project C.A.R.S., has raised already more than half a million Euros since launch in October 2011. The WMD platform, hosted at www.wmdportal.com, enables gamers to contribute directly to the development of upcoming titles, as well as giving them an in depth appreciation of the game creation process. As well as enjoying the game as it is being built, they are also rewarded for their contribution by earning a share of any profit each game makes.

On April 3rd Turn 10 Studios will be releasing a new DLC pack for Forza Motorsport 4. The Alpinestars car pack will include ten new cars that range from a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado convertible to a 2012 Jaguar XKR-S. The Alpinstars car pack will set you back 560 Points ($6.99) or will be included with your Forza 4 season pass.

What is it like to stand trackside at a major motorsports event? Well, now you know with trackside. No story, no opinion, just raw energy and excitement. This is what it's like to hear, feel, and see the best racing cars in the world, from just over the other side of the wall

iRacing´s Steve Myers hinted a new Partnership between iRacing and RUF Porsche. On his twitter page he just about confirmed this wonderful news. This will probably result in a virtual version of the Rt 12 R . Steve has been hinting the partnership using the picture of this model.

Watch a Dodge Viper SRT-10 GT3 doing his pre saison tests at the Italian Monza track. A 8.3L V10 engine with a sequential gearbox and motron suspension pushing around a car that Weights about 1350 kg. Enjoy the fears Dodge Viper SRT-10 perform loud revs and produce huge Flames. This is what made GT Racing so exiting for the race fans.

The Online Series is a genuine race series where drivers compete against other drivers in practice, qualifying and races just like any other series but instead utilising the iRacing.com motorsport simulator with the events existing online. Running weekly, the series races each week for 12 weeks, 4 seasons in a year and races run anywhere from 38 laps of Okayama to the 19 lap night race at Sebring International.

nVidia's new GeForce GTX 680 running in a Quad SLI setup. The SLI and Triple-SLI benchmarks were run on our standard testing rig. It consists of an Intel Core i7 3960X (Sandy Bridge-E) processor, an ASUS P7X79 Pro motherboard, 16 GB Corsair DDR3-1600 RAM, a Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drive and a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200 watt power supply. For Quad-SLI we switched to an ASUS Rampage IV Formula motherboard and an Enermax Platimax 1500W PSU. All benchmarks were done in Windows 7 x64.

Caffeinesixx took part in the 2012 iRacing world tour 120 minutes of Sebring with the LMP2. He uses a tripple screen custom Race Rig and to let us all have a look he created a rather intersting Video. Quote: My 2012 iRacing.com 120 Minutes of Sebring onboard cam. For the first time in my iRacing world tour event, I ran without big mistake to the end.

After last years Nascar The Game 2011, there is a successor planned. Nascar The Game 2012. No release date has been known yet, but Activision, Eutechnyx’s publisher will soon announce that. Here and there, screenshots and video´s start to emerge. Lets have a look at some of this material.

With the addition of the Azure Coast and the California Highway tracks, a whole new form of racing comes to Project CARS. These tracks are two scenic, 20km long point-to-point country stretches. They are perfect for a race against the clock, but could also provide heaps of fun when SMS will introduce the online netcode.