WRC 8 Seems Inspired by Codemasters’ F1 Games, and That’s Good

After a year on the backburner KT Racing’s ever-improving WRC series is back for 2019 and, based on a recent hands-on with it, I’m optimistic about its return.

The natural comparison for the current WRC series is Codemasters’ revered Dirt franchise, and it’s a fair one. Buoyed by decades of off-road pedigree the Dirt games are generally regarded as the best contemporary rally games available, so it makes sense to assess any other aspiring rally racer with that in mind.

While I’ll reserve the more exhaustive analysis for the review, WRC 8 is certainly coming out swinging. WRC 8 will contain more than 100 stages across 14 countries, and this time around there’s dynamic weather. The refurbished physics have improved the driving feel noticeably, too – especially on a control pad. On default settings, at least, WRC 8 seems to have shed WRC 7’s control pad twitchiness; countersteering and course correcting feels a bit less deadly but overall it’s still nice and responsive. KT Racing has even included classic rally cars at long last, though there’s only a small handful in the preview build and it’s unclear whether the retro roster will expand much in time for release.

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Dirt Rally 2.0 VR Upgrade Available Now on PC

Codemasters has announced VR support for the excellent Dirt Rally 2.0 is ready and available now for the PC version of the game.

Dirt Rally 2.0 is on the Oculus Store now and OpenVR support has been added to the Steam version for free. Players who pick up the Oculus version will apparently able to compete in special daily, weekly and monthly challenges (and the Oculus edition will also feature five exclusive car liveries for players who really, really want the word Oculus writ large on their car).

Codemasters has again reiterated there are no plans to add PSVR support to Dirt Rally 2.0, but a free new (old) location has been added to all versions of the game: DirtFish Rally School. DirtFish has been inserted as Test Drive location and is expected to be added to Freeplay “in a future update.” American rally academy DirtFish, located in Washington state, was previously included in Dirt 4.

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DayZ Refused Classification in Australia for Drug Use Not Yet Featured in the Game

The Australian Classification Board has refused classification for Bohemia Interactive’s long-gestating survival shooter DayZ, creating a confusing scenario IGN is still attempting to unravel.

DayZ was refused classification on June 4 this year due to “illicit or proscribed drug use related to incentives or rewards,” a video game rating hurdle that has persisted in Australia despite the major reforms of 2013.

“One of the options to restore the player’s health is a marijuana joint, labelled ‘cannabis’, which is denoted by a cannabis bud in the player’s inventory,” explains the report, via Kotaku.

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Dora and the Lost City of Gold Review

Some of the effects are silly, and don’t look for logic here, but the jokes in Dora and the Lost City of Gold are great and the cast is a delight. If you’re a fan of the animated series (or even a parent of a fan) you’re going to be happy with the film.

Dora the Explorer ran as a kid’s animated series for over a decade and was translated into dozens of languages. A generation of children sang along with the singing map, told Swiper the fox not to swipe and followed a little explorer and her monkey through all of their adventures. Though the film version of the popular series starts off when Dora and her cousin Diego are kids, Diego has to leave the jungle for Los Angeles, and Dora is largely left to her own devices, exploring on her own.

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Shocking No One, Activision Confirms Call of Duty Will Be Released Every Year

Benjamin Franklin once said the only things certain in this world are death and taxes. But you can probably add annual Call of Duty releases to that list as Activision reaffirmed its commitment to annualized releases, even as live-service games take over the industry.

In an investor call for its Q2 2019 earnings, Activision was asked whether the company will keep its annualized release schedule for the Call of Duty franchise as games like Fortnite and Rainbow Six: Siege adopt live-service models. This model keeps the base game feeling new thanks to regular updates, years after the initial launch.

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