If videogames are meant, in certain cases, to serve as escapist fantasies, it’s pretty easy to explain the appeal of those that allow players to demolish a car without having to worry about ...

Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. If you know you like ...

Friends of a British event rider who died after a fall at the Bicton International Horse Trials have competed in a hockey game in her memory. The Georgie Campbell Foundation Memorial Hockey Game ...

Some racing games from the 2000s weren’t just about getting from point A to point B faster than everyone else. They were playgrounds for car lovers, crash junkies, street racers, and precision ...

Readers express sharply differing reactions to an Opinion guest essay by Noah Shachtman. To the Editor: Re “It’s Dangerous, It’s Unpopular, and We’re Paying Billions to Keep It Alive ...

ELMONT, N.Y. — The Edmonton Oilers have been somewhere between stuck in neutral and skidding dangerously out of control for weeks. It was only fitting that their best player this season ...

One of my favorite things to do in any racing game, be it Gran Turismo or Forza or whatever, is take an old, large, and not particularly fast car and whip it around the track with no modifications.

March 12 (UPI) --A Maryland man with a favorite set of horses in the lottery's Racetrax virtual racing game scored a five-figure prize for the second time. The Montgomery County man told Maryland ...

Testing strategies of betting on horse races in GTA Online. Calculating adjusted advantage compared to the odds and using Kelly Criterion to determine bet size, then simulating games.