ModNation Racers Gets A New Trailer

Giant camels , barrel launchers and and huge castles are the things you can encounter at ModNation Racers. That on top of the free creation of your own track and the ability to share your tracks with all your friends ModNation Racers has our attention.

ModNation Racers Drifting to the PSP

Sony’s customizable PS3 kart racer, ModNation Racers, is being shrunk down for a PSP version, to be released alongside its big brother sometime this spring. According to SCEE product manager Liam Quigley, the PSP game will have the same creative tools as the console iteration — meaning you’ll be able to mod and not just race, with the ability to create your own tracks, cars and racers. In addition, “You will also be able to upload, download, remix, and race creations by the PSP ModNation community,”

Once you’ve created or downloaded your own (likely vulgar) avatar, car and racetrack, you’ll be able to race on your new track with up to 6 other PSP players online. Impressive for a handheld.

PS3 selling like hotcakes, outselling Wii, 360 globally

In a long-awaited turn of events at this year’s GamesCom, the company behind Playstation announced it’s new form factor for the Playstation 3, and with it came a new, much cheaper, €299 price tag.

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Hands-on: Modnation Racers

Every now and then a game gets announced and you think, mmm no thanks, and later it turns out to be awesome. That’s exactly what happened at Gamescom this week when I had some time to play a build of ModNation racers over at Sony’s press area. Read more