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art of rally's slick predecessor is coming to Switch

Sideways.

It's been a bit of a bumper year for racing games, with the likes of Hotshot Racing and Inertial Drift bringing back some arcade thrills - and up there with them was art of rally, the brilliantly stylish ode to Group B and beyond. You might well have seen that coming if you'd played developer Funselektor's Absolute Drift, which came out back in 2015 on PC before coming to other platforms - and it's finally coming to Switch early next month.

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Absolute Drift Zen Edition is launching on Nintendo's system on December 3rd, and there's plenty you'll find familiar from art of rally, including a gorgeous minimalist style and a love for going sideways. It's a lovely thing, and I'm looking forward to getting reacquainted with it in a couple of weeks' time.

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