Forza Motorsport 3

Back to the future?

Cars made famous by cult movies Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back to the Future are included in a Forza 3 downloadable pack due out next week.

UPDATE: Microsoft has just issued Eurogamer the following statement:

The UK achieved its best ever result at the World Cyber Games in Los Angeles at the weekend, finishing joint second with Germany and Brazil.

BBC telly show Top Gear has signed a "long-term" deal to collaborate on all future Forza Motorsport racing games.

Microsoft will release an "Ultimate Collection" version of Forza Motorsport 3, judging by its appearance on the Australian classification database.

Update: Microsoft's Kinect press site lists the game as "Forza 4". Check out the screenshots too.

Microsoft has released the Summer Velocity Car Pack for Forza Motorsport 3 today, so if you're running low on cars, listen up.

Microsoft and Turn 10 have released the Exotic Cars Pack for Forza Motorsport 3.

10 of the world's elite car manufacturer's best.

Microsoft has released yet another downloadable pack of cars for its superlative motoring playground, Forza Motorsport 3. It's the Road & Track Car Pack, put together by editors of Road & Track magazine, and it costs 400 Microsoft Points (£3.40 / €4.80).

Forza Motorsport 3 has gained a new batch of cars courtesy of the Jalopnik DLC.

The superb Forza Motorsport 3 has expanded again today with a Nurburgring Grand Prix track pack.

Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 appears to be gearing up for a Natal-powered project.

Microsoft's Phil Spencer has taken a cheeky pop at the repeated delays to the release of PS3 exclusive Gran Turismo 5.

The Forza Motorsport 3 AutoWeek Car Show Pack is due out today, introducing the 10 hottest new motors coming out in 2010.

Microsoft and Turn 10 have released the Hot Holidays Car Pack for Forza Motorsport 3 and announced that the game has racked up over a million sales worldwide.

The Xbox 360-exclusive racer's new downloadable content goes for 400 Microsoft Points (£3.40 / €4.80) and is comprised of eight race cars due out next year and two of this year's most desirable.

Microsoft also said that another DLC pack would be released on 12th January to coincide with the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, although it didn't elaborate.

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Microsoft has released a new batch of DLC for Forza Motorsport 3 - and it's free to download.

The Hyundai Genesis Coupe Car Pack gives you the Rhys Millen Racing Red Bull Hyundai Genesis Coupe, the HKS Genesis Coupe and the special edition Forza 3 Genesis Coupe.

Plus as of 8th December you'll be able to download the Hot Holidays Car Pack. It will feature ten hot super cars coming in 2010 such as the Ferrari 458 Italia. The pack will cost 400 Microsoft Points (£3.40 / €4.80), but you'll be able to download the 2010 Audi S4 for free as a taster.

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We talk racing with Walker and speed freak model Jodie Kidd.

Evolution of Turn 10's magnificent racer.

Digital Foundry has already taken a look at core aspects of the technology powering Forza Motorsport 3 in the initial demo tech breakdown, but in this feature we're expanding our analysis of the game to cover both its past and its potential future.

Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 has overturned a rampant FIFA 10 to take the UK all-formats top 40 crown. The PS3 had the lion's share (66 per cent) of the sales.

To celebrate the launch of Forza 3 this Friday, Microsoft plans to tear around the streets of London in a bright red Ferrari.

Microsoft is handing out permanent Xbox Live bans for "pre-release title play" of Borderlands or Forza Motorsport 3 - both due out this Friday.

Is it naïve to think you can judge the character of a racing game from its choice of cover star? Probably. Yet the Project Gotham Racing series' love affair with Ferrari was perfectly suited to its flamboyant character; Race Driver GRID's hulking Dodge Viper in race trim captured its brutish, high-octane track-day drama. And Forza Motorsport 3 couldn't be more aptly summarised by the car that adorns the box (and kicks the racing campaign off in the obligatory high-speed teaser, before you're relegated to buzzing around in superminis): the Audi R8.

It's not, frankly, the prettiest of supercars. It's not the most soulful or thrilling, or, as our American friends would say, the most storied. It is, however, a paragon of ruthless and meticulous engineering excellence, a perfectly balanced, impossibly capable, surprisingly easy-to-handle all-rounder that doesn't need a hardcore enthusiast at the wheel to simply drive around the competition. That's Forza Motorsport 3 all over.

Audi has clearly been more than a commercial influence on the third in Microsoft's exemplary series. The classy, clinical understatement of the presentation, with its blinding white menus and note of cultured authority from narrator Peter Egan, is pure vorsprung durch technik. Developer Turn 10 has admitted that it's heading in the opposite direction to the loud Americanism of Codemasters' Racing Studio, seeking to give its game a high-end, European feel. It's a success, even if it has you reaching for the contrast controls before you're able to see some of the light-grey-on-white type - so quiet in its refinement that you can't actually read it.

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Microsoft will give all buyers of Forza Motorsport 3 a coupon to download a batch of free DLC from 27th October.

That will be the Motorsports Legends Car Pack, which includes 10 classic cars and two new maps.

Those sporty stallions are the '65 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA, '64 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage, '81 BMW M1, '60 Chevrolet Corvette, '69 Dodge Charger, '57 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, '80 Fiat 131 Abarth, '67 Lamborghini Miura P400, '71 Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R and '65 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe.

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Fast cars, scary forests and terrifying falsetto.

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Forza Motorsport 3 will recreate the brand new Ferrari 458 Italia as DLC this holiday.

Microsoft has put the Forza Motorsport 3 demo live, as promised.

Microsoft has unveiled another 250GB Xbox 360 bundle, this time for Forza Motorsport 3.

Turn 10 Studios has announced that the hugely anticipated Forza Motorsport 3 has "gone gold", meaning that the codebase has been locked down and the final disc image has been dispatched for duplication. To celebrate, the developer has released details of the forthcoming playable demo along with a 60FPS gameplay capture, showing a 2004 "Yellow Hat" racing Toyota Supra in action on the Sedona Raceway Park circuit.

Gripping.

There aren't many surprises in our second chance to see Microsoft's flagship 360 racer, simulator, paint shop and all-round petrol-head playground, Forza Motorsport 3. We had already been given a definitive look at the self-appointed "definitive racing game of this generation" at E3, where we were thoroughly schooled in its philosophy of accessibility, flexibility, 400-car and 100-track comprehensiveness, obsessive technical detail, world-beating community features and general all-things-to-all-men definitiveness by an on-message phalanx of developers from Turn 10.

Yes! More Expo games! We can hardly believe it either. Today it's Microsoft who takes centre-stage, tossing AAA Xbox 360 exclusives into the fray like thongs at a Timberlake concert. The Redmond giant isn't messing about either - the two games we're happy to confirm today are Forza Motorsport 3 and a little old thing called Halo 3: ODST. Yes, yes, we're aware that both of these titles will be in the shops at this point, but, as Tim Westwood might say - hold up, big dog.

Microsoft has announced that Xbox 360 exclusive Forza Motorsport 3 will be released in Europe on 23rd October.

ShopTo has told Eurogamer that publishers are following Activision by increasing the price of their popular franchises.

Microsoft has given Forza Motorsport 3 a North American release date of 27th October. Confirmation of a European date hopefully isn't too far behind.

Turn 10 shows strong visuals.

Microsoft has confirmed the inclusion of notorious and prestigious endurance race 24 Hours of Le Mans in Forza Motorsport 3.

When they weren't showing off Gran Turismo PSP on-stage at the Sony conference or giving interviews, folks from Polyphony Digital were apparently checking out the competition at E3.

Microsoft's racing studio Turn 10 wants to make the "best simulator on any console", and one that a child of six could play. It wants to get 65-year-old classic car restoration enthusiasts playing videogames. It wants to make the biggest racing game the world has ever seen. It wants to be the first to bring you tyre flex and deformation at 60 frames per second. It wants to foster the most vibrant user-generated-content community in all gaming.

Car-porn city and we're the mayor.

Dan Greenwalt, boss of Forza Motorsport studio Turn 10, has announced the third instalment in the racing series, calling it the "definitive racing game of the generation", "memories of first cars" and the "glamour of the Hollywood chase".