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Here's a list of the latest news from the Gaming Industry for Wednesday 14th May, 2008

They're well chuffed with themselves, the license gives them full access to race circuits, the teams and their drivers’ likenesses.

Formula One games have had a two year absence and now they'll be "the jewel in Codemasters’ racing crown" says CEO Rod Cousens.

Paul Hollywood, creative director at Evolution, has said at Sony's PlayStation Day event that a demo for upcoming MotorStorm Pacific Rift is planned.

He also said the game will "be locked at 30 frames-per-second in 720p", something the pre-alpha demo version lacked at the event.

Game director Nigel Kershaw has confirmed the racer will have twice the number of tracks than the original and they'll be "more interactive" too.

He's also chuffed that MotorStorm 2 is going to have a real "strong presence" on Home, and he says it'll "start binding the PS3 online community together."

KOEI today announced that Fatal Inertia EX will be available at the end of May, 2008 exclusively on the PlayStation Network.

We've published 7 new screenshots for Race Driver Grid, which is in development by Codemasters and is currently set for release on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Race Driver Grid will be released on 6th June, 2008.

Microsoft announced today that European sales for the Xbox 360 have more than doubled due to the recent adjustment of the retail price, “significantly broadening the console's audience” it says.

Not the biggest fan of Gran Turismo (I like unrealistic driving games, where you get to blow stuff up or at least pull off drifts that would most certainly flip vehicles), but could it be coming to the PC? Do my ears deceive me?

Pointed out by derStandard, Austrian games website, and translated slightly by the guys at VE3D.IGN, that just may be the case.

Pseudo Interactive, the developers for the car combat series Full Auto, published by Sega and released on the Xbox 360 and PS3, have been shut down.

Pseudo were working on an unannounced project for Sci and Eidos, but both companies decided to scrap the project that Pseudo was working on. This eventually lead to its downfall, but it did try to continue by making several staff members redundant, but it didn't set a new deal with another publisher in time to survive.

Sector3Games released version 2.6 of their stunt driving game demo, StunutMAINIA!pro. "StuntMANIA!pro is a fast paced 3D car stunt driving game, where you get to perform the most amazing tricks and stunts in some really cool environments."

Download the StuntMANIA!pro 2.6 demo.