Colin McRae: DiRT 2 Latest Updates
Codemasters patch DiRT Rally in Early Access, co-driver no longer 'practicing his French'
The muck is flying as DiRT Rally has just started tearing up rally tracks on Steam Early Access, and Codemasters has released Patch V.03.1 after an "awesome first few days". It seems the co-driver was either being mute or decided to try out his French on non-Frenchie gamers, which the patch fixes. It also takes a crack a global warming to battle "incorrect weather combinations" in later events.
DiRT Rally arrives on Steam Early Access, to stay "until the end of 2015"
Codemasters are skidding onto Steam Early Access with DiRT Rally, and there it'll be staying "until the end" of the year. They want the "experience absolutely right" with Rally and need community feedback for that. New cars, environments, and rally stages will be added as time goes on. At release it will have 36 rally stages "across Monte Carlo, Greece and Wales." We also manage our engineer team, who can research part upgrades.
DiRT 3 upgrade to Complete Edition on Steam for all owners
Codemasters is nudging every DiRT 3 owner on Steam to the Complete Edition as they apologise for the "massive delay" in releasing the update to the rally racer stripping out Microsoft's Games for Windows Live client. The migration was announced over a year ago when there was talk of the GFWL service potentially ending. Steam Trading cards are also coming, but DiRT 2 won't be following suit.
4 new Xbox Games on Demand games available
Four new titles have appeared on the Xbox 360's Games on Demand service for the US region (other regions may or may not also get the same deal).
Codemasters: Over 50 rally cars in DiRT 3, represent "very best"
Next year Colin McRae: DiRT 3 will arrive with other 50 rally cars confirms Codemasters, featuring the best of "five decades of the sport". A trailer recently confirmed DiRT 3 with players starting their career on top of the profession. Car control will get pushed to "spectacular limits".