15 Years Ago, An Unlikely Racing Game Perfected The Mario Kart Formula

15 Years Ago, An Unlikely Racing Game Perfected The Mario Kart Formula

ActivisionThe cart racer is one of gaming’s most approachable subgenres. Typically signified by their stylized graphics and deceptively simple gameplay, these arcade twists on racing sims are fast-paced party games. Your cousin and grandfather aren’t going to play Forza together, but they can both hang in a round of Mario Kart. When Bizarre Creations, the developer of the critically acclaimed Project Gotham Racing series, was purchased by Activi…

This Classic Activision Racer Came To Xbox 15 Years Ago, And We Sorely Miss It

Blurred lines.A few of us here at PX HQ are massive arcade racing fans - in fact, pretty much all of us like belting around fictional tracks and digital courses at silly speeds for the heck of it. Today, then, we're here to commemorate 15 years of one of our absolute favourites of the genre; an Xbox classic. Activision's 360 racer Blur is now a decade and a half old, and we sorely miss it to this day.Blur still exists of course - if you can grab…