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RACE DRIVER: GRID GETS RELOADED FOR PLAYSTATION 3
04.03.10
A premium Platinum edition of the BAFTA Award winning Race Driver: GRID™ will launch in PAL territories on March 11th and March 12th in the UK for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system priced at £24.99. Entitled Race Driver: GRID™ Reloaded, the release will add extra content to the aggressive wheel-to-wheel racing experience by including codes in the box that will provide players with over £10 worth of new downloadable content (DLC).



The new Prestige Pack introduces the beautifully realised, legendary Australian Bathurst circuit and 10 of the planet’s most desirable cars, including the Ferrari F430 GTC, Bugatti Veyron and Ferrari F575 GTC. Gamers can also get behind the wheel of the Mercedes SLR McLaren 722, Lotus 2-Eleven, Lamborghini Gallardo GT, Mazda Furai, Jaguar XKR GT3, Honda Integra Type-R (DC5) and Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4.



The 8 Ball Pack delivers eight superb high performance new cars to drive in the game’s ‘Race Day’ mode and online races. New featured cars include the McLaren F1 GTR, TVR Cerbera Speed 12, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X, Honda S2000, Nissan GT-R (S-G2008), VW Nardo, Pontiac Firebird and the Volvo C30. The 8 Ball pack also comes complete with two new multiplayer events to compete in set on existing circuits from across Race Driver: GRID’s three continents and designed to test drivers to their very limit online.

The Prestige Pack will also be available as separate DLC for existing Race Driver: GRID players in PAL territories and North America, and will launch on the PLAYSTATION® Network on 11th of March for £7.99 / $9.99. The 8 Ball Pack is currently available for download on PLAYSTATION Network and Xbox LIVE® Marketplace. All downloadable content requires a copy of Race Driver: GRID to play.

Race Driver: GRID Reloaded launches in PAL territories on March 11th with a UK street date of March 12th for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system priced at £24.99. A Reloaded edition of Race Driver: GRID for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system will also be available and include a DLC code for the 8 Ball Pack.





GRID PC 1.3 Patch Now Available
02.03.10
GRID 1.3 Patch for the PC is now available to download from the below link:

Gamershell

The patch can be used with versions 1.0, 1.1 & 1.2. Patch will also be made available in a few days for Steam, Metaboli, Direct2Drive and Boonty.

List of fixes below:

GRID Patch 1.3

- Added support for additional content packs.

- Added support for Motion Platform D-Box.

- Increasing the maximum view distance by 1 km so it is possible to see the entire length of the hill roads on San Francisco

- Fix for personal best lap time not replacing world record lap time when playing without internet connection.

- Fix for race day personal best lap times only being valid for first race in a grid world event.

- Fix for being able to select too many different types of cars in multiplayer events Long Beach Battle and Drift Inter GP.

- Fix for being able to select the Pontiac GTO in multiplayer Touring cars events.

- Fix for vehicles bought on eBay applying performance modifiers when playing multiplayer events.

- Fix for being awarded 1 lap in online stats for freestyle drift events.

- Prevented the editing ebay.xml cheat
Race Driver: GRID wins a BAFTA!
11.03.09
At the BAFTA GAME British Academy Video Games Awards last night, Race Driver: GRID took away the honours in the Sports category, beating such titles as FIFA 09, Football Manager 2009, MotorStorm Pacific Rift, Pure, and Wii Fit to win the award.

We’d like to thank BAFTA for the award, the GRID team for all the hard work they put into making such an awe-inspiring racing game, and most of all, all the GRID fans out there who played and loved the game.

BAFTA's Official Site has lots more information about the award winners, and for more information about GRID, then visit the official GRID website.

GRID Clanbase ladders now launched!
04.12.08
I've just had it brought to my attention that Clanbase one of the largest online tournament sites, has just launched several GRID ladders for PC/Xbox360/PS3 and are now looking for player sign-ups.

There's more news about the ladders available on the Clanbase website as well as information on how to sign up. So if you think your the best around, make sure you sign up and prove it!
Community Made GRID Video!
20.11.08
Hi all,

I've recently had brought to my attention a great GRID drifting video created by LanciaRally from the forums, who is also the Co-Leader of Team Beer.

He's now hosted it on Filefront, so download it from the link below and take a look!

Filefront