News

Turn 10 boasts best selling Xbox racing game while giving Road America track for free.

By Justin Pauls

Posted on February 18, 2014

Today Turn 10 Studios announced that Forza Motorsport 5, with an attach rate of 1 to every 3 Xbox One consoles sold, is the fastest selling racing game in Xbox history. Given the large number of racing games that have come out over the course of the console family’s lifespan, including franchises like BurnOut, Need for Speed, Test Drive and Project Gotham, that’s a pretty big accomplishment.

Wait, did I say free track? Yes, yes I did. Turn 10 is giving out a fully integrated track, Road America, to all Forza Motorsport 5 owners. You can expect it in regular rotation in your career racing modes, as well as having career bonus events and Rival-themed events in multiplayer.

Alongside the new track, a Road America booster pack is also available, and is comprised of:

2006 #2 Audi Sport North America R8
1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1
1968 Ferrari 365 GTB/4
1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1
2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series

These cars are free to Car Pass owners in addition to the promised six-pack deal that runs through May 2014.

Justin Pauls

Website

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada, at a young age I was forced to decide whether the harsh northern winters were going to claim my fingers, or to turn to the safer pursuits of indoor activities. Little did I know that a little game called Ninja Gaiden would bring my digits more pain than frostbite ever could. Starting with Vectrex and C64 games and moving forward through the era of electronic entertainment, I sampled as much as I could in the different platforms, and began my interest in PC gaming from wrestling with DOS memory management.

While console games were a part of my earliest gaming memories and I certainly had played on most platforms including 3D0, all things Nintendo, PS1 and the like, truly the PC was my domain until the Xbox. As an old PC gamer, I ever chased the cutting edge technology. Eye of the beholder with CGA 4 colors was my first step down the the path of blowing thousands of dollars on PC upgrades over two decades. Ultima 7, with the Guardian talking to me through my monitor, still haunts my dreams and keeps me ever hoping for a decent Ultima 8 and 9. From the 3DFX SLI VooDoo2s and Aureal to today's GPU driven DirectX games, the new and shiny pictures seem to keep me going. My PC gaming has slowed down with the market shift though, and although I have choice games that will ever be on PC, I have found myself in console gaming with a bit of portable gaming in my life.

Back around the turn of the millenium (and long before fatherhood), I had fired off an email offering to help Ron with a little-known site called ConsoleGold. Little did I know it would be be a part of my life to this day. While I've seen my fair share of shovelware (thanks Ron!), I manage to try and find the fun in most games. Leaning towards sandbox and action titles, I've grown to love games for their potential to reach art. Console agnostic and excited for the progress of tomorrow, I fancy the latest and greatest, but still enjoy the good old classics ... as long as they've been revamped from their 8bit graphic roots.