Hot Wheels Unleashed brings toys to life in a delightful arcade racer

A thumbprint stamped across the hazy driver’s side window of my 1985 Audi Sport Quattro, at the end of a race, says it all. In the impressively detailed and altogether delightful Hot Wheels Unleashed, launching Thursday, the cars feel like toys that actually have been played with, and like I’m the one doing the playing. […]

Hot Wheels Unleashed Review – Simple, Satisfying Speed

You could be forgiven if you were ready to dismiss Hot Wheels Unleashed as another shameless licensed release vying for younger gamers’ attention, but that would be a mistake. While the game is undoubtedly entertaining to share with the family, this racer is more than it first appears. Thanks to the rewarding speed, clever course […]

Weekend Hot Topic, part 2: Favourite video game enemies

Readers discuss the video game opponents they most enjoy fighting, from Halo’s Covenant to slimes from Dragon Quest. The subject for this week’s Hot Topic was suggested by reader Paulie, who asked which bad guys do you most relish and is it because of the combat, their back story, or their visual design? Or is […]

Hot Shots Golf creators bring PlayStation-style golf to Apple

The PlayStation 4’s Everybody’s Golf, from the late summer of 2017, consumed dozens of hours of my time. Whether winding down from a core game or sports sim, or just the workday itself, and I was looking for something to play, Everybody’s Golf always won long stretches of my attention without ever asking for a […]

Hot Wheels Unleashed Speeds Over To PC And Consoles This September

There’s an awful lot of 90s nostalgia going around lately. Out of the blue this morning, Koch Media (via subsidiary Milestone) announced a brand new Hot Wheels game for PC and consoles. Titled Hot Wheels Unleashed, it will be speeding on over to pretty much every current and last generation console there is. I’m surprised […]

Hot Wheels Unleashed brings the orange plastic track to consoles this fall

Milestone, the Italian developer known for motorsports sims MotoGP and Monster Energy Supercross, is developing an arcade racer next — under Mattel’s Hot Wheels brand. Hot Wheels Unleashed will launch Sept. 30 on all current consoles and Windows PC, the companies announced Thursday. Hot Wheels Unleashed will feature local split-screen multiplayer supporting the racing action, […]