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Best Deals on Racing Games for Xbox One
If you are looking for racing games to play on your Xbox One console, here are some options you might want to look at.
1. F1 2020 (Standard Edition)
Thirteenth title in the Formula 1 series, F1 2020 features twenty-two circuits (including Circuit Zandvoort and the Hanoi Street Circuit), twenty drivers and ten teams proposed in the provisional 2020 Formula 1 World Championship. The game re-introduces the split screen mode, and gets a team management feature known as “My Team” allowing players to create, own, and run an eleventh team.
F1 2020 also comes with an option to use a virtual rear-view mirror.
2. Project CARS 2
The developers say that the cars in the project CARS 2 are fine-tuned by pro drivers giving a realistic handling experience. The game allows users to race anytime, anywhere, and with any car. It has been received well in terms of visuals, digital craftsmanship, precision physics, and weather-surface conditions.
Project CARS 2 has been built from the ground-up with e-Sports in mind.
3. Need for Speed Heat
Need for Speed Heat introduces a choice of day and night playing. During the day, all the races are legit and the players compete in various types of races to win cash. This money can be used to purchase cars, or fine-tune, or upgrade the available cars. In the night, the players earn rep by winning races, and evading cop chases.
Need for Speed Heat has a large roster of cars which are unlocked as rep levels are completed.
4. Forza Motorsport 7 (Standard Edition)
Forza Motorsport 7 (Standard Edition) features over 700 ForzaVista cars and 30 destinations to compete in the Forza Racing Championship esports league. The game offers enhanced spectating modes and a split-screen playing option. The game includes two features — dynamic weather and customisable drivers.
Forza Motorsport 7 (Standard Edition) is enhanced for 4K/ 60fps HDR gaming on Xbox One X.
5. Forza Horizon 3
Forza Horizon 3 allows the players to explore Australia, which is said to be the ‘Horizon Festival’s’ largest and most diverse open world. They can collect, race in as well as customise over 350 cars, and discover driving gameplay like ‘Danger Sign Jumps’, ‘Convoys’ and ‘Drift Zones’. The players can invite friends to join in the 4-player online campaign co-op.
Players have an option to customise every aspect of the game.
6. Forza Horizon 4
The Forza Horizon 4 is a car racing game that delivers an experience of dynamic seasons in a shared open-world. The game is set up in Britain, and the player explores an open world and collects over 450 cars in a quest to become a Horizon Superstar. This open world features Britain’s lakes, valleys and castles in native 4K and HDR on Xbox One X console. The player’s driving skills are tested in dry, wet, muddy, snowy, and icy conditions.
The game also gets new themed content, gameplay, challenges and rewards.
7. Need for Speed Payback
Setup in the Fortune Valley that resembles Las Vegas, the Need for Speed Payback allows the players to take revenge for a betrayal. It features three playable characters: Tyler, Jess, and Mac. Tyler is great at racing, Jess at evading cops in the city, and Mac at off-roading, so players get to play as each character. The game features a 24-hour day-night cycle, and offers a choice of a total of 74 vehicles along with other downloadable content.
The players have to find parts of derelict cars and then customise them.
Best Deals on Racing Games for Xbox One
| Product Name | Price in India |
|---|---|
| Need for Speed Payback for Xbox One | ₹ 1,999 |
| Project CARS 2 – Xbox One | ₹ 1,165 |
| Need for Speed Heat (Xbox One) | ₹ 1,774 |
| Microsoft Forza Horizon 3 PS7-00001 Xbox One Game | ₹ 2,470 |
| Forza Motorsport 7 – Standard Edition (Xbox One) | ₹ 2,739 |
| FORZA HORIZON 4 | ₹ 3,499 |
| F1 2020 – Standard Edition (Xbox One) | ₹ 2,599 |
“At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” Haiyan Zhang, GM, Xbox Gaming AI, said in a blog post. “This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.”
The aforementioned AI design copilot is a toolset that will help game designers turn prompts into scripts and dialogue trees. In contrast, the character runtime will enable dynamically generated plot beats and quests. We’ve already seen heavy AI integration in games by way of procedural generation — a more recent example being the 1000+ planets in Starfield. Not to mention, enemy AI has been around for way longer.
Inworld made headlines in August when it launched a modded story mode for Grand Theft Auto V, Sentient Streets, in which players had to investigate the rise of a bizarre AI-worshipping cult — a segment loaded with characters that spoke in AI-generated dialogue, on the fly. The mod was later taken down by publisher Take-Two, leaving a permanent strike on the creator Bloc’s YouTube channel. As per The Verge, Inworld’s AI technology can also be used for narration in top-down RPGs to warn players about any events awaiting off-screen and respond to questions like we’ve seen in the past year with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Microsoft has also been heavily banking on artificial intelligence, having made a $10 billion (about Rs. 83,254 crore) investment in OpenAI. The company has also integrated AI tools into its popular suite of services and also added an AI copilot to Windows.
Despite being a Microsoft-affiliated AI toolset, it would be interesting to see whether titles using them will be allowed to thrive on other platforms. In July, Valve claimed that it would be cracking down on games that included AI-generated assets if the developer didn’t own the copyright to the piece of art. For the uninitiated, when you insert a prompt to create something in AI, the software simply repurposes existing assets found online and mushes them together — basically stealing from other artists and writers without appropriate commercial licenses. Infringing them would lead to the game not being distributed on Steam, forcing the developers to seek proper licenses for the asset by reaching out to the AI companies involved. It’s unclear how Microsoft’s partnership will play out — as long as AI content is being used as a catalyst to innovate and create something new, it should be fine.
In a post on X shared by BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh (@bsnl_ap_circle) unit, the company confirmed that BSNL users can upgrade their older 2G or 3G SIMs to a 4G SIM for free. Not only will the upgrade be free, but a promotional image shared with the post suggests that users who opt for the upgrade will also receive 4GB of free data that will be valid for three months. It is speculated that BSNL is aiming to boost its upcoming 4G services with this offer. The announcement was first spotted by Telecom Talk.
To access the free data offer and the free upgrade, BSNL users are requested to get in touch with executives at BSNL’s Customer Service Centre, franchisee or retailer stores, or contact one of their Direct Selling Agents (DSA). The promo image also adds in a finer print that the offer is available with certain terms and conditions, but hasn’t detailed any, so far.
Reliance’s Jio recently launched the 4G-supported Bharat B1 feature phone in India. The handset is priced at Rs. 1,299 in India. Alongside 4G connectivity, the phone comes with JioCinema and JioSaavn applications pre-installed.
The Jio Bharat B1 is equipped with the JioPay application, which is said to allow users to make UPI payments. Aiming to increase accessibility, the phone supports 23 languages overall, including multiple regional languages.
Realme, via Weibo, announced the arrival of the Realme GT 5 Pro in China. The display of the handset is confirmed to offer 3000 nits peak brightness. It has also been teased to offer heat dissipation with a surface area of around 10,000mm2. It is confirmed to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The post doesn’t specify the exact launch date of the smartphone, however, given the release of the teasers, the launch could be just around the corner.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has been in the news a lot lately. It is expected to feature a 6.78-inch (1,264×2,780 pixels) AMOLED display and is tipped to come in 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB RAM options along with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB inbuilt storage options.
For optics, the Realme GT 5 Pro is said to have a triple rear camera unit comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel shooter at the rear. The camera setup might include a Sony LYTIA LYT808 sensor, an OmniVision OV08D10 secondary sensor, and a Sony IMX890 telephoto sensor. For selfies, there could be a 32-megapixel sensor at the front. It is said to carry a 5,400mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.
The Realme GT 5 Pro is expected to come with upgrades over Realme GT 5. The latter was launched in China in August with a price tag of CNY 2,999 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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