First look: Need for Speed Rivals

Now which hot-blooded car lover doesn’t like some good old cops versus racers action? Be it in a movie or in a game, a good car chase just doesn’t get old.

Sure it’s not exactly the most original concept in racing games, we’ve seen a lot of them done before. But cops driving hypercars like Koenigsegg Agera and Bugatti Veyron; now that more than levels the playing field. All the footage shown in the video below is claimed to be in-game. If so, then the next gen consoles have just started to look sweeter.

Now watch the trailer and tell us what you think in the comments below.

The Angry Birds are going racing

Electronic rectangle users! We have received word that a racey, karty 3D Angry Birds Go! will soon be dominating the increasingly limited attention span of every commuter in the world. And it’ll be completely free to play.

Those who spend their waking hours peering at said electronic rectangle to the exclusion of girlfriends, wives, food and other key elements of Real Life (TM) will be pleased to hear it features a smorgasbord of modes and features. You can go head to head with your chums in anything from homespun soapboxes to supercars, apparently. And you get to take full advantage of a full range of big-air freestyle tracks and downhill races. And kill pigs, presumably.

The game’ll be available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10 on December 11, but if you can’t wait till the official release of what may be the most popular racing game of the year, download the special countdown app at the end of October. In the meantime, here’s a gameplay trailer.