Games32 writes: "Simbin Studios is a company located in Sweden and it is focused on developing racing simulators for PC and recently for XBOX 360. GTR Evolution is not the sequel to GTR series but an add-on for RACE 07 - Official WTCC Game which adds beside the WTCC Championship also GT car models and the Nordschleife track also known as "Green Hell". Although we had the bundle package at our disposal, I decided in the next few paragraphs to talk only about the additional content, and not about the entire package. If you want to know more about the WTCC Championship including in the game please refer to our review about RACE 07 - Official WTCC Game.
Formerly SimBin games were concentrated on a single Championship type in general due to licensing problems. But with Evolution they combine all the licenses they have acquired along their history bringing altogether the WTCC, GT FIA, single manufacturer championships (Catterham, Radical, BMW formula, Mini), and also some road sport cars (Audi R8, Koenigsegg, Gumpert Apollo, Dodge Viper). But the most important addition is the new cars class called WTCC Extreme. This is for the first time when SimBin includes completely fictional cars based on the WTCC cars along with their liveries. So the fictional cars look totally realistic and their physics based on rear-wheel traction and 600 hp engines might give the organizers of WTCC new ideas. Unfortunately you will get only four models for this class with only the official liveries which is not enough for a full online racing session."
Simbin has for a long time been a fixture of the sim racing community as the makers of some of the most recognizable racing titles ever made. GTR, GTR2, GT Legends, Race 07 and Raceroom are just some of those games. Recently Simbin has been in the news with rumors of bankruptcy, closing up shop or some form of restructuring. With that going on Shaun Cole of The Simpit was able to sit down via Skype with Jay Ekkel, the licencing manager for Simbin. They talk about the company, its past, its future and a little bit of general sim racing talk.
The company is going through some restructuring there is some great insider stuff in this interview.
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SimBin has released another patch for GTR Evolution with quite a lot of new changes. The patch is available for the "online" versions via the Steam client, but info about an "offline" version is still unknown at this time.
