Todd Hargosh writes: "While I might not be into PC gaming as much as I used to be, one series I always come back to is the GTR series of racing games. Only with GTR am I able to find an impressive touring car racing simulator that combines excellent racing with a package that can run at a fast speed on my laptop. Last year's excellent Race 07 was the most recent title in the lineup that passed with flying colors.
But now with the newest title, GTR Evolution, SimBin is back and better than ever by expanding the GTR series, and making it more enjoyable than ever.
The first thing that will be noticed is the addition of a new track, one that has never been in a PC racing game before. Sure it has been on consoles in the Project Gotham, Forza Motorsport, and Gran Turismo series, but this is the first time we will on a computer see the Nurburgring Nordschliefe, a 20 km monstrosity designed to challenge even the most hardened driver."
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.
