The 2005 pre-rendered trailer that revealed Evolution's PlayStation 3 racer MotorStorm "pissed us off a lot" by setting graphical expectations too high, lead designer Nigel Kershaw has admitted. Speaking with 1up, Kershaw and creative director Paul Hollywood revealed that an outside firm, Real Time, created the target render.

In fact, Evolution was unaware of the PlayStation 3's exact specifications until moments before the trailer was shown, leaving the company "trying to do the math in our head [at the conference] and asking, 'Can we really do this stuff?'" Read more »

Evolution Studios' off-road racer MotorStorm 2 (PS3) will sport 16-person online multiplayer and 4-player split-screen support when it arrives this fall, publisher and studio owner Sony Computer Entertainment has announced.

Along with 16 new multi-path tracks and a new island setting, the upcoming sequel will add monster trucks to the series, which also features ATVs, rally cars, buggies, motorbikes, race trucks, mudpluggers and big rigs. Read more »