Ignite Skill Gaming To Develop Online Racing Game ? VirtualR ? Sim ...

Posted 21 hours, 50 minutes ago in Other Sim Racing

If you?ve been an active in the sim racing community for the past 2 1/2 years, the name Ignite Skill Gaming probably does ring a bell. If it does not, Simraceway surely will.

Back in 2009, Ignite Skill Gaming bought rFactorcentral and subsequently launched Simraceway.com, a platform that hosted paid online racing events with mod community content without the consent of the original creators.

This issue created a big uproar in the community (and on this very website) that led to a boycott of the new website that most major mod groups joined. The boycott caused Simraceway to (somewhat reluctantly) remove the content in question from their website as their service continued.

The whole concept however didn?t really take off in the community much as Simraceway failed to make big a impact in the sim racing community and was quickly forgotten by many people. Now, the chapter can be completely closed as Ignite Skill Gaming has acquired a whopping $7.5 million dollars to turn Simraceway into an online racing game.

The free-to-play online game will offer licensed cars and tracks and will compete for an emerging market that more and more big industry players like Eutechnyx?s Autoclub Revolution join. Since these types of online games rarely offer realistic racing, VirtualR won?t be covering Ignite Skill?s new endeavour but it is good to finally put the whole Simraceway issue to rest once and for all.

Despite the change of plans regarding Simraceway, the company still maintains a visible presence in the sim racing community as ownership of rFactorcentral and other resources is retained.

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