This year saw plenty of online action erupt in more traditional genres, as racing games sped into view and sports titles turned us all into sons of pitches. So which game scored the biggest goal and took first place for a podium finish? Read on and find out!

Activision has a few more of those remasters up its sleeves. With the publisher having scant few properties under its belt other than Call of Duty right now, Activision has realised that there’s some big money to be made when they give the past a face-lift. In a recent Q&A session that the company held with its voracious stockholders as they discussed the financial earnings for the 2nd Quarter, Activision president Rob Kostich detailed how their current remasters had done well on a critical and a financial level.

Earlier this year, Activision released a remaster of the beloved Crash Team Racing. Now subtitled Nitro Fueled, it’s another example of a remaster done right.

Nintendo created the perfect template with Mario Kart, a series that’s so enduring that it’s still one of the company’s best-selling games. In the radical 90s, its popularity saw it cloned and copied by just about everyone. Some of those attempts were better than others, and Naughty Dog’s Crash Team Racing was undoubtedly the best of them. For starters, it …

Twenty years later, and Crash Team Racing is back on the trac, ready to kick some marsupial butt and leave the competition in its dust. Alessandro recently had a chance to take the game for a few laps, and believe it or not…He’s actually good at this game.

Want a bullet ballet that looks bananas? My Friend Pedro should interest you. Feel like some Diablo action but with the option to fight putrid dark gods from another dimension? Warhammer: Chaosbane has your back. The art of engineering that allows you to conduct a symphony of speed? Prepare for F1 2019’s season of velocity then. Here’s a look then at every game out in June.

I’m starting to get a sense that video game publishers are trying (and succeeding) to cash in on your nostalgia. With that entirely unnecessary pre-amble out of the way, the latest trailer for the remake of the sublime Crash Team Racing reveals that Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled will have some more modernisation beyond just shiny graphics. You’ll be able to completely customise your karts as well as your characters.

Plenty of games, a decent running time and news on what lies ahead. No longer just the domain of Nintendo and their series of Direct presentations, but an idea that’s also home to Sony now! The home of PlayStation has a new series focusing on exactly those key points, and in the spirit of things, let’s get the show rolling …