From Gamer.tm "It seems that not all is well with the 360 version of GRID,with gamers complaining that the game repeatedly freezes during play.

The cause of the problem appears to be the 360's hard drive. So GRID's executive producer Gavin Raeburn has told the Codemasters forum, the British developer believes that "the issue is due to specific drive hardware, possibly with bad blocks/sectors."

According to Raeburn though, Codemasters is "close to getting to the root of the problem" and that "a patch will be released as soon as [Codemasters] can get it through Microsoft [certification]."

It seems that no similar issues have been reported with the PS3 or PC versions."
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Details of today's stunt by Codemasters in London, at which 6 racing drivers pulled up outside Zavvi and illegally parked whilst popping in to grab a copy of the game!
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Boomtown reports: "Top Gear's The Stig and his race driving palls had come along to lend their support to the release of Race Driver: GRID. The drivers happily revved their engines for the assembled crowd. As you might expect it was The Stig that really caught everyone's attention with many vying to say hello to the mysterious magnesium-scented tame racing driver.

Inside the store, the drivers picked up their consoles and copies of the games - The Stig with an Xbox 360 Elite fanboys will notice - before roaring off in a slightly less than legal (but thrilling) fashion northwards along Tottenham Court Road."
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Codemasters has released a new video for GRID (Race Driver: GRID in the UK) that shows off a mode reminiscent of the rewind mode in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.

The feature, dubbed 'Flashback,' allows players to inspect the detail of any crash using a rotating camera and go through the carnage frame-by-frame.

At any point during the replay, players can start racing again and attempt to ...

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TVGB: "I seriously can't say 'one million' out loud without at least thinking about putting my pinky finger to my lip and adding dollars to the end despite Dr. Evil's cultural relevance being pretty much gone. Thus when I read the press release announcing that Race Driver: GRID's demo had been downloaded over one million times across the 360, PS3 and PC I couldn't help but envision Dr. Evil racing in a beautifully rendered car, swerving around tracks around the world."
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VG247: Codemasters confirmed this morning that the DS version of Race Driver GRID has been pushed into June, but that the release of the PC, PS3 and 360 versions is unaffected.

"Oh no, they're still bang on for next Friday," said a spokesperson for the publisher.
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In a post on the official Codemasters forum, GRID's Executive Producer has confirmed that the game has "Gone gold" and entered the manufacturing phase.
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Grid, the amazing next-gen racer, is boasting 12-player events with full car damage online, Codemasters has revealed. New multiplayer shots have also been released.

Taking out some of the long-windedness of having to find games online Codies says, "players can rapidly find the event they want and a slick voting system, matchmaking mechanism and seamless host migration".

There'll also be the usual rankings and leaderboards ...

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Eurogamer reports that Codemasters has unveiled Race Driver: GRID's multiplayer features and revealed that the game - due out on PS3, 360 and PC on 30th May - features full damage modelling.

GRID features 32 online race events taking in 80 circuits overall, with support for 12 players online and a ranking system that rewards skill and persistence.

Players will be rewarded with points for winning and beating better-ranked opponents, among other things, graduating from Junior Rookie to Legend as they amass points.
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Gametrailers staff wrote: "When we capture video from games, we capture them to tapes, the tapes are then labeled and given to the video editors to cut into videos, for instance, a ps3/360 comparison video.

Two things went wrong this time. A) the tape was mislabeled as 360 footage so the editor thought he was comparing different things, and B) our editorial check on the video didn't go through the usual rigors, and failed to notice the mistake. When people check hundreds of videos a day, sometimes things slip through.

Obviously this is a huge issue, and we took it down as soon as we found out about it.

Never attribute to malice what you can instead attribute to a mistake. This was a simple oversight, and then spun by Kotaku into some sort of evil empire stunt.

I hope that clears things up some."
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