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Above: The above proclamation may not be true

Carmageddon.com(registered to Square-Enix, and which I imagine is a new site, orelse a really lonely one that's been sitting dormant since 2000, silently staring aloneinto the darkness, mournfully awaiting a new purpose) now has a countdown timer on it. The timer, at the time of me writing this exact sentence, is on 8:22:20:59. Which puts the reveal of whatever it is revealingat 10 am, the 1st of June. Which is about a week before E3. Wise move. Might as well build some awareness of the new game before the show, in order to avoid it being swamped when the machine gun deluge of announcements kicks off on the 7th.

So, excited? Surprised? Under 11 years old and wondering what the hell a Carmageddon even is anyway? Let me know in the comments.

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