Namco Bandai (Tales of Xilia, Ace Combat) announced today that their newest racing title, Ridge Racer Driftopia, has entered Closed Beta. Ridge Racer Driftopia will be the first free-to-play game based on the long-running racing franchise. Developed by Bugbear Entertainment, the same studio as Ridge Racer Unbounded, Driftopia delivers all of the arcade action with driving, drifting, destruction, a...
Ridge Racer is having another crack at the market with the announcement of Driftopia by Namco Bandai. Rather than a traditional retail release, it will be offered as a free downloadable game for PlayStation 3 and PC with in-game transactions. The game promises to inject its trademark drifting into the F2P format sometime in 2013. The last entry to the franchise, Ridge Racer: Unbounded, saw a depar...