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Get your engines revving with some details on DiRT 3's multiplayer modes with Lead Car Handling Designer Gehan Pathiraja!

Get the flag to the randomly spawned capture point in Transporter mode.

Take your one-man show on the road in DiRT 3's single-player modes.

Bring a friend along and race through the game in split-screen mode.

Avoid the infected in the tag-style gameplay of the Outbreak game mode.

Avert a global disaster by taking out the cardboard robots of doom in Invasion mode!

It's not often I get the urge to punch strangers. I'm not talking about a "what'd you say?" moment outside of a bar, but a friendly slug to the arm to indicate that I either conquered them or lost to them on an even playing field. The first time I lost the flag in a match of Dirt 3's Transporter mod...

If you're intrigued by Codemasters' upcoming rally racer Dirt 3, but find yourself turned off by all the ... um, rally racing, the developer recently revealed a multiplayer-oriented "Party Mode" which might just float your boat. The mode will feature three distinctly non-racing mini-games, including:

• "Invasion," in which players drive around an open lot, crashing into cardboard robots while avoiding cardboard skyscrapers. We anticipate this will be harder than it sounds, as some skyscrapers seem to resemble giant robots nowadays.
• "Outbreak," which sees one player "infected" with some sort of automotive ailment, symbolized by their car turning bright green. The player can spread the disease to others by colliding with them, and the last healthy player wins the pot.
• "Transporter," a capture-the-flag title where players must grab randomly-spawning flags and return them to their home base, avoiding their fellow, flag-snatching drivers. Jason Statham appears to be regrettably absent.

Codemasters announced today that Dirt 3 will include a party mode. Dirty parties, one presumes? Rally cars gracelessly mounting other rally cars, and huffing great cupfuls of cocaine through their grilles? Alas no. Dirt 3′s party mode will all be good, clean, online fun, and Codies have invented three special new multiplayer modes which resemble playground games than anything else. Details after the jump.(more…)

#smallcarsyndrome Eyebrows were raised last night when a version of Dirt 3 was shown off costing $300. Well, turns out there may be a justification for that. Provided you like remote control cars. More »

Dirt 3? Try Dirt 3 ... hundred. GameStop is listing an extravagant bundle for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Codemasters' rally racer that includes the game and a remote-controlled, 1/16 scale replica of the Ken Block Gymkhana Fiesta. The site offers the same May 24 release date as the normal, virtual-car-only version.

At $299.99, you'd be unlikely to indulge the temptation to drive this RC car anywhere near actual dirt, but you could have some totally sweet races in your house between this and the Black Ops car. And we imagine you have plenty of floor space in your huge house for those races, if you can afford both of these bundles.

#rumor You know, ridiculously expensive collectors editions have their place. There are certain franchises where there are enough loyal fans around who will spend hundreds on a box full of crap. I do not think Dirt is one of those franchises. More »

Bigger, bolder, better. It's a refrain that's directed all of Codemasters' racing games through their various evolutions, and one that's become increasingly dear to its off-road series. Colin McRae Rally started off with a solo car blaring around a bleak Welsh quarry, but just over a decade later it...

Have we used that joke before? Definitely. But hopefully the following fact will distract you- the trailer after the jump shows off the Group B rally cars that’ll be in Dirt 3 (releasing this May). You can read about Group B cars here, but basically Group B was a new set of regulations for building rally cars introduced in 1982 that meant the cars could be made out of lightweight materials and the engines turbocharged with no limit. The end result was cars so fast that the spongy reflexes of humans couldn’t possibly cope, and following a series of catastrophic accidents where drivers inserted the things into the landscape like horrific flags Group B cars were banned. But not in Dirt 3! Come, watch. (more…)

Rally racing is already an inconceivably dangerous sport -- but the now-forbidden "Group B" league once took things to new levels of speed and fatality. It might be illegal in the meatspace, but in Dirt 3, the spirit of Group B is alive and kicking, as seen in this trailer.

A notorious form of rally racing returns from the grave to honor those who were claimed by it in DiRT 3!

Dirt 3 is the latest installment in the off-road racing series from developer Codemasters. This time around, Codies are bringing the focus back to rally, the grueling motorsport that made the franchise famous...

A collection of feedback from actual players and Q&A with the developers.

#racinggames The new racing video game, Dirt 3, includes its version of Gymkhana, the wild stunt-driving that's been called "drifting-cum-LSD-fueled-acrobatics." Makes sense. The inclusion of some sort of undead multiplayer racing? Well, that's a surprise. More »

Rally's back, baby. But what the hell is gymkhana?

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Date 3 has been officially dirted by Codemasters ... wait, no, Dirt 3 has been officially dated. Codies' latest rally racer will be splashing mud on virtual bystanders on May 24, a date that, according to Eurogamer, is worldwide. This fits in perfectly with CEO Rod Cousens' announced plan to launch the game in the second quarter of the year, avoiding the "congested period when everyone's putting out their shooters."

To mark the announcement, the publisher sent out all of two new screens of European cars that will need to be washed very soon.

Codemasters has slapped a date on the latest instalment of its off-road series as DiRT 3 gets a global release on May 24. After the distinctive American twang of the last two instalments DiRT 3 is ...

Gymkhana pioneer Ken Block challenges gamers to test their skills by performing spectacular stunts.

Ken Block's Gymkhana antics are well documented, but when Dirt 3 launches next year, it'll be new to franchise vets. Thus, Block and Codemasters have provided a primer video where the pro driver not only gives some background on Gymkhana's rise to prominence but, more importantly, its inclusion in Dirt 3.

#clips You know, for all the Gran Turismos and Forzas and Need For Speeds of the past couple of years, my favourite racing game over that time has actually been Dirt 2. So, yeah, Dirt 3 is of interest. More »

The newest trailer for Codemasters' Dirt 3 isn't just a nice little piece of car enthusiast eye candy -- it's also a wonderful tool for pranks. All you have to do is find a susceptible youngster, show them the video, and say, "That's pretty much what a driver's license exam is like." Boom. Pranked.

Ken Block brings the skater mentality to DiRT.

When Codemasters releases Dirt 3 next year, it'll arrive with a new type of event to participate in: Gymkhana. Gymkhana is a solo event in which drivers have a starting line and finish line, with a whole lot of obstacles to navigate and complex maneuvers to memorize in-between. By "complex maneuvers," we're taking backwards driving, drifting though figure eights and, in the case of the video after the break, doing doughnuts around someone riding a Segway. Yeah.

In fact, the star of the video, WRC driving ace Ken Block, is working with Codemasters as a consultant on Dirt 3, as he did previously for Dirt 2. After watching the frankly incredible video of him in action at L'Autodrome in France, we couldn't imagine anyone being better suited to advise the developer on how to recreate this stuff in-game.

Just in case Codemasters is reading this, here's what we're thinking for the Dirt 3 pre-order / collector's edition bonus: a ride with Block on a real Gymkhana run. Make it happen!

More screens from the upcoming sequel to last years rally racing hit.