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The Next Generation of Motorsport Awaits! Hot Lap Racing Arrives This Year from Maximum Entertainment

Gamers invited to help design the racing car of the future.

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January 25, 2024

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Just For Games :

Walnut Creek, Calif. (January 25, 2024) – French developer Zero Games Studios and publisher Just For Games, part of Maximum Entertainment, team up to advance the future of motorsport together. Starting today, gamers and car-enthusiasts can create the Formula Extreme, a car that will represent what motorsport should look like in 2030 and beyond. Those who wish to be part of Hot Lap Racing and the development of the ultimate racecar can fill out the survey found here: https://justforgames.typeform.com/hotlapracing

Hot Lap Racing is expected in 2024 on Nintendo Switch™ and PC through Steam and Epic Games Store. Wishlist the game today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2322830/Hot_Lap_Racing

For a chance to be credited in the upcoming simcade racing game and see your creation on screen, choose the best components and design features in today’s community survey. Write the future of motorsport history using your imagination, now through February 8th. The development team at Zero Games Studios will build the car with the most popular combination and integrate it directly into the game at the launch.

Additionally, participants have the chance to win a Nintendo Switch for filling out the online formhttps://justforgames.typeform.com/hotlapracing

Watch the Hot Lap Racing - Future Car Teaser here: https://youtu.be/n8eIAkbeV-I

Wishlist Hot Lap Racing now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2322830/Hot_Lap_Racing

About Hot Lap Racing:

Real Cars. Real Tracks. Real Drivers. Real You!

Hot Lap Racing is a "simcade" racing game powered by an in-house racing physics engine developed especially for the game. Discover the history of motorsport from GT and prototypes to historic Formula 1 and race against your friends or compete online.

In Hot Lap Racing, players will drive mythical cars on legendary tracks that have made motorsport history through the years, as well as become the future generation of motorsport with the Formula Extreme, a car entirely build by the community. In Career Mode, players will meet many real racing celebrities from the sport’s heyday.

-   Choose from a roster of over 30+ cars representing various motorsport categories and eras.

-   Experience 50+ layouts, including FIA grade 1 and grade 2 licensed tracks.

-   Challenge real champions, from rising stars to well-known drivers who contributed to the history of motorsport!

-   Career Mode: Embark on your journey as a young driver and strive to reach the pinnacle of motorsport. Master a wide range of iconic cars on legendary tracks and compete against the greatest drivers of all time.

-   Hot Lap Mode: Improve your lap times with each attempt.

-   Online & Offline Multiplayer: Aim to be the first to cross the finish line.

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About Zero Games Studio

Zero Games Studios is a French independent studio with 10 years' experience developing games for PC, consoles and mobile. Zero Games Studios has developed its own racing game engine over time and is now dedicated to creating the motorsport racing game for Nintendo Switch™: Hot Lap Racing.

The team count some racing car enthusiasts who worked in multiple racing car games that left a mark such as Test Drive Unlimited. You can find more information at https://www.zerogamesstudios.com/

About Just For Games

Founded in 2011 by Philippe Cohen, Just For Games is a major French company in the publishing and physical distribution of video games. Just For Games has the largest catalog of French retail distribution, including the world's best publishers such as Frontier, Merge Games, Team17, CI Games, Skybound Games, GameMill, Epic Games, 505 Games, Marvelous and many others...

Just For Games has been able to evolve by adding new distribution pillars around the videogame universe, such as the distribution of retrogaming hardware (Sega Toys, SNK, ATGames, 8bitDo) and videogame and pop- culture soundtracks in vinyl format. (MONDO, Laced Records, iam8bit...)

Just For Games has positioned itself since 2019 as a publisher with values close to those of its original business: create games accessible to all gamers. It immediately encounters its first successes thanks to brands such as INSTANT SPORTS, Fantasy Friends or 30-in-1 Game Collection.

Just For Games is part of Maximum Entertainment. Find more information on www.justforgames.com and our social networks.

About Maximum Entertainment

Maximum Entertainment is a global entertainment company dedicated to creating high quality experiences spanning the entire value chain of video games, including development, publishing, transmedia, sales and operations. Maximum Entertainment provides collaborative resources to its partners, through in-house publishing labels Maximum Games, Modus, Merge Games and Just For Games, as well as its development division, Modus Studios. With more than 300 titles in its catalog, Maximum Entertainment has partnered with best-in-class creators and franchises around the world to deliver magic to the gamer in everyone. Maximum Entertainment has offices around the world and employs more than 200 professionals. Visit Maximum Entertainment at www.maximument.com.

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