Marc de Jong (Director of Commercial Development & Project Leader Interactive Games at North One Sport) and Davide Latina (Communication Manager, BlackBean games) spoke at a press event during the official Acropolis Rally this weekend.

Marc was quick to admit WRC’s 2010 shortcomings, as the game presented “unexpected challenges to manage.” He promises in WRC 2 to include various road surfaces and historic and futuristic elements that will make for a true WRC simulation experience.

Codemasters has released new preview material of their upcoming DiRT 3 rally title for the PC and gaming consoles, showing us some new cars that will be included in the title.

WRC 2010 actually includes a racing school in addition to the single player mode.  The school has 2 different levels with each level containing 6 stages a piece.  Although being pretty basic compared to the driving school in Richard Burns Rally it does test you on a variety of different car combination's as well as different terrains.

I found the stages to be very easy and all of them had the driving line on to make it even less of a challenge. Despite the lack of education being given they are fun to drive and very short. This makes them rather fun and racing against the clock to pass or fail is a nice added twist.

Here is a video of my working my way through all 12 stages.

Alan Boiston of VVV Gamer has released some excellent new videos of Black Bean’s upcoming World Rally Championship title, showing us three stages of Rally Deutschland in full length as well as a closer look to the title’s menu interface.

The real Rally Deutschland is perhaps the WRC rally offering the most variety as stages range from runs through the ultra-narrow vineyards featuring plenty of hairpins to fast-flowing Saarland-area roads to the brutal 50-kilometer concrete Arena Panzerplatte stage – The longest in all of the WRC. How does Black Bean’s fictional version compare? Check out for yourself below.

Developed by Milestone, World Rally Championship will be bringing all the action of the WRC to the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and the PC. The game will feature all 13 rally events from the 2010 schedule and cars from the WRC, Junior WRC and the Production WRC class. World Rally Championship is planned to be released in on October 8th 2010.

Two new preview videos of Black Bean Games’ upcoming World Rally Championship title for the PC and gaming consoles are available, showing us some more gameplay footage of the title.

The first is a short official teaser released by Black Bean, showing some fast-paced scenes including a rollover crash.