Xtreme Overdrive Inside Your BMW

Mattel, AirConsole, and BMW have teamed as much as launch Sizzling Wheels: Xtreme Overdrive, a brand new sport constructed particularly for BMW’s in-car leisure system. It’s out there now via AirConsole and provides drivers and passengers a strategy to race Sizzling Wheels vehicles on the automobile’s central show whereas the automobile is parked.

The sport consists of eight Sizzling Wheels fashions plus one based mostly on the BMW iX3. One of many tracks is named “Panoramic Drive.” The collaboration between BMW and Mattel will keep unique to BMW vehicles till June 2026.

How To Play

Gamers join their telephones as controllers by scanning a QR code that seems on the automobile’s infotainment display. As soon as paired, the telephone acts because the gamepad. As much as 4 folks can play without delay, making it a social expertise designed for brief breaks or downtime — not to be used whereas driving. If the automobile begins transferring, the sport shuts off mechanically.

Gameplay is easy. You decide a automobile, select a observe, and race. There are fast races, multi-race cups, and a customized mode for constructing your individual course lineup. Factors earned in races can be utilized to unlock and personalize vehicles, together with traditional Sizzling Wheels designs.

Increasing the AirConsole Platform

BMW’s collaboration with N-Dream, the corporate behind AirConsole, began in 2022. Since then, the catalog of video games for BMW automobiles has grown to greater than 30 titles. It covers racing, arcade, puzzle, and celebration video games from publishers like Sony Footage, Workforce 17, Mattel, and Bandai Namco. Effectively-known choices embody Overcooked, Who Needs to Be a Millionaire?, UNO Automobile Celebration!, and PAC-MAN Championship Version.

AirConsole is at present supported in BMW and MINI fashions working iDrive 9 with the BMW Digital Premium or MINI Related Bundle, and in fashions with iDrive 8.5 and the ConnectedDrive Skilled package deal. It can even be out there in future automobiles working BMW’s next-generation iDrive X, beginning with the brand new BMW iX3.

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