I know it's old news for some but check out the reason why if you haven't already seen it; On October 1st 1998 High Gear opened its doors at
www.simracingnews.com, then hosted by Gamer's Alliance. We're now 4 years on; one of the biggest simracing sites around and being hosted by GameSpy at www.sportplanet.com/hg/.
As we're nearing the 4th birthday of the site I have made the very
difficult decision to close it down. I know this will probably come as a
shock, although with the lack of activity on my side you will probably
have deducted all is not well with the site.
The main reason for closing down the site is the racing sim community.
It's unbelievable how much abuse there is around aimed at developers,
publishers, other community users and even us. But also the fact that
updating the site every day has turned into a job instead of the hobby I
once started the site out of. I haven't raced any racing sims since the
beginning of 2002 and that's a bad sign. (from original notification email by kenv@sportplanet.com)
I for one wouldn't want to see that happen here.