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Some of you may have noticed that EA-3.8 is missing in action. We haven't posted an update in 2 weeks, and I'm very sorry to say we're not going to post one this week either.

"WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AN GOOD?!" you may be yelling, as you roll on the floor clutching your handmade B'Zorp stuffie to your tear-stained vintage BBR1 Powerup T. Or you might be saying "What's an update?" Either way, we thought you might want to know what's up.

EA-3.8 is just too awesome

We might have bitten off a little more than we could chew with this one.

For one thing, we are Going Big with Presets. You know, those custom rules you can define in Quick Race? Well we're adding the ability to save custom Presets, so you can hand-craft your very own game mode and then save it out. You can save a bunch. And delete them. Whatever. We're also working on crafting and tuning some pre-set Presets, just to get you started.

Oh, and speaking of Quick Race... it's actually Quick Event now because you can quick your way into Races, Time Trials, Drift Attack, Firework Fury....** all the game modes can now be quick-played**. And oh yeah, you can create custom different custom Presets for each of those game modes. Boom.

Maybe that would have been enough for EA-3.8, but we decided since we missed last week's update we might as well shoehorn some more stuff in there. So we also added "Permanent Effects" to the Preset options.... these are special effects you can apply to the whole race. Like giving everybody in the race Police Chase for the entire race. Or Bouncy Tires.

And then we decided since we did all that we should also put in Handicapping. Because sometimes you want to play with your Grandma....and your Grandma just smokes you so bad that it's no fun to play with her. So now you can pick individual handicaps for the better players in your house so the competition stays close and fierce.

Hmmm... I feel like I'm forgetting something. Oh RIGHT. We also added Time-of-Day selection for Quick Race. That's something everyone's been asking for.

And that's not even counting a brand new chapter (Wasteland) on Career, five new gold car skins, two new character skins, and a buncha bug fixes.

Anyway, actually really we are bummed to not have a release for you this week, because we are excited to get this update out to you all. But we also want to make sure it's ship-shape before we push it through the intertubes, so it's going to take another week.

Just hug that B'Zorp stuffie a little tighter. EA-3.8's a-comin'.