{"id":750186,"date":"2026-06-20T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750186\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:48:10","slug":"nascar-26-game-will-have-cross-platform-multiplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750186\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR 26 game will have cross-platform multiplayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h-\">While the game cover art, <a href=\"https:\/\/traxion.gg\/nascar-26-game-launches-september-with-kyle-larson-cover\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which features reigning Cup Series champion Kyle Larson<\/a>, was the centre of attention for the initial <a href=\"https:\/\/traxion.gg\/category\/games\/nascar-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR 26<\/a> game unveil, two key features have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The first being the new circuit for the premier stock car racing class, Qualcomm Circuit at Naval Base Coronado, will be included. This is to be expected, as NASCAR game steward, iRacing, has already recreated the street course and released it for its primary PC simulation platform.<\/p>\n<p>Traxion confirmed with iRacing that the track will be base content for the upcoming game, and not paid DLC.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NASCAR-26-game-cover-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR 26 game cover\" class=\"wp-image-105517\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more pertinent, for some, is that the online multiplayer will be cross-platform this time.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s NASCAR 25 did offer the creation of lobbies and 40-car grids, but otherwise, the network-connected play was rudimentary in some respects compared to contemporary motorsport games. iRacing also confirmed the cross-platform feature to Traxion.<\/p>\n<p>Further features will be unveiled at a later date, ahead of a September release for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tx-ai-pledge__eyebrow\">AI Pledge<\/p>\n<p class=\"tx-ai-pledge__title\">Every Traxion article is written by people, not prompts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tx-ai-pledge__body\"> Traxion.GG does not use AI to write articles, and we never will. We care deeply about journalism,<br \/>\n trust and original reporting, which is why every story is researched, written and edited by real<br \/>\n people who care about sim racing and the community around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the game cover art, which features reigning Cup Series champion Kyle Larson, was the centre of attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,4803,8713,82,6734],"class_list":["post-750186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-pc-gaming","tag-playstation","tag-sports","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}