Remember Anki, Apple's Keynote Darling? Its Racing Game Is Here

Anki Drive, a race-car gaming experience that briefly took center stage during Apple's keynote presentation at the Worldwide Developer's Conference in June, is finally making its way to retail stores.

The concept from robotics company Anki allows users to race intelligent cars around a printed-out track, controlled via an app. As users drive the vehicles, they can launch special effects and virtual ammo and shields against opponents like they would in a video game.

Anki's racing game lands exclusively in Apple stores on Oct. 23 and will also be available via Anki.com. The Anki Drive base kit ($199) comes with a race track and two cars: Kourai, the yellow character, and Boson, the silver character. It also includes chargers, tire cleaner and housing cases for the vehicles. Additional cars are $69 each. Read more...