Dirt 3

DiRT 3
Cover art featuring Ken Block's Ford Fiesta GYM3
Developer(s)Codemasters Southam[2]
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Nathan Fisher
Producer(s)Darren Campion
SeriesDirt
EngineEgo
Platform(s)
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
OS X
  • WW: 29 January 2015
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)

Dirt 3 (stylised as DiRT 3) is a simcade racing video game developed and published by Codemasters and distributed by THQ[3] for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released on 24 May 2011 and is the first game in the series without carrying the Colin McRae name. A sequel, Dirt 4, was released in June 2017.

The game features many rally drivers such as Ken Block, Tanner Foust, Travis Pastrana, Dave Mirra, Liam Doran, Kris Meeke, Sébastien Ogier, Sébastien Loeb, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, and a multitude of others. The game features a variety of off-road events located in many different places all around the world, such as Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, all of which bring the player an assortment of challenging real-world environments.

In September 2011, there were reports that a network security problem on the website of an AMD promo had resulted in the loss of 3 million Dirt 3 keys to the public for use via the Steam platform that have then been posted in various places around the internet.[4][5]

  1. ^ Wesley Yin-Poole (16 December 2010). "DiRT 3 release date announced". Eurogamer. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Codemasters: Taking aim". MCV/Develop. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. ^ Ivan, Tom (12 March 2010). "Dirt 3 Confirmed". Edge Magazine. Archived from the original on 25 December 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  4. ^ Phillips, Tom (6 September 2011). "3 million digital DiRT 3 copies robbed". Eurogamer. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Rumour: 3 million DiRT 3 Steam keys leaked online". VG247. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2022.