"Kylotonn Games Working on the Next Test Drive Unlimited?". "Bigben has acquired the Test Drive brand". "Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown trailer reveals target platforms including Switch".
"Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown Coming for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC New Trailer Released". "Kylotonn's new Test Drive Unlimited officially unveiled". "Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown officially announced" (in en-US). "We're back! ☀? #NaconConnect 7th July" (in en). "'Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown' arrives September 22nd, 2022". "Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is an open world racer where 'social status is everything'". The game's Steam page was also updated to confirm that Apollo will be among the car makes featured in the game. The trailer also shows the key fobs of several vehicles, including those from Audi, Bentley, and Mercedes-Benz, placed in a pot, indicating that players can gamble for vehicles in the game.
The trailer shows an Aston Martin DB11 and a customized Land Rover Range Rover SVR, along with the hands of a male driver and a female driver driving those respective vehicles and gambling in a casino, indicating that the casino feature found in previous Test Drive Unlimited games will return.
In April 2021, Nacon published a second teaser trailer that confirmed the game will be released for Microsoft Windows (via Steam and the Epic Games Store), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, with a new trailer to be released in July 2021. Creative director Alain Jarniou, who worked on the first two Test Drive Unlimited games, stated in the Nacon Connect video that Unlimited Solar Crown has only been in development for "several months" by that time. Unlike its two predecessors of both Oahu and Ibiza, the road will be left-hand traffic, a first in the series. The game will feature a 1:1 recreation of Hong Kong Island as revealed from the Nacon Connect trailer, and will run on WRC 8 's framework and handling model. Based on copyright text at the end of the video, the game will feature vehicles from (among others to be announced) Bugatti, Dodge, Ferrari, Koenigsegg, Lamborghini and Porsche. The game was officially announced on that date during the event with a 25-second teaser trailer, with Kylotonn (under their KT Racing brand) developing.
On 3 July 2020, the official Test Drive Twitter account tweeted a twelve-second video clip of a crown-shaped logo with the letters "SC" in it forming, announcing a full reveal during the Nacon Connect video event on 7 July. In April 2020, Nacon filed a trade mark to the Intellectual Property Office for Test Drive Solar Crown, the last two words referring to the Solar Crown in-universe racing competition series featured in 2011's Test Drive Unlimited 2. In 2018, Bigben announced the acquisition of French game developer Kylotonn, with Roman Vincent, president of Kylotonn suggesting they were working on the next installment of Test Drive. It was reported in December 2016 that French publisher Bigben Interactive (now called Nacon) acquired the Test Drive intellectual property from Atari, with plans to reboot the franchise. Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is set to be released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on 22 September 2022.
The game was teased on 3 July 2020 on Twitter and was officially revealed during the Nacon Connect event on 7 July. It will be the twenty-first game in the Test Drive series, the first title in the series since 2012's Test Drive, and the third game in the franchise's open world Unlimited sub-series, following 2011's Test Drive Unlimited 2. Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is an upcoming racing video game developed by KT Racing and published by Nacon.