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Distance, the neon-soaked spiritual successor to the popular freeware racing title Nitronic Rush is now available to test drive on Steam Early Access. For those interested, you can pick it up for a limited time at a 15% discount.

Unlike more straightforward racing titles, survival-focused Distance puts you in the driver's seat of a slick-looking futuristic racer barreling down the streets of a city intent on your destruction. Your car's abilities allow you to boost, jump, rotate and even fly as you attempt to navigate through the city's gorgeous but treacherous tracks. Have a look at the launch trailer to see it in action.

Key features available in the Early Access build include:

• Abilities: The cars can perform many unique actions such as boosting, jumping, flying, and rotating to navigate along and around the track.
• Obstacles: There are many dangerous obstacles waiting to challenge the player along the way.
• Adventure: A single player experience to learn how to play the game as well as unveil a short story about the world's mysterious past.
• Multiplayer: LAN, Online, and Split-Screen play in several modes, such as Sprint as well as Reverse Tag, Stunt, and many others.
• Level editor: Includes a powerful level editor that can be used to create levels from inside the game and share them with players around the world using Steam Workshop.

I had a chance to check it out briefly last night and was impressed with the current build. For an Early Access title, Distance looks and feels extremely polished. I plan on getting in some more time with it today if I get the chance, as I'm really curious to see what the ever-creative Steam community have come up with using the included level editor.

Also of note to PS4 owners, Refract recently announced on the PlayStation Blog that the survival racing title will be making an appearance on your console of choice sometime in 2015. As we learn more, we'll be sure to keep you posted!

Update: We've got one Steam code for Distance Early Access to give away to a lucky commenter.  Check your Destructoid PMs later to see if you're the winner!

DC Comics has announced that its March 2015 variant covers will pay tribute to some of the most iconic films of the past 100 years. Here, compiled for your viewing pleasure, are all 22 special edition covers, along with the movie posters that inspired them.

The covers were debuted yesterday by DC, Screenrant, BuzzFeed, /Film, IGN, and HitFix, and pay tribute to such films as Gone With The Wind, Free Willy, The Mask, North by Northwest, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Mars Attacks!, and a lot more. (Notably, most of the films are owned by Warner Bros., and all but three of the films were released in the 20th Century – the exceptions being Harry Potter, Magic Mike, and 300.)

Scroll down to compare all 22 variant covers with the posters they were inspired by. Keep scrolling for the full list of artists responsible for this incredible collection.

• ACTION COMICS #40 inspired by BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, with cover art by Joe Quinones
• AQUAMAN #40 inspired by FREE WILLY, with cover art by Richard Horie
• BATGIRL #40 inspired by PURPLE RAIN, with cover art by Cliff Chiang
• BATMAN #40 inspired by THE MASK, with cover art by Dave Johnson
• BATMAN & ROBIN #40 inspired by HARRY POTTER, with cover art by Tommy Lee Edwards
• BATMAN/SUPERMAN #20 inspired by THE FUGITIVE, with cover art by Tony Harris
• CATWOMAN #40 inspired by BULLITT, with cover art by Dave Johnson
• DETECTIVE COMICS #40 inspired by THE MATRIX, with cover art by Brian Stelfreeze
• FLASH #40 inspired by NORTH BY NORTHWEST, with cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz
• HARLEY QUINN #16 inspired by JAILHOUSE ROCK, with cover art by Dave Johnson
• GRAYSON #8 inspired by ENTER THE DRAGON, with cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz
• GREEN LANTERN #40 inspired by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, with cover art by Tony Harris
• GREEN LANTERN CORPS #40 inspired by FORBIDDEN PLANET, with cover cover art by Tony Harris
• JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED #10 inspired by MARS ATTACKS, with cover art by Marco D'Alphonso
• JUSTICE LEAGUE #40 inspired by MAGIC MIKE, with cover art by Emanuela Lupacchino
• JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #40 inspired by BEETLEJUICE, with cover art by Joe Quinones
• TEEN TITANS #8 inspired by THE LOST BOYS, with cover art by Alex Garner
• SINESTRO #11 inspired by WESTWORLD, with cover art by Dave Johnson
• SUPERGIRL #40 inspired by WIZARD OF OZ, with cover art by Marco D'Alphonso
• SUPERMAN #40 inspired by SUPER FLY, with cover art by Dave Johnson
• SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN #17 inspired cover by GONE WITH THE WIND, with art by Gene Ha
• WONDER WOMAN #40 inspired by 300, with cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz

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