GTPlanet, InsideSimRacing Team Up for Gamescom 2010 Coverage & Yamauchi Interview

Site Announcements August 16th, 2010 by Jordan

GT fans, get ready! The start of GamesCom 2010 is now only hours away, and I’m very excited to announce GTPlanet’s big plans for the show. We’re teaming up with InsideSimRacing.tv to bring you unprecedented, in-depth coverage of all the new Gran Turismo 5 information about to be released. Here’s a preview of everything that’s about to go down over the next few days:

Sony GamesCom 2010 Press Conference (Tuesday)

Sony kicks off the show a day early with their official press conference on Tuesday at 6:00PM CEST (correction – the doors open at 6:00PM CEST, but the show doesn’t actually start until 7:00PM CEST) (check this table for your local time zone). Sony themselves have already confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 will be featured in the conference, so expect some major announcements. Unfortunately, there is no live streaming video from the event (if you do find a stream, please let me know), but it will be live-blogged by just about everyone. As always, I’ll make another post a few hours before the event with all the links.

Gran Turismo 5 Private “Breakout Session” (Wednesday)

The real fun begins on Wednesday, August 18th, when GTPlanet’s Famine and Venari meet up with Andreas (gNNY) of InsideSimRacing for Sony’s exclusive, invitation-only GT5 event. Much like the GT5 session at E3, this private press session allows Yamauchi to go into more details and take questions on all the new features being revealed at the show. Our guys will tell-all as soon as they can, right here on the news blog!

Exclusive Kazunori Yamauchi Interview

This is the big one – after nearly 10 years online, GTPlanet representatives will finally come face-to-face with the creator of Gran Turismo. Our guys know the series better than anyone else, and with the help of InsideSimRacing, we should be able to produce one of his best-ever interviews.

You are also invited to submit your questions for Yamauchi via GTPlanet Ideas. It’s simple: submit your own question or vote on those submitted by others, and the most popular will rise to the top. Due to time constraints, we may not be able to ask the specific questions, but it will help give us an idea of exactly what you guys really want to know about.

Watch for the video interview to appear in a special upcoming episode of InsideSimRacing!

Exclusive Video of the latest GT5 Demo, GTPlanet User Meet-Ups

Our resident media expert, Alba, will be hands-on with the latest GT5 demo at the show. He’s got an HD camera and a tripod ready to go, so expect a lot of awesome video footage that leaves nothing to question! As you may know, Gamescom is open to the public throughout the weekend, and Alba is organizing GTPlanet user meet-ups right here in our forums so you can play and discuss the game with others who are as enthusiastic about GT5 as you are!

Famine and Alba will also be posting live updates from the show floor via Twitter, and GTPlanet’s Facebook page will be updated by-the-minute. Follow us now, because you don’t want to miss a thing this week!

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  1. August 17th, 2010 at 5:24 am - #
    andrewz

    Possible video stream? Hope so…

    http://www.playstationline.es/index.php/noticias/399-gamescom-2010-en-directo

  2. August 17th, 2010 at 1:43 am - #
    gtone339

    This shall be better than the E3 2010 one. :)

  3. August 16th, 2010 at 11:24 pm - #
    DarinSRT

    Would like to thank Andreas Nie who will be there to cover other things for Inside Sim Racing.

    Also like to thank Jordan for coordinating the effort on this end and also to Andrew Evans and Mark Fox who stepped up to help Andreas with the interview. Having part of GT Planet team there is going to make our coverage that much better !

    The whole team, Jessica, Shaun and myself all wish them the best and hope they have a lot of fun at Gamescom. Looking forward to seeing what they get.

    Darin Gangi

    • August 17th, 2010 at 4:45 am - #
      marky5244

      Thanks Darin and Jordan for sorting this all out. It’s great to see SRT and GTPlanet co-operating on this. Let’s hope the guys going to Gamescom can get behind the PR to get us some interesting and exciting new info.

  4. August 16th, 2010 at 5:33 pm - #
    GT_Prologue5

    Ah, Famine and his crew are heading off to Gamescom finally! Been waiting for this for a while! Just remember that when they interview Kazunori, it will be all of GTPlanet interviewing him.

    • August 16th, 2010 at 6:26 pm - #
      viejaloca

      LOL, no pressure guys! X-)

  5. August 16th, 2010 at 5:07 pm - #
    kaori

    Great news !

  6. August 16th, 2010 at 5:00 pm - #
    SigmaViper11

    insidesimracing? They’re ok but I’m a bit sketchy with that. Aren’t these the same guys that said Forza innovated features that in reality were first incorporated into GT4? Should prove interesting regardless, but if they go on a Forza rant again I think the boards are going to explode.

    • August 16th, 2010 at 11:18 pm - #
      DarinSRT

      Yeah, Inside Sim Racing, the team that landed the interview and invited GT Planet to collaborate with us on it. Seems that Sony doesn’t think we’re so “sketchy”.. ;-)

      Im looking forward to seeing the questions that you guys come up with to add to our interview. Should be a lot of fun.

      My Sony contact has not guaranteed the interview, but they are trying to slot us in for Wednesday afternoon because of Kazunori’s busy schedule. From the sounds of it, it seems like it’s happening..

      Don’t worry.. I won’t be there to mention the “F” word (Forza).. ;-)

      Hope you guys enjoy our coverage. We will be airing the Kazunori interview on our You Tube channel (simracingtonight) most likely within a few days of Gamescom. We need time to get the material from Andreas and edit it into the show.

      Darin Gangi
      Inside Sim Racing

  7. August 16th, 2010 at 4:19 pm - #
    Madmurdock

    Sounds great. Can’t wait for the new info to filter through. Hopefully some new footage. Main thing for me though is a EU Release Date.

    Good luck to all GTP Members who are going. I’m sure you’ll have a great time.

  8. August 16th, 2010 at 3:38 pm - #
    LoneWanderer

    This is great news. Even more information for the users.

  9. August 16th, 2010 at 2:52 pm - #
    BWX

    I think that’s NOON- Eastern daylight time– right?? That time converter on that webste sucks.

    • August 16th, 2010 at 3:40 pm - #
      Denur

      Yes, that is the time the room opens. The press conference should start an hour later (1pm EST).

    • August 16th, 2010 at 7:03 pm - #
      BWX

      cool, thanks

  10. August 16th, 2010 at 2:01 pm - #
    Brothan

    Calculating: Cologne 1800km down and home 3 tanks of gas 210 euros, ferrys denmark/gemany 160 euros, food 100euros, entrence ??, hotel 80 euros a night…. mm could it be worth this…

  11. August 16th, 2010 at 1:30 pm - #
    Kenny

    Andy, wouldn’t you think they would have already announced the euro date if it was going to be released prior to the US November 2nd date? At the end of the day, we’ll all be dorking out on GT5 before we know it!!

  12. August 16th, 2010 at 1:21 pm - #
    andy_cowley

    Hope they confirm euro release date. Ive got a feeling its going to be earlier than the american release date :)

  13. August 16th, 2010 at 1:17 pm - #
    Kenny

    First time really posting about GT5, this is really cool though. I can’t wait to see some new images of GT5, the game is going to be awesome! Can’t wait to lose sleep! Jordan you rock and thank you for being the enthusiast that you are! See ya on the track!

  14. August 16th, 2010 at 1:10 pm - #
    madduckuk

    really need to see a couple of used car garage style cars now, civics, primeras, 323′s, that kind of thing. all the real meat of the GT series

    • August 16th, 2010 at 3:38 pm - #
      LoneWanderer

      I would agree. I’d love to see an MX5 running on the top gear test track.

    • August 16th, 2010 at 6:23 pm - #
      viejaloca

      Yeah I miss the miata. I just started playing GT1 again and man it’s STILL alot of fun. I think I’ll try and get a Silvia K’s S13 as my first car since it was the best in GT1 though.

  15. August 16th, 2010 at 1:05 pm - #
    Marcus

    Good news. will our men on the ground appear in the video? what about you jordan how come you don’t go. Also i do hope that the trailer shows some new cars instead of the usual sls,gtr and enzo fest

    • August 16th, 2010 at 1:48 pm - #
      Jordan

      I can’t go because I’m in the United States, and the show is in Germany. It would be too expensive of a trip. Regardless, even if it was in my back yard, I probably wouldn’t be able to leave GTP ‘headquarters’, much less my desk. There is too much of a scramble to keep the site online during all the traffic spikes of these big game shows, and that’s all on me.

    • August 16th, 2010 at 2:04 pm - #
      BoBo

      Thats too bad.

    • August 16th, 2010 at 3:07 pm - #
      Witham

      shamethat you can’t go, but you do a great job Jordan :)

  16. August 16th, 2010 at 12:39 pm - #
    Zuel

    This is some great news, Hope we get a stream.

  17. August 16th, 2010 at 12:31 pm - #
    reaperman

    I think this is my favorite GT news post yet. Awesome site.

  18. August 16th, 2010 at 12:29 pm - #
    Denz

    Can’t wait!

  19. August 16th, 2010 at 10:59 am - #
    Craigles

    I bet they will deley the release date again

    • August 16th, 2010 at 11:19 am - #
      Team_MoFF-No2

      I Bet you could be right!! :O)

    • August 16th, 2010 at 12:21 pm - #
      ElieTheBear

      not with all collectors out already ! this date is the date

    • August 16th, 2010 at 1:19 pm - #
      BoBo

      They wont coz the game looks good already.

    • August 16th, 2010 at 1:48 pm - #
      danielwhite74

      What do you mean delay it “again?” The US release date has never been delayed once.

  20. August 16th, 2010 at 10:37 am - #
    CamAndTom

    This is AWESOME!!! I really wanna see a ’03 SVT Cobra and a ’79 Trans Am. Come on Kazi!! =D