YouTuber Starky513 got his hands on some Gran Turismo 6 drifting gameplay footage, which features a former GT Academy Race Camp finalist behind the virtual wheel of an Alfa Romeo TZ3 Stradale.

Happy Halloween! I know this will be published on the first Friday of November but I’m writing this on Halloween so there’s a technicality there that only I can attest to, so once again, Happy Halloween!

Gran Turismo 6 has been on display over the past few weeks at various public game shows and events in virtually every corner of the world, including New Zealand, Brazil, Italy, and Paris.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to rear-wheel driven racing cars with no more than 600PP and Racing/Soft compounds for this week’s time trial, and Comfort/Soft compounds for the drift trial.

Local news reports from Andalusia, Spain, have confirmed the Ascari Race Resort circuit will be in Gran Turismo 6 and will host the game’s international launch party.

Chevrolet has featured Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi in their marketing efforts for the new 2014 Corvette Stingray, which includes an interactive film and website with keyboard-and-mouse challenges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Q8-bjRpHU

I assure you I’ve had this particular image earmarked since last week, the fact that there just happened to be a “Lamborghini Exclusive” Seasonal Event this past Wednesday was a pure coincidence. A coincidence that almost swayed me from using this, but aren’t you glad that I decided to use it anyway?

A special collaboration between the Ayrton Senna Institute and Gran Turismo 6 has just been announced at the 2013 Brazil Game Show in São Paulo.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to Lamborghini supercars with no more than 550PP and no better than Sports/Soft compounds.

Each year at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the Gran Turismo Awards are held to honor some of the best custom vehicles on display – one of which gets immortalized in a Gran Turismo game.

A Gran Turismo 6 competition was held at Sony’s booth during last month’s Tokyo Game Show, where Super GT driver Juichi Wakisaka took on three “gamer” challengers.

Polyphony Digital has announced that Gran Turismo 5’s online services will be unavailable for a brief period of online maintenance next week, starting at 03:00 GMT/UTC (convert this to your local time) on Tuesday, October 22, 2013, and lasting approximately two hours.

What you’re looking at is the championship-winning Ferrari 312T driven by Niki Lauda, and the game is yet another gem – Assetto Corsa. AC is another game in the long list of simulation racing games that expands their scope beyond what most of us are really accustomed to, and while the game has yet to officially release you can check out the tech demo and judge the game for yourselves, and I have to say that you’re in for quite the surprise.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to historic cars of the 1960’s with no more than 400PP and no more than Comfort/Medium compounds for this week’s time trial..

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe kicked off a #BestOfGT week on Monday to celebrate 15 years of the Gran Turismo series. Via the EU PlayStation Blog:

An interview with Polyphony Digital’s Takuya Asano has shed light on the “Gran Turismo Explore Studio”, a specialized creative space designed to help the company develop collaborative projects with other brands such as those seen in the recently announced Vision Gran Turismo project.

If you’re interested in saving a bit of money on your copy of Gran Turismo 6, online retailer NewEgg is offering a sizable discount for pre-ordering the game with them.

Japanese consumers will get a bonus in the form of two 15th Anniversary Edition cars when they pre-order a copy of GT6 at a participating retailer, as announced on the official site earlier this week.