There’s something about a purpose-built race car on a fast, flowing road course that just feels right, and this week’s Online Time Trial delivers exactly that. The Mazda Roadster Touring Car heads to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta under dusk lighting, giving the Georgia circuit a look and atmosphere you don’t often see in GT7’s time trial rotation. It’s a welcome change of scenery.
It’s a new week of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges, which means a fresh set of five events and rewards for players to chase. As always, the new challenges arrive when your clock ticks past midnight into Friday morning, so the exact rollout depends on your time zone.
We’re just under two months away from setting foot in Japan in Forza Horizon 6. Set to launch on May 19, the series finally takes place in the most requested location by the community at-large, and excitement is unquestionably at an all-time high.
It’s been a busy few months for Straight4 Studios. After a rough start for Project Motor Racing, the team has stayed true to its roadmap, delivering a steady stream of improvements to the game. Today marks the arrival of its most significant milestone yet with the release of Update 2.0 and a new Japanese GT500 DLC pack coming at the end of the month.
Sony Honda Mobility announced today that it is discontinuing development and launch of the Afeela 1 and a second Afeela model that had been in the works.
Formula 1 driver Esteban Ocon shared an impressive lap of Suzuka Circuit in Gran Turismo 7, posting the video to his Instagram story where it was subsequently re-posted to X by user @Tzuyutan_x. The clip quickly blew up, racking up over 1 million views in just two days.
The Celica GT-FOUR is one of those cars that carries more history than its modest spec sheet suggests. Toyota’s homologation special for Group A rallying, the ST205 was born to slide through gravel stages and power over crests, not carve through Suzuka’s high-speed esses. But that’s exactly where Polyphony Digital has dropped it in GT7’s Online Time Trials this week, and the result is a time trial that asks you to be precise with a car that would rather be sideways.
RUF Automobile and Gran Turismo teamed up for a pop-up event in Tokyo’s Ginza district on March 14, coinciding with the inaugural Luft Tokyo air-cooled Porsche celebration happening just up the road on the city’s elevated KK expressway line.
Polyphony Digital is developing a new rendering system for Gran Turismo that uses neural networks to determine which objects in a scene need to be drawn, and the early results suggest it could meaningfully improve performance on PlayStation 5.
Honda’s bombshell announcement that it is pulling the plug on its planned North American EV lineup has sent shockwaves through the auto industry, and there’s a particular piece of collateral damage that hits close to home for Gran Turismo fans: the Afeela 1.
A first Gran Turismo 7 content update in the game’s fifth year of active support is now available, with the PlayStation 4 and 5 players now able to get their hands on the 1.68 version of the title.
Following a surprise teaser over the weekend we’ve now got a confirmed date for the next Gran Turismo 7 game update — Thursday March 12 — along some more information about its contents.
Gran Turismo 7 celebrated its fourth anniversary last week, and it’s worth taking a look back at how the game has evolved since its release. What started as a somewhat turbulent launch has quietly turned into one of the longest-supported titles in franchise history, and the past 12 months in particular have been some of the most transformative yet.
In a departure from the usual sequence of events, Gran Turismo series producer Kazunori Yamauchi has today announced an update for Gran Turismo 7 is due in the coming week.
IGN has launched its month-long exclusive coverage of Forza Horizon 6 with nine minutes of uncut gameplay footage, providing the first look at Playground Games’ Japan-set open-world racer. The footage is accompanied by a developer discussion featuring IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey and Luke Reilly, who visited Playground Games for hands-on access and interviews.
