Jordan is the owner of GTPlanet and created the site in 2001. He has closely followed the Gran Turismo franchise and the world of sim-racing for over two decades.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox now has a codename. Incoming Xbox CEO Asha Sharma revealed “Project Helix” today, confirming the company’s commitment to first-party console hardware and giving us the clearest look yet at a machine that could significantly change the gaming landscape.
The question of whether Gran Turismo will ever come to PC has been one of the most persistent topics in our community for years now. Yesterday, a new report from Bloomberg may have given us the most discouraging answer yet.
Volkswagen has revisited its GTI Roadster Vision Gran Turismo in a surprise refresh more than eleven years after it first hit the scene in Gran Turismo 6.
Rennsport is gearing up for a massive 2026. At a recent presentation in Munich, Director of Product and Experiences Kim Orremark laid out an ambitious roadmap focused on four core pillars: Driving, Racing, Gaming, and General Experience.
It’s been just over a month since Playground Games gave us our first real look at Forza Horizon 6, where we learned the Horizon Festival is heading to Japan. While that initial reveal gave us a taste of the map, the cars, and the May 19 release date, it left many wondering: how exactly will the career mode work?