Michael Leary

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to racing cars with no more than 700PP and no better than Racing/Hard compounds or less for this week’s time trial, and no tuning restrictions for this week’s drift trial.

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Gran Turismo 6 is finally here and if you left the previous game feeling a bit weary of the possible absence of Seasonal Events in GT6, fret not as the first round of events are now available featuring the Honda Fit RS, 15th Anniversary Cars (where applicable) and the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision GT.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to French cars of any make or model year with no more than 450PP and no better than Sports/Hard compounds or less.

Seven days are all that stand between us and Gran Turismo 6; seven days until we’re all fitted into racing attire eager to experience the improvements and masterful execution GT6 brings to the table; seven days until the final Gran Turismo scheduled for release on the PlayStation 3 alerts us all to the fact that despite the next generation of possibilities already becoming more and more prevalent with every passing second, the previous generation will not subside without a last hurrah  – Gran Turismo 6 will be that hurrah.

With so much going on this week’s Seasonal Events challenges completely slipped my mind. Luckily as many of you will already be aware, this week’s challenges are now available in Gran Turismo 5, and are similar to the challenges featured two weeks ago.

We’re two weeks away from experiencing Gran Turismo 6 and the timing is impeccable; with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One out and about, the established platforms — the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 — are slowly going to regress into anonymity. Of course the platforms will continue to be showered in exclusive releases, but it won’t be much longer until the lion’s share of the focus is aimed toward the future.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five racing events exclusive to classic muscle cars built in 1980 or earlier with no more than 500PP and no better than Sports/Medium compounds or less.

The PlayStation 4 is here! If you were one of hundreds (thousands?) of people waiting patiently in line to get your hands on the PS4 at the stroke of midnight, there’s no doubt you were excited to get back and play whatever selection of titles that interested you most. Now that the PS4 is here, there is one thing we all should be aware of: where one countdown ends, another begins – Gran Turismo 7 is imminent.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to front and rear wheel driven cars with no more than 450PP for this week’s time trial and Comfort/Soft compounds for both trial events.

Instead of waiting until the very end of this article to find the members responsible for this week’s featured images tucked away in the footnotes, I’ll save you the trouble of doing so, especially due to there being two individual images used for this auspicious occasion. The image of the 670-4 SV that greets you is another fantastic panorama put together by HaerBev, and the stellar image of the majestic Ferrari F40 belongs to The R!CE Guy.

Gran Turismo 6 may be closing in, but there’s still life left in GT5 and that much is proven with the availability of this week’s latest Seasonal Events, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to Japanese Kei cars with no more than 355PP and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds or less.

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!

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.

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?

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.

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..

Last week saw a modest evolution in the Weekly Rewind, mentioning over a dozen racing games, fully acknowledging that while those of us who enjoy the thrill of going fast may be but a niche crowd, with so many options readily available the scene for racing games isn’t as much of an empty void as some would be lead to believe. In the grand scheme of things Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport are the centers of our world; a world where they are but a grand representation in the racing ecosystem; a world that expands far beyond their perspectives.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to pickup trucks with a rear cargo bed with no more than 470PP and no more than Sports/Hard compounds and the necessary Dirt Tires.