Michael Leary

With so many great options for us to choose from I sometimes wonder how we haven’t gone mad, and by that I mean we have Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo, the upcoming Assetto Corsa, iRacing, Raceroom Racing Experience (R3E), rFactor 2, Project CARS, and Codemasters’ F1 series of racing games. With so many options to choose from there’s literally something for everyone and it’s because of this wealth of choice that the gaming scene for racing simulators isn’t as much of an empty void as some would believe.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to Italian machinery with no more than 550PP and no better than Sports/Hard for this week’s time trial event, and Snow tires for this week’s drift trial event.

Coming off the high of last week’s Jalopnik Film Festival is no easy feat and I was aware of this challenge the entirety of last week, but the problem now is whether or not I actually want to come off of such a high, and the answer is relatively simple. No.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to Japanese vehicles built during the 1980’s with no more than 420PP and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds.

Polyphony Digital’s partnership with KW Suspension for Gran Turismo 6 could be more of a collaborative effort than many may have initially realized.

Announced in Tokyo this past Wednesday, September 18th is the latest version of Gran Turismo 6, exclusive to Asia and set to be released December 5th, 2013.

What an amazing week this has been. Not only has there been a steady influx of news regarding GT6 and things related to GT6 (with more coming!), but there was also the event of the week, the coveted special as it were; of course I’m referring to the Jalopnik Film Festival.

Unveiled at the opening night of the Jalopnik Film Festival inside Classic Car Club Manhattan was a film documenting Polyphony Digital’s own Kazunori Yamauchi, entitled “KAZ: Pushing the Virtual Divide”.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two events exclusive to non-racing cars with no more than 500PP for this week’s time trial, and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds for all events.

Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed to EuroGamer that Gran Turismo 6 is set to receive a “fairly large” patch when it releases on December 6th, with further supporting updates scheduled to last 12 months.

Italian gaming website, multiplayer.it toured the offices of Polyphony Digital and while mentioning more track and vehicle announcements are on the way in the form of paid and free content alike, Australia will be represented in-game with “top secret” locations.

Gran Turismo 6 has yet to make it’s way into our homes and there’s already talk of it’s successor, Gran Turismo 7. It would appear, at least at the moment, that the simplified system architecture used in the PlayStation 4 will allow Polyphony Digital, as well as any other developer, to drastically shorten the amount of development time required; more to the point, it will allow PD to return to their usual release schedule which ranged anywhere from 2-4 years.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to vehicles built on or before 1969 with no more than 500PP and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds.

It’s been much quieter this week thanks in part to the Tokyo Game Show being right around the corner, however, while there hasn’t been any newsworthy tidbits regarding the upcoming Gran Turismo 6 as a game, there is the upcoming Jalopnik Film Festival, presented by Gran Turismo 6.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring new time and drift trials exclusive to racing cars. This week’s events are short and sweet, so take your favorite 600PP and rear-wheel drive racing cars and hit the track.

If this looks familiar you’re not just imagining things, Pagani’s Huayra is once again gracing the Weekly Rewind. However, the image you’re looking at isn’t from Gran Turismo 6 or any Gran Turismo title for that matter, no, what you’re looking at is a brilliant shoot done by one of our very own in Forza Motorsport 4.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to Ferrari’s F1 machinery with no more than 871PP asnd no better than Racing/Hard compounds.

Within that list you will undoubtedly notice cars such as the Pagani Huayra, Audi R18 TDi, and the BMW Z8 as newcomers to the series, however, also within this list are two gems: the Cizeta V16T, which is now a Premium model, and the return of the Mark 1 GT40 road car not seen since Gran Turismo 3, if memory serves me correctly.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring front engine rear-wheel drive vehicles. Five expert level challenges touring such locations as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Special Stage Route 5 await, and the rewards are just as high as they’ve come to be in these challenges.

Gran Turismo fans definitely had some unexpected news this week, with the announcement that a Gran Turismo movie is in the works. How the producers will develop a plot around Gran Turismo will be very interesting to see. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of interesting (and hilarious) ideas being shared in our forums!