Michael Leary

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.

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.

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.