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It might be hard to believe, but our community has hosted over 50 GT Sport Livery Editor competitions since GTPlanet user syntex123 launched the official contests two years ago.

Sony has taken to its official blog to clear up a point of order from its ‘deep-dive’ technical presentation earlier in the week.

Motorsport is proving just about impossible to stage right now, with quarantine measures, travel restrictions, and even just concern for the safety of drivers, team personnel and fans. With the backdrop of the current global climate, esports has really started to take its chance to shine.

If you’ve been playing GT Sport online this week, you’re unlikely to have escaped with your Sportsmanship Rating intact. The Daily Races in particular have become a graveyard of reputations, with severe penalties handed out like free candy, and Driver Ratings plunging due to SR resets.

Another major sporting event has fallen victim to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, this time in the world of esports. GT Sport’s second World Tour 2020 event, scheduled to take place at the Nurburgring in May on the weekend of the 24h race there, is off.

Kylotonn Games has confirmed a release date for its next installment in the WRC series, the official game of the FIA World Rally Championship. WRC 9 will arrive on current generation consoles — Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — this September, with a Switch version to follow. However, more importantly, KT has also revealed that the game will appear on next-gen consoles too. That makes it the first fully confirmed PlayStation 5 title.

Autumn’s golden colors have descended upon the UK to mark a fresh new week and a new season in Forza Horizon 4. A new serving of content and events are now available for all players racing around the British countryside.

PC racing sim RaceRoom Racing Experience is truly putting the “free” into “free-to-play”. Sector3 Studios has opted to make not only the game itself but every single item of content within it free to all for the next few days.

Some of GT Sport’s top-ranked players, and prominent game streamers, are taking to social media this week to talk about the game — and not in a good way. As the official FIA season started this week, leading players are taking aim at one aspect in particular: the penalty system.

PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny has unveiled the specifications of the next-generation console in a live-streamed version of the planned, but cancelled, Game Developers Conference presentation.

Last Thursday, digital storefront Humble Bundle kicked off its “Just Drive” bundle deal that will appeal to sim racers. The bundle is exclusive to PC players using Steam, so if you’ve been biding your time you may want to give this a look.

Mazda fans waiting for information on the RX-Vision GT3 Concept need wait no more. The race car will be coming to GT Sport this May, via a free game update.

If you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for a PlayStation 5 update, wait no more. Sony, it seems, is ready to reveal all on the next-generation games console, and it’s coming tomorrow.

If you want to stand at the top of the GT Sport world at the end of this year, it all starts here. The first races of the official 2020 FIA Certified Online Championship season start this week, with the first of four blocks of ten races from now until September.

While there’s still a lot of uncertainty around about the next generation of games console, Microsoft has today taken the rather bold step of revealing all.

A new week in GT Sport means a new set of Daily Races, and this week’s selection is a strange old bunch.

As the world faces the increasingly grim threat of the coronavirus, a bright spot of joy popped up this weekend thanks to sim racing. Two major events were hastily organized in just a few days: Veloce Esports’ “#NotTheAusGP” and Torque Esports’ “All-Star Esports Battle”, both of which we detailed in our preview article.

The cancellation of at least four of this season’s Formula One grands prix so far might have put a bit of a dent in a few schedules. Not only is there not much racing to watch, the drivers are at a loose end too. Fortunately, esports is filling the gap, with two events running this Sunday featuring some of the biggest names in motorsport.

Racing in the real world might be getting canceled left, right and center, but the virtual world carries on unabated.

Ubisoft’s multi-discipline, open-world racer The Crew 2 is heading to a new platform this month: Google Stadia.