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World Gaming is kicking off the new year with a special Gran Turismo Sport competition for Canadian gamers, and it’s all about Porsche.

This week’s Project CARS 2 Community Event Takes us to Japan for a run on its fictional Suzuka clone Sakitto. Running from January 1–8, players will be driving the drifty Toyota GT86 Rocket Bunny Edition.

Polyphony Digital has again updated the Mileage Exchange in GT Sport, sticking to its major/minor two-week schedule.

It’s been pretty hard to miss the connection between GT Sport and Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton’s brand logo appears in the game’s Brand Central, and you’ll see the British F1 World Champion’s face — or car — frequently on the main menu wallpapers.

As we get the champagne on ice in preparation for New Year’s Eve, we’re taking a look back at the frankly historic last 12 months. 2017 was a great year to be a sim racer, and we’ve got a ton of supporting evidence.

It’s the time of end of the year lists. Eurogamer’s just published its own, and sim racers will spot a familiar name on it.

As we draw closer to year’s end, Kunos is wrapping up 2017 with an end of the year blog. The entry is once again put together by Marco Massarutto, and while it offers an overview of the game’s history, it’s what it hints at for the future that has our attention.

Now that we’ve eaten just about all the Christmas treats we can manage, we’re back with another round of GT Sport test drives.

By now, you’re familiar with what’s going on here: last week Bonus Pack 3 made its way to Assetto Corsa. With it came seven new all-Italian vehicles and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Since Gran Turismo 4, one of the strengths of the GT series has been its user-generated Photomode. The ability to take photographs of your cars in the game and output them as images for your desktop, or even your wall, is a draw for many.

GT Sport is a radical departure from previous Gran Turismo titles. The focus on esports, although controversial, essentially dictates the form the game took.

This week we began celebrating the contents of Assetto Corsa’s Bonus Pack 3. We kicked things off with three of the seven new rides touring Laguna Seca. As a last hoorah for the game in 2017, we couldn’t be more impressed.

The latest sales rankings from the UK show another strong performance for the racing genre. Courtesy of GfK Chart-Track, the list (running up to December 23) shows the usual suspects continue to place in the Top 20.

If you spend some time looking around GTPlanet’s GT Sport forums, it won’t take long until you find a complaint about the track list. It’s usually about what’s not on it rather than what is.

Welcome to Mirror Mode, GTPlanet’s series that shines a spotlight on retro racing games. In this installment, we take a look back at Namco’s realistic Ridge Racer reboot, R: Racing Evolution. 

The lack of weather conditions has been a frequent topic among critics of GT Sport. As we mentioned in our GT Sport review, the game looks better than its top competitors, but both Forza 7 and Project CARS 2 compensate with extensive weather simulations.

It’s official: Gran Turismo 6’s days are numbered, at least in terms of online play. Polyphony Digital has pencilled in the PS3 title’s server shutdown for Spring 2018.

The turkey’s all gone, the gifts are unwrapped, and GT Sport is no longer suffering connection issues. It’s time for some photo snappin’, then!

Four new Community Events have been added to Project CARS 2. The time trials will join the other events recently added to bring players into 2018. There’s even a prize up for grabs in an Autosport-sponsored event.

You may have heard a little thing called the 1.10 update landed in GT Sport late last week. Just in time for the franchise’s 20th anniversary — and before some unexpected major down time — it brought a dozen new cars to the game.