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A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6 showcasing beginner, intermediate and expert level challenges. The events feature non-race cars and race cars with prizes unlike those offered in the previous week’s festivities. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, tips and tricks, and much more.

Gaming news isn’t the only thing to come out of this year’s Gamescom as Thrustmaster have utilized the conference in Cologne, Germany to announce its TX Servo Base Racing Wheel, a standalone version of the acclaimed Xbox One TX Wheel. The wheel base will be available for the Xbox One and PC with the added benefit of being highly customizable within Thrustmaster’s ecosystem of products by way of a modular approach.

While development may have kicked off with Project CARS 2, Slightly Mad Studios remains focused in making its first WMD title – Project CARS – the best possible with ongoing support by way of updates and add-on content. With the recent unveiling of what is perhaps the biggest update yet, and less than one month after the last major update at that, Project CARS continues to grow.

Need For Speed is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a new game, shorn of any sub-titles. At Gamescom, it’s announced the inclusion of five real-life auto enthusiasts, each with a different approach to car culture. These Icons, as they’re known, represent the five different approaches players can take at any point in the game.

Gamescom officially opens tomorrow, but Microsoft had a briefing today in preparation, touching on a large swath of its upcoming 2015/2016 lineup. Being just over a month away from release, Forza Motorsport 6 naturally has a display on site, with a community-designed livery wrapped around Ford’s new Focus RS complete with its own Stig standing guard.

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When we announced GTPlanet’s SRT Tomahawk X Challenge just over a month ago, it made one of GT6’s toughest Seasonal Events even more competitive, as hundreds of GTPlanet users sent in their lap times to win exclusive posters signed by the SRT design team – the same people who conceived one of the craziest Vision GT cars yet.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6 showcasing beginner, intermediate and expert level challenges featuring compact cars, French cars and GT3 class race cars with prizes unlike those offered previously. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, and tips and tricks.

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There’s another massive weekend of motorsport coming up and once again Nissan and GT Academy are front and centre.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring American sports cars made before 1980, European sports cars, mid-engined rear wheel drive race cars, and the Renault Sport Megane Trophy. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, and tips and tricks.