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Patch 2.0 is now available for Project CARS across all platforms and promises to fix a number of issues brought to light by the passionate community. Weighing in at 1.4GB, the 2.0 patch covers a wide range of areas and the fixes for all platforms are as follows:

Additional content continues to make way to the 2014 open world racer and this month is no exception as tomorrow Forza Horizon 2 is set to receive an additional 6 cars; 5 of which are included in the IGN Car Pack, with the final being available to all players for free. Available tomorrow through Xbox Marketplace and the Forza Hub app, the car pack will cost $5.

Hot on the heels of an unusual 3 hour online maintenance period, Polyphony Digital has announced more online maintenance for GT6 during July – and if you thought it was odd last time, this one will boggle the mind completely.

Click here to download the slides from Mike’s presentation (PDF, 5.1MB).

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring beginner, intermediate, and expert level challenges featuring sports and race cars – with new prizes unlike those offered in previous weeks. 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.

At this year’s E3, Turn 10 revealed 117 of the more than 450 cars available at launch in the upcoming Forza Motorsport 6. Beginning today and leading up to the launch of the game on September 15th, Turn 10 will be revealing more details not only regarding the game’s car roster but additional information on the new tracks being introduced for the first time in the series in what is being dubbed as “The Forza Garage”.

If you’ve had a go in any version of the SRT Tomahawk – the newest Vision GT concept car in Gran Turismo 6 – you know how crazy it is. The “X” model takes things to the furthest extreme, producing over 2,590hp with the use of “experimental technologies”.

Everywhere you look at the moment there’s a GT Academy driver driving something somewhere. Whether it’s the Blancpain Endurance Series in France, the Nissan Micra Cup in Canada or GP3 in Austria, there’s a guy in a white and red suit who used to play racing games for fun sticking it up the sharp end in a Nissan of one kind or another.

Polyphony Digital’s work has been put on display at the National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan, as part of a new Manga*Anime*Games exhibit in the museum. The exhibit, which showcases the relationship between artists’ work, society, and technology, uses Gran Turismo to demonstrate the technical techniques of the artists that bring the game to life.

It’s time for one of the biggest races in the 2015 GTPlanet Endurance Series’ calendar: the 24 Hours of Le Mans! The race kicks off today (June 27) at 13:00 GMT/UTC (click here to convert this to your local time), and will be live-streamed right here via GTPlanet’s YouTube channel.

A new Community Event is available in Project CARS from Friday 26th June 2015, featuring the open desert backdrop of the Dubai Autodrome’s International Circuit.

Polyphony Digital has posted a maintenance announcement set to commence next Wednesday, July 1st, starting 21:30GMT/UTC (click here to convert this to your local time zone) and lasting for approximately three and a half hours. As always, you’ll be unable to use the game’s online features during the maintenance period.

The latest update for Gran Turismo 6, version 1.20, has just gone live, and brings with it an update to the Goodwood Hill Climb course and one of the more hotly anticipated Vision GT cars: the radical SRT Tomahawk.

There’s been a lot of interest and debate over the new Logitech G29 steering wheel that was formally unveiled a few weeks ago, but not much in the way of hands-on impressions.

Since its inclusion in Gran Turismo 6 was first announced back in 2013, the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed has had a close relationship with the franchise. As many will recall, last year saw the in-game track updated to include the 2014 “Central Feature” sculpture at Goodwood – a soaring art installation that features different manufacturers and changes each year.

Sony have announced that the Playstation Plus Edition of Driveclub will be released on June 25th. The ‘lite’ version of Driveclub will be free to all Playstation Plus members, however Sony have also stated that while off-line play will be available for all, on-line play will be rolled out gradually.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring non-race and tuned cars, RWD non-race cars, race cars, and the Formula Gran Turismo. 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.

SMS have released details of the upcoming patch 2.0 for Project CARS, and it covers a wide range of areas, many of which have been discussed already in our Project Cars Forum. The patch will be for the PC, PS4 and XBox One.

In celebration of Forza’s 10th anniversary this year, Microsoft have announced a special edition of the Xbox One: the “Forza Motorsport 6 Limited Edition” console. As explained in the video above, it’ll feature a special blue color, inspired by the new game’s cover car, the Ford GT.

Following the rapid success of Project CARS across the globe, developer Slightly Mad Studios has today announced that the second title to be funded and co-developed by the innovative World of Mass Development community: Project CARS 2!