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Polyphony Digital has announced online service maintenance for Gran Turismo 6 on Monday, March 10, at 04:00 GMT/UTC (click here to convert this to your local time). As always, you’ll be unable to use the game’s online features during the maintenance period.

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 450PP for this week’s time trial, and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds for all events.

For the third year in a row, Red Bull has selected a Gran Turismo game for use in their “5G Challenge” – a high-profile competition the company hosts in Japan to find the country’s best gamers among 5 different genres: first-person shooters, racing, sports, fighting, and puzzle.

Wolfgang Reip steps into the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time, in one of the most non-typical debuts yet seen for the world famous race – in the hybrid electric Nissan ZEOD RC. Nissan is entering the car in the “Garage 56” category, which is a special entry slot by Le Mans organizers reserved for experimental or innovative racing concepts. He’ll share driving duties with team mate and colleague Lucas Ordoñez, who will be contesting his fourth straight Le Mans.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring three new time trial events exclusive to the Plymouth XNR Ghia Roadster, Lamborghini Diablo GT2, and the Lotus Elise Racing Car.

Nissan Australia has officially confirmed the GT Academy program is coming “Down Under”!

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to compact cars with a body length og 4200mm or less with no more than 400PP and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds or less.

SCEA has announced a special limited-time sale for Gran Turismo 6 at five major retailers in the United States, available today through March 4, 2014.

Jann Mardenborgough is set to get his first taste of racing in North America this March. He has joined the Nissan powered Muscle Milk Pickett Racing team for round two of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship (and Patrón North American Endurance Cup). The 2011 British GT Academy winner is teaming up with longtime Pickett drivers Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr who have pushed the squad to championship success over the past two years in the bygone American Le Mans Series.

GTP is host to the GT6 Nurburgring 24 Hours online endurance racing event organized by CORE. Running on its 3rd year for 2014 and on Gran Turismo 6 for the first time. Nine multi-driver teams from all over the world will challenge themselves with the grueling task of completing a 24 hour race in real time. As with real life endurance racing, this race will be all about strategy; it’s not all about speed, the teams that play their driver swaps, pitting, set up and adaptability to changing conditions the best will come out on top.

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As announced late last December, Polyphony Digital will be terminating the online services for Gran Turismo 5 on May 30, 2014. Now, the company has shared more information regarding how you can keep using downloadable content (DLC) you may have purchased in the game after this date has passed.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to racing machines with no more than 700PP and no better than Racing/Hard compounds or less for this week’s time trial, and Comfort/Soft compounds for this week’s drift trial.

The Asian BMW Z4 Challenge is now available as a special GT6 Seasonal Event, available to players with Sony Entertainment Network accounts from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Jann Mardenborough is closing in on the ultimate target for most any aspiring racing driver, he now has a clear path under his feet that leads straight to an F1 racing seat for the first time.

In a certainly unexpected turn of events, Cigarette Racing Team has announced a surprising partnership with Mercedes-Benz and Sony to build the $1.5-million Cigarette Racing 50’ Vision GT Concept boat. Yes, that’s right – a speedboat.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring three new time trial events exclusive to the High End Performance G37, the Light Car Company Rocket, and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to GT500-class racing machines from the Super GT and Japan GT Championship (JGTC) with no more than 600PP and no better than Racing/Hard compounds or less.

As has become something of a tradition with each new Gran Turismo game (and demo), the digital imaging specialists of EuroGamer’s Digital Foundry blog have completed their technical analysis of Gran Turismo 6 to see how things are working under the hood.

BMW Japan is organizing the Asian “BMW Z4 Challenge” for Gran Turismo 6.