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In the build-up to next week’s Jalopnik Film Festival, which will prominently feature Gran Turismo 6, they’re hosting a fun contest with a sweet prize: a custom HumanRacing GT Chassis signed by the high-profile panelists attending the event.

Gran Turismo 6 launch details were outlined for the Japanese market during a special PlayStation media session hosted by Sony on Monday.

Reuters recently published an interesting article which offers an interesting look at the fascinating but rarely-discussed business of racing games, which are becoming increasingly important as auto makers look to reach out to consumers.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about Gran Turismo’s GPS “Data Logger” functionality, formally revealed at a joint press event between Polyphony Digital and Toyota at Fuji Speedway almost exactly one year ago.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring new time and drift trials exclusive to racing cars. This week’s events are short and sweet, so take your favorite 600PP and rear-wheel drive racing cars and hit the track.

Tickets are now available for the Jalopnik Film Festival, an automotive culture and film event to be held in New York City on September 18th and 19th.

Amazon France has outed an upcoming PlayStation 3 “Ultra Slim” bundle which will include GT6 Anniversary Edition and The Last of Us.

During the GT6 press session at Gamescom 2013, Kazunori Yamauchi referred to the game’s new Course Maker feature as “fundamentally different” from what was seen in GT5, and noted that players would be able to “lay out their [custom] tracks freely” in an area “100 kilometers by 100 kilometers” in size.

Jalopnik is hosting a “film festival” in New York City on September 18th and 19th, and Gran Turismo 6 is the title sponsor for the event.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to Ferrari’s F1 machinery with no more than 871PP asnd no better than Racing/Hard compounds.

Menu / BMW 507 / Cizeta V16-T

Around 300,000 entered and now just 12 remain.

In an interview with IGN, Sony’s President of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, made some interesting statements in regards to the future of the Gran Turismo series on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

In an interview with GameInformer, Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed that Gran Turismo 5’s controversial “Experience Points” or “XP” system will not exist in Gran Turismo 6.

Kazunori Yamauchi hosted a Gran Turismo 6 info session at Gamescom 2013, the full contents of which have been posted to YouTube by MundoGT.es.

It’s been a busy year for Lucas Ordoñez. We’re never quite sure what car he’s going to sit in next as he hops from 370Z to GT-R GT3 to LMP2 to Altima V8 and even Super GT – but the latest ride is unique in every sense.

Take your favorite 2-wheel drive racing cars to the track this week in Gran Turismo 5’s latest Time and Drift Trials, one of which features the ever-popular Spa Francorchamps circuit.

As he talked about the GT franchise during Sony’s Gamescom 2013 media event, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO Jim Ryan (check out our recent interview with him) formally announced the Gran Turismo movie, fully confirming the news leaked last month by a Hollywood news site.

When Gran Turismo 6 was first announced, one of the most exciting announcements for the GTPlanet community was the addition and expansion of the game’s online racing features.