Gaming

Criterion and EA have revealed the upcoming Volume 4 update for Need for Speed Unbound, and it’s set to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Porsche.

Along with today’s game update, the new Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races are also available, running for the next seven days and using a selection of the game’s circuits that all appear on the current Formula One calendar.

Gran Turismo 7’s latest content update, v1.36, is now available, bringing some interesting new cars to the game for players to sample over the coming weeks.

You can hardly have missed the news that Sony Pictures was producing a feature film based on the Gran Turismo franchise: we’ve been covering it here on GTPlanet from when it was first floated back in 2013.

The main contents for the next update for Gran Turismo 7, 1.36, have been officially revealed, confirming what we suspected following Kazunori Yamauchi’s silhouette post last weekend.

Temperatures are dropping and the dark clouds are gathering as Autumn comes round again to Forza Horizon 4. Battling through the rain won’t stop festivalgoers as they continue to hunt down the latest events and claim the waiting prizes.

Winter comes to summer in the world of Forza Horizon 5, as this week’s seasonal playlist change gets underway in virtual Mexico.

With the Gran Turismo movie coming to cinema screens soon (although not quite as soon as it was), the film’s music composer Lorne Balfe has revealed the first track on the official soundtrack ahead of its launch on August 11.

A special promotion will run alongside this month’s Gran Turismo World Series Showdown, offering players the chance to win in-game prizes for watching along with the live streams or guessing the winning teams.

Three new Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races await for players this week, bringing along two of the game’s most famous mountains and a circuit notable for almost no elevation change at all.

Gran Turismo 7’s next update is coming on Monday August 7, as confirmed today in an unusually timed Tweet by series creator Kazunori Yamauchi.

After a little quiet spell on the development front, Straight4 Studios chief Ian Bell has released some more information on the GTR Revival project, including a possible launch window for the title of “Holiday period” of 2024.

With just two weeks to go until its original premiere date, the Gran Turismo film has been delayed by Sony Pictures as one of many titles the studio is shuffling due to widespread industry strikes.

Two major franchises are set for another collision course, as the Fast and Furious universe comes to Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged when the game launches on October 19.

The UK is turning up the heat once more as Summer returns to the festival in Forza Horizon 4. We’re now in the beginning of Series 64, meaning a fresh selection of events and rewards to be claimed over the next four weeks.

The latest set of events in Forza Horizon 5’s ever-changing playlist are now available as, confusingly, Summer continues into Autumn.

A video published recently by SideFX, the developer behind 3D animation software Houdini, has revealed some of the inner workings of Polyphony Digital and how the team uses procedural generation.

A new “behind the scenes” video from Sony Cine, Sony’s cinematographer community portal, has shown some of the techniques and technology that’s allowed the Gran Turismo movie to be made.

Moviegoers at the Regal Cinemas chain in the USA were treated to a surprise screening of Gran Turismo on Monday night, and it appears they’ve come away with almost uniform praise for the film.

Key members of the Gran Turismo cast as well as director Neill Blomkamp have been speaking to online movie ticket outlet Fandango about the upcoming movie, revealing some more details about how it was made.