Gaming

Polyphony Digital has announced that the 2023 Gran Turismo World Final will take place in Barcelona, marking the first time the season-ending event has been held outside of Monaco.

A presentation given by Polyphony Digital studio head Kazunori Yamauchi as part of the Sony Creators Conference event has revealed that the Eiger circuit location first used in Gran Turismo HD could be returning to the series soon.

The first live Gran Turismo event of 2023 gets underway at 1700 UTC today, with the Manufacturers Cup at the World Series Showdown in Amsterdam.

Sony AI America director Pete Wurman has revealed that his team and Polyphony Digital are working together in order to bring the machine reinforcement learning Sophy AI to Gran Turismo in a “much larger and permanent sense”.

Among the snow drifts around the UK, Winter is making its presence felt once again in Forza Horizon 4. The hardy festivalgoers aren’t going to let the snow stop them in their quest to hunt down the latest events and claim the waiting prizes.

It’s the final week of Forza Horizon 5’s celebration of the summer, with a fresh set of events and challenges across the next seven days to close out the series.

After a flurry of online competition earlier in the year, the time is now upon us for the first of 2023’s two championship-deciding live events at the Gran Turismo World Series Showdown in Amsterdam.

Media worldwide have been publishing their reviews of the Gran Turismo movie now that the press screening embargo has passed, and thus far the critical response has been pretty mediocre.

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.