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The latest Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races are now available, with a little change in proceedings for this week’s three events.

Turn 10 has revealed the cover for the upcoming Forza Motorsport reboot, with the first ever appearances for a racing prototype and for hybrid-electric cars on the front of a title in the 18-year history of the series.

The singing birds and the green shoots of leaves in the trees means a new Spring season has arrived in Forza Horizon 4. We’re into the last stretch of Series 61, with players rushing to complete the last batch of events and claim their prizes.

A brand new series kicks off this week in Forza Horizon 5. A fresh set of events are on hand, new cars are waiting to be claimed as well as new challenges and collectibles hidden across the festival over the next four weeks.

Gran Turismo 7’s new 1.34 update is now available, bringing some new cars and a surprise new feature which expands the game’s tuning options.

As most regular GTPlanet readers know, the upcoming Gran Turismo feature film will tell the true story of 2011 GT Academy champion Jann Mardenborough. Now, Sony Pictures has released a new promotional video for the film featuring Jann himself talking with actor Archie Madekwe who will play him in the movie.

Sony has announced that it is developing a new PlayStation handheld device code-named “Project Q”, which is designed to allow players to stream any game from their PS5 console using Remote Play over Wi-Fi. The device has an 8-inch HD screen and all of the buttons and features of the DualSense wireless controller and is set to launch later this year.

In addition to the new car content coming in Gran Turismo 7’s 1.34 update Polyphony Digital will unlock new tuning abilities that have previously been restricted to chance occurrences, with engine swaps and special parts becoming available to purchase directly.

Updated (24/05): PlayStation & Gran Turismo have posted new information on the update, which we’ve added below.

A year on from its first title in the new F1 Manager series, Frontier Developments has announced a sequel coming this summer: F1 Manager 23.

The latest Forza Monthly stream has revealed the full breadth of the Series 21 update to Forza Horizon 5, which lands tomorrow ahead of the start of the series on Thursday May 25.

The next update for Gran Turismo 7, likely v1.34, has been confirmed to be coming on Thursday May 25, much as we expected following the announcement over the weekend.

A new Forza Monthly stream will broadcast at 1600UTC on Monday May 22 to detail all of the changes coming to Forza Horizon 5 in Series 21 when it begins later this week.

The new Daily Races are now available in Gran Turismo 7, with another set of three fresh multiplayer events to occupy players for the week to come.

The next update for Gran Turismo 7 will be landing on PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles this coming week, with new cars being added to the game.

Racing simulator developers Straight4 Studios and Reiza Studios have issued a curious joint statement announcing a strategic partnership, which could have some interesting implications for the former’s GTR Revival title currently in development.

Snow has returned to the UK with a vengance this week to mark a new Winter season in Forza Horizon 4. Players aren’t going to be beaten by the elements easily, and will stop at nothing to complete the latest round of events in store.

It’s the last week of the current Forza Horizon 5’s Series, with Spring coming to the game and rounding out the four-week cycle of Series 20.

Almost two years on from becoming official partners, Fanatec and Gran Turismo have announced an enhanced relationship as the peripheral manufacturer becomes the official steering wheel partner of the game’s flagship esports championship, the Gran Turismo World Series.

If anyone had a 2023 bingo card that had “2K launches an open world racing game based on LEGO” on it, they should go buy a lottery ticket because this is one nobody saw coming until it was announced in March.