Gran Turismo 5

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As you’ve probably heard by now, the PlayStation 3’s security has been completely cracked, allowing unfettered access to the console’s software, files, and games. Unsurprisingly, GT5 has been an active target for hackers taking advantage of the compromised system. Their first major accomplishment involves a way to easily duplicate game-saves between different PSN accounts (sorry, I won’t be providing any source links for information on how to do this).

Hello everyone, Slip here again for this week’s coverage on our forum’s Photomode Competitions. If you missed last week’s entry, click here to catch up, and get the low-down on what exactly happens each week with the competitions. A quick refresher – post an image (no bigger than 500 pixels on the largest side on the forum, but linked to a bigger image for full-size viewing) following this week’s theme, in whichever competition you choose (or both!), and compete against others for in-game prizes! This week the prizes are in the shape of Peugeot’s torquey Le Mans prototypes, or for runners-up, those paint chips that take 30-car intervals in your garage to win, like Matte Light Green or the elusive Chrome. Now, let’s jump to this week’s open themes, and details on those prizes…

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Hello everyone! For those unfamiliar, I’m Slip, and I’ll be posting weekly updates here on the main page about one of our forum’s more exciting community events: Photomode Competitions!

I was fortunate enough to attend the Gran Turismo 5 launch party in Madrid last November and, though I took lots of photos, I didn’t have any good video to share. Fortunately, before the festivities kicked off, I met up with InsideSimRacing’s European correspondent Andreas Nie, who captured plenty of great footage at the event and around the city. After the press session, I sat down with Andreas to talk about the event and my personal first impressions of the game. It’s all in ISR’s latest video feature, published yesterday and embedded above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGP28KzHZiM

Over Christmas, I’ve received a lot of questions about the free “Christmas gift cars” which were announced by Sony Japan a few weeks ago. As it turns out, the three free cars, which consisted of a Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640,  Jaguar XJ13, and a BMW M3 Coupe, were only made available in the Japanese PSN Store. Even if you have a Japanese PSN account, the cars can only be used with an actual Japanese copy of the game.

With the launch of Gran Turismo 5, the steering wheel market is really heating up. Now, however, the bar has apparently been raised with the new Fanatec Porsche 911 GT2. The wheel is receiving high marks from users in our steering wheels forum, and there’s even more kind words from the hosts at InsideSimRacing, who called it part of the “best package” to play the game. Keep an eye on the wheel segment of InsideSimRacing’s Gran Turismo 5 review in the video above (you’ll find the wheel discussion begins at 24:45) for more, or watch Darin’s mini-feature on the GT2 here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8D5BcFJPiI

Gran Turismo 5 has been found to significantly benefit from the installation of a solid-state drive (SSD) into the PlayStation 3 console, according to several reports from around the web over the past few days. One of the most organized and extensive tests was conducted by GTPlanet user padadiso. Click through his collection of graphs below, or head over to his forum topic for more discussion and analysis.