Gran Turismo Series

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to compact cars with a body length og 4200mm or less with no more than 400PP and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds or less.

SCEA has announced a special limited-time sale for Gran Turismo 6 at five major retailers in the United States, available today through March 4, 2014.

GTP is host to the GT6 Nurburgring 24 Hours online endurance racing event organized by CORE. Running on its 3rd year for 2014 and on Gran Turismo 6 for the first time. Nine multi-driver teams from all over the world will challenge themselves with the grueling task of completing a 24 hour race in real time. As with real life endurance racing, this race will be all about strategy; it’s not all about speed, the teams that play their driver swaps, pitting, set up and adaptability to changing conditions the best will come out on top.

As announced late last December, Polyphony Digital will be terminating the online services for Gran Turismo 5 on May 30, 2014. Now, the company has shared more information regarding how you can keep using downloadable content (DLC) you may have purchased in the game after this date has passed.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to racing machines with no more than 700PP and no better than Racing/Hard compounds or less for this week’s time trial, and Comfort/Soft compounds for this week’s drift trial.

The Asian BMW Z4 Challenge is now available as a special GT6 Seasonal Event, available to players with Sony Entertainment Network accounts from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

In a certainly unexpected turn of events, Cigarette Racing Team has announced a surprising partnership with Mercedes-Benz and Sony to build the $1.5-million Cigarette Racing 50’ Vision GT Concept boat. Yes, that’s right – a speedboat.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring three new time trial events exclusive to the High End Performance G37, the Light Car Company Rocket, and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to GT500-class racing machines from the Super GT and Japan GT Championship (JGTC) with no more than 600PP and no better than Racing/Hard compounds or less.

As has become something of a tradition with each new Gran Turismo game (and demo), the digital imaging specialists of EuroGamer’s Digital Foundry blog have completed their technical analysis of Gran Turismo 6 to see how things are working under the hood.

BMW Japan is organizing the Asian “BMW Z4 Challenge” for Gran Turismo 6.

Tamir Moscovici’s documentary about Kazunori Yamauchi and the Gran Turismo series has now been released on YouTube, via PlayStation’s official channel.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to American sports cars with no more than 550PP and no better than Sports/Hard compounds or less for this week’s time trial, and Comfort/Soft compounds for this week’s drift trial.

Sony Europe has included GT6 in their “February PlayStation Store” sale, reducing the price of the digital version of the game from £49.99/€59.99 to £29.99/€39.99 through February 12, 2014, along with a wide collection of other titles.

When we first launched our book, GTPEDIA: GTPlanet’s Guide to the World of Gran Turismo, in November of 2012, we knew it would need to grow and change as the games evolved, and offered free, downloadable updates to cover corrections and new additions.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring two new time trial events exclusive to the Jaguar XKR-S and Toyota 86 GT.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to production model Ferraris with no more than 580PP and no better than Sports/Soft compounds or less.

The fourth update for Gran Turismo 6 is now available, and it brings with it the Corvette Stingray Gran Turismo Concept that was first shown at SEMA 2013, the second half of the Red Bull X Challenge events which also adds the “Gran Turismo Red Bull X2014 Standard” and “Gran Turismo Red Bull X2014 Fan Car” to the in-game dealership, as well as the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo Racing Series, which is a separate version of the previously released AMG Vision vehicle that is “optimized for the competitive racing scene”.

At the Fukuoka Motor Show in Fukuoka, Japan (home to Polyphony Digital’s new headquarters), a new version of Gran Turismo 6 was available, revealing multi-screen display support.

Kazunori Yamauchi made a special appearance at the Taipei Game Show this weekend, and the first announcements are coming in from Taiwanese sites Gamerhotline and UDN (as kindly translated by our own Yui-san).