Gran Turismo Series

Gran Turismo Drive is the newest street in Bathurst City, home of the famous Mount Panorama roadcourse featured in GT6. Named in honor of Polyphony Digital’s work in recreating and promoting the proud landmark of the city for GT6. Officials from the city, including its mayor Gary Rush and racing driver Shane Jacobson were on hand to open the road to the public in ceremony.

The first of many promised updates to Gran Turismo 6, is now available, and it brings with it some of the game’s major new features which have been announced over the past few months but which were not included in version 1.00, which is printed on the game discs being sold.

GT6 officially releases on December 6, but the digital version of the game has already gone live in the PlayStation Store, according to reports from many users in our forums, although you won’t be able to actually play it until the game is “activated” (which will happen, presumably, sometime within the next few hours as December 6th nears).

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The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to French cars of any make or model year with no more than 450PP and no better than Sports/Hard compounds or less.

An update to the GT6 online features page has shed more light on the expanded online racing functionality we can expect to be included in the game.

Get your first in-depth look at early Gran Turismo 6 gameplay, guided by hosts the hosts of the popular YouTube channel Inside Sim Racing.

For the first time in the history of the Gran Turismo franchise, you can now purchase (via pre-order) in-game credits with real-world currency. Credit packs went on sale earlier yesterday at Amazon.co.uk, available in the following denominations and prices:

Fulfilling their promise of consistently expanding the roster of cars featured in Gran Turismo 6, Polyphony Digital has updated the game’s official car list to include a few important new models.

Gran Turismo 6 players will be the first to sample the new series BMW M4 before it releases to car buyers in the Summer of 2014. In an exclusive deal with the famous German marque, GT6 will deliver this car into players’ garages as free DLC coming soon after GT6’s launch. The car was spotted around Ronda, Spain, during the Gran Turismo 6 Launch party on day one and then saw track time at Ascari Race Resort circuit in the following day of events.

When the Lunar Roving Vehicle was first revealed in Gran Turismo 6, it caused quite a stir and immediately became one of the most unique and noteworthy cars in the history of the franchise.

Amongst all the announcements at the GT6 launch event in Ronda, Spain, one of the most unexpected surprises came from the city of Ronda itself, as the mayor announced a street would be named in honor of Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi.

The Second Chapter of GT6’s First Love Campaign featuring a rebuild of Mario Andretti’s first race car, a 1948 Hudson, is now live! Jump into the stream to watch the rebuild happen every step of the way with hosts periodically presenting information on the build as well as GT6.

New information leading from the GT6 launch party has surfaced on the Gran Turismo website. In the release, 11 new Vision Gran Turismo collaborating designers and manufacturers have been added to the already impressive roster of car makers and dreamers:

Kazunori Yamauchi took the stage for a presentation on Gran Turismo 6 during the first day of events for GT6’s two-day launch party in Ronda, Spain. The presentation began predictably, reviewing lots of content we have previously known, but as time went on, more and more new information began to break, as covered live on our Twitter feed.

Gran Turismo 6 is set to be fully unveiled at a massive, two-day media event to be held in Ronda, Spain – a city which will feature as both a Photo Travel and Course Maker location in the game.

A new contest, the biggest promotional give-away we’ve seen yet, has opened up for hopeful players to win a full GT6 and PlayStation setup. Five winners will be chosen and all you have to do is be the fastest when it comes to recalling your Gran Turismo trivia.

If you participated in GT Academy 2013 and downloaded the Gran Turismo 6 demo which hosted the competition back in July, you’re set to receive a free car in the full game.

GTChannel filmed a segment of their online show at the recent GT6 Willow Springs preview event, where Polyphony Digital and Toyota officially debuted the game’s new GPS Data Visualizer and CAN-Gateway ECU.

EuroGamer has published a lengthy and comprehensive interview with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi, discussing everything form his childhood, his philosophy on life, motorsports, Gran Turismo, and just about everything in between.