Gran Turismo Series

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.

http://youtu.be/DgWnfvTs-QQ

More GT6 TV commercials have been emerging around the world. We reported the first TV spot out of Japan, but now Australia and Poland have joined in, showcasing GT6’s “The World is Your Track” ad campaign.

With so much going on this week’s Seasonal Events challenges completely slipped my mind. Luckily as many of you will already be aware, this week’s challenges are now available in Gran Turismo 5, and are similar to the challenges featured two weeks ago.

There’s yet another way to get yourself a 15th Anniversary car for Gran Turismo 6, this time it’s in the form of a social media promotion from Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. This promotional code can only be redeemed by Japanese PSN accounts. (Here’s a video guide which explains how to do that.)

The first Gran Turismo 6 game discs have been printed (offered referred to in the industry as going “gold”), and a few are making their way into the hands of journalists, according to reports from NeoGAF. They’ll be unable to share their impressions until “next Friday” (December 6), when the game releases worldwide.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has published a short hands-on preview describing the first few steps in starting your virtual career in Gran Turismo 6’s single player campaign. The article begins with a description of the driver “tutorial” that begins immediately when the game first launches. This will be similar to the driving introduction players went through when first loading up the GT6 GT Academy Demo. It also mentions having to register a “name” before the tutorial gets started, again, in line with the process in the GT Academy Demo.

Legendary Italian American Indy 500, 24 Hours of Daytona, Daytona 500 winner and Formula 1 Champion Mario Andretti is at the center of a new GT6 First Love campaign in which GT fans get to take part in a historic rebuild project. The First Love Campaign is broken into three “Chapters:” Andretti, Live Build, and Reunion.

This is the result of putting together five Playstation 3s, five 80″ LED HDTVs, and five copies of GT5. The builders of this rig put it together as a “test” of a new line of screens for a University, combining students’ resources together for the temporary build. They noted playing GT5 with this rig was quite surreal, from the reddit post:

What appears to be the the full version of Gran Turismo 6 is on display at the Tokyo Motor Show, and gameplay footage has started emerging from attendees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7VHKUTeRjbU

With only a couple of weeks to go until the first copies of Gran Turismo 6 start thunking onto doormats the world over, you might be forgiven for being somewhat confused by exactly what you’ll be getting if you’re planning to preorder the game.

While Gran Turismo The Movie is still somewhat small on the horizon, Sony has brought it one step closer to realization. The Hollywood Reporter is naming Watchmen Co-Writer Alex Tse as the writer for the upcoming video game adaptation film. The first real sign of the GT movie being in development was confirmed to us back in July after rumors.

A strange video has been posted to the official PlayStation France YouTube channel, which claims to show the unboxing of a “GT6 Ultra Custom Accessory”. It actually features a man opening a large black box which contains a bionic arm with “#GT6” printed on the skin.

Welcome to GTPlanet’s first official podcast: Real Podcasting Simulator, covering anything and everything you need to know about Gran Turismo 6 and the future of GT. Although the podcast has been going for four months now, this episode is the first to release under GTPlanet’s name. Here is the show’s original description: