Gran Turismo Series

Gamescom, the largest European video game show of the year, kicks off this week in Cologne, Germany, and it’s going to be a big one for the PlayStation brand.

Kazunori Yamauchi has selected a 1953 Aston Martin DB3S as the winner of Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo Trophy at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

This week’s Gran Turismo 5 Seasonal Events feature a series of five races available exclusively to 4WD-cars, with no more than 530PP and no better than Sports/Hard tires.

New GT5 Seasonal Events are now available, featuring pre-1990 rally cars in Time and Drift Trials at Eiger Nordwand.

GTPlanet recently had the opportunity to sit down with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s President and CEO, Jim Ryan, for a round-table discussion on the business end of the Gran Turismo franchise.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring front engine rear-wheel drive vehicles. Five expert level challenges touring such locations as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Special Stage Route 5 await, and the rewards are just as high as they’ve come to be in these challenges.

Since it was leaked last week, news of the Gran Turismo feature film has spread far and wide among the video game, automotive, and entertainment industries, but the project hadn’t yet been publicly confirmed by anyone associated with Sony.

The international qualification round of GT Academy 2013 concluded over the weekend, involving over 1.3 million total participants.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo, featuring American muscle, among them being the Dodge Viper, and while this week’s challenges doesn’t offer the usual amount of variety associated with the weekly events, the rewards should more than make up for that.

Hollywood news site “TheWrap” is reporting some certainly unexpected news: Sony Pictures has started production on an “action movie” based on the Gran Turismo series.

Mashable quietly published an interesting video interview with North American Gran Turismo producer Taku Imasaki earlier this month.

“Red Bull 5G” is a national Japanese gaming competition which seeks to find the country’s best gamers in five different categories: first-person shooters, racing, sports, fighting, and puzzle.

Sony and Nissan have formally announced GT Academy 2013 has received over 1 million downloads worldwide as of July 16, just two weeks after the GT6 demo which hosts the competition was released.

The latest Seasonal Events are now live in Gran Turismo 5, and this week’s challenges are all about front-wheel driven cars. Five expert level challenges touring such locations as Autumn Ring Mini and Deep Forest Raceway await, and the rewards are just as high as they’ve come to be in these challenges.

A new software update for Gran Turismo 5 has been released, version 2.14. At only 13MB in size, it’s even smaller than version 2.13, and once again appears to “fix minor issues” according to the only documented changes published by Polyphony Digital.

In addition to their gameplay session with Lucas Ordoñez, the UK’s Telegraph spent some time walking around the Goodwood Hillclimb course, taking photographs from the exact locations seen in the GT6 Goodwood screenshot pack released last week.

As part of their Goodwood Festival of Speed coverage this weekend, The Telegraph has put together a short video showcasing the Gran Turismo 6 demo on display at the Nissan booth.

Polyphony Digital has announced maintenance for Gran Turismo 5’s online services next week, starting Tuesday, July 16, at 03:00 GMT/UTC (convert to your local time here) and lasting approximately two hours.

Gameplay videos of Gran Turismo 6’s newest confirmed circuit, the Goodwood Hill Climb, have finally been released – one of which is a directly-captured video from Polyphony Digital themselves!

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring the Jaguar XJR-9 LM race car, Toyota 86 GT and both racing and non-racing cars alike. This week’s events step away from the more methodical approach the events took on two weeks ago and instead turn the focus back toward getting the most out of the car/tire combination.