Gran Turismo Series

To celebrate the launch of the Gran Turismo movie today, PlayStation has teamed up with peripheral manufacturer Fanatec and Japanese fashion brand A Bathing Ape (BAPE) for a rather unusual sweepstakes competition.

GTPlanet’s video editor Chaz Draycott has been speaking to racing driver, GTPlanet member, and now official advisor to Hollywood (at least as far as racing flicks go) David Perel over his role in the development of the Gran Turismo movie.

It has been a while since we sat down to take a critical look at the Gran Turismo World Series. The high-water mark was set during a memorable and spectacular event in Sydney, Australia, which brought together a compelling combination of racing action, atmosphere, and production value. GTWS was rolling, with plenty of momentum and storylines to project it into the year ahead.

A 1933 Alfa Romeo coupe which once won its class at Le Mans has scooped the Gran Turismo Award at the 2023 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California, earning it the right to be captured for a future appearance in the Gran Turismo series.

Another new week means another new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races has now become available, with three new events for players to tackle over the coming seven days

Before the latest Gran Turismo World Series live event kicked off in Amsterdam, the city hosted the premiere of the Gran Turismo movie, which tells the story of Jann Mardenborough and his experience in GT Academy.

A special Gran Turismo movie screening was part of the recent Gran Turismo World Series Showdown in Amsterdam, including a walk on the red carpet and a guest appearance from Jann Mardenborough — the man whose story is the inspiration for the film.

Although the Toyota Himedic has only been available — and in an extremely limited fashion — for just over a day, it’s one of the most popular vehicles for players to create liveries that we’ve seen in GT7’s lifetime to date.

A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is now available for the next seven days, but you’ll be forgiven for thinking that there’s something awfully familiar about them.

Spain’s Coque Lopez, Jose Serrano, and Pol Urra took a dominant victory for their country in the first event for the new team-based Nations Cup.

Following the tight racing in yesterday’s Manufacturers Cup, today will see the new-format Nations Cup final at the 2023 Gran Turismo World Series Showdown in Amsterdam.

Team Porsche, fighting with a man down, overhauled a 14-second deficit to win the GT World Series Showdown Manufacturers Cup event at Suzuka in Amsterdam.

Polyphony Digital has announced that the 2023 Gran Turismo World Final will take place in Barcelona, marking the first time the season-ending event has been held outside of Monaco.

A presentation given by Polyphony Digital studio head Kazunori Yamauchi as part of the Sony Creators Conference event has revealed that the Eiger circuit location first used in Gran Turismo HD could be returning to the series soon.

The first live Gran Turismo event of 2023 gets underway at 1700 UTC today, with the Manufacturers Cup at the World Series Showdown in Amsterdam.

Sony AI America director Pete Wurman has revealed that his team and Polyphony Digital are working together in order to bring the machine reinforcement learning Sophy AI to Gran Turismo in a “much larger and permanent sense”.

After a flurry of online competition earlier in the year, the time is now upon us for the first of 2023’s two championship-deciding live events at the Gran Turismo World Series Showdown in Amsterdam.

Media worldwide have been publishing their reviews of the Gran Turismo movie now that the press screening embargo has passed, and thus far the critical response has been pretty mediocre.

Along with today’s game update, the new Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races are also available, running for the next seven days and using a selection of the game’s circuits that all appear on the current Formula One calendar.

Gran Turismo 7’s latest content update, v1.36, is now available, bringing some interesting new cars to the game for players to sample over the coming weeks.