It appears Formula One also wants a slice of the esports pie and has announced a new series of its own. Partnered with Codemasters and UK-based esports company Gfinity, the inaugural season kicks off next month.

While Sony may not be holding a presser at Gamescom this week, it seems the Japanese giant still has some surprises in store. Case in point: PlayStation Europe is teasing what appears to be a new PS4 console.

After our speculative article detailing what looked to be Forza Motorsport 7’s track list, Turn 10 has officially unveiled the full selection. The tracks players will be able to drive on stretch far across every corner of the planet, offering some the world’s best racing arenas.

One of the most impressive partnerships in Gran Turismo history is that between the series and Nissan. The team behind GT has directly influenced the superb Nissan GT-R throughout its life. The tangible end result of this partnership was the Polyphony-designed center console in the car, but the relationship is still very much alive, as revealed in an interview by Motoring.au.

After a tricky start to life in Europe, Infiniti has been coming on leaps and bounds lately. The Q30 hatch and QX30 crossover have given it some mass market appeal, but we’ve been looking at the opposite end of its product range.

Turn 10 has revealed the PC specs required to play Forza Motorsport 7 on the eve of Gamescom. Posted on the official website blog, the list shows what will be required to run the game at its optimum, minimum, and everything in between.

It’s been a year and Codemasters is back with another installment in its long running F1 franchise with F1 2017. The return of classic cars is the headline this year, as well as a revamped career mode. How will the game stack up against past F1 games? Will it be able to hold its own against the other big hitters releasing this fall? We hopped behind the wheel to find out.

An 88-year old Mercedes roadster has won the Gran Turismo Award at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

GT Academy 2013 winner Nick McMillen could be lining up on the starting grid in Wisconsin next weekend. All he needs is a sponsor or two.

Microsoft is first to bat at this year’s Gamescom and you’ll be able to watch it live here. The event kicks off 12 PM on the West Coast, 3 PM on the East Coast, 8 PM in the U.K., 9 PM in Germany. For those not in the area you’ll want to tune in below to keep up to speed.

Four years ago today, at Gamescom in Cologne, Kazunori Yamauchi announced the formation of the Vision Gran Turismo project.

Like many of you, we’ve taken to Route X in Gran Turismo 6 in a quest to fuel our need for speed. But, what if there was a place where you could actually see and experience cars eclipsing the 300 mph mark? We set out to find such a place and ended up at Speed Week 2017 at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Image Space Incorporated has introduced the latest track to rFactor 2’s lineup. Circuit Park Zandvoort is currently available as a beta for the venerable sim.

Slightly Mad Studios showed off more of Project CARS 2’s various online features earlier this week. The reveal happened during the team’s latest live stream, offering players their best look yet at what to expect next month.

This weekend’s Forzathon events are now live. Players will get the chance to go mental off-road with the selection of driving challenges.

One of the great bugbears for driving game fans is wheel compatibility. Unless you’re willing to spend huge sums, one wheel won’t work on both major consoles. And, it seems, old wheels are obsoleted every time a new console comes out anyway.

Owning a strange, low volume, imported car is hard work. When things go wrong, as they inevitably do, repairs can be a nightmare.

Earlier this year McLaren-Honda revealed its World’s Fastest Gamer eSports competition. WFG will find the ten fastest virtual racers, and the winner offered “the best job in eSports”, official sim driver of McLaren’s F1 team.

Hype levels for Project CARS 2 continue to rise as we quickly approach its September 22 release date. Before that however, Slightly Mad Studios has released a new 4K trailer ahead of Gamescom next week.

More news from Big Ben Interactive and Kylotonn Games about WRC 7 today. In a GTPlanet exclusive, we bring you the newest trailer, showing Ford’s latest Fiesta tackling rally stages across the globe.