
Mixed Reality Video: Porsche 911 Carrera S at Vallelunga
If you’re keeping tabs on the Virtual Reality space within the sim genre, you’ll probably know the name Marcel Pfister. The racing enthusiast has created some great mixed reality videos in the past including a tour around DiRT Rally’s snowy Sweden and Assetto Corsa’s Green Hell. The newest of these videos center around Kunos Simulazioni’s racing title once more, this time taking the Porsche 911 Carrera S for a spin around Italy’s Vallelunga circuit.

Assetto Corsa Console Updates Heading Into Submission This Week
If you play Assetto Corsa on consoles, chances are you’ve had a bit of a grass-is-greener feeling of late. The PC platform—the original home of the game—welcomed the third Porsche Pack DLC a few days before Christmas 2016, and over a month later, there’s still no firm date for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It sounds like that will be changing soon, however.

How to Keep Up With This Weekend’s 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona
After an impressive start to this year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, racers prepare themselves for one of the largest and most anticipated events of the motorsports world: the 24 Hours of Daytona.

DiRT 4 Off-Screen Gameplay Video and First Impressions
Rally fans got a big surprise yesterday when Codemasters announced DiRT 4 would be releasing this summer. The game promises a lot of content, with over 50 off-road vehicles and the official World Rallycross Championship license. Now, a pair of Youtube videos from the Erased Citizens channel give us a better idea of what to expect from the game.

2017 Rolex Daytona 24H Qualifying: Cadillac, Ford & Ferrari Lead The Way
The 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season is about to get underway in Florida. With qualifying completed yesterday, this year’s 55 competitors will be duking it out around Daytona for 24 hours, starting tomorrow.

GTPlanet Community Spotlight: There’s More Than Meets the Eye with GT3
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Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Now Available in iRacing
News first broke of Porsche coming to iRacing at the beginning of the month, but in recent tweet on the official iRacing Twitter account, it was announced that the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup will be coming to the game today.

Ford GT Powers Past Its Rivals to the Tune of 216mph
When you hear about Ford’s EcoBoost engine, the first thing that comes to most people’s minds is economy. But one does not purchase a Ford GT for economy, one purchases it for the power. And much like a recent politician, the new Ford GT claims to give the people what they want.

Codemasters Announces DiRT 4, Releases This June
2017’s impressive line up of racing games just got even better as Codemasters just announced the fourth main-line iteration of its DiRT series. Fresh off the success of DiRT Rally (which is getting a PS VR update soon), it seems Codies isn’t wasting time, and has set a release date of June 9 this year, with the game hitting PS4, XB1, and PC.

PlayStation Essentials Sale Goes Live in North America; Includes Big Racing Game Discounts
With recent Xbox sales going on, and Project Cars being confirmed as free on Games with Gold for February, you must be wondering when Sony will come for your wallet. Worry no more, as the company has just launched the PS Essentials sale!

Go For Broke in the Latest GT6 Super Lap & Drift Trials
Polyphony have pulled the trigger on the latest Seasonal Events for Gran Turismo 6. This week’s events are a combination of time trial and drifting challenges, testing your mettle at a variety of racing venues. Whether it be tuned or purpose-built racing machines, this week’s events has a little bit of something for everyone.

Leak Re-Confirms Project Scorpio Will Be 4.5x More Powerful Than Xbox One
4K gaming is already on the rise thanks to the PlayStation 4 Pro having an early start. Released last year in November, the higher-spec Sony console already has a number of titles taking advantage of the additional headroom, and is further enhanced when VR is factored into the equation. The other half of this 4K race remains absent for the time being: Microsoft.

EU PlayStation Store Sale Continues to Offer Discounted Racing Action
Last week, we reported on the many Driveclub discounts you can currently find on the PlayStation Store in the EU, If Evolution Studios’ title doesn’t quite tickle your fancy, there’s also some other racers on sale until February 8 across the PlayStation ecosystem. If you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you’ll get a further 10% off these prices too.

Leaked Forza Horizon 3 Debug Mode: Better Photomode, More Customization
Earlier this month, in the midst of the release of the Rockstar Car Pack for Forza Horizon 3, Turn 10 accidentally gave its PC users a whole lot more; an entire debug version of the title, exclusively saved for development purposes for the in-house team.

New Xbox One S Bundle with Forza Horizon 3 Revealed by Microsoft
As you are probably aware of by now, Forza Horizon 3 has received critical acclaim from many game reviewers, and is considered one of the best in the genre this generation. It earned itself the E3 2016 Game Critics Award for best racing game last year, and was even voted Best Racing Game by our community in the 2016 GTPlanet Awards.

Project CARS Available as Free ‘Games with Gold’ XB1 Title in February
This year has certainly been kind to racers on the Xbox One so far: just earlier this month the Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass was up grabs to Live subscribers for 40% off, and it appears the Xbox team has already outlined its plans for February. Another racing game will be the highlight, this time offered for free through the Games with Gold program.

Latest GT Sport Off-Screen Video Shows Horse Thief Mile & Improved Sounds
Gran Turismo Sport was playable at the Taipei Game Show this past weekend—on the new PlayStation 4 Pro no less. While the build doesn’t appear to be much different from the one shown at the PlayStation Experience last December, it nonetheless shows us some new aspects of the game.

Scuderia Toro Rosso Boss Calls For eSports Inclusion in F1 Race Weekends
In recent years, Formula 1 has faced the harsh challenge of trying to engage a young audience. Due to the high prices of the events themselves, and the general barrier of interacting with the series, F1 can often feel like it’s in a world of its own. However, Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost believes that there is an answer for developing the relationship between the younger generation and the historic motorsport—and it involves the world of eSports.

Driver Rating System to Be Included in Project CARS 2
With the spotlight being shined on racing eSports events like the upcoming ESL Multi-Class Championship, it should come as little surprise that Project CARS’ successor will be featuring a driver rating system to help filter different players by their abilities in online races.

Assetto Corsa Has Sold Over 1.4 Million Copies
Late last week, news broke that Assetto Corsa developer Kunos Simulazioni has been purchased by 505 Games parent company Digital Bros. A salient detail was hidden within the comprehensive Trend Online report, however: sales figures.