Following on from yesterday’s look at PlayStation VR, GTPlanet takes a more thorough look at Evolution Studios’ Driveclub VR. 

Polyphony have pulled the trigger on the latest issue of Seasonal Events for Gran Turismo 6. This week’s events are a combination of time trial and drifting challenges, testing your meddle at a variety of racing venues.

The growing influence and presence of Virtual Reality gets stronger with every passing day in the gaming industry. Headsets like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are currently in consumers hands and opening up the ever-present tech to audiences like never before.

Things are looking to kick off on the right foot for console players this month, that is, if you’re currently playing Assetto Corsa on the PlayStation 4.

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No, this isn’t a reference to Star Trek featuring the late Leonard Nimoy. Instead of performing nerve pinches throughout the Australian Outback, you’ll venture onto a more logical path as you’re tasked with getting behind the wheel of the Aston Martin Vulcan. The Aston track car is one of seven new rides set to be included in this month’s car pack offerings, if a recent leak is to be believed.

The penultimate round of the Pirelli World Challenge took place a few weeks ago at the sunny, rolling hills of Sonoma Raceway. Continuing a trend set by GT Academy grad Bryan Heitkotter at the previous race weekend in Utah, veteran GM racer Johnny O’Connell swept both races in California in his bright red Cadillac ATS-V.R.

One of the most popular digital distribution platforms (Steam) is currently offering tremendous discounts on Codemasters’ popular driving titles. With price reduction up to 90% it is now possible to hunt down you favourite titles for quite the bargain. Be quick as the special weekend offer will finish on Monday 3rd, 10am Pacific Time.

Earlier this year, we reported that Assetto Corsa on PC and console would be seeing Porsche enter the car roster through DLC. Although the majority of the 24 vehicles being added will be premium DLC at a cost, three of the German manufacturer’s finest will be playable for free as confirmed by Kunos’ Marco Massarutto on Twitter:

Kunos Simulazioni have released the first console patch for Assetto Corsa nearly a month after release. The patch addresses a number of issues brought to light by the community, and is now available on the PlayStation 4.

Video games, at least in the beginning, are a fairly inexpensive hobby. Sure, a console will set you back a few bills, and games cost substantially more than a physical copy of a movie (I hear some people still buy those). But on a cost-per-hour basis, gaming has its advantages.

Sony have announced on their official blog that the team will soon be setting up shop in Anaheim, California for this year’s PlayStation Experience taking place on the weekend of December 3–4.

Next week, Ford of Australia will produce its very last car. The Broadmeadows assembly plant will cap off a 57-year production run of over 4.5 million sedans, wagons, utes and crossovers on October 7. Only two days ago, the Geelong facility — Australia’s oldest of its kind — wrapped up engine production after 91 years.

Duncan Smith, Senior Music Supervisor for Sony Europe has confirmed on the official PlayStation Blog that a double LP vinyl album collecting the music featured in Driveclub will release this coming Friday, September 30.

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The grand finale of the 2016 All-Japan Formula 3 open-wheel series wrapped up this past weekend, but not in a way many of us may have expected. Despite heading into the final weekend at Sportland Sugo with a points lead, GT Academy graduate Jann Mardenborough lost the title by only three points to Kenta Yamashita after a hard-fought final three rounds.

Just as the sun “rises” over one horizon and “sets” on the other, Microsoft will let the original Forza Horizon fall into darkness shortly after debuting the series’ latest entry.

Earlier this month, Formula E announced a competition which would ultimately have its pros taking on 10 of the world’s fastest virtual drivers in an eRace worth $1 million in cash.

Last weekend at the Nurburgring in Germany, Sim Racing Expo 2016 rolled in with plenty of industry professionals talking about cars, racing, and everything that makes them so exciting to replicate in the digital world. One such studio who attended was Reiza, recently known for their work-in-progress title Automobilista. Lead vehicle-physics developer Niels Heusinkveld used the Expo to host a seminar on the intricacies of vehicle dynamics and car set-up. The entire lecture has been captured in the video above brought to our attention by VirtualR.

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