Gran Turismo 6 launch details were outlined for the Japanese market during a special PlayStation media session hosted by Sony on Monday.

Reuters recently published an interesting article which offers an interesting look at the fascinating but rarely-discussed business of racing games, which are becoming increasingly important as auto makers look to reach out to consumers.

It’s been much quieter this week thanks in part to the Tokyo Game Show being right around the corner, however, while there hasn’t been any newsworthy tidbits regarding the upcoming Gran Turismo 6 as a game, there is the upcoming Jalopnik Film Festival, presented by Gran Turismo 6.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about Gran Turismo’s GPS “Data Logger” functionality, formally revealed at a joint press event between Polyphony Digital and Toyota at Fuji Speedway almost exactly one year ago.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring new time and drift trials exclusive to racing cars. This week’s events are short and sweet, so take your favorite 600PP and rear-wheel drive racing cars and hit the track.

Tickets are now available for the Jalopnik Film Festival, an automotive culture and film event to be held in New York City on September 18th and 19th.

Amazon France has outed an upcoming PlayStation 3 “Ultra Slim” bundle which will include GT6 Anniversary Edition and The Last of Us.

During the GT6 press session at Gamescom 2013, Kazunori Yamauchi referred to the game’s new Course Maker feature as “fundamentally different” from what was seen in GT5, and noted that players would be able to “lay out their [custom] tracks freely” in an area “100 kilometers by 100 kilometers” in size.

If this looks familiar you’re not just imagining things, Pagani’s Huayra is once again gracing the Weekly Rewind. However, the image you’re looking at isn’t from Gran Turismo 6 or any Gran Turismo title for that matter, no, what you’re looking at is a brilliant shoot done by one of our very own in Forza Motorsport 4.

Jalopnik is hosting a “film festival” in New York City on September 18th and 19th, and Gran Turismo 6 is the title sponsor for the event.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to Ferrari’s F1 machinery with no more than 871PP asnd no better than Racing/Hard compounds.

Menu / BMW 507 / Cizeta V16-T

Around 300,000 entered and now just 12 remain.

In an interview with IGN, Sony’s President of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, made some interesting statements in regards to the future of the Gran Turismo series on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

Within that list you will undoubtedly notice cars such as the Pagani Huayra, Audi R18 TDi, and the BMW Z8 as newcomers to the series, however, also within this list are two gems: the Cizeta V16T, which is now a Premium model, and the return of the Mark 1 GT40 road car not seen since Gran Turismo 3, if memory serves me correctly.

In an interview with GameInformer, Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed that Gran Turismo 5’s controversial “Experience Points” or “XP” system will not exist in Gran Turismo 6.

Kazunori Yamauchi hosted a Gran Turismo 6 info session at Gamescom 2013, the full contents of which have been posted to YouTube by MundoGT.es.

Take your favorite 2-wheel drive racing cars to the track this week in Gran Turismo 5’s latest Time and Drift Trials, one of which features the ever-popular Spa Francorchamps circuit.