GT5/PS3 Bundle for Europe, PS3 Slim Faceplate for AUS
For those of you in Europe waiting to pick up a PlayStation 3 until you can actually play Gran Turismo 5, you may want to take notice of the new PS3 (320GB)/GT5:CE bundle that’s hitting web retailers in Europe. You can grab it for £284.99 at Amazon in the UK, which represents a savings of £44.99 – considerably less than what you’d pay if you purchased the console (£269.99) and the game (£59.99) separately.
Yamauchi Impressed with ModNation Racer’s Track Editor
Let’s hope it inspires him to bring a similarly robust track editor to the Gran Turismo series! Thanks to Randy for the early tip.
Drifting in Gran Turismo 5: First Gameplay Videos
YouTuber ukoredgar2143 has provided us with some of the most entertaining gameplay videos yet! He’s been camped out at his local Best Buy, playing GT5 Kiosk Demo and putting the game’s new smoke effects to good use. Unfortunately, the demo doesn’t include skidmarks, but these clips still provide a nice preview of what’s to come! Thanks to all who sent these in.
GT5/Honda Times Square Event: Pictures, Videos, & Impressions
A few videos and impressions are rolling in from the Honda CR-Z promo event in Times Square today, but the GT5 demo on display is a little underwhelming. With that said, RavenFox of NeoGAF did catch a glimpse of High Speed Ring in the rain in the course selection menu – though it wasn’t actually raining when his race began.
TGS Interviews: Yamauchi Talks Standard Cars, Damage, GT6 & More
The first batch of Kazunori Yamauchi interviews are finally getting published from last week’s Tokyo Game Show 2010! Here’s a translated transcript of GameBlog’s video interview above, kindly provided by our own RoadRunner99:
“We Love Cars” Japanese GT5 Marketing Campaign Launches w/TV Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7lnkNf6_U
95 Gran Turismo 5 TGS 2010 Screenshots at 18 Megapixels
In what has become a tradition of sorts, I’m very excited to be able to share with you Polyphony Digital’s complete collection of GT5 screenshots released from last week’s Tokyo Game Show 2010: 95 images at full resolution in 18 megapixels.
GT5 Videos: BMW Z4 in the Rain, Daytime La Sarthe, Karting in Rome, & More
The video may be in Italian, but you don’t have to speak the language to appreciate this interesting gameplay footage from TGS 2010. Check the time stamp references below so you catch all of the different clips: