Polyphony Digital

BeamNG.drive’s latest update contains something quite interesting buried in its graphics overhaul: the game now renders its final image using tone mapping technology developed by Polyphony Digital for Gran Turismo 7.

For almost ten years, Gran Turismo has been quietly rendering light that no television could actually show you, but that’s starting to change.

Polyphony Digital has refreshed “Beyond the Apex”, the free online guidebook that lives alongside Gran Turismo 7.

If you spent any time in older Gran Turismo games, you may have noticed a small, relatively obscure name among the roster of Japanese tuning houses called Opera Performance. What you probably didn’t realize is that Opera Performance and Polyphony Digital share a connection that goes far deeper than a simple licensing deal.

Polyphony Digital has quietly added Chinese language support to its corporate website at polyphony.co.jp, marking the first time any language other than Japanese or English has been available on the developer’s own site.

Polyphony Digital is developing a new rendering system for Gran Turismo that uses neural networks to determine which objects in a scene need to be drawn, and the early results suggest it could meaningfully improve performance on PlayStation 5.

At its traditional year-end party held at its Tokyo headquarters, the Polyphony Digital team has delivered a special message of thanks to Gran Turismo’s fans, in musical form.

As part of today’s major announcements coming out of Polyphony Digital, including Gran Turismo 7: Spec III, recognition of another significant milestone has been achieved: over 100 million copies of Gran Turismo series games have been sold worldwide.

The Vision Gran Turismo program is back in the spotlight with the recent reveal of the Opel Corsa GSE Vision GT. It’s a striking concept, blending the brand’s hot-hatch heritage with a futuristic electric powertrain, and it’s a welcome addition to the growing Vision GT lineup.

At the SIGGRAPH 2025 conference in Vancouver, three engineers from Polyphony Digital delivered a detailed presentation on the visual technology inside Gran Turismo 7, offering a rare look behind-the-curtains to explain why the game’s graphics have such a distinct quality.

Polyphony Digital has received another high-profile guest to its offices as legendary car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro dropped into the Tokyo HQ, leading to some speculation as to the nature of his visit.

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Polyphony Digital has been unveiled as a “Silver Sponsor” for the Sessions demoparty event taking place in Tokyo this November.

Superstar musician Pharrell Williams met with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital staff at the company’s offices in Tokyo, Japan. The visit was announced by Yamauchi himself on social media as he shared several photos of the occasion.

A group of Polyphony Digital sound engineers and designers gave an extensive presentation on Gran Turismo 7’s audio production at the CEDEC+KYUSHU game developer conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

Nissan has revealed a new concept car called the Hyper Force as part of the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo, and Gran Turismo 7 developer Polyphony Digital has again been involved in creating the vehicle.

The Jaguar XJ220, once the fastest production car in the world, has been spotted in some behind-the-scenes images from a recent Polyphony Digital studio tour, seemingly scanned in Gran Turismo 7-level detail.

Following a public vote conducted on the official PlayStation Blog site, Gran Turismo 7 has scooped the Best Sports Game in the 2022 Game of the Year awards.

Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 7 has taken top honors in the Sports / Racing category at The Game Awards, the gaming industry’s premiere annual awards event held in Los Angeles, California.

UPDATE: Since this article was originally published, Kazunori Yamauchi was interviewed by Japanese media on December 22, 2022, where he reiterated that Gran Turismo on PC is something he would consider but confirmed it is not currently in development.