Gran Turismo
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You’ll have to wait until the third quarter of this year to take delivery of a 2014 Corvette, but if you own a Sony PlayStation 3 and a copy of Gran Turismo 5, you can be driving the new C7 Corvette as early as tomorrow. Like the camouflaged C7 Corvette (downloaded by almost 500,000 gamers), the new Corvette Stingray will be offered up as a free download available in the PlayStation Store. The virtual car will include a detailed interior, and it will replicate things like the seven-speed manual transmission’s Active Rev Matching. Chis Perry, vice president of Chevrolet Marketing...
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Nissan GT Academy Winners From Around The World Head To 2013 Dubai 24 Hours
Nissan, together with Sony, held the first GT Academy in 2008, and since then the event has gone on to become a global phenomenon with gamers-turned-drivers from all parts of the globe now competing. Nissan’s GT Academy essentially pits gamers, playing the popular racing simulator Gran...
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Test Drive The 2014 Chevy Corvette In Gran Turismo 5: Video
The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette will be making its world debut in January, but the first test drives of the car won’t be available until the sales launch later in 2013. If, like us, you just can’t wait, dust off your PlayStation 3 or visit a friend that owns one and get ready to test drive...
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Gran Turismo Creator Picks 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 40 For New Game
For the past 10 years at the SEMA show, Sony, together with the people behind Gran Turismo, has picked a winning design that eventually appears as a playable car in its next version of the popular Gran Turismo video game. This year the winner was this 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 40 hot rod, which was...
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Top 16 Nissan/PlayStation GT Academy Finalists Head To Silverstone
The final round of the second season of the joint Nissan-PlayStation GT Academy North America is about to get underway, with the top 16 contenders from the thousands of entrants headed to the U.K. Silverstone racing circuit for an intensive week-long race camp and competition series. Spike TV will...
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Gran Turismo 5: Third Game Download Pack Now Available
PlayStation racing gamers should today be able to get their hands on the third download package for Gran Turismo 5, the console's seminal racing title. Following on from the first downloadable content back in October and another just before Christmas, the third package gives GT5 fans the option of...
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We've not stopped enjoying the spoils of the last Gran Turismo 5 downloadable content yet, but the team at Polyphony Digital have prepared another one, just in time for Christmas. The Gran Turismo Blog (via GTPlanet) has revealed full details of the update 2.02, due December 20th. The best news is that all players will receive a car for free. Helping satiate gamers not yet old or wealthy enough to put their names down on a new Toyota 86, everyone will get one added to their garage with the new update. There are also some other cool features due with the download. Finally, users will be able...
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Gran Turismo 5 Downloads Could Appear "Every Two Months"
It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since Gran Turismo 5 was launched to an expectant audience, following years in development. That year seems to have flown by but it was only recently that the first proper downloadable content pack was released on PlayStation Network to give players...
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Can Virtual Test Drives Produce Real World Sales?
Ford was an early adopter of promoting its products through video games and driving simulators, and it believes this strategy has boosted brand awareness and brand consideration.
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Gran Turismo 5 Download Pack: Is It Worth Your $11.99?
It's been just under a year since Gran Turismo 5 launched to an expectant audience, and us Gran Turismo fans have had a rough ride of it. Littered with glitches and falling short of many gamers' expectations, developers Polyphony Digital have worked painstakingly over the past year to fix bugs and...
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Gran Turismo 5 Fans Rejoice: Extra Content Due October 18th
As gamers around the world get their teeth stuck into Forza Motorsport 4 on the Xbox 360, racing fans on the Sony PlayStation shouldn't feel too left-out. Gran Turismo 5 creators Polyphony Digital have been hard at work behind the scenes and the "Spec II" update for GT5 was released a week ago...
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Gran Turismo 5 Fans: Spec 2.0 Update Drops On October 11
A major, free update for Gran Turismo 5 will be available on October 11, and it includes both added content and improved game play.
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TV's newest reality show pits 16 Gran Turismo 5 champions against one another in real-world, track driving challenges. The prize? A chance to win a ride with Nissan's endurance racing team.
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2011 SEMA GT Awards To Put Yamauchi's Favorite In Gran Turismo 5
The SEMA show is still nearly two months away, but today entries for the SEMA GT Awards opened, inviting custom car builders to put up their creations for judging by Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi. The winning car will be a playable addition to Gran Turismo 5. The best vehicle in each of...
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Beat An F1 Star In "World's Biggest Race" On Gran Turismo 5
For everyone who has ever uttered the words, "I bet I could beat that guy" when watching motor racing on television, getting a chance to actually go head to head with a Formula 1 driver could be your opportunity to prove it. European gamers will do just that on September 5, when Gran Turismo 5 fans...
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Audi R8 LMS Racing Simulator Races In To Gamescom 2011
If you think the racing sim setup you have in your living room is impressive, think again. Audi's racing simulator on show at videogame show Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany makes a mockery of your steering wheel and pedals combo. That's because Audi has created an entire R8 LMS GT3 race car...
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Gran Turismo Creator Wins His Class At Nürburgring 24 Hours
Hot on the heels of gamer-turned-racer Lucas Ordoñez taking a second in class finish at the prestigious Le Mans 24 Hour race two weeks ago, the creator of the game that brought Lucas to fame, Gran Turismo, has had some success of his own. Kazunori Yamauchi, the visionary behind the Gran...
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Video: Toyota FT-86 II Concept Stars In New Gran Turismo 5 Promo
Since its exciting unveil at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, the first FT-86 concept car from Toyota and its ensuing production version has been highly anticipated. At last month’s 2011 Geneva Motor Show, Toyota revealed the latest version of the car called the FT-86 II concept, which you can read...
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Yes, we know Gran Turismo 5 was already officially announced for release on November 2. Yes, we know it was delayed (again). But this time we hope the official release date sticks: get your PS3s ready for November 24. If you're not up to speed on what GT5 offers, imagine everything in the world, then subtract air-mailed hotdogs and Victorian wood carvings and you pretty much have the answer. Custom course making, around 1,000 cars, nearly every series imaginable, 3D gameplay, motion-based gesture input support, the Nurburgring...the list goes on. Find out more about what to expect in Gran...
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Custom 1969 Chevrolet Camaro To Star In Gran Turismo 6
Gran Turismo 5’s release date has been pushed back a number of times already and is believed to somewhere around the end of this month--fingers crossed--but already we have news on the next iteration of the popular racing sim. No doubt still years away from release (GT5 took more than 2,000...
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Video: Gran Turismo 5 Red Bull Power Trailer
Gran Turismo 5’s release date has been pushed back a number of times already but we have word that the discs for the popular racing sim are being pressed as you read this and its final release is only a few weeks away. In the lead up to its arrival the guys at Polyphony Digital, the...
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Video: Red Bull X1 Revealed In Gran Turismo 5 Gameplay
Formula One is often touted as the pinnacle of what is possible in racing and performance car technology, but that's only true within the constraints of the FIA's regulations. If there were no regulations limiting performance, nothing to keep engineers from putting together the ultimate car for...
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Red Bull X1 Prototype Ready For Gran Turismo 5 Debut
Earlier this year Japanese electronics giant Sony announced a unique partnership between Gran Turismo and Red Bull Racing to create a virtual car that would push the boundaries of motorsports. This in turn prompted the guys at Polyphony Digital, the company behind the legendary Gran Turismo series...
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Gran Turismo 5 Delayed Again, Console Yourself With Course Maker Video
Yes, folks, it's happened again: Gran Turismo 5, the long-awaited, much-hyped, console driving sim to end all sims--the one that was definitely, absolutley going to be launched, finally, November 2, is yet again delayed. But we have a video of the game's built-in custom course making feature to...
Nelson Ireson