Nissan’s popular GT Academy will be back for its fifth year in 2013 and organizers promise to make this round of competition the biggest yet. The GT Academy essentially pits gamers playing Sony’s Gran Turismo in a knockout competition, with the final winner in each of the tournaments...
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... January 4, 2013 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
The winner of the 2012 Nissan GT Academy's North American competition was recently revealed through the competition's television series, and now, the formerly unemployed... December 10, 2012 by Nelson Ireson
Nissan's GT Academy is the stuff dreams are made of--literally. Imagine going from a hardcore video gamer to a real-world pro racer in one giant leap. That's the GT Academy... December 5, 2012 by Nelson Ireson
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... July 16, 2012 by Nelson Ireson
Bryan Heitkotter is living every Gran Turismo player's dream: he won GT Academy in 2011 and is now a race car driver for Nissan. He battles it out in a Nissan 370Z endurance... May 29, 2012 by Joel Feder
If ever proof were needed that you can make a real racing driver from a video gamer, Spanish driver Lucas Ordoñez's second place in the LMP2 class at the recent Le... June 17, 2011 by Antony Ingram
The winner of the first Nissan/Playstation GT Academy video game driving contest, Lucas Ordonez, has proven he can do what he does in the game world in the real world... March 18, 2011 by Nelson Ireson