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Gran Turismo 6 Revealed Audi Quattro WRC

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. confirms the release of Gran Turismo 6 for PS3 later this year

Following a couple teasers that seemed to have popped up out of nowhere, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. officially announced that the sixth installment to the Playstation-based Gran Turismo racing simulator is on its way and will be here by this year’s holiday season. The game will be offered for PlayStation 3, despite the fact that [...]

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15 Years of Gran Turismo

Video: Gran Turismo 6 may debut tomorrow

Sony Computer Entertainment has released a teaser that’s been titled, “Celebrating 15 years of Gran Turismo,” which hints at a potential successor to the Playstation-based racing simulator. In the video, the message “something big is happening at Silverstone on May 15th” appears, obviously suggesting that a press conference will occur at Silverstone Circuit in the [...]

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Gran Turismo 6 Rendered Box Art

Report: Gran Turismo 6 may be due at the end of this year for PS3

While it felt like Gran Turismo 5 had just came out—despite a release date in the year of 2010—CNET reports that Polyphony Digital and Playstation are gearing up to release the next installment to the world-renown console-based racing simulator. The rumor stems from several details pointing to a new version of the racing videogame based [...]

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BeamNG Physics Mod Cry Engine 3

Video: Small software start-up seeks to revolutionize crash realism in videogames with driving

If you’re a videogame nut and a motorhead like I am, then you will enjoy this bit of news. Most of us who are familiar with games such as Gran Turismo for Playstation or Forza Motorsport for XBOX know that it wasn’t until recent that some of the games have been incorporating realistic damage in [...]

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Kazunori Yamauchi to race at the 2011 Nurburgring 24 Hour Race

Kazunori Yamauchi, the maker of Gran Turismo for PlayStation, has quietly returned to real-world racing. Yamauchi was recently spotted at the 4-hour ADAC Reinoldus-Langstrekenrennen Nurburgring VLN race in a Nissan GT-R. As you can tell from the picture above, the GT-R used by Yamauchi is inspired from the GT500 ‘Stealth’ GT-R from Gran Turismo 5. [...]

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Video: Toyota FT-86 II Concept in Gran Turismo 5 trailer

Wondering what the new Toyota FT-86 II Concept looks like in action? Well, wonder no more because Gran Turismo 5 has put together a new trailer giving us a virtual look at what the new rear-wheel-drive Toyota sports car would look like when it’s up-and-running on the streets. The Toyota FT-86 project is the latest [...]

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Video: Driving the Nurburgring Nordschleife, Gran Turismo 5 vs Real

Gran Turismo 5 is out and car enthusiasts that own a PlayStation 3 are spending a lot of time in front of their TV screens. So by now, owners of Gran Turismo 5 are probably wondering how real the game play is compared to the actual thing. Well, check it out for yourself. Denis Malevanyi, [...]

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Gran Turismo 5 to go on sale November 24

After a short delay, Polyphony Digital Inc. has confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 will go on sale throughout North America on Wed., November 24th. Here are some words of wisdom from Kazunori Yamauchi, President of Polyphony Digital Inc. Gran Turismo 5 is an ambitious project, with challenges and complexities which have made it our version [...]

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This is what the Gran Turismo 5 box looks like, Gran Turismo 6 already in the works

Last month, video game lovers received some bad news when they learned that Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed from its original launch date of Nov. 2. However, the game will be here in time for the holiday season and this is what the cover will look like it when you get it in your [...]

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Video: Gran Turismo creator hits up ‘Ring in a race-tuned Lexus IS-F

Legendary Gran Turismo race game creator Kazunori Yamauchi hit up the Nurburgring recently to do a hot-lap of the Nordschleife in his race tuned Lexus IS-F as part of a special four-hour endurance race… or more testing for Gran Turismo 5. Click through for the video.

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