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Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo 5 is getting an update. It's called Gran Turismo 5: Spec II. More »
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The first downloadable content pack for Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed in North America until October 25, 2011, but will include a special bonus, the company announced via Twitter earlier today. More »
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Sony has a plan to make you forget all about the launch of that other racing sim today with the announcement of new downloads featuring 15 cars and two additional tracks as well as other in-game changes for Spec 2.0 of Gran Turismo 5 launching today. We hope you like four versions of the Nissan SKYLINE. More »
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A 1965 Pontiac GTO, '69 Shelby GT500 428CJ, '71 Plymouth GTX 426 Hemi, '70 Buick GSX. They're all in your dad's fantasy garage, and they're among the cars included in a free DLC pack Forza 4 Season Pass holders will get if they pad Microsoft's cash-flow up front. More »
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We get it EA. You've got all the Porsches — nobody else does. No other video game gets Caymans or Boxsters or even the brand new 2012 Porsche 911. But do you have to remind us so vividly — do you think having Porsches will keep you from continuing to be the also-also-ran of racing video games? More »
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Porsche loves to claim it's the winningest carmaker in history. But that's a lie. Most people now race in video games. And now, thanks to Porsche's absence from Forza 4, most video gamers won't be racing Porsches to victory. It also confirms what we've long known: Porsche doesn't care about video game people. More »
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Maserati unveiled the latest edition to the trident brand's stable at its new Manhattan dealership Tribeca last night. It's called the GranTurismo MC. More »
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Lucas Ordoñez won the first GT Academy time-trial contest, giving the gamer-racer his start in the FIA GT4 series. Now he's signed to Team Signatech Nissan, and will compete in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mind-blowing. More »
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This factory-tuned Maserati GranTurismo Convertible is painted in Rosso Trionfale (Triumphant Red) in homage to Maserati race cars of the 1950s, like the Maserati 250F raced by Juan-Manuel Fangio. Quite the little torch bearer, this modified droptop is. More »
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Sony and Nissan are giving drivers a chance to race in real life by competing in Gran Turismo 5 GT Academy. The problem? Someone's discovered a "cheat" in the current time trial. More »
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A new study's discovered players of racing video games like Need For Speed take bigger risks, are ticketed, and crash into stationary objects more often then their non-gamer counterparts. But frequent gamers do pass driving tests in fewer attempts. More »
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No one seems to agree when Gran Turismo 5 officially goes on sale, but someone is already playing it. [Kotaku] More »
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While Gran Turismo5 edges closer to reality, one sharp shopper saw that at least one part of Sony's own website puts the release date in December. That'd certainly comport with what Kazunori Yamauchi told us at SEMA earlier this week. More »
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With GranTurismo MC GT4-inspired looks and a similarly powerful 450 hp 4.7-liter V8 engine, the GranTurismo MC Stradale is the lightest, fastest, and most powerful new Maserati you can legally drive on public roads. More »
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The Tokyo Game Show 2010 Trailer for the soon-to-arrive (no really) Gran Turismo 5 gives us more insight into the cars, the gameplay, and the creepy and lifeless digital eyes of rally driver Sebastien Loeb. More »
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What do you get in November with the $99 Gran Turismo 5 Collector's Edition — other than a car model, keychain, and a giant box? Five performance cars with chrome-themed paint jobs. Ahem, the fifth anniversary's usually celebrated with wood. More »
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Before the days of Gran Turismo on your home gaming console you had to occupy local arcades to hone your digital driving skills. Here is a trip down a virtual memory lane. More »
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Former Utah Jazz forward and current free agent Carlos Boozer may hate purple, but his taste in customized exotic cars shows a profound love for the color white. More »
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Sony announced at the E3 conference today that the long-awaited Gran Turismo 5 is coming to the PlayStation 3 in full 3D. Now you can race in a circle... in 3-D! It'll also be released on November 2nd. For real. More »
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Don't believe the Porsche 911 GT2 RS really spanks the Nissan GT-R around the Nürburgring? Buy a copy of Gran Turismo 5 and you'll be able to test the limits on three different configurations of the Green Hell. More »
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If the cover, NASCAR simulation or screenshots didn't have you drooling for Gran Turismo 5 this latest trailer will leave you stuffing Bounty paper towels into your lower jaw. More »
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These ten cars — the March Forza Motorsport 3 DLC — constitute the first of our two Jalopnik-branded downloadable content packs. You came, you saw, you guessed, and you just might have won. Our exclusive look at the cars below. More »
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Yes, NASCAR is coming to GT5 and now we have new racing video and a clip of Kazunori Yamauchi himself running around Texas Motor World speedway watching a real stock car race. Let's hope their backhair modeling improves. More »
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On Monday, we took a look at a pretty cool office. On Wednesday, how to make a fake car sound real. Earlier today, a Jalopnik-liveried Shelby. Now, we look at the guts of Forza's digital world. Welcome to the machine. More »
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On Monday, we took you inside Turn 10 Studios, the outfit that created Forza Motorsport and teamed with us on the Forzalopnik download pack. Now it's time for a deeper dive. This is how they make the XBox game loud. More »
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Voting for the Forzalopnik downloadable car pack may be history, but the next phase of the project — making your choices reality — has begun. Welcome to Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios. This is where it all goes down. More »
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The Mercedes SLS AMG has been given the honor of gracing the cover of Gran Turismo 5 whenever it eventually debuts. Video of the SLS AMG earning the spot with some digital mayhem below. More »
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We spotted this Japan-only Gran Turismo commercial in the Playstation booth here at the Tokyo Motor Show and it made us want to cry. More »
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The biggest automotive showdown this year: Forza versus Gran Turismo. Since GT5 will, like, never come out, we've decided to pit the car list from Forza Motorsport 3 against the only other suitable alternative — Gran Turismo for PSP. More »
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Almost as cool as this morning's first look at the anxiously-awaited and so-pre-production-we-can-almost-taste-it Toyota FT-86 Concept is this video of the "Subieyota" going sideways around corners in the digital world of GT5 with a little AE86 following. Adorable! More »
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Not impressed by Tanner Foust's Gran Turismo PSP video, Alex Roy added an extra level of complication by hopping in the trunk of a Rene Villeneuve-piloted Cayenne as it lapped Laguna while playing Gran Turismo on XBOX. The result? Pain. More »
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Gran Turismo for PSP was just released yesterday and after a quick e-mail exchange with Sony PR, they've provided us with the full list of all 830 cars from the new game. Below, the whole garage. More »
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We may never see GT5, but at least Gran Tursimo PSP is available on October 1st. This first commercial has a passenger in a Corvette ZR1 lapping Laguna Seca on a PSP while simultaneously lapping it in real life. Epic. More »
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The latest deluge of images from perennially forthcoming Gran Turismo 5 show off the Ferrari 458 Italia and LP 560-4 going through the digital paces. We also get a first look at some realistically-rendered rally car crash damage. Ooh! More »
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Gran Turismo 5 won't be coming out until March of 2010 in Japan, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi announced at a press conference yesterday. This after almost a year of Sony saying the game will be out in 2009. More »
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When we showed you pictures of the Mercedes SLS AMG in Gran Turismo 5, those were not in-game photos, but rather over-photoshopped real photos. We now have both for comparison below. More »
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