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GT 5 Prologue

Audi TT
03 Nov, 7:50 The fifth annual Gran Turismo Awards were recently hosted by SCEA. One lucky chappy, Marcel Horn – which is a great name on many levels – drove off with the title of “Best in Show” for his 2007 Audi TT. The really cool part being that the car will now be featured in a future [...] 0
GT 5 To Feature Top Gear Test Track
24 Oct, 10:17 The deal with the BBC to allow GT 5 Prologue fans to watch Top Gear via the game has been known about for a while, but Eurogamer is going one further and claiming the BBC has also given the go-ahead for the famous test-track from the show to be replicated in Gran Turismo 5, and [...] 2
GTR, Mazda, Lexus Unlocked
24 Oct, 6:50 All the cars apart from the new Impreza are now unlocked for some race time in the GT 5 Prologue Demo, so just boot up the game, ensure you’re online and the job’s a good ‘un. Remember, the Skyline’s real dashboard was actually designed by Polyphony Digital, so make sure you check it out. For [...] 0
Official English GT 5 Prologue Site Opens
22 Oct, 8:47 Whilst we’re still waiting for confirmation on anything other than a Japanese release date (of December 13th), the official site has been massively updated, in English, with all the cars and tracks we currently know about (and can see in the replays on the Japanese demo from Friday). For those that downloaded the demo, it’s [...] 0
GT 5 Demo Is Up
19 Oct, 21:24 Yeah, it’s there, about 5 hours early, and we’re the first fansite in the World to report this! Go get it now before every man and his dog realises. It’s 736 MB, and naturally only on the Japanese Store. Digg this story. Update: Cockpit view is there (although obviously not for the GTR yet) and [...] 10
GT 5 Demo – New Screens And Info
19 Oct, 10:22 Watch Impress have the demo, and have plenty of new screens to prove it – oddly some of them appear to be from the Daytona track, so unless we’re getting two tracks (yay) we’re not sure what’s going on there. Anyway, the interesting bits, translated, are that there will be a time-trial mode as well [...] 5
Noon Launch Time For GT 5 Demo
18 Oct, 15:41 The official site has today cleared up a few questions and confirmed what we’ve been told elsewhere – the demo will be available to download on the 20th, and it’ll be out at about noon Tokyo time. So, that’s 3 in the morning (Friday night/Saturday morning) for GMT, 11 at night (Friday night) for East [...] 0
GT 5 Prologue Demo Cars Revealed
18 Oct, 10:20 We’ve got the final car line up for this weekend’s Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Demo – bad news first – there’s only one track (Suzuka, as we thought) but good news, there’s seven cars, all with internal modelling. The full line up is: the Lexus IS-F (2008), Nissan Skyline GTR (2009) (with downloadable unlock on [...] 8
GT 5 Prologue Demo In 3 Days
17 Oct, 12:41 It’s been a while coming, but with the advent of the Tokyo Motor Show this coming weekend the playable demo of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be available on the Japanese PSN store from the 20th, although there’s no specific time of the day yet. Essentially an updated version of the TGS demo, the game [...] 0
$399 40 GB PS3 Hits America Next Week
17 Oct, 10:22 Still no official confirmation from SCEA, but pretty much all the major retailers across the States now have the new 40 GB PS3 SKU on their systems, with a release date of the 28th of October. Looks like it includes Spider-man 3 on Blu-ray for $399, which is an absolute steal – not just for [...] 0
GT 5 Prologue Delayed?
26 Sep, 21:18 And here we go again. GTPlanet guru amar212 seems to have some info on why we’ve never really heard official dates for GT 5 Prologue outside of Japan – because it’s not coming until March 2008. Naturally, this has to be taken as a rumour just now until we hear official confirmation otherwise, but as [...] 0
Activision Buys Project Gotham Dev
26 Sep, 20:46 Activision have reportedly bought the developer of the Project Gotham Racing games, Bizarre Creations, for an undisclosed sum. Bizarre Creations will now be a multi-platform developer, so that opens up the possibility of their undoubted talent being deployed on the PS3. While PGR was never our favourite offline racer, it was certainly one of the [...] 0
Top Gear On Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
24 Sep, 19:18 Famitsu‘s page on Top Gear on GT 5 appears to be up and down, oddly, but we’ve grabbed these two screens that clearly show Top Gear episodes on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue just in case it goes down for good. Still no word on pricing, but at least this is proof. 0
Price-Cut Rumours Ahoy
24 Sep, 17:18 We all know that Sony has to do more than just offer good packs if they want to kickstart PS3 sales. So, how about this report/rumour on CVG?. A stripped down, 40GB PS3 for under £300? Not too sure about the lack of backwards compatibility as that is a software feature now, so surely stripping [...] 3
Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Only?
24 Sep, 12:10 As if with perfect timing Final Fantasy, the ultimate system seller for some, has been ‘confirmed’ as a PS3 exclusive. Kotaku are running a very interesting piece, which says why the latest FF may well be riding into town to save the PS3. What with the recent statements from Sony concerning AAA titles and price-cuts [...] 0
Sony To Ship 11 Million PS3s
22 Sep, 14:27 In a Reuters report, SCE CEO Kaz Hirai has said he is confident of being able to ship 11 million PS3s by the end of the fiscal year, i.e. end of March 2008. In order to help drive hardware sales, Sony aren’t ruling out more acquisitions of developers like the recent Evolution and BigBig announcement. [...] 1
Halo 3 Collectors Edition – Free Disk Scratches
22 Sep, 14:06 Halo 3′s out next week, and the whole world is terribly excited about what’s going to happen in the end – Finish The Fight and all that. Except that some people have got their Collector’s Edition copies already, so they can start Finishing The Fight right now, before people have even started theirs. Right? Except, [...] 5
New PS3 Bundle
21 Sep, 13:54 MCV is reporting details of a new PS3 bundle. Checking out what’s on offer, it’s an amazing deal. To anybody who thinks the PS3 doesn’t have any great games, you can now buy a PS3 and get two SixAxis controllers plus three storming games: Resistance, Motorstorm, and Heavenly Sword. This is the best reason we’ve [...] 0
GT 5 Prologue – Famitsu Translation
20 Sep, 11:14 Great thanks to Doctor No (from the NeoGAF boards) who has translated some of the Famitsu scans we posted yesterday. The biggest news is that the demo will only be available for 5 days – it’ll go up on the 20th of October, and will be taken down on the 24th, the day of the [...] 1
TGS 2007 – GT 5 Prologue Price, Screens and Movie
20 Sep, 6:39 Sometimes you have to wonder how they do it, but rest assured the guys at PD are doing a stellar job with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. New screens and movie now available from the official site. The price is also on the official site: demo is free (obviously) on the 20th of October, whilst the [...] 0
TGS 2007 – Kaz Hirai Keynote Summary
20 Sep, 6:16 Today was Sony’s chance to shine – to show off everything it had been keeping secret and begin the transition back to number one. That didn’t really happen, a reasonably muted keynote bringing little surprise but a few reasons to be cheerful. Here’s the highlights of the keynote: Dual Shock 3 – We knew it [...] 0
TGS 2007 – GT5 Prologue DEMO October 20th
19 Sep, 8:00 Famitsu’s out and you’d better be standing by for the following megaton levels of exciting news, although we’re still a bit confused as to how this has happened. Basically, there’ll be a demo of GT5 Prologue on October 20th in Japan, followed by the full game, on Blu-ray, mid December. The demo version will feature [...] 3
GT 5 Prologue Pricing Announced?
11 Sep, 15:00 News is beginning to surface from a recent press event in the Netherlands, including the pricing of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Bear in mind that this relates to the Blu-ray version of the game, and that (naturally) the PSN download will be considerably less, just as it was with Warhawk. So, the cost? £30, or [...] 0
Ace Combat 6, Beautiful Katamari Heading To PS3?
11 Sep, 12:07 According to this French interview the producer of Ace Combat 6 is talking about the possibility of a PlayStation 3 version of everyone’s favourite air combat series. This in itself is great news, but the official page for Beautiful Katamari also mentions Wii and PS3 versions, so thankfully it’s not just the 360 that’s going [...] 7
The Leipzig GT 5 Prologue Trailer
23 Aug, 7:07 Everytime we see screens or a movie on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue it seems to look even better. Gamersyde captured the trailer yesterday from Leipzig, and, again, it looks wonderful. They’ll also have HD gameplay footage later on today. Update: the official GT5P website has been updated, in English too, with new screens and the [...] 0
PSN Content For Today
22 Aug, 20:04 Well, there’s the 1GB Folklore demo we talked about earlier today, that’s only available for download until the end of the month, and then stacks of videos to download, including a massive PSN trailer (with Feel Ski, LBP, Bowling, Pain, Tekken 5, GT5P, WipEout HD, Echochrome, Home and Socom in there), a PlayStation Eye trailer, [...] 0
The Leipzig PS3 News Feed
22 Aug, 8:57 A little handy news post which we’ll update throughout the day and through the Sony press conference with news from the Games Convention over in Germany, which starts (properly) today. 6.35pm. And, after a crazy bit of German SingStar, that’s it. Fireworks indeed. 6.20pm. Yawn. Check this out. 6.15pm: FIFA. There’s going to be an [...] 0
PSN Content For This Week
09 Aug, 11:31 No Ratchet and Clank demo, no Piyamata, no replacements for the knackered PS1 downloads… In fact, nothing playable at all. After the last few weeks of goodness we’re back to a few trailers instead, two of which we YouTubed at the start of the week. Here’s what we get today: Gran Turismo – PS Premiere [...] 0
Famitsu interviews Kazunori Yamauchi
05 Aug, 8:49 Famitsu has interviewed our Kaz, creator of the Gran Turismo series, on this October’s Prologue and what we can expect. Key points from the interview: The game will be released in Japan (no word on Euro/US date yet) on the 24th of October to coincide with the Tokyo Motor Show. However, the game will be [...] 2
PS3 Game Invites
04 Aug, 16:45 We’ve been beavering away on a new feature for the site that will allow you to invite other members to play online. It’s safe, you can only invite someone after first requesting their friendship. Once they respond with a yes, you can send invites to play. Access the feature through the profile link over there. [...] 0
List Of Cars In GT 5 Prologue
27 Jul, 9:21 This is the current car list, as far as I can gather, from the screenshots: Diahatsu CopenLotus EliseGolf GTINissan Skyline GTR PrototypeAudi R8Nissan Skyline GTR R34Mercedez Benz SL55 AMGSuzuki Swift SportAudi TTTVR TuscanNissan Xanavi ZDodge ViperFerrari F430Mitsubishi Evolution XRenaultsport Clio V6Honda NSXNissan Skyline R32/R33 (not sure which it is)BMW Z4Ford Mustang Any I missed? Digg. 9
Lots More In-Car Screenshots
27 Jul, 8:54 Until we get our thumbnail system sorted out, you’ll just have to wait a little bit while the screens all load up, but it’s worth it – these latest screenshots of the in-car views are amazing. Everything on the dashboard is readable, and this means we can finally do away with the HUD. The car [...] 5
First Dashboard In-Car Shot From GT 5 Prologue
24 Jul, 11:31 If anyone had any doubts about how great GT 5 Prologue was going to look, then this shot should silence them: Other shots, and info (in Japanese) here. Digg. 1
Let’s Laugh At: Chris Lewis
24 Jul, 8:25 Oh, please stop. Everyone knows that Microsoft were forced to dish out retrospective 3 year warranties because of the dreaded red-rings-of-death. However, Microsoft are now trying to spin this into something of a unique selling point – Regional Executive VP Chris Lewis had this to say yesterday: “The extension of the warranty is fixated around [...] 1
US PS3 Sales Increase 135%
24 Jul, 8:16 SCEA is claiming that sales of the PS3 have increased 135% in the States across the top 5 retailers since the price dropped of the 60 gig model to $499 (£250). We’re hoping that the E3 software line-up had something to do with it, but essentially its hard to see why a £250 console that [...] 1
GT 5 Prologue Official Site Opens
17 Jul, 11:47 It’s the PlayStation Premiere event over in Japan this week, so expect lots of great PS3 news. The first is that the official GT5P site is open with the trailer from E3 plus a new Premiere trailer which you have to check out ASAP. Want even better news: It’s out in October, and will feature [...] 2
First GT 5 Prologue Screens
12 Jul, 8:57 Sure, the free launch download of GT HD is lovely, and serves to whet your appetite. GT 5 Prologue, however, reminds you that nobody does racing like Polyphony Digital. These screens are the shit – the cars alone look better than they’ve ever done – anyone thinking PD couldn’t produce the goods must be eating [...] 3
PSN Content For 12th July 2007
11 Jul, 23:41 Well, nothing playable. It’s all about the trailers just now. They’re good ones, though: Feel Ski (SCEJ)Folklore (SCEJ)High Velocity Bowling (SCEA)Killzone 2 (SCEE)Little Big Planet (SCEE)Pain (SCEA)Wipeout HD (SCEE)Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (SCEA) Plus Polyphony are working on getting a trailer up for GT5 Prologue, probably next week. 1
Sony’s E3 2007 Keynote
11 Jul, 21:45 After our Kaz announcing the new PSP (it’s the same, but lighter, thinner and with a better battery life) things start off fine, but then Jack Tretton gets involved and Chew-bloody-bacca appears alongside a video of what looked like crap, but was apparently some new Star Wars game for the PSP. Then we’re onto the [...] 1

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