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PlayStation Plus Just Added 2022’s Most Stylish Arcade Racer
23.2.2024
Driving games can loosely be divided into two sub-genres: simulation and arcade. The former category includes the likes of Gran Turismo or Forza (not the Horizon series) and focus on more realistic racing. But the latter is all about fun over realism. 2022’s Need for Speed Unbound, the latest...
Someone Found Secret Cheat Codes In A 14-Year-Old Gran Turismo Game
30.11.2023
14 years after Gran Turismo on the PlayStation Portable launched, someone discovered previously undocumented cheat codes in the portable racing game. It’s a good reminder that there are likely thousands of undiscovered secrets, cheats, and Easter eggs lurking in video games. Read more
Gran Turismo 7 Update Adds Four-Player Splitscreen Mode
1.11.2023
Gran Turismo 7’s upcoming 1.40 update is adding new cars, a snowy racetrack, and four-player splitscreen support, letting folks race each other on the couch like it’s the ‘90s all over again.Read more
Sony Adding Free Movies To Most Expensive Versions Of PlayStation Plus
5.10.2023
Today, Sony announced a new app coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles that’ll offer PlayStation Plus Premium and Deluxe members access to a bunch of Sony Pictures Entertainment films. Read more
Fan-Made Gran Turismo Poster On Roku Swaps 'Racer' For 'Racist'
11.9.2023
A fan-made poster for Gran Turismo, a movie inspired by a video game inspired by a real-life racing event, which tweaked the flick’s tagline of “From Gamer To Racer” to “From Gamer To Racist,” somehow made its way onto the Roku streaming app, and fans are having a laugh. Read more
The Gran Turismo Movie Is Part Cringey Playstation Commercial, Part Endearing Underdog Story
28.8.2023
Gran Turismo has to be one of the unlikeliest games yet to get the big-screen treatment. Sony’s long-running racing sim series features no cinematic story, no characters, no heated raceway rivalries. It’s all about racing and tinkering with gorgeous cars at some of the world’s most famous...
Gran Turismo Movie Review Roundup: The Critics Are Split
8.8.2023
The Gran Turismo film comes out this month, but critics don’t seem sold on the video game-inspired biopic as the Neill Blomkamp-directed film holds a 57 percent on aggregator Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing.Read more
Gran Turismo Movie Slammed For Fumbling A Tragic Real-Life Death
8.8.2023
The Gran Turismo film hits theaters on August 9 in the U.K. and August 25 in the U.S., but initial reviews aren’t looking too good. However, it’s receiving especially harsh critique for the “based on a true story” narrative retelling a harrowing real-life deadly accident to provide character...
The Gran Turismo Movie Actually Has A Plot
15.6.2022
Gran Turismo is a video game series entirely devoid of character. That’s not a criticism, just a fact: it wants to be a glossy car brochure, not tell a story, and it’s an approach that has served the games well over the decades. Now that Hollywood is making a Gran Turismo movie, though, that could...
Sony Bringing Horizon Show To Netflix And, Uh, A Gran Turismo Show To...Someone
26.5.2022
During a business briefing earlier today, Sony confirmed that it was working with Netflix and Amazon Prime to create TV shows based on God of War and Horizon. The company also confirmed a Gran Turismo show was in development. These shows join the growing list of video game TV shows that have been...
Gran Turismo 7 Update Eases Up On The Grind After Fan Outrage
8.4.2022
Last month Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi apologised to fans angry at the state of the game’s microtransactions, announcing a credits handout and a promise to “dramatically change GT7’s car economy to help make amends” in the wake of some disastrous downtime. The first of those changes...
Gran Turismo 7 Gives Angry Fans One Million Free Credits, Big Changes Coming
25.3.2022
A live-service game is once again apologizing for its microtransactions, and promising to do better. In a new blog post, Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi acknowledged frustrations with the state of the game and announced developer Polyphony Digital will issue 1 million credits to every...
Gran Turismo 7 Players Use AFK Exploit To Farm Millions Like Capitalism Intended
22.3.2022
Gran Turismo 7 is an excellent racing sim bogged down by microtransactions. Yet, instead of dialing back on that bit of the game, a recent update sees developer Polyphony Digital make progression even more grindy. Now, some players are turning to a new remote play exploit to farm millions...
Gran Turismo 7 Woes Highlight The Danger Of 'Always Online' Games
21.3.2022
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Gran Turismo 7 Is Now Sony’s Lowest-Rated Game On Metacritic
21.3.2022
Despite its high sales, Gran Turismo 7 is not having a good launch month. On Friday, developers Polyphony Digital took the game offline for almost two days of maintenance. This meant that even much of the game’s single player mode was also unplayable since that also requires an internet connection....
PlayStation’s Big New Exclusive Has Been Nearly Unplayable For Over 24 Hours
18.3.2022
PlayStation racing sim Gran Turismo 7 has been offline for maintenance for over a day. Normally, that wouldn’t be a huge deal, but because so much of the game requires an online connection, including a great deal of single-player content, fans have effectively been locked out of Sony’s latest...
Sony Halts PlayStation Sales In Russia Due To Ukraine Invasion
9.3.2022
Sony announced today that it is officially halting the sale of PlayStation products—including PS5s and Gran Turismo 7—in Russia following its war on Ukraine. This comes after similar decisions by other major gaming companies including Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, and EA. Read more
Idris Elba Is On The Gran Turismo 7 Soundtrack
4.3.2022
Lending his vocals to the Gran Turismo 7 soundtrack, Idris Elba appears as a featured artist on The FaNaTiX’s song “Vroom”. The track features in the game’s new Music Rally mode, and appears early in the game. Though the song titles are displayed on-screen, it appeared during a race in...
PlayStation CEO Clarifies That One Time He Called PS2 Games ‘Ancient’
12.6.2021
Few statements have marred PlayStation’s public image than a quote from a 2017, in which PlayStation head Jim Ryan described a PS2 game as “ancient.” At the time, the comment give fans the impression that PlayStation’s lack of interest in supporting cross-gen play came from the top. Ryan addressed...
Let's Remember Gran Turismo 5's Intro, Which Was A Masterpiece
12.5.2021
We tend to associate video game intros with lavish, pre-rendered cinematic sequences. Something to help kickstart the story, set the tone. Which is fine, but there’s been a video game intro stuck in my head for over a decade now, and it wasn’t trying to tell me a story. It was trying to teach...