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Gran Turismo 5 Gets Shiny New Video, Dynamic Weather

Technabob — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:27:02 +0000

While the wait for Gran Turismo 5 is hasn’t yet approached Duke Nukem Forever proportions, we are getting kind of sick of waiting. Especially when Sony sneaks out fine looking video footage the likes of which they showed off at this week’s Tokyo Game Show.

These new GT5 TGS 2010 trailers let us see more details than ever before, including awesomely detailed vehicles, drivers, and a weather system which makes me cry because it looks so beautiful (or maybe it’s just been raining on my face.) So sit back and enjoy 2-minutes and 33-seconds of pure PS3 driving porn.

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And then enjoy another 1-minute and 18-seconds of weather and particle effects to make your eyeballs bleed tears of joy.

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Expect Gran Turismo 5 to FINALLY ship on November 5th, 2010. If you haven’t already, you can pre-order a copy over at Amazon for $59.99 (USD).

[via gamefreaks]

Whoops: Sony Posts Pgr3 Screenshot as Gran Turismo HD

Technabob — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:54:41 +0000

The faux pas of the day comes to us courtesy of master of all things Xbox, Major Nelson. Apparently, some junior web developer over at Sony mistakenly used a screenshot of the Xbox hit racing game, Project Gotham Racing 3 in an advertisement for Gran Turismo 4.

The ad was posted for a short time on Sony’s PSP Connect website, and has since been taken down. I imagine that the genius who posted the ad has also been put down. The original image can be found here on the Bizarre Creations website.

Keep up the good work!

PS3 Gran Turismo HD Concept Free Download

Technabob — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:59:25 +0000

Just in time for Christmas, Playstation 3 owners are getting a small glimmer of happiness in the midst of all of the lumps of coal that Sony has dealt us so far. On December 24, they’ll be offering the Gran Turismo HD Concept game as a free download on the Playstation Store.

Gran Turismo HD Concept is more of a technology demo for the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 than a full-fledged game. It’s actually based on parts of GT4 from the Playstation 2, updated to run on an early build of the GT5 engine. The game will take advantage of the PS3′s true 1080p high definition resolution, and offer an enhanced car physics system.

You’ll be able to play just one course (Eiger Nordwand) and drive in time trial races to unlock 10 new cars. Upon unlocking the initial 10 cars, you’ll get access to 10 “tuned” versions of the same vehicles and another driving mode called “Drift Trial.”

You can’t really complain about any new content for the PS3, given the dearth of decent launch titles and PS2 backwards compatibility issues.

[via Joystiq]