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A Gamer's Week: November 15

This week has been all about playing Dragon Age: Origins and not much else. This has resulted in five diary type installments you can read right now. But we also have the regular Weekend Reading feature, a fresh edition of EndGameWeek and an assortment of other news pieces we think are worth reading.On Monday, we fou...

13 November 2009
11:11 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Cost Less than Activision Estimated

Modern Warfare 2 is now out and millions of gamers are estimated to play it before the end of the year, bringing in tens of millions of dollars in revenue for Activision. The publisher is estimating that the title will be one of the biggest videogame releases of all time and, to some people's surprise, it seems ...

12 November 2009
05:32 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Cost More than 60 Million Dollars

Gran Turismo 5 is not yet out, even if the boss of Polyphony Digital, Kazunori Yamauchi, has repeatedly said that the videogame has been done for quite some time. Until the release date, those who are interested in the title can comfort themselves with the fact that Gran Turismo 5 might just be one of the most expens...

9 November 2009
14:11 GMT

A Gamer's Week: September 28 - October 4

If you plan to read about videogames this Sunday, then this is the place for you. Apart from the Weekend Reading feature that focuses on the cross between Batman, collectibles and obsessive behavior, there are some pieces that deserve your attention.On Monday, Sony revealed that it was still looking around for a catc...

4 October 2009
10:51 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Coming to Europe and North America in Spring 2010

If there's one thing we can be sure about Gran Turismo 5 is that it took a whole lot of time to put together. The racing simulation title was initially shown off to eager gamers at the E3 trade show held in 2005, at the same time as Sony revealed its upcoming home gaming console, the PlayStation 3.In the meantim...

29 September 2009
14:51 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Out in March 2010

Sony has finally managed to put a release date next to Gran Turismo 5, the racing simulator that has been under development for close to four full years. Unfortunately, the March 2010 date that was announced at a Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan press event at the Tokyo Game Show was only for the Japanese market ...

25 September 2009
13:01 GMT

3D Gaming Is the Next Step for the PlayStation 3 Slim

With the PlayStation 3 Slim released on September 1, a lot of videogame fanatics are already wondering what Sony is planning next in its bid to get a 10-year life cycle for its console and to at least wrestle second spot from Microsoft's Xbox 360 for this generation. A few bits and pieces of information seem to ...

11 September 2009
08:04 GMT

Rumor Mill: Gran Turismo 5 Might Have 1,000 Cars

One of the things the public focuses on when comparing racing titles is the number of cars offered, especially when it comes to the bigger franchises that fight for the limited attention of the gamer.Microsoft launched a broadside when it revealed, at the E3 trade show earlier in the year, that its upcoming Forza Mot...

24 August 2009
14:41 GMT

Forza Motorsport 3 Shifts into Gear on October 27

Microsoft Game Studios, as the publisher, and Turn 10 Studios, as the developer, have sent word that Forza Motorsport 3, the newest game in the racing series, will be put out on October 27. It is an Xbox 360 exclusive and its release is set to preempt the launch of Gran Turismo 5, which should arrive exclusively for ...

28 July 2009
14:31 GMT

Forza 3 Limited Edition Confirmed, Detailed

Microsoft has managed to bungle the announcement of a Limited Edition version for Forza 3 as the details were not revealed by the gaming company but by GameStop, which has listed it as being available for pre order while also adding its own bonus for those who plan to get the racing game early.If you wish to wait for...

12 June 2009
03:46 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Influenced by PSP Version

At the E3 trade show that took place in Los Angeles last week, Sony unveiled one of the launch titles for the new and improved PlayStation Portable Go! - a Gran Turismo game. So, fans of the series were quickly up in arms saying that the publisher should be more interested in getting the proper Gran Turismo 5 out for...

9 June 2009
16:21 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Dev Wants It to Be Released ASAP

Driving simulators are appearing left and right these days, but none of them are as prestigious as Sony's Gran Turismo franchise, which is taken care of by Polyphony Digital. While the series has made history on the PlayStation 1 and 2, and will soon be headed to the PlayStation Portable, fans have only gotten a...

9 June 2009
15:01 GMT

Sony Announces PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits

Sony is sending word that it will add quite a few interesting games to its PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits collection. That means that the games will be re-released with a new and shiny packaging and for the rather low price of 29.99 dollars, which is half of what a videogame tends to cost on launch. All the games introd...

29 May 2009
14:11 GMT

Age Awards Presented by GamePeople

Most game reviewers and game reporters only write about the games they play and the titles they are interested in are mainly determined by their biological age. It is kinda hard to write about games for small children or about titles suited for those over the age of 50 when you only have the experience of your age gr...

5 January 2009
04:48 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Gets Patch

The main element in the new patch is the addition of Gran Turismo TV, an in-game media channel focused on providing fans with car related television programs. There will be both free content offered through the channel and some programs that are pay-per-view. The latter category includes the much loved Top Gear telev...

1 August 2008
05:30 GMT

Gran Turismo Sells More than 50 Million

Sony Computer Entertainment is boasting that more than 50 million games of Gran Turismo, the company's racing simulation game, have been sold in the world since 1997, when the series first debuted. The game sold on all three of the game consoles that Sony has so far created, the PlayStation, PS2 and, of course, ...

12 May 2008
14:06 GMT

Damage for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

The issue of damage in racing titles is a hotly debated one. When Need for Speed Porsche sported one of the more realistic physics and damage engines back in its days a lot of fans argued that it made the game too hard for their liking. As other racing franchises, including the Gran Turismo series, adopted a policy o...

4 April 2008
02:46 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 About One Year Away

The Gran Turismo series has been widely praised for the in-game physics engine, for the varied tracks and the great variety of cars available, over 700 in Gran Turismo 4. And after achieving gaming icon status the series is gaining more and more attention for its business model. After all, GT 5 Prologue went over the...

26 March 2008
07:35 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue to Sport MORE than 30 Cars!

Sony Computer Entertainment America and Poliphony Digital just couldn't wait till spring to break this to its fans: Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will not feature just "30 high-performance and exhaustively detailed cars," as the last fact sheet said, but, according to the latest features list of Prologue, 50 such cars...

25 December 2007
11:23 GMT

Games to be Released by Sony in 2008

After some great holiday releases (and sales) including Uncharted, Warhawk, or Ratchet and Clank, Sony wasted no time and announced the names we should all expect to see from them in 2008. The PlayStation 3 system has the most games ready for release (seven titles), but they all sound nice. Among the names everybody...

12 December 2007
04:22 GMT

New Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Trailer. Nissan GT-R Legend

Jeez Louise, have you seen the latest Gran Turismo 5 Prologue trailers? As a fan, you won't be able to decide what you like best about this upcoming installment in the PlayStation-exclusive driving-simulation series. Even the music is just out of this world, while the cockpit view looks better than the real thi...

10 December 2007
04:35 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Available and Xbox 360 Gets PS3 Processor...

Well, well, if it isn't the old habit of journalists: claiming that they know everything, regardless of the newspaper column they write for. It seems that somebody at NY Times got things mixed up while writing a hardware guide which includes major consoles. Among the most important mistakes are the fact that, a...

4 December 2007
02:35 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Features Top Gear Episodes and Test Track

Two major franchises will follow Gran Turismo 5's launch and - according to its developers - this one will feature some neat Top Gear content. The Xbox 360 demo version of NFS ProStreet has just been made available and Polyphony Digital have to increase their stake, in order to be able to compete with EA's ...

24 October 2007
11:53 GMT

SCEE - Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on PSN by the End of the Year!

Oh how some of us are going to scream of happiness at the sound of this... SCEE has just made it official that fans of the PlayStation exclusive racing sim series, Gran Turismo series, are going to play Gran Turismos 5 Prologue by the end of this year. According to the report they've recently sent in, the game w...

29 August 2007
07:32 GMT

Poliphony Digital Damages Gran Turismo 5!

This is the kind of news Gran Turismo fans were really waiting to see. Forget about the 1080p and 60 frames per second, everyone knows that PS3 gamers won't have their Gran Turismo 5 any other way, but for Kazunori Yamauchi, head of Polyphony Digital, to boast out saying that the popular driving/racing simulator...

27 August 2007
09:12 GMT

Gran Turismo 5, First Available on PSP, Then PS3

As reported by the gaming site The Magic Box, Gran Turismo creator, Kazunori Yamauchi mentioned, in an interview with Best Car Magazine that the PSP version of Gran Turismo 5 will surface before the PS3 one. We don't know the official launch date, but everyone expects it to be somewhere between March 2008 and C...

13 August 2007
05:27 GMT


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