Gran Turismo 6

More details have been released on the 15th Anniversary Edition of Gran Turismo 6, which is available as an automatic upgrade when you pre-order the game from GameStop.

As part of the announcements from Gamescom 2013, Polyphony Digital has announced special collaborative projects with “leading automotive manufacturers, design houses, and other leading global brands,” including:

Official box art for Gran Turismo 6 and the GT6 Anniversary Edition have been revealed.

Gran Turismo 6 will be released worldwide on December 6, 2013, as announced by Sony during their Gamescom 2013 press conference.

Gamescom, the largest European video game show of the year, kicks off this week in Cologne, Germany, and it’s going to be a big one for the PlayStation brand.

GTPlanet recently had the opportunity to sit down with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s President and CEO, Jim Ryan, for a round-table discussion on the business end of the Gran Turismo franchise.

The international qualification round of GT Academy 2013 concluded over the weekend, involving over 1.3 million total participants.

Mashable quietly published an interesting video interview with North American Gran Turismo producer Taku Imasaki earlier this month.

Sony and Nissan have formally announced GT Academy 2013 has received over 1 million downloads worldwide as of July 16, just two weeks after the GT6 demo which hosts the competition was released.

In addition to their gameplay session with Lucas Ordoñez, the UK’s Telegraph spent some time walking around the Goodwood Hillclimb course, taking photographs from the exact locations seen in the GT6 Goodwood screenshot pack released last week.

As part of their Goodwood Festival of Speed coverage this weekend, The Telegraph has put together a short video showcasing the Gran Turismo 6 demo on display at the Nissan booth.

Gameplay videos of Gran Turismo 6’s newest confirmed circuit, the Goodwood Hill Climb, have finally been released – one of which is a directly-captured video from Polyphony Digital themselves!

The official UK Gran Turismo website has announced the Goodwood Hill Climb will be featured in Gran Turismo 6.

The special GT6 content which Sony teased as part of their “Greatness Awaits” E3 marketing campaign has now been revealed as a gameplay video and wallpaper download.

EuroGamer’s Digital Foundry closely examines the graphics in today’s video games, offering highly technical analyses of all the 3D imaging techniques which developers use to build the software we play. They’ve carefully documented the performance of GT5 Prologue, the GT5 Time Trial (which hosted GT Academy 2010), and GT5 itself.

Since the Gran Turismo 6 demo was released with GT Academy 2013 last Tuesday, videos comparing the new game with its predecessor, GT5, have flooded YouTube. Here’s a few which have made their way to our forums.

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