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At the most recent Gran Turismo World Tour event in Tokyo, I had the opportunity to tour Polyphony Digital’s studios to see exactly how Gran Turismo is made.

It’s hard to believe, but the GRID franchise is 22 years old. If it were a person, it could legally buy you a beer.

If 2017 was the year of circuit-based sim racing, and 2018 was all about arcade racers, rally is undoubtedly in the spotlight this year.

Ghost Games has blown the lid open on NFS Heat info. Now gamers have access to the entire car list for the upcoming game, just over two months before launch.

Sometimes you need a change of scenery. Really, it’s the season for it.

Depending on where you stand, that title will elicit either a nod of approval or a beeline to the comment section to tell me how wrong I am. That’s the magic of the reborn, fifth-generation Supra: there is no middle ground for it in the court of public opinion.

Having trouble getting all the trophies and/or achievements in F1 2019? Good news, then: you’ve come to the right place.

Here at the beginning of summer, Assetto Corsa Competizione sits in a rather unique position. It has the spotlight all to itself, at least until F1 2019 touches down later this month. While we first got to know it with our hands-on preview last year, we’re now back to put our spin on the retail release.

When it comes to sim games, to say I enjoy more lowkey titles is a bit of an understatement. Titles like American and Euro Truck Simulators, Mudrunner, and even Pure Farming often catch my eye. So when Stillalive Studios offered me the chance to check out Bus Simulator 18, I couldn’t resist.

We’re a little spoiled this generation in terms of racing games. The combination of ever-increasing computing power and tech like laser-scanning has made real-world circuits commonplace in our favorite titles.

Is bringing back a former nameplate acceptable? Ask an enthusiast this question and you’ll probably hear that it’s sacrilegious. But is reusing a moniker really an issue? We don’t think so — at least for the most part.

Welcome to Mirror Mode, GTPlanet’s series that shines a spotlight on retro racing games. With rally season in full swing, we’re revisiting the first installment of PlayStation’s fan-favorite, fully-licensed WRC series. 

DiRT Rally 2.0 is now available across all major platforms. To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with Codemasters for a giveaway. Want a digital copy of the game? All you need to do is answer a dozen questions.

The debate is never-ending: is rally the hardest discipline in motorsports? To many real-world drivers it is. Talk to any long enough and you’ll get some variation on the “track racers drive one corner 1000 times, rally racers do 1000 corners once” line.

GT Sport is one of the most visually detailed racing games in history. Polyphony Digital goes to great lengths to ensure that each and every car is representative of the real thing, whether it constructs the model in-house or outsources to other modelling teams.

You might recall a little while back that we covered a survey on the greatest movie cars ever. The cars on the list were… unusual to say the least, and GTPlanet’s forum members were quick with alternative suggestions.

Apparently 5.5 million of us have played GT Sport to date.

Gran Turismo Sport has been with us for almost nine months now, and a little more than three million of us have picked up a copy.

This weekend marks the 86th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It coincides with a pivotal time for the world’s greatest race. Rising costs for the top-level LMP1 prototypes have left Toyota as the only factory-backed entrant in the class. Meanwhile, organizers are busy developing a cheaper and more marketable formula to replace it that would ideally encourage manufacturers to invest again. 

Welcome to Mirror Mode, GTPlanet’s series that shines a spotlight on retro racing games. In this installment, we take a look at a game that set the standard for modern open-world arcade racers.