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Sony's US PlayStation Day - impressions, shots, etc
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Austria, PC, PS3, Racing, Sony | 3 Comments »
Kazunori Yamauchi has said in an Austrian interview that Gran Turismo may come to PC as a necessity for a Chinese launch. "It is very, very improbable that GT will comes ... Read more..Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSP, Racing, Sony | No Comments »
In what's hopefully the last Kazunori Yamauchi interview for the day - courtesy of EGM - the Polyphony boss explained that the reason behind the delay of the PSP version ... Read more..Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Sony | 8 Comments »
Another Yamauchi interview, this time from Videogamer.com. The Polyphony Digital boss plays other racers, he admitted, but they're all rubbish. "I try them out a little bit," Yamauchi said when asked ... Read more..Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | No Comments »
Speaking to CVG, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi's confirmed that a PSP version of Gran Turismo is still on the way but it's going to be a GT5 add-on. "I don't ... Read more..Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 5 Comments »
Speaking to CVG, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that a "major update" is coming for Gran Turismo 5: Prologue later this year, which will add long-promised car damage ... Read more..Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in PS2, Racing, Retail, Sony, UK | 3 Comments »
According to this. The previous holder of the record was Insomniac shooter Resistance. Being Britain, we have no actual sales figures because Chart-Track only lets the president of the world ... Read more..Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 5 Comments »
According to this, if you downloaded GT5: Prologue from PSN yesterday you may find that you can only play it if you're connected to the service. As in, you can't ... Read more..Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Sony | 14 Comments »
Here. The game's now up on the European PSN and is available for download. GT5: Prologue was supposed to release yesterday on PS3's online service, but was delayed due to "technical" ... Read more..Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Europe, PS3, PSN, Racing, Rumour, Sony | 4 Comments »
A rumour's doing the rounds that Gran Turismo 5: Prologue will be available for download between 3pm and 6pm today. The racer failed to hit the target launch date yesterday and ... Read more..Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 2 Comments »
SCEE's made a statement regarding the fact GT5: Prologue failed to turn up on the European PSN last night, blaming tech issues for the snafu. "Unfortunately due to some last minute ... Read more..Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Rumour, Sony | 19 Comments »
SCEE's steadfastly refusing to pick the phone up this morning as anger at the fact GT5: Prologue failed to appear on the European PSN last night continues to build. This is ... Read more..Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 3 Comments »
GT5: Prologue hasn't turned up on the European PSN as planned, leaving some rather angry punters wondering what happened. The game was supposed to be released for download yesterday, with ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Action, India, PS3, PSP, Racing, Sony | No Comments »
According to this, GT5: Prologue and God of War: Chains of Olympus are launching in India on the same day as Europe. As in, tomorrow. There's a report there from ... Read more..Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 6 Comments »
Polyphony Digital boss Kazanori Yamauchi has confirmed that car damage is finally on the way to Gran Turismo. "We really, really want to put damage onto our vehicles," he said, speaking ... Read more..Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Sony | 16 Comments »
Speaking here, SCEA's Chris Hinojosa-Miranda has said that the full version of Gran Turismo 5 will be shipping roughly in the first half of next year. "You could borrow it from ... Read more..Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Sony | 3 Comments »
According to this, Sony has published the track listing for the US version of GT5: Prologue, to be released next month. Headlining tracks are: Weezer - "Automatic" (LA Riots remix) The Mars Volta ... Read more..Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Retail, Sony, UK | 8 Comments »
Here. "Our initial allocation of stock has now sold through," said the site. "All orders placed on or after 25th March will be fulfilled week commencing 31st March." The game releases ... Read more..Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 2 Comments »
Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, SCEA producer Takau Imasaki has revealed that updates for GT5 Prologue are in the offing, including off-the-board races and new communications features. "Private races with ... Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Sony | 2 Comments »
Seems the previous report saying GT5 Prologue pre-orders had hit 1 million in Europe was a bit off. A SCEE rep just got back to us saying they'd "been checking ... Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | No Comments »
Here's the review and here's the story about the download. It gets an eight, by the way. GT5 Prologue is out in Europe on March 28. Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Europe, PS3, Racing, Sony | 8 Comments »
According to this, more than a million people have pre-ordered GT5 Prologue in Europe, making it the first PS3 game to achieve platinum title status before launch. We're just after ... Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Sony | No Comments »
Net code for GT5 Prologue was included in last week's 2.17 PS3 firmware update, we're reliably informed, although we weren't' given specifics as to what the code does, if complimentary ... Read more..Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Retail, Sony | No Comments »
Missed this last week. At the bottom of all those GT5 Prologue press releases was confirmation that the franchise has now sold more than 48 million units in total. The ... Read more..Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Sony | 4 Comments »
SCEE's announced a GT5 Prologue tournament for the UK, starting next week. Details are scant, but here's regions and prizes. More here. Region 1 - Gamestation Edinburgh Region 2 - HMV Edinburgh Region ... Read more..Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Australia, PS3, Racing, Sony | No Comments »
The Sony racer's coming out on March 27, a day before the European release, and will cost AU$59.95. The bundle will be released on the same day for AU$699.95 Read more..Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 5 Comments »
Here. It's being released on March 26 in both disc and download form and will cost £24.99. The game will be bundled on the same date for £299.99. Update: Press release ... Read more..Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Racing, Sony | 11 Comments »
It's still just down as "March" with no definite date, according to SCEE, but the European version of GT5 Prologue will include six tracks, 71 cars, split-screen, Drift Mode, access ... Read more..Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in America, PS3, Racing, Sony | 4 Comments »
While SCEE's promising an imminent announcement of GT5 Prologue's date in Europe, the Americans have been thrown a rather large bone with news that the US version is going to ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in America, Europe, PS3, Racing, Retail, Sony | No Comments »
SCEA and SCEE are obviously comfortable in their decisions. According to this, SCEA isn't going to be bringing the two European bundles we saw today to Europe. "On Tuesday we announced ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Europe, PS3, Racing, Retail, Sony | 2 Comments »
Speaking to videogaming247, SCEE has confirmed that the announcement of GT Prologue's final release date will be made imminently. PR reps "will be sending out a confirmed release date next week," ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Movies, PS3, Retail, Sony | 14 Comments »
According to this, SCEE's going to release a GT5 Prologue bundle for €399 on March 29. A second bundle, the Movie Pack, will contain Casino Royale, Spider-Man and 300 on ... Read more..Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in Europe, PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony, UK | 2 Comments »
While we all know that retailers do tend to have a "hit and miss" record when it comes to release dates, this all does sound depressingly inevitable. According to an ... Read more..Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 2 Comments »
Speaking in a rare interview, Polyphony Digital front man and Gran Turismo producer Kanzunori Yamauchi has promised that GT5 will provide a "global" community for fans of the game from ... Read more..Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN, Racing, Sony | 7 Comments »
According to this, SCEE's confirmed that GT5 Prologue will hit Europe on March 28, priced £24.99. The precursor to the main event in GT5 is to include ten tracks, 37 ... Read more..Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Racing | 1 Comment »
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will launch in America on April 17, says this, priced $39.99. The precursor to the full game, which currently has no fixed date, will be available ... Read more..
