Gran Turismo 5‘s new Seasonal Events are now live, featuring British cars in Time and Drift trials. Here’s all the details:
Time Trial No. 39
650PP British Cars: Grand Valley Speedway Reverse Time Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/27 23:00 – 2012/07/11 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
550PP Tsukuba Circuit Time Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/27 23:00 – 2012/07/11 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
Drift Trial No. 39
British Cars: Trial Mountain Circuit Reverse Drift Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/27 23:00 – 2012/07/11 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
Autumn Ring Drift Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/27 23:00 – 2012/07/11 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
The new content will become available this Wednesday, June 27, 2012; though specific timing of updates to the PlayStation Store vary around the world. Twin Ring Motegi and its four variations will be available to purchase for €4.99 / £3.99 / $5.00 USD. The Scion FR-S will be available for free. http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-5s-new-dlc-set-for-release-june-27th/
The official Italian Gran Turismo website has just published new details about Gran Turismo 5‘s upcoming downloadable content. As expected, Twin Ring Motegi will be coming to the game, including four different configurations: the Road Course, Super Speedway, East Course, and West Course. It will be available at a price of €5.00 (prices in other regions have not yet been confirmed).
The Scion FR-S, a variant on the Toyota 86, will also become available in the game at no cost. Stay tuned for more official information regarding release dates and international pricing soon. http://www.gtplanet.net/new-gran-turismo-5-dlc-twin-ring-motegi-scion-fr-s/
GT Academy 2012 seems to have captured the interest of PS3 gamers as the number of unique players participating passed the magic 1,000,000 mark earlier this week. In a series of Tweets on June 19th, Kazunori Yamauchi shared with us a number of statistics about the download’s impact. Current numbers include:
Over 1,000,000 unique PSN IDs playing
Over 10,000,000 gold trophies attained
More than 174,000,000 player retries
111,240,000 miles/178,980,000 km driven – enough to drive from the Earth to the Sun and almost a fifth of the distance back again!
There are still four days to go until this first phase of GT Academy closes on June 25th and qualifying, registered players from eligible countries will be selected for their regional finals based on their Round 8-5 times – and for the rest of us to secure the gold trophies needed to get bonus gifts in Gran Turismo 5. http://www.gtplanet.net/gt-academy-2012-exceeds-1-million-players/
A Gran Turismo game has been released for every single piece of
PlayStation-branded hardware to date, with the notable exception of
Sony’s latest hand-held device, the PlayStation Vita. That may be about
to change. In an official customer survey conducted by Sony, participants are presented with the following, as reported by IGN:
“You told us earlier how interested you would be in
buying the PS Vita version of the latest Gran Turismo game. Knowing that
you might be able to get a discount on the PS3 version of the game, how
interested are you now in the PS Vita version?”
Though it’s not confirmation that a Gran Turismo Vita title
is in the works (it’s worth noting there have been no other rumors about
a GT title for the platform), this does clearly indicate such a game is
on Sony’s radar. http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-for-playstation-vita-mentioned-in-sony-survey/
Just in time for this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans – in which two GT Academy champions will be competing – the Circuit de la Sarthe takes the spotlight in the latest GT5 Seasonal Events:
Time Trial No. 38
700PP Racecars: Sarthe Circuit 2009 Time Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/13 23:00 – 2012/06/27 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
600PP Grand Valley Speedway Time Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/13 23:00 – 2012/06/27 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
Drift Trial No. 38
Racing Cars: Monza Circuit Drift Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/13 23:00 – 2012/06/27 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
Eiger Nordwand G Trail Drift Trial
Period of Availability: 2012/06/13 23:00 – 2012/06/27 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
The final rounds of competition are now available in the GT Academy 2012 mini-game, including the all-important, final time trial challenge, which takes place at Polyphony Digital’s newly-remodeled Twin Ring Motegi circuit!
Round 7 – Nissan GT-R Black edition Tuned Car (GT Academy) ’12
Nürburgring ‘Adenau – Forest’
Continuous Blind Corners on the ‘Côte d’Azur’ Course
Sarthe Circuit ‘Porsche Curve’
Nürburgring; Wet Conditions
Round 8 – 370Z Tuned Car (GT Academy) ’08
Mid Speed Corner; Speed Control
Blind Corners at Night
Continuous Corners; Maintaining Stability
Spa-Francorchamps ‘Eau Rouge’ – ‘Les Combes’
Twin Ring Motegi East Short Course Time Trial
The 32 fastest players in the final time trial challenge, Round 8-5, from each participating region, will be invited to their respective regional finals. Check your local gran-turismo.com website for the official rules and registration forms which apply to your country.
A large new set of A-Spec races have now been included in GT5‘s Seasonal Events, featuring front-engine, rear-wheel-drive cars with no more than 500PP.
Cape Ring Inner / 7 Laps
1st: Cr.151,100 2nd: Cr.83,105 3rd: Cr.60,440
High Speed Ring / 5 Laps
1st: Cr.177,000 2nd: Cr.97,350 3rd: Cr.70,800
Autumn Ring / 5 Laps
1st: Cr.135,600 2nd: Cr.74,580 3rd: Cr.54,240
Tokyo Route 246 / 5 Laps
1st: Cr.201,700 2nd: Cr.110,935 3rd: Cr.80,680
