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How Does This Young Race Car Driver Train? (No Pants Alert!)
2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Toyota’s Formula 1 hopeful Ryo Ohtani trains by with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on his PS3 — something that’s not unheard of. The game is that realistic. Know how he makes it more realistic? More »
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Army Of Two, MGS 4, Others Added To PS3 Greatest Hits
11:08PM Brian Crecente | Sony today added six more Playstation 3 titles to their Greatest Hits library, dropping the price of the half-dozen to $US30 each. More »
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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Running At 240 FPS , 3840 x 2160 Resolution
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Half-Life isn’t the only game celebrating its tenth birthday this year. Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo series is now a decade old, leading the developer of the PlayStation driving sim to hold an anniversary event called Downshift Session 2008 in New York City last month. Yes, yes, mazal tov, Kazunori Yamauchi and crew. More »
Frankenreview, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3)
4:00AM Mark Wilson | There are people, reading this right now, who bought a $US 600 PlayStation 3 at launch for one game: Gran Turismo 5. Why? Because despite the recent advancement of other racing franchises, Polyphony Digital’s near religious devotion to automobiles has offered hardcore racing/racing game fans an unparalleled driving simulation for a decade. But until Gran Turismo 5 actually comes out, we can only get a taste of things to come through Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. So is that taste making reviewers hungry for more? Hit the jump for our Frankenreview to find out—a buncha reviews with the crust cut off because we know you like it that way. More »
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Ready For US Download Tonight
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | I didn’t really warm to GT5 Prologue. Too sterile, too slow, too broken. But hey, what the hell do I know. You might love the series so much you’re willing to overlook these flaws and go ahead and drop $US 40 on it. If that sounds like you, know that the downloadable, PSN version of the game is due to appear for download at midnight tonight if you reside on America’s east coast, or 9pm if you live along the fringes of the great Pacific Ocean. More »
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Review: Quality, Yes, Quantity, Hrm…
4:00AM Luke Plunkett | Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is a demo. A big one, yes, but a demo it remains, one that gives us but a taste of what we can expect from the full, final Gran Turismo 5 when it ships on the PS3 sometime next year. Serious fans of the series will no doubt already know what they’re getting themselves into with this whole “Prologue” business, then, and won’t give a monkey’s brass balls what I say from here on in. But if you’re still on the fence over whether it’s worth shelling out 60% of the full game’s asking price for what’s probably less than 10% of its content, read on, dear readers, read on. More »
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue May Get Downloadable Damage As Early As Fall
1:20PM Michael McWhertor | The gang at Polyphony Digital has been talking up—and failing to deliver—car damage in Gran Turismo for what seems like forever. We know it’s coming someday, it’s just that Kazunori Yamauchi told us it was coming with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue when we talked to him at Games Convention. Didn’t happen, though. According to an interview with IGN, it may still be en route, via a software update. And it may be coming as soon as this spring. We will, of course, believe it when we see it. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue gets Smashed [IGN] More »
GT5 Prologue Hits Euro PS Store, All Is Well
3:20AM Mike Fahey | Sony has apparently overcome yesterday’s technical difficulties in Europe, and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is now available for purchase. The company apologised for any inconvenience to all of the friendly Europeans who were unable to drive shiny cars around yesterday. More »
Why Was Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Download Borked?
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Hey Sony, what gives?! Gran Turismo 5 Prologue was supposed to be ready to download in Europe starting, uhhhhh, yesterday. But it wasn’t! Europeans who wanted to play it had to get off their arses and hoof it over to their neighbourhood game retailer and purchase the game on Blu-ray disc. Well, we wanna hear what went wrong. According to Sony: More »
