Gran Turismo

By Michael McWhertor Level 5's third puzzle-filled Professor Layton adventure for the Nintendo DS tops the Media Create charts this week, fending off a strong PlayStation 3 newcomer with almost 350,000 copies sold to Japanese gamers. For the best selling software in Japan, from Nov. 24 to 30, read on, you craz...

By Michael McWhertor 13. Prinny: Ore ga Shujinkou de Iinsuka? (PSP) 14. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (PS3) 15. Koihime Musou (PS2) 16. Otomedius Gorgeous (Xbox 360) 17. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (PSP) 21. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 22. Wii Music (Wii) 23. Secret Agent Clank (PSP)

By Michael McWhertor Recently launched PlayStation 3 titles GTA IV, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III and LittleBigPlanet do good enough business to stay in the top ten, a feat we don't expect to see repeated next week. New releases like Samurai Dou 3, Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard and Fushigi no Dungeon...

By Michael McWhertor The Bellics hijacked the top spot on Media Create's Japanese software sales chart for the week of October 27 to November 2, with Grand Theft Auto IV moving some 168,000 copies. The gross majority of those were of the PlayStation 3 variety, with the Xbox 360 SKU doing about a quarter of the bus...

By Michael McWhertor We do our best to get reviews up by the day the game ships to stores in North America. Occasionally, when a title is released in another region before its North American street date, we'll review the PAL or Japanese version. Our goal is have a review up no later than a week after its release, but w...

By Michael McWhertor PlayStation by the Numbers April 2008 Total PlayStation Hardware Sales Top 505,363 Units Power of the PlayStation Portfolio · PlayStation total software revenue in April was $215.1 million, representing a year-over-year growth of 68.6%.

By Luke Plunkett Tokyo, May 9, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that the cumulative worldwide shipment of the Gran Turismo™ franchise, a genre-defining racing and car-life simulator available on PlayStation®, PlayStation®2, and PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3®) computer entert...

By Luke Plunkett The launch of Grand Theft Auto IV is the second blockbuster release for PS3 in April and follows the April 15 debut of Gran Tursimo™ 5 Prologue, the fifth installment of the world's best-selling racing franchise and an intense precursor to Gran Turismo™ 5.

By Mark Wilson There are people, reading this right now, who bought a $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 gam...

By Luke Plunkett Gran Turismo 5 Prologue was developed by Polyphony Digital, published by Sony Computer Entertainment and is due to be released on April 17. Retails for $39.99. Available on PlayStation 3. Played singleplayer events to completion, completed 30 online races.

By Luke Plunkett Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Additional Features for Europe: The complete Gran Turismo 5 launches in 2009. Until then, there's enough ultra-realistic, high-speed racing in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on PS3 and it's out now! To find out more, visit www.granturismoworld.com.

By Brian Crecente Gran Turismo™5 Prologue FACT SHEET Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) Developer: Polyphony Digital, Inc. Platform: PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) Genre: Racing Release: Spring 2008 Rating: "RP" for Rating Pending

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, as the download version is called, will be apparently offer several cars and circuits as well as online play via the Gran Turismo network. It's not specified at this point whether it will be free or paid-for content.

1994 Nissan SKYLINE GT-R Vspec II -- 1995 Toyota Celica GT-FOUR Rally Car -- 2006 Ferrari 599 ... Developed by Polyphony Digital Inc., this driving game ... the future of Gran Turismo," states Kazunori Yamauchi, famed creator of the ...

Today, Sony Japan stated that Gran Turismo HD wouldn't exist as a ... When we visited Polyphonic Digital during TGS, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi said that GT HD ... The release date for that game hasn't yet been announced. ...

By Brian Ashcraft Amazing detail and incredible physics may not mean fun. But then again, fun doesn't seem to be the point here. Yamauchi has set out to make the most realistic driving simulator and has. When he showed Ferrari the models of the car, Ferrari said that it was the most realistic representation of t...

By Michael McWhertor Sony invited us over to the Polyphony Digital studios today to tour the office and mess about with Gran Turismo HD. After being welcomed by a table full of fatty, salty snacks, we were guided through the development area cubicles to see how the Gran Turismo grunts spend their 60 hour work wee...

We've just sat down with Kazunori Yamauchi in a room with about 40 or so press types to get an inside look at the upcoming PlayStation 3 title, Gran Turismo HD. After walking through the studio, checking out the relaxation room, the dorm rooms, the weekend staff plugging away at car models, w...

Luke Smith has an interesting story up, which leans on a Famitsu report, about the upcoming release of Gran Turismo for the Playstation 3. If Famitsu's story is accurate, the game will ship in two flavors: Gran Turismo HD Classic and ...

Largely known as just a quick demo, a port of the Gran Turismo 4 data, now it appears that Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital will be teasing PS3 owners with a true sequel to GT4 in the form of GTHD. ...

By Michael McWhertor After the 2-hour early media access ended, getting your mitts on a PlayStation 3 demo kiosk became harder than getting a booth babe's phone number. I covered my early impressions of PlayStation 3 software in part one, but I hit up the Sony booth for more time with the vibrationless rich man'...