GT Sport

Polyphony Digital has announced that it will be shutting down GT Sport’s online services in January 2024.

First an in-game concept car for GT Sport and Gran Turismo 7, the BC08 Solus GT has turned the virtual into the reality for 25 lucky customers.

A new Gran Turismo 7 promotional video featuring car-related personalities has revealed a GT Sport player stat titbit. The ‘GT CAFE with Five Automotive Experts’ by PlayStation interviews Sung Kang, Toni Breidinger, Jon Sibal, 13th Witness and Adam LZ about their hands-on experiences about the upcoming Gran Turismo 7. As promotional videos go, this is…Continue reading “The GReddy Fugu Z is in the garage of 1.2 million GT Sport players”»

After four years, four months and 15 days, it’ll be soon time to say goodbye to the curio Gran Turismo game – GT Sport. A testbed for ranked online racing using a playlist hopper system, taking into account driver skill and ability to race cleanly-ish. Bare-bones to begin with, it received regular updates filling out…Continue reading “End of an era: GT Sport Daily Races w/c 28th February 2022”»

When the creative geniuses at Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital really put their mind to it, the original, fictitious, tracks are par excellence.  Really, the best.  Sure, in GT Sport, the next ‘Grand Valley Speedway’ wasn’t created, but this week’s Daily Races ranked online playlist showcases some of the very best recent creations – all three…Continue reading “Take that, Tilke: GT Sport Daily Races w/c 21st February 2022”»

Each week, the ranked multiplayer playlist within GT Sport changes, and I comment on whether there are repeat races or strange new concoctions.  This time around, the Roadster/MX-5 at Tsukuba setup is as repetitive as it gets.  But there’s a reason for that – it’s brilliant.  Small, fizzy, two-seaters and a tight, narrow, Japanese circuit….Continue reading “Coca-Cola Classic: GT Sport Daily Races w/c 14th February 2022”»

As we gear up for Gran Turismo 7, the existing GT Sport is still trucking along and has surpassed a new player milestone – 14 million. This has increased from 9.5 million, the last reported number from February 2021. Back then, the number came from an interview with game producer Kazunori Yamauchi by car lifestyle…Continue reading “GT Sport exceeds 14 million players”»

Sony AI, a subsidiary of the Japanese tech giant that researches artificial intelligence and robotics, has announced Gran Turismo Sophy, a ‘superhuman AI agent’ that can outrace the best GT Sport racers in the world. Let me cut to the chase. This is not about the performance of your computer-controlled rivals within the Gran Turismo…Continue reading “Gran Turismo Sophy is an autonomous AI agent that’s quicker than you”»

There’s not long left now until Gran Turismo 7, but the online ranked menu for GT Sport is still updating with weird and wonderful concoctions. So often, racing videos games are obsessed with either one licenced real-world motorsport championship or the unobtanium of supercars and hypercars. Gran Turismo games feature those, but they also have…Continue reading “Unorthodox approach: GT Sport Daily Races w/c 7th February 2022”»