Turn 10 has revealed the much-anticipated “endurance” update for Forza Motorsport, which will see new, longer races as well as the return of a favorite circuit and a small fleet of new race cars. Update 9, as it’s officially called, will bring another new circuit location to the game as Sebring makes its way back to the series having missed the cut for launch day. The release notes for the update suggest that there’ll be two courses at the location, with the full-length, 3.7-mile (although curiously listed as 3.74 miles…), 17-turn course as used in the two famous endurance races on the same w ..read more

A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is now available, bringing along three races that each look like they could have come from a different point in the series’ lifetime. Recently added content is at the forefront as Race A takes us to the Grand Valley location for a six-lap race around the South short course in a combination that looks like it could have been lifted right from the very first GT game. It’s the usual one-make, road car race and the star of the show is the 1993 Honda Civic (EG) SiR-II — a used car hero from the first couple of titles. The car is still available as a Hot Pick ..read more

Image via Team Scarborough While we’ve covered lots of exclusive Gran Turismo memorabilia before, this one is going to be the preserve of the single, deepest-pocketed GT fan out there: Willow Springs is up for sale. It’s the first time in more than 60 years that the circuit has become available, after former owner Bill Huth bought the original Big Willow for $160,000 in 1962. Huth extended the property over the decades to encompass over 600 acres and seven courses, with ownership passing to his family after his death in 2015. The main course at Willow Springs actually took inspiration from Ind ..read more

If you’re undecided on whether to pick up Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown when it finally arrives on September 12, it’s now available as a limited, free demo on Steam for the next ten days. The demo is available as part of Steam Next Fest, a week-long look at upcoming games on the PC platform, which includes demos and live streams with developers for scores of titles — Solar Crown among them. Naturally, as a demo, there’s a limit on what’s available for players to experience but it should be a largely representative look at the early stages of the game — without any limitations on the amount ..read more

The throwback “Horizon Retrowave” Series in Forza Horizon 5 moves into its penultimate week with a fresh set of challenges and some brand new rewards over the next seven days. Centered on the 1980s, the series is a chance to look back at a time when everything was looking forward to the present day. It’s safe to say that they didn’t get it all quite right… However it’s still a neat bit of time travelling to the era where Tron was the most visually advanced movie out there, and wedges were cars and not potatoes. The aesthetics — which even extend to a new opening movie for the game, alongside ..read more

There’s a treat in store in the latest set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges, which will become available as your console passes midnight on Thursday evening, by way of a special race that will get you right in the nostalgia. For those unfamiliar, Weekly Challenges are a curated set of five events, mostly drawn from existing World Circuits races but with the occasional special race created just for the week. Completing the events during the seven-day window gives bonus rewards, as a sweetener. We’re going to start at the end this week, as the Special Event is a humdinger. It takes place at ..read more

With this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans coming up in a couple of weekends, the Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial for the intervening period will mark the event with a very appropriate challenge. Across the next two weeks you’ll be set the task of recording the fastest lap you can around the 8.48-mile circuit — comprising a small, permanent stadium section and a long route into the French countryside on repurposed public roads — in a legendary car from a special era. The vehicle in question never actually won the race, but was built on a car that did. That’s in no small part down to the fact that ..read more

Bugatti is set to reveal its first all-new car in eight years later this month, with an as-yet unnamed hypercar sporting an entirely new V16 powertrain waiting under the covers untl June 20. It’ll be the first wholly new vehicle for the brand under its current guise as part of the Bugatti Rimac joint venture between Porsche — for parent company Volkswagen — and Croatian EV specialist Rimac, formed in late-2021. Unsurprisingly, Bugatti is somewhat coy about the details of the car at present. Mate Rimac, speaking in London in May, stated that the vehicle will be an “evolution” in terms of exter ..read more

After several false starts, it now seems like Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown has a concrete launch date at last, and will be arriving on ninth-generation consoles and Steam on September 12, 2024. The launch date was announced during the Bigben Week event, in Paris, by developer KT Racing’s parent company Bigben Interactive, which also provided some pre-release versions of the game for event attendees to play in its compact event space. We’ve seen a few launch dates come and go for the game since it was first announced in 2020, with the first being September 2022. That was pushed back to 20 ..read more

More than a year on from its original launch, PlayStation VR2 has just seen a major bump in compatibility with the launch of a new PlayStation VR2 PC adapter, on sale soon. Up to now, the device has had limited appeal due to only being available on PlayStation 5. That’s meant a nigh-on $800 buy-in for players not already gaming on PlayStation — making it a tough sell for, among others, PC gamers. That’s set to change with the launch of the PC adapter, although there are a couple of catches here. Firstly, the adapter itself is a $/€59.99 add-on, bringing the price of the unit up to $610.98 (al ..read more