The idea of playing Gran Turismo 5 before the end of this year is getting slimmer and slimmer as more news is doing the rounds that we won’t be seeing the game this year. A couple of different sources on the internet are reporting that Sony have said that Gran Turismo 5 will be available before the end of the …

Dan Greenawalt, the franchise director on the Forza project, has decided it’s now time for a full frontal attack on Gran Turismo during an interview with Videogamer.com According to Dan, Kazunori Yamauchi the CEO of Polyphony Digital hasn’t done anything for him for years and he is extremely confident of Forza 3’s success thanks to Gran Turismo not showing up to …

A video (and some still renders) made by a company called “Proper Graphics” of a Koenigsegg XXC that was built within Polyphony Digital’s polygon and texture specifications seems to have some people thinking that it is in fact a look at what Gran Turismo 5 is actually going to look like. Well, sorry to burst your bubble but it won’t. …

Take a look at the image up there, it isn’t a bad picture or meant to be used as a point against the PS3’s dodgy graphics, it is in fact Gran Turismo being played in full 4D 3D. To view the full beauty of the title you have to put on some wonderful 3D glasses, not to unlike these ones. …

We finally now know when to expect the release of the much anticipated fifth installation of the Gran Turismo series. Before you get too excited, as I did when I first saw the news, Gran Turismo 5 will be indeed be getting a Christmas release (In Europe, so we should be covered as well). Problem is, that it's next Christmas. While it would have rocked the gaming world to have Sony suddenly announce the release of GT5 for this Christmas, we all know that it wasn't a very likely scenario. Either way it is fantastic news to hear that we finally know when the game will be released. Polyphony have a habit of keeping their fans waiting for a very long time but if there is one thing that I have learned from the previous titles, it's that it is always worth the wait. GT Planet reports that in a statement to Spanish Newspaper El Financiero, James Armstrong who is the CEO of Sony in Southern Europe confirmed it's release for Christmas 2009. Here is the translation taken from the newspaper: For next year, the chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment for southern Europe said that they are developing a new game thriller, in which the player may be designing their own history, and the new version of Gran Turismo, which will arrive at Christmas. There you have it. It look's like GT fans are going to have to wait another year but at least they will have something to look forward to all year. Can I please have my PSP version now?

So yesterday, I decided after a long debate with a friend of mine to sell him my PS3. It was an old 60G PS3 and he wanted it for the backwards compatibility. So with the money I went and “upgraded” to the new 80G PS3 bundled with 2 Dualshock 3’s and a copy of Gran Turismo Prologue. All was good …

Playstation Beyond has released a bit of news that might get any Gran Turismo fans out there a but giddy. According to their article, the winner of the GT5 Middle East Challenge, Ahmed Al Azmi got the chance to sit with none other than GT creator Kazunori Yamauchi and ask him a bunch of questions about the upcoming game. So here comes the interesting part. When Ahmed asked if it would be possible for them to see GT5 on shelves by 2010, Yamauchi laughed and told him that the game would be "released sooner than expected". Does that mean that we are finally going to be seeing GT5 some day soon. Well from the sounds of things, that's exactly what it means.