The online services of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III will be closing as of September 30, 2011. (The exact time will vary according to your country and region of residence.) Thank you for playing Gran Turismo 5 Prologue over the years, and we hope you continue enjoying our games though Gran Turismo 5 and its online service.
Polyphony has announced that the servers of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III will be offline from June 30.
Ironstar: How long have we been waiting for Grand Turismo 5? Yeah...a long time; we've had GT5 Prologue and a GT5 time trial demo, but it is time for the actual game.
CVG: Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has claimed that Gran Turismo 5 will be totally different to GT5: Prologue. Fans have been waiting over a year since Prologue hit PS3 for a full release of GT5 - but Yamauchi has reassured them that the full game's scale and diversity is far superior.
CVG: T5's AI will be more human-like than in previous games in the series, Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed.
CC: Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has hit out at driving games released since Gran Turismo 4 in 2004, saying that the 'low level of quality really shines through'.
Remember the Photomode location in Gran Turismo 4, which let you place your car on a boat in front of the famous Rialto Bridge in Venice? Citroen managed to re-create this scene from the game in the real world earlier this week, with the radical Citroen GT concept car designed by Polyphony Digital.
Polyphony Digital, the Japan-based studio behind Gran Turismo, has just released the latest sales numbers of the franchise.
Kotaku writes: Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the Gran Turismo series, has earlier this month completed a 25-hour endurance race at Thunder Hill Raceway, California. Yamauchi is of course no stranger to racing cars, but still. That's quite an achievement. I get antsy driving for 25 minutes. He of course didn't drive the entire 25 hours all by himself; he was a member of the Spoon Sports team, and shared duties with a car journo and two other Japanese race drivers.
PlayStation LifeStyle writes: Put your hazards on, make a pit stop. Because this news of a Gran Turismo contest, well more so the prizes are going to distract you from driving safely. Sony is looking for the Ultimate Gran Tursimo fan in their latest contest…
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