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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Contestants One Step Closer To Dubai, Fiery End

Earlier this spring Sony and Nissan announced a competition that would put Gran Turismo 5 Prologue gamers behind the wheel of an actual Nissan GT in a live race. Thousands of competitors came out of the wood work and went head to head playing Gran Turismo Prologue. Twenty gamers went on to the next level, a training course at the Silverstone GT Academy in Great Britain. Check the video of the contestants (all Europeans) getting put through the paces on the track, in the classroom, and generally trying to figure out who gets to be Maverick and Ice Man.
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Gran Turismo Designer Kazinori Yamauchi Crosses Over Into Meatspace

Open the hood of the new 2009 Nissan GT-R and you’ll do two things. Utter meaningless grunts about the 480-horsepower and gently click the bonnet back into place without one fucking clue about the piece of machinery you just eyeballed. Polyphony’s Kazinori Yamauchi, game designer on Gran Turismo series, has at least made it a little easier to understand what the engine is doing. For the last year Yamauchi has developed a new interface for displaying RPMs, braking data, acceleration, G-forces, fuel economy and more. Users can program a custom readout and display info from up to six instruments at a time. Just try not to play with the dials too much when you get it past 150 mph.

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Sony And Nissan To Give Two Lucky Europeans A Shot At A Fiery Death

Gearheads who bought the new driving wheel from Logitech before Gran Turismo Prologue hit shelves will get another chance at proving their zealotry. Nissan and Sony have teamed up to host GT Academy, an eight-month competition aimed at finding the best Gran Turismo Prologue jockeys in Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

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