The GT Academy 2010 kicks off this week with the release of the Gran Turismo 5 Time Trial. After the success of GT Academy 2009, Nissan and PlayStation decided to team up again for GT Academy 2010, in the hopes of finding real racing talent from Gran Turismo fans. The online section of the game will run from 17 December until 24 January with national finals following soon afterwards. The GT Academy itself takes place from 26 February until 3 March.
Over the weekend Polyphony Digital, the developer of the Gran Turismo series, has confirmed that the title will include a track editor, allowing gamers to create their own tracks or edit existing tracks included in the game. E4G confirmed the rumor with the developer. Unfortunately, there is still no word on a western release date for the title.
Speaking with Joystiq in Japan last week, Kazunori Yamauchi, CEO of Polyphony Digital, admitted that development of Gran Turismo 6 will not be as maddeningly long as Gran Turismo 5’s. Yamauchi said :”GT5 is a title that was pretty much remade from scratch, but because we did that, the next version is actually going to be faster — the time period it’s going to be released.”
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Gaming fans can look forward to taking control of the SLS AMG in the Gran Turismo 5. Mercedes-Benz Japan has issued a official press release that confirms the SLS AMG will be included in Gran Turismo 5. Thanks to the extremely realistic rendering techniques the SLS AMG will be just as impressive as in real life.
Sony announced during its press conference at the Tokyo Game Show this week that PlayStation 3 exclusive racer Gran Turismo 5 will be released in Japan in March 2010. The hotly anticipated sequel from Polyphony Digital was expected to arrive on the scene around December, though unless the western version miraculously shows up three months before its Japanese counterpart , it will be a long shot for the EU and US version to be released.
