New Gran Turismo 7 Update Adds 3 Cars and an Ambulance - Hardcore Gamer

The video game movie opened with $1.4 million in Thursday previews.

Another weekend means we're back with another batch of streaming recommendations – and it's been a bumper week of new releases.

We got to chat with Jann Mardenborough, the “gamer to racer” subject at the heart of the Gran Turismo movie, with topics ranging from his experience in GT Academy to stunt driving for the film about his incredible life. 

It's been 27 years since Revolution Software's Broken Sword series introduced the world to protagonists George Stobbart and Nicole Collard, but the adventurous twosome still aren't ready for retirement just yet; they're returning for a new adventure, Broken Sword — Parzival's Stone, and a remake of their first outing, Shadow of the Templars, coming early next year.

Amazon has released the first teaser trailer for Wilderness, a new thriller series starring Doctor Who's Jenna Coleman and The Haunting of Hill House's Oliver Jackson-Cohen.

This year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live wasn’t home to many world premieres this time around, but to this writer, the world premiere of Dustborn stood out quite a bit…largely because it was baffling as to why it was being labelled as a world premiere. A road trip adventure form Red Thread Games, Dustborn was first announced in June of 2020 back at the Future Games Show during that time. Later on in December of the same year, it was announced that Quantic Dream would be publishing the game, one of their first forays into publishing, complete with a teaser on their YouTube channel. And yet now here we are, with the latest trailer for the game being called a “reveal Trailer” despite already being revealed and Geoff Keighley calling it a world premiere. What was up?

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Gran Turismo is a Neill Blomkamp-directed film based on the popular PlayStation franchise. It tells the tracks the tale of how Jann Mardenborough turned his love of Gran Turismo games into a fully-fledged motorsport career. Though the wide release for the USA is set for August 25, the film has aired in international markets, reception has been good thus far, and it has been reported that the film has already grossed $22.7 million.

There have been a few Paper Mario clones on the market, but none of them have quite nailed the combat flow of the fist two entries. Bug Fables came the closest of matching the tone and art style, with the combat coming pretty close as well. One thing that hurt it though was the all-bug cast and that making it a little harder to get into the story and the attempted drama.

NetEase Games has announced the creation of a new development studio in Austin, Texas.

There are a lot of arcade-influenced racers on the market, but few that would actually completely work in an arcade. New Star GP is one such game. In the vein of classics like Virtua Racing and Daytona USA for arcade fans and Hotshot Racing, it’s a checkpoint racer with some twists because it’s a PC game. As a result of the platform it’s on, it’s available in early access for a lower price point – $17.99 gets you the game with all of its current content and future free updates as well. One problem a lot of the classic arcade racers have had was a lack of content – outside of games like the OutRun games and home conversions of Daytona adding in more tracks, they usually are a bit lean while Hotshot had some big free content updates over the years to keep it fresh.

David Harbour might not be a former racing legend in real life, but he did get an extremely hands on experience for Gran Turismo.