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Turn 10 has announced its Community Choice Classics Car Pack for Forza 3 will arrive on XBL next week.

There’s some really cool cars in it too.

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Microsoft has announced the Forza Motorsport 3: Ultimate Collection, which is to be released next month, along with a multi-year collaboration with Top Gear.

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Got Forza 3? Want some more cars? Then today’s the best day in the history of days.

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The Forza 3 Exotic Car Pack DLC was released on XBL today.

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Microsoft has released its schedule of DLC for the month of May, along with Games on Demand and the Deals of the Week.

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Turn 10 has released a new add-on for Forza Motorsport 3.

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Turn 10 has announced that Forza Motorsport 3 sold 2 million units since its release back in October, and to celebrate, there’s two new tracks from the Nurburgring Grand Prix Circuit up on Xbox Live.

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Turn 10 has started work on its next major game, it’s been confirmed to VG247, with the studio now looking at how to turn car games into a “way of life”.

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By far the most significant racing release of 2009 was Turn 10′s Forza Motorsport 3. Thanks to both the studio’s delivery of a superb package and GT5′s belligerent absence, the 360 sim has become an immediate essential in the genre, racking up 13 million hours of Live play it just over three months.

We were lucky enough to grab some time with the game’s director, Dan Greenawalt, on the title itself, the IP’s future, Gran Turismo 5 and plenty more.

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If you’d been wondering whether or not Forza 3 was “working,” you can stop: game director Dan Greenawalt has given VG247 some staggering stats on just how heavily the 360 racer’s being used.

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Turn 10 and car enthusiast site Jalopnik.com are teaming up to allow Forza 3 players to choose the cars to be implemented in an upcoming DLC pack.

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Forza 3′s getting ten new cars on January 12 via DLC, in the shape of the Autoweek Car Show Pack.

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Update: Aaron Greenberg has tweeted the following additional stats: “$18.7 billion was spent LTD on Storefront, there’s been over 4 million auction bids, and 1.5 million items for sale”. Nifty.

Original: Microsoft has announced that Forza Motorsport 3 moved one million units worldwide with only a month at retail.

Also, the Forza community on Xbox Live has logged over 6.6 million hours of online play with more than 64 million sessions, and has driven over 590 million miles (952 million kilometers) in-game.

“That’s equal to more than three trips from the Earth to the Sun and back,” said MS.

To help these numbers grow, kiddos, you should totally get the Hot Holidays Car Pack which is available today on XBL for 400 MS Points.

It has the Ferrari 458 Italia, ya know.

Via IndustryGamers.

Microsoft and Turn 10 announced today that it has released the free Hyundai Genesis Coupe Car Pack for Forza 3.

The three pack of cars includes the special Forza 3 Genesis Coupe, the HKS Genesis and the Rhys Millen Racing Red Bull Genesis.

Next month on December 8, the Hot Holidays Car Pack will be released which includes the Ferrari 458 Italia, and more with information on what it contains to be revealed closer to launch.

More information on the Hyundai DLC can be found through here.

Full PR through the break.

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Polyphony front man Kazunori Yamauchi’s told Autoweek the Forza 3 doesn’t match up in the realism stakes to GT. Them’s fighting words.

“Some base components of the game are very different from Gran Turismo,” he said. “It’s a little bit different from what a simulator is. You can feel it when you drive it.”

That said, the dev legend has tried out the Turn 10 racer, and conceded the game bears many similar characteristics to his game. Rather obviously.

“I was watching the guys at our company trying it out in the office. I tried it a little bit. It’s very similar in a lot of aspects to Gran Turismo,” he said.

GT5′s out in Japan next March. Forza 3′s out now. Thanks, CVG.

Microsoft has announced the Hyundai Genesis Coupe as DLC for Forza 3.

Set to hit November 17 three versions will hit. The Rhys Millen Racing Red Bull Hundai Genesis Coupe, the HKS Genesis Coupe, and a “one of a kind” Genesis Coupe will all arrive in a free pack.

Free is free whether you like the car brand or not.

Full PR past the break.

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Forza 3 releases today. You should buy it. If you want to see why, check the video after the break. It’s the game’s first 14 minutes, with us playing fairly badly: fortunately, not even our driving “skills” can detract from the quality.

So. Off you go.

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DO NOT PIRATE VIDEOGAMES.

Ok, with that out of the way, here’s an after-school-special-friendly example of why pirating’s for suckers. See, if you somehow managed to nab an illegitimate early copy of Forza 3 or Borderlands, you’re cruising for an Xbox Live permaban.

“You know, when you play a pre-release title on LIVE when I know you shouldn’t have it, it’s not hard for me to figure out,” tweeted Xbox Live Director of Policy and Enforcement Stephen Toulouse.

Now, if your retailer of choice merely broke the game’s street date, that’s another story. Toulouse explained:

“Don’t worry folks, anyone who bought a copy early is ok. In general, if you got a receipt, play away. These are illegit copies we’re hitting.”

He said nothing, however, about people who stole either game from a retailer. Our guess? You scoundrels are probably in the clear. Well, online anyway. But the police probably won’t touch your precious Gamerscore. Probably.

Turn 10′s Dan Greenawalt says it would be “very difficult” for another development team to “replicate” what the firm has done with Forza Motorsport 3.

“I’ve got huge respect for Yamauchi and what the Polyphony Digital team does, they’re a great developer. But do I personally feel confident that it would be difficult for any other racing game to do this,” he told CVG. “We run our physics at 360Hz. I don’t know of any other game that does that. That takes a commitment to physics, not just about making sure you have beautiful graphics.

“Forza 2 had great physics and okay graphics. Now Forza 3 has great physics and great graphics, because we learned more about the box. But we still prioritize physics first, not graphics first. That is one of the differences.

“Gran Turismo is a great game and when it comes out I’ll play it. But I think that without the partnerships and without the commitment, it will be very difficult for another team to replicate what we’ve done.”

Oh boy. More through the link.

While Microsoft announced this week that Forza 3 will have a ten-car DLC pack and two new tracks available on day one, the voucher card in the retail version we’ve just cracked open clarifies that 30 extra courses are to be given away along with the ten cars in two track packs.

The Sidewinder Proving Ground Track Pack contains 18 tracks from Forza 1 and 2, while the Benchmark High Speed Ring Track Pack contains 12 tracks from the “ultimate physics playground of open concrete,” according to the card. The courses are variations on two tracks.

We just tried downloading the content but it doesn’t look as though it’s there yet. See images of the redeem card after the break.

The game’s out on October 23.

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