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Sony is releasing a Limited Edition PSP Entertainment Pack which includes the handheld along with two games.

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Here’s everything short-based for Thursday. Read it.

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Sony’s just announced Gran Turismo 5 has shipped 5.5 million units as of this past Monday, with the series as a whole passing 60 million units shipped.

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According to this, this is the full list of titles that you’ll be able to choose from for the upcoming PSPgo deal for anyone who bought it after April 1.

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Adam Grant, European product manager for PSP, has announced on the EU PS Blog that Sony has extended its PSPgo Promotion, which allows you to download a free game when you buy the handheld.

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ELSPA’s confirmed that Modern Warfare 2 was the biggest selling game for PlayStation 3, and FIFA 10 for PSP, in the UK last year.

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VideoGamesZone.de’s posted up 1080p screens and HD video from the imminent GT5 Academy Time Trial track. Take a look.

The track’s going to be available for download on December 17.

Truth be told, there’s not a huge amount to look at here. Unless what you want to look at is a track and a car.

GT5′s out next year.

One of the first GT Academy winners, Lucas Ordonez, has told the EU PS Blog how hard the entire experience has been for him, speaking before the release of the GT5 time trial demo to find new drivers on December 17.

“The whole thing is tough,” he said. “But for me racing cars was my dream, so it was great. Anyone taking part has to be prepared for a real 360 degree change to their life. You have to have total dedication and be prepared to make sacrifices.

“Lars, who won with me, was a great guy and he was a good driver, but I just don’t think he was focused enough and he ended up not being ready to race.”

Ordonez has now secured your race license and driven in the the 24 Hour race in Dubai.

It could be you next time. Hit the link for the rest of it.

The spectre of ‘possibilities’ reared its ugly head again today, as Sony claimed that GT PSP, readying to launch tomorrow, could only work on its handheld offerings.

“Gran Turismo – only possible on PSP and PSPgo,” it says at the end of this video ad.

Is GT PSP impossible on other platforms? Do its 800 cars and 35 tracks prohibit it working elsewhere? In Sony we trust.

The game launches alongside PSPgo in the morning.

If you’re looking to take advantage of the free GT PSP-PSPgo offer Sony announced at GamesCom – a promo that gives new PSPgo owners a complimentary copy of the game – you’re going to have to be quick: it only lasts until October 10.

If you don’t buy a PSPgo between October 1-10 and download the title, you’ll have to pay for it.

Here’s what you do to get the game, according to SCEE:

1. Buy a PSPgo
2. Sign in to PlayStation®Store with your PSPgo between 14.00hrs GMT, 1st October and 23.59hrs GMT 10th October 2009 and download the Gran Turismo theme
3. Check your email for your promotional code
4. Redeem it at PlayStation Store, download the game and start your engines…

Remember, this is a Europe-only thing. Full banana after the break.

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IGN’s posted up photos from a tour of Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital, showing TVs, helmets, a pale corridor and much more besides.

Do you dream of standing in this building? This is sort of like it. Although not at all. But still.

Sony has sent over a bit of PSPgo launch information to IGN that you may find interesting.

On October 1, 16,000 pieces of digital content will be available for the PSPgo in the US which includes:

• 225 games (combination of full PSP titles, PSN exclusives, UMD legacy titles and Minis)
• 2,300 movies
• 13,300 television episodes
• Gran Turismo, Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny and God of War: Chains of Olympus
• PlayStation Network Game Cards allowing the download of games like Gran Turismo, Daxter, Patapon 2, Secret Agent Clank and Twisted Metal: Head-on.

That’s a lot of stuff right there.

Full thing through the link.

Eurogamer.pt‘s put live several new gameplay shots of GT PSP, as well as renders of cars in the game.

Va-va voom, as Thierry Henry once said.

Go get them through the link. It’s out on October 1st to coincide with the PSPgo launch.

The reliable GTPlanet.net’s posted up what it reckons is final box art for GT PSP.

No confirmation, but looks rosy to us. It’s out on October 1.

Kazunori Yamauchi was on hand at E3 to talk about not only Gran Turismo coming to PSP, but GT5 as well, and it seems there were a few challenges concerning the PSP version.

Yamauchi said the reason the racer took so long coming to PSP was for a variety of reasons, but mainly the CPU and screen.

“There were a lot of obstacles; the small screen, the lesser CPU power, the lower graphics processing power, and the small amount of memory,” he told Edge in an interview.

“We went through and checked out a lot of the other racing games on PSP, and there’s not a single one that lives up to the Gran Turismo quality.

“We had to work very hard to get it to that level.”

While he admits that there will be no DLC for the PSP version, he is rather excited about Go! and the team is trying to make the download as compact as possible. The goal is to get it within a gigabyte.

In closing, he said that development on Gran Turismo 5 is going well, and may possibly include a crossplatform interface with PSP.

“Development is going well,” he said. “We could put it out at any time, or we could carry on working on it. There’s always something to polish.

“We’re actually thinking about making the PSP garage compatible with the PS3 garage.”

More through the link.

SCEA’s John Koller has apparently announced a PSP version of Metal Gear Solid in a movie of PSP Go that hit the web today.

Gran Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, Jak & Daxter and Metal Gear games are all mentioned in the video, which includes footage of the machine interspersed with Koller being interviewed.

Watch it, quick.

Need for Speed: Shift is obviously gunning for realism. You’d kind of expect the Slightly Mad title, then, to have Gran Turismo in its sights. Apparently not. Shift is going to be about “fun,” not “driving in a straight line,” producer Jesse Abney told VG247 in London last week.

“We don’t pretend to compete with Gran Turismo for technological achievement as well as what I would call a ‘driving simulator’,” said the developer. “That’s not the fun angle we’re going after.”

“We’re going after… what it means to be in a race, in a grid of hard competitors who will battle for position, and who will make the organic nature of the race more about performing at that level and less about the challenge of driving in a straight line.”

Despite wanting to offer something different to GT, however, Abney said Shift is paying close attention to Polyphony’s work.

“For us we look at games like GT, Forza 2 and GRiD as the high water mark,” he added.

Shift ships this autumn for PS3, 360, PC and PSP.

Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed that work on a PSP version of Gran Turismo is still ongoing, but has refused to elaborate on anything to do with the project.

“There’s no real answer we can discuss right now, but production is moving forward,” he said on the subject of GT5 for PS3, adding when question on a PSP version:

“I can only answer the same for that as well, but it is moving forward. It hasn’t been knocked off the plans: it’s there.”

Yamauchi, speaking in a video interview with IGN you can find after the break, went on to say that online features and the world surrounding the cars is to form the bulk of the way the series will progress in future.

Take a look.

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In this month’s OPSM, Polyphony head Kazunori Yamauchi said that Gran Turismo 5 will probably feature sexy car manufacturer, Porsche.

“We’ll have most – no, all of the major manufacturers,” said Yamauchi when asked about what manufacturers he’d always wanted to see in the game.

“So, come on… Porsche?” pushed OPSM. “Probably,” he replied.

GT5 is still about year away unfortunately.

By Mike Bowden

Sony’s just announced that the Gran Turismo franchise has shipped 50 million units worldwide.

“Initially, Gran Turismo was an ‘alternative’ racing game, kind of an outsider in the genre,” said Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi.

“And we made it thinking that it would be okay as long as it reached out to ‘the select few who would agree with us.’ So this figure – 50 million units – is simply astounding. If you go to a game store and look for a particular package, and pay for it at the cash register, though the time may be very brief, it still takes at least three minutes or so. It’s simply mind boggling and hard to believe that this has been repeated 50 million times all around the world in the last 10 years.

“I would really like to thank all the fans who have supported the Gran Turismo series over the years, for all their passion and love of the game. We’d like to continue making every effort to create cutting edge, high quality games, so that we don’t disappoint anyone’s expectations.”

Press release after the link.

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