PSPReview
April 16th, 2012, 12:20
Heres the latest news from the PSN Team:
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I hope you all had a great Easter. I am absolutely delighted to share some news that will be as mouth-watering as the chocolate treats you hopefully received last week.
The great news I can reveal today is that in just a few short weeks (May 1, so three to be precise), we will see the return of GT Academy.
GT Academy (http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.eu.playstation.com%2Ftag%2 Fgt-academy%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHemXJ-u-Oo2Th7BPcLU7ggOOE9ag), as some of you may recall, is a remarkable PlayStation (http://eu.playstation.com/) and Nissan competition that intends to take gamers from sofa, bedroom or other suitably domestic environment, to the high-octane world of international motorsport.
Now entering its fourth year, the competition has so far unearthed three real-life racing drivers from Europe and a fourth US driver from amongst the massed ranks of global Gran Turismo gamers.
The first ever GT Academy (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/tag/GT-academy/) winner Lucas Ordonez (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/10/a-qa-with-gt-academy-2009-winner-lucas-ordonez/) managed an incredible podium finish last year at the world famous Le Mans 24H and the subsequent winners Jordan Tresson (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/05/03/gt-academy-winner-jordans-frustrating-first-race/) and Jann Mardenborough (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/06/17/britains-jann-mardenborough-wins-gt-academy-2011/) have both gone on to establish themselves as genuine racing talent whose blossoming racing careers will continue in 2012.
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This year as in previous years, GT Academy 2012 will consist of a number of stages kicking off with a PlayStation 3 (http://eu.playstation.com/ps3/) based online event, National Finals, real life driving challenges at Racecamp, Silverstone and then on onwards and upwards towards a potential chance to race for Nissan at the Dubai 24H race in January 2013.
This year’s Academy is even more special as it will be kicked off with a newly created online qualification event developed by Kazunori Yamauchi and the team at Polyphony. This brand new Gran Turismo 5 (http://eu.playstation.com/ps3/games/detail/item239615/?WT.mc_id=PDC_blog_g) based content will be completely free to download from PlayStation Network (http://eu.playstation.com/psn/) as of May 1 and you don’t even need to own Gran Turismo 5 to play it.
The new content features a set of exclusive challenges that should be a lot of fun whether you’ve played Gran Turismo before or whether you are coming to the game as a complete newbie.
So what countries are involved in GT Academy 2012 and how are they arranged? Well here’s the rundown:
Group 1
UK & Ireland
France
Spain
Portugal
Benelux
Poland
Switzerland
Austria
Group 2
Germany
Group 3
Russia
More news will be coming very soon on what you can expect for GT Academy 2012 and it will be here on PlayStation.Blog (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/), gran-turismo.com (http://www.gran-turismo.com/) and facebook.com/GTAcademy (http://www.facebook.com/GTAcademy), so keep checking back.
In the meantime feast your eyes on the stunning opening movie from the brand new GT5 content incoming on 1 May that will kick things off.
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I hope you all had a great Easter. I am absolutely delighted to share some news that will be as mouth-watering as the chocolate treats you hopefully received last week.
The great news I can reveal today is that in just a few short weeks (May 1, so three to be precise), we will see the return of GT Academy.
GT Academy (http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.eu.playstation.com%2Ftag%2 Fgt-academy%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHemXJ-u-Oo2Th7BPcLU7ggOOE9ag), as some of you may recall, is a remarkable PlayStation (http://eu.playstation.com/) and Nissan competition that intends to take gamers from sofa, bedroom or other suitably domestic environment, to the high-octane world of international motorsport.
Now entering its fourth year, the competition has so far unearthed three real-life racing drivers from Europe and a fourth US driver from amongst the massed ranks of global Gran Turismo gamers.
The first ever GT Academy (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/tag/GT-academy/) winner Lucas Ordonez (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/10/a-qa-with-gt-academy-2009-winner-lucas-ordonez/) managed an incredible podium finish last year at the world famous Le Mans 24H and the subsequent winners Jordan Tresson (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/05/03/gt-academy-winner-jordans-frustrating-first-race/) and Jann Mardenborough (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/06/17/britains-jann-mardenborough-wins-gt-academy-2011/) have both gone on to establish themselves as genuine racing talent whose blossoming racing careers will continue in 2012.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6707753257_f397c7e338.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblogeurope/6707753257/)
This year as in previous years, GT Academy 2012 will consist of a number of stages kicking off with a PlayStation 3 (http://eu.playstation.com/ps3/) based online event, National Finals, real life driving challenges at Racecamp, Silverstone and then on onwards and upwards towards a potential chance to race for Nissan at the Dubai 24H race in January 2013.
This year’s Academy is even more special as it will be kicked off with a newly created online qualification event developed by Kazunori Yamauchi and the team at Polyphony. This brand new Gran Turismo 5 (http://eu.playstation.com/ps3/games/detail/item239615/?WT.mc_id=PDC_blog_g) based content will be completely free to download from PlayStation Network (http://eu.playstation.com/psn/) as of May 1 and you don’t even need to own Gran Turismo 5 to play it.
The new content features a set of exclusive challenges that should be a lot of fun whether you’ve played Gran Turismo before or whether you are coming to the game as a complete newbie.
So what countries are involved in GT Academy 2012 and how are they arranged? Well here’s the rundown:
Group 1
UK & Ireland
France
Spain
Portugal
Benelux
Poland
Switzerland
Austria
Group 2
Germany
Group 3
Russia
More news will be coming very soon on what you can expect for GT Academy 2012 and it will be here on PlayStation.Blog (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/), gran-turismo.com (http://www.gran-turismo.com/) and facebook.com/GTAcademy (http://www.facebook.com/GTAcademy), so keep checking back.
In the meantime feast your eyes on the stunning opening movie from the brand new GT5 content incoming on 1 May that will kick things off.
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