Gran Turismo players! The 1.26 update for Gran Turismo 7 arrives today November 23 at 10:00pm PST* (November 24 at 6am GMT / 3pm JST). 

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Three new exciting cars being added 

BMW M2 Competition ‘18
A hard-boiled FR that hides the power of a demon in its compact body.

The BMW 2 Series coupe is popular as a high-performance rear-wheel drive compact. The BMW M2 Competition is an extreme machine that fills the same engine compartment with the3L twin-turbo inline-6 ‘S55’ engine from the M3 and M4. What you’ll notice first is the captivating bodywork. With its bulging over fenders, the exterior is the embodiment of speed. Though it measures only 4,475 mm in length, it’s roughly the same size as the E36 M3. Whether in the city or out in the winding backroads, the car offers an incredible sense of control, as if the drivers own nerves reached out to the far corners of the body. The S55 engine offers a maximum power output of 404 BHP with 56.1 kgfm maximum torque. Even up against BMW’s long history of peak performance inline-6 engines, this model has an exceptional high revving performance, and as the boost builds its explosive power emerges.

Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth ‘87
A Cosworth tuned masterpiece that dominated touring car racing 

The Sierra was a relatively standard family car with an aerodynamic hatchback body, produced by Ford Europe from 1982. But in 1985, the impression of car enthusiasts regarding the Sierra took a big turn. This was because the famed Cosworth added the Sierra RS Cosworth to the selection, known affectionately as the “Cossie” among enthusiasts. The Sierra RS Cosworth was powered by a 2 liter inline 4 tuned to 203 BHP with DOHC and a turbocharger. The chassis was reinforced, and the exterior was upgraded with fender extensions and a large rear spoiler. A year later it was further increased in power to 223 BHP, and a 500-unit limited Sierra RS 500 Cosworth was added to the lineup, with an engine reinforced for racing use, and better aerodynamic details. And of course, all of these improvements were developed for touring car racing. From 1988 to 1990, the Sierra won several series championship titles in the international Group A category in countries such as Germany, UK, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. 

Each year, the Impy Awards celebrate you, the Dreams coMmunity, and all the incredible work you’ve done inside and outside the Dreamiverse. It’s the absolute highlight of our year to put together a show capturing the last year of Dreams, and that’s exactly what we’re planning to do with The 4th Annual Impy Awards early next year.

Today, we’re excited to announce that nominations for The 4th Annual Impy Awards are now open. This year, you can put yourself or your fellow dreamers forward for any of our 23 categories. These will then be shortlisted and presented to a panel of judges (and in keeping with tradition a handful will be opened up for coMmunity voting!). You can begin submitting nominations right here.

When it comes to our categories, we love taking feedback after each Impy Awards and evolving them to better represent all areas of Dreams. This year, it feels like we may have hit a definitive list! So without further ado, here are the categories for The 4th Annual Impy Awards:

• Creator/Team of the Year: This Impy recognises the creator or team of creators that have shone brightest in the Dreamiverse over the last year, with creations that stole the attention of dreamers and left them wanting more.
• Creation of the Year: This Impy recognises a standout creation released to the Dreamiverse this year. This top creation excels in many areas, and creates an amazing experience to be recognised as one of the best in the Dreamiverse.
• Excellence in Art Direction: This Impy recognises the creation which displays a professional, consistent level of quality and style in its visuals and artistic design.
• Excellence in Environment Art: This Impy recognises the strongest environment art within Dreams, displaying amazing asset design, world-building and extraordinary use of lighting and style.
• Excellence in Narrative: This Impy recognises a creation with a compelling narrative, showcasing story and plot development with the utmost skill.
• Excellence in Sculpture: This Impy recognises a sculpture in the Dreamiverse that is a masterful example of the potential of Dreams’ sculpting tools.
• Excellence in Animation: This Impy recognises the creation with the most well-made display of motion in Dreams, be it a puppet, short film, or well-crafted game animations.
• Excellence in Gameplay: This Impy recognises a creation with well-refined, expertly-executed gameplay ideas and mechanics, providing a truly great player experience.
• Most Original Gameplay: This Impy recognises a creation that displays truly original and unique gameplay mechanics.
• Excellence in Character Design: This Impy recognises a character in Dreams that is well-crafted and with a high level of personality and originality.
• Excellence in Audio Design: This Impy recognises a creation with creative and well-implemented audio design.
• Excellence in Voice Acting: This Impy recognises a creator who has lent their voice to a creation to a high standard. This could include, but is not limited to, voicing a character or narrating a scene.
• Excellence in VR: This Impy recognises a Dreams VR creation that excels in the execution of a virtual reality experience and is a brilliant example of what is possible with the Dreams creation and VR tools.
• Music Track of the Year: This Impy recognises an excellent single piece of music, composed and created in Dreams.
• Musician of the Year: This Impy recognises a Dreams audio creator who has shown an excellent understanding of the audio tools i

We are very excited to be hosting our first live and in-person Gran Turismo World Series World Finals since 2019. Fittingly we are returning to Le Sporting Monte Carlo, the venue for the inaugural World Finals in 2018, as well as the 2019 iteration.

We’ll have 56 of the world’s fastest Gran Turismo racers from 19 different countries gathering in Monaco from 24 to 27 November to compete in three separate championships.

A festival of racing

Opening this festival of racing will be the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup where 24 drivers will battle it out for the title. The on-track action will be broadcast live from 1600 UTC on Thursday, November 24.

Friday, November 25 sees 30 drivers taking to the virtual track for the Nations Cup Regional Finals. As well as crowning the champions of the Asia-Oceania, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Americas regions, Friday’s live stream (also at 1600 UTC) will select the 12 drivers who will progress to the all-important Nations Cup Grand Final on Sunday, November 27 (live at 1600 UTC).

The two Nations Cup events sandwich the Manufacturers Cup which takes place on Saturday, November 26 (you guessed it, at 1600 UTC!). The Manufacturers Cup pits 12 teams of three drivers against each other on behalf of some of Gran Turismo’s leading manufacturer partners.

Celebrating 25 years of Gran Turismo

It’s a special time to be hosting these finals as it marks a start of Gran Turismo’s 25^th anniversary celebrations and I’ll be looking back over those 25 years and glimpsing the future on stage during the event. Since the first Gran Turismo, it was always my ambition to see a competitive, global championship evolve, so it will be immensely satisfying to crown our world champions at the weekend, and I know we are in store for some incredible racing.

In-game gifts and chances to win

This celebration of racing and Gran Turismo is not just for those of us lucky enough to be in Monaco.

The World Map in Gran Turismo 7 will be updated to show four banners on the top right:

• From November 24 to 27
  • The World Series banner gives more information about the World Finals and enables you to watch the streams.
• From November 17 to 27
  • The Bonus Campaign is for predicting the winners of the three Championships right up to the moment the broadcast starts for your chance to win credits.
  • You can win 1 million in-game Credit (Cr.) for each event guessed correctly 
  • You can only choose once for each event, so be sure you pick your winner of choice
• From November 25 to December 5
  • The Viewer’s Campaign is to reward anyone watching our streams live each day via an online quiz mechanism.
  • Watch the World Final and answer quiz questions to get early access to the Ferrari Vision GT and other in-game items
  • Day 1 to 3 entry will be open on each day for 24-hours from the start of the broadcast.
  • Day 4 will be open for one week from the start of the broadcast.
  • Entry Period
    • Day 1 – Thursday, November 24 at 8:00am PT to Friday, November 25 at 8:00am PT 
      • Prize – 1 Million in-game credit (Cr.)
    • Day 2 – Friday, November 25 at 8:00am PT to Saturday, Novem

Dark Horse Books, known for their gorgeous and detailed books and comics, have ventured into the world of Horizon to create a comprehensive chronicle that will delight fans and collectors: The Art of Horizon Forbidden West – including a Deluxe Edition with additional bonus materials!

Bound together in a full-color hardcover volume, The Art of Horizon Forbidden West features over 200 pages of concept art and developer commentary on the latest installment of the Horizon saga. This offers fans of the series more insight than ever into how the sequel’s lush environments, fierce machines, and intriguing tribes came to be.

Immerse yourself in Horizon’s stunning world

This art book chronicles the development of Horizon Forbidden West as a spectacular visual journey. Through twelve chapters, curated with Guerrilla’s Art Team, Art of Horizon Forbidden West dives deeper than ever into the mysterious new frontier Aloy explores beyond the Sundom.

Immerse yourself in this post-post-apocalyptic world with never-seen-before detail–from the broad sweeping panoramic views of the West to minute intricacies of tribal artifacts that furnish the game’s lifelike settlements.

“Concept art is the plucky first step we take into the unknown regions of Aloy’s world,” notes Misja Baas, Project Art Director at Guerrilla, in the book’s foreword. “It’s a process of discovery. The paintings are ambitious, beautiful, and full of imagination. They’re grand in their scale and clever in their detail.

“But what I’m struck with most as I turn these pages, and see larger-than-life vistas filled with great ideas and awe-inspiring machines, is the feeling that our vision is truly represented in Horizon Forbidden West. And in some places, it turned out even better than we imagined.”

Choose a Standard or Deluxe Edition

The Art of Horizon Forbidden West will come in two editions:

• The Art of Horizon Forbidden West Standard Edition
• The Art of Horizon Forbidden West Deluxe Edition

Bound in exclusive, gorgeous gold hardcover, the Deluxe Edition will come with a gallery-quality print folio and a Far Zenith-inspired slipcase. Its pages, reflecting the visually stunning world of Horizon, are futuristically appointed with high-quality print treatments, including metallic paper and debossing.

Coming soon to your nearest retailer

Both editions of The Art of Horizon Forbidden West are available in bookstores on April 25, 2023, and in comic stores on April 26, 2023! Pre-order your copy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or at your local comic shop or bookstore for $49.99* for the Standard Edition and $99.99*  for the Deluxe E

Last week, we ventured into the nine realms and asked you to share mythic moments from God of War Ragnarök using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: 

Sowyerez shares Kratos placeing a hand on Atreus’ shoulder

calisarah1998 shares Kratos, Atreus and Mimir traveling through Svartalfheim in a canoe

abrs0123 shares Sindri putting a supportive arm around Atreus’ shoulders

Herp_Derp23 shares Atreus gazing out from the shadows

kani3_sun shares Kratos looking out at a snowy Midgard, with a frozen lightning bolt in the center of the landscape

photomodevault shares a distraught Freya standing behind spiky plant stalks

Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme. Want to be featured in the next Share of the Week? 

THEME: Gathering
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on November 23, 2022

Next week, gather a team of heroes on the battlefield or harvest table. Share a gathering of characters from the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.

Today we celebrate the launch of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PC! Like the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered released earlier this year, this has been a close collaboration with Insomniac Games, Marvel Games and PlayStation. We are very excited to bring the adventures of Miles Morales to a new audience and let PC players experience the rise of Miles as a new Spider-Man. 

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Configurability and customization are key aspects of PC gaming. At Nixxes we want to make sure the game is enjoyable on a wide range of systems, varying from handheld devices up to high-end gaming PCs with the latest GPUs and ultra-wide monitors. Part of that was ensuring that Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is playable with a range of input options. You can play with a controller, and there are lots of options to choose from. You can use a DualSense controller for PS5 with a wired USB connection to enjoy the full DualSense controller experience, including adaptive trigger feedback and haptic response. The game also supports a variety of other peripherals and innumerable remapping options with Steam Input. The game is also fully playable with mouse and keyboard, and an important part of that development was creating a default control scheme that makes players feel like they are in full control as they web swing at high speed or engage in spectacular battles against foes with Miles’ electric powers.

To give you more insights into how the mouse and keyboard controls were implemented in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, I’d like to introduce you to Bart Veldstra, Senior Systems Programmer at Nixxes.

“When we begin our work on mouse and keyboard controls, first we look at comparable titles and our own previous projects. Those also happen to include third person action-adventure games, so they give us a good idea of what we have tried and tested. Then we make an inventory of all the actions the player can do in the game, which actions occur the most and what combinations are possible.”

What follows next, is a one-on-one mapping. “We simply assign all the buttons from the gamepad to a key or button on the keyboard and mouse. For this first layout, we use key bindings that are commonly found in games, such as the WASD keys for movement and E and F for actions or attacks.”

Then the team starts playing with this basic mapping, to see where there are any potential issues, Bart explains: “One of the first sticking points that came up was the fact th

PlayStation’s Black Friday Deals go live tomorrow (November 18 at 12:00am local time)*. With so many great deals and deep discounts rolling out across PlayStation Store, PlayStation Plus, PlayStation Gear Store, direct.playstation.com and more, it’s easy to get a little lost. Don’t worry about missing out: we’ve got you covered. We’ve collected all the offers that are currently available below for you to browse through. Also make sure to bookmark this PlayStation Black Friday homepage to track every discount available. 

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PlayStation Plus 

For the duration of Black Friday Deals, save 25% on any of the three PlayStation Plus 12 month membership plans**, whether that’s PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra or Premium. Current PlayStation Plus members can save 25% when you upgrade your current plan to PlayStation Premium or Extra. Sign in to see your Black Friday deals.

With PlayStation Extra and Premium, you can discover hundreds of PS4 and PS5 titles, including acclaimed games like Returnal, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Rainbow Six Siege, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and many more.  

Hey there, PlayStation brawlers! It’s your informant on the inside. I’m on the roof of Velan Studios HQ and I’m pleased to report Operation: Season 8 Reveal is a total success. I’ve just extracted the master plan for the Season 8 announcement straight from the Viper database! I’m just chillin’ up here waiting for my getaway copter to pick me up… but in the meantime, let me cut you a deal. Here’s a peek at what’s coming to Knockout City in Season 8: High Society Heist!

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Pulverize pursuers with the Poison Ball

A brand new Special Ball is being added to your repertoire in High Society Heist, and it’s sure to leave your foes fuming! The Poison Ball is loaded with noxious knockout gas that seeps out every time it hits a brawler or surface. This dangerous green gas is capable of KOing a crowd in seconds, and the higher the ball’s charge level, the bigger the cloud grows! 

This is our first take on a dodgeball that creates a persistent area-of-effect hazard, and the Poison Ball shines best in the hands of those who can both thrive in chaos and think ahead to control the flow of battle.

New “Brags” to showboat your stats

We’re bringing brawlers a new way to show off with Brags, a new unlockable found in your Customize Menu! Leave your calling card with a new type of equipment that adds a border and title to your name before and after every match.

There’s even Brags that show off your dodgebrawling stats! Want to prove you’re the master of Passing? How about flexing that last match’s KDR you just earned? You can “favorite” Brags to randomly rotate and show your dodgebrawl prowess in this Season and beyond! 

Meet the Red Hand Crew

High Society Heist is such an exciting theme to see take over in Knockout City. We already live and brawl in a gorgeous retro-futuristic stylized world, and now we can lean even further into the neon-lit glitz and glamor of Roaring