In what can only be described as a complete brain fart, someone at Sony (or working to promote them) has used an image from Project Gotham Racing 3 on the Xbox 360 to advertise Gran Turismo HD on the psp.connect.com website yesterday. Quite why this image was used for the advert no-one knows. Perhaps it was some kind of really sophisticated advertising campaign to get loads of Xbox owners to visit a Sony website, or just someone who really messed up big time.

The advert appears to have been pulled by the website now.

Advert for Gran Turismo HD

Original Image from Project Gotham Racing 

As reported in my previous post, the new Project Gotham Racing style pack is now available for download from the Xbox Marketplace. The RUF R.K. Spyder 3.8 is available as a free download, while the complete Style Pack can be purchased for 400 Microsoft Points. Individual cars can also be downloaded individually for 60 Microsoft Points each.

The following new cars are available for download as part of the Style Pack:

• BMW M6 (2006)
• BMW Z8 (2001)
• BMW M3 CSL (2003)
• BMW MINI COOPER S (2005)
• Gumpert Apollo Coupe 4.2 V8 (2005)
• 2005 Chrysler Firepower Concept
• Ferrari 365 GTB4 “Daytona” (1968)
• Ferrari F430 Challenge (2006)
• Mercedes CLK DTM AMG (C209)
• Pagani Zonda F (2005)
• RUF R.K. Spyder 3.8 (2006)
• Vanwall GPR V12 (2006)

The new pack also features Photo Mode Integration, allowing you to upload your best moments online. The pack also includes exciting new mini-games such as “Free Roam Points,” “Team Free Roam Points,” and “Cat and Mouse.”

In readiness for the Style Pack to hit the marketplace, the new Achievements have already been released:

• Mouse Master – Win a Cat & Mouse Event as the player in the E class vehicle
• Cat Champion – Win a Cat & Mouse Event as a player in a non E class vehicle.
• Cone Capture Champion – Win a Cone Capture Event
• Team Cone Capture Champion – Be on the winning team of a Team Cone Capture Event

There is a new Project Gotham Racing 3 online tournament now available. Everyone has until 10th July 2006 to get their qualification set before the knockout section.

Track: Buccaneer Loop
Car: Lamborghini Gallardo
Gears: Automatic
Time of Day: Night

Eurogamer.met are reporting that there is some new Project Gotham Racing 3 content on its way. If true this could at last give us what we have all been wanting – Mini racing…

Bizarre Creations is planning to release another 12-car downloadable content pack for Project Gotham Racing 3 in the near future.

Following the Speed Pack, now we have the Style Pack, which features a few BMWs, a new Ferrari and some friends, according to the Official Xbox Magazine website.

As with the Speed Pack, it’ll cost 400 Microsoft points (or that’s the current plan) and it’ll also be able to download the cars individually too for 60 points – with one, the RUF R.K. Spyder, available for free.

Along with the Spyder, the Style Pack includes the 365 GTB4 (“Daytona”), BMW M3 CSL, BMW M6, BMW MINI COOPER S, BMW Z8, Chrysler Firepower Concept, Ferrari 430 Challenge, Gumpert Apollo Coupe 4.2 V8, Mercedes CLK DTM AMG, Pagani Zonda F and Vanwall GPR V12.

Source: eurogamer.net

Note: Please note that this news item has been placed in the Rumours section and as such is probably a load of made up crap. But I like made up crap so am reporting it anyway. Please make up your own minds as to the validity of the story.

There is a new Project Gotham Racing 3 online tournament now available. Everyone has until 3rd July 2006 to get their qualification set before the knockout section.

The qualification round will take place on the Tokyo Nishiguchi Short track using the RUF RGT – Automatic gears as usual.

Hey as if there wern’t enough cool cars already for PGR3, you can now download the new Cadillac V Series pack from the marketplace. The pack includes three V-Series Cadillacs (CTS-V, STS-V, or XLR-V). If you can manage to get one of these cars into the top 100 time trial challenges on the Nürburgring Full F1 Circuit, you get a exclusive gamerpicture to download. How cool is that. And if that is not enough, all of this content is FREE…

Anyway, the cars in a bit more detail:

CTS-V
The Cadillac CTS-V’s 6.0-liter V8 400-horsepower 395 lb-ft of torque engine cruises on a Nürburgring-tuned suspension that delivers on its promise of high performance. The most powerful engine in its class (luxury sport sedan) gets you from zero to sixty in 4.6 seconds and the 14-inch Brembo brakes get you back to zero just as quick.

STS-V
The STS-V has a 4.4-liter Northstar V8 Supercharged engine with 469 horsepower, making it the most powerful production Cadillac ever made. The STS-V utilizes the ZF Servotronic II steering system, widely regarded for its precision and high-speed cornering, and tuned to STS-V specifications on Germany’s famed Nürburgring race course, all of which gives STS-V an incredibly sensitive, yet powerful, feel for the road.

XLR-V
The supercharged, hand-built 4.4-liter Northstar V8 SC engine that powers the Cadillac XLR-V will get you to the finish line first. At 100 horsepower per liter, the XLR-V has one of the highest-output production line engines in the world.