The best PlayStation Store Black Friday deals

We’ve rounded up the best PlayStation Store Black Friday deals, including Final Fantasy, God of War, Yakuza, and more

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The PlayStation Store Black Friday deals are live, with discounts on some of the best PS5 games old and new. There’s something for pretty much everyone, whether you want to catch up on some modern classics like Final Fantasy 7 Remake or Spider-Man before diving into new sequels or you’re looking for deals on recent hits. Most of the deals we’ve rounded up are for PS5 only, though we’ve noted where games have lower prices on PS4 or work for both systems.

The PlayStation Store Black Friday sales end on Nov. 27, 2023.

The best Black Friday PlayStation deals on Amazon so far

We’ve rounded up the best Black Friday PlayStation deals on Amazon so far, including Final Fantasy, The Last of Us, God of War, and more

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Shopping season is here again, and Amazon is kicking things off early with some hot Black Friday PlayStation deals, including a console bundle complete with Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2. You can grab Square Enix’s dark epic Final Fantasy 16 at a discount, dive into Cal Kestis’ latest Star Wars adventure, take a trip to medieval Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed, or get behind the wheel and go stupidly fast in Hawaii in Ubisoft’s most recent The Crew racing game.

There’s plenty to sink your teeth into, and we’ll be updating this roundup as more deals go live.

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Gran Turismo movie from Neill Blomkamp gets release date

The big-screen adaptation of PlayStation’s racing sim is coming soon.

Sony is reportedly pushing forward with the live-action Gran Turismo movie, and it’s coming out much sooner than everyone thought.

Deadline reports that Gran Turismo will release on Aug. 11, 2023. Neill Blomkamp, best known for the sci-fi cult classic District 9, will direct the film, with Jason Hall of American Sniper fame writing the screenplay. It seems those rumors from last month were legit.

Gran Turismo‘s story involves a teenage boy that’s an enormous fan of the video game series. After winning several Nissan competitions, he becomes a professional race car driver. If this sounds at all weird, that’s because it is. Then again, racing simulations probably don’t make for an easy transition to the silver screen.

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The project is still in early development, so it’ll be a while before promotional materials show up. Sony is also working on big-screen adaptations of Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, and The Last of Us. Turning these PlayStation IPs into movies and TV shows is undoubtedly a result of Uncharted‘s success. Or, at the very least, that film smashing box-office expectations got things rolling.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Gran Turismo 7: new cars land with the April update

Three cars, one new track layout, and various fixes and features.

Three new cars, a new track layout, and a suite of other updates arrive with Gran Turismo 7 patch 1.13, the April update. 

Taking center stage are the Subaru BRZ GT300 ’21, Subaru BRZ S ’21, and Suzuki Cappuccino (EA11R) ’91. The former two are purchasable at Brand Central, while the latter will be available from the Used Car Dealership from tomorrow, April 26. One new track layout is also available, the 24-hour layout for Spa-Francorchamps, offering some extremely long-term racing. Three events have also been added to this layout.

In addition, the patch brings a host of tweaks to UI, UX, and even some balance changes – more literally, for cars, I suppose. Most notably, the performance of rear-wheel drive has been improved through suspension calculation updates and your controller should now relate better to what’s happening in-game.

There have also been tweaks to multiplayer elements to better introduce new players and to keep a handle on Performance Point bugs. Given this is the system that limits how powerful a car is allowed into various races, these are pretty vital changes to keep everyone on a fair playing field.

Plenty more images of those lovely new vroom-mobiles in the official blog post and the rest of the patch notes over here. While you’re here, see how GT7 stacks up against the other PS5 games we recommend.

Written by Ben Barrett on behalf of GLHF.

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Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.11 tweaks Credit rewards, adds new races

Gran Turismo 7 gets its first major update, boosting race rewards and adding new content.

Polyphony Digital has released its first major update for Gran Turismo 7,  version 1.11. The patch has been eagerly awaited as the title came under fire over its in-game economy, apparently aimed at pushing players to spend more on microtransactions.

This latest update brings more ways to earn Credits and increases existing Credit awards for completing events to ease the grind. The new patch is available today for PS4 and PS5 and the download size for the latter is 917 MB.

Update 1.11 adds new World Circuits events, including a World Touring Car 600 event at Tokyo Expressway, a WTC700 race at Le Mans, and a WTC800 Sardegna race, and tweaks some races in the latter half of the GT Café campaign to provide increased Credit rewards. 

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In the Circuit Experience mode, rewards are now provided when clearing all layouts of circuits with Gold or Bronze results. If players have already achieved these results, going into the sector selection screen and exiting with the ‘Exit’ button will award the prize.

A new challenge called “The Human Comedy” with 1-hour endurance races has been added to Missions. It becomes available to players after reaching Collector’s Level 23 and can bring up to 1.2 million Credits in rewards per event.

Even some core systems of the game itself have been tweaked: the physics when landing from a jump, mainly on dirt tracks, has been improved.

Polyphony Digital has promised more improvements in future GT7 patches, including the addition of 24-hour races and the option to sell vehicles. If you still haven’t made up your mind about the game, check out our Gran Turismo 7 review.

Written by Stoyan Ovcharov on behalf of GLHF.

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Gran Turismo 7 servers have been offline for more than a day

Issues in the latest patch are keeping the game from going back up.

Early Thursday, Gran Turismo 7’s servers went down for what was supposed to be a two-hour maintenance period. However, more than 24 hours later, the game is still offline.

Mere hours after extending server maintenance, Polyphony Digital announced there would be even more downtime for Gran Turismo 7.

“Due to an issue found in Update 1.07, we will be extending the Server Maintenance period,” Polyphony Digital’s statement reads on Twitter. “We will notify everyone as soon as possible when this is likely to be completed. We apologize for this inconvenience and ask for your patience while we work to resolve the issue.”

This would be all fine and dandy if Gran Turismo 7 were playable offline, but it mostly isn’t. As of Friday, March 18, 2022, Polyphony Digital hasn’t updated fans on what’s happening or when online services might return. Gran Turismo 7 utilizes online capabilities more than any previous entry in the series. So the game is virtually unplayable for now, so it’s odd that Polyphony Digital hasn’t kept everyone in the loop.

If you need advice going fast in Gran Turismo 7, GLHF has guides on its best cars, GT Café menu book details, and reducing PP.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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The complete history of Gran Turismo

Gran Turismo 7 marks the return of PlayStation’s best-selling franchise of all time. Here’s how we got from trading used cars on PS1 to watching GT Academy graduates win real race events.

For 25 years, Gran Turismo has challenged us to take virtual driving seriously. Its vehicles have always behaved differently than they do in other games, weighty and uncompromising in their realism. Thanks to Polyphony Digital’s fastidious eye, they’ve looked more like real cars too, and even in various custom-paint jobs and ill-advised spoilers, across five console generations, they have continuously wowed gamers. 

The seventh title in the series just released on PlayStation, and its arrival reminded us all what a vital, imperious, and often esoteric presence it’s been in gaming culture for a quarter-century. Gran Turismo’s direction hasn’t always been unwavering polar north – over the years its creators lost themselves in the periphery of car culture, veering over into motorsport team management in one game, stripping away everything but online multiplayer racing in another. 

But some constants have prevailed – outrageous jazz arrangements playing in the menus, a vast roster of classic and contemporary cars, a handling model detailed enough to give sim racers the necessary training for real motorsport careers, and an infectious sense of utter fascination with everything about the motorized vehicle. 

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Gran Turismo 7: How to remove parts and reduce PP

Gran Turismo 7, lets you participate in a variety of events, but you’ll often have to comply with certain performance points requirements. In this guide we show you how to remove parts to reduce your car’s PP.

In Gran Turismo 7, you can participate in a variety of events both through the rich GT Café mode and outside of it. To be able to do this, however, you’ll be often required to comply with certain requirements in terms of PP, performance points, dictated by the power of the car that you’d like to participate with.

Clearly, players have the ability to increase the PP of a car with great ease. In GT7, it’s in fact possible to upgrade each car at the Tuning Shop, the game workshop where you can buy and install parts on your cars. But what if we want to use a car that is too powerful for a specific event? Before we get started, don’t miss our Gran Turismo 7 review for all the details about the PS4 and PS5 racing game.

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Gran Turismo 7: the best cars for each race type

Gran Turismo 7 will ensure that you speed around in a huge number of bangers, so in this guide we break down the fastest cars you can buy early for each race type.

Gran Turismo 7 has finally launched on PS4 and PS5 and has been met with critical acclaim, including our own Gran Turismo 7 review. Critics have remarked how Polyphony Digital has crafted a complex and rewarding driving simulator, even if there are some caveats.

Credit goes to the main event: cars. Gran Turismo 7 will ensure that you speed around in a huge number of bangers and race cars from across the globe, all available for you to tweak and customize at the tuning center. In this guide we’re breaking down the fastest cars you can buy early for each race type in Gran Turismo 7.

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Gran Turismo 7: How long to beat and how many GT Café Menu Books

GT Café is a classic campaign, unlocking challenges in menu books – but how many of these menus are there in the game, and how long does it take to beat GT Café?

Gran Turismo 7 features a more traditional single-player mode than the previous installment, Gran Turismo Sport, exclusively focusing on online multiplayer competition. The game revolves around a world map allowing you to access a variety of activities, and hubs where you can buy new and used cars, upgrade them, and so on.

As you might have read in our Gran Turismo 7 review, GT Café stands out above all. It’s a quite classic campaign, unlocking challenges based on certain car brands and certain tracks, and in the meantime illustrating the technicalities behind a class of vehicles and the history of a brand. The mode is based on Menu Books, like a real Café – but how many of these menus are there in the game, and how long does it take to beat GT Café?