System 3 acquired their license with Ferrari in 2007 and since has released Ferrari Challenge. This new title will be based on the Ferrari Challenge series and will introduce new cars such as the 458 Italia and the 599XX and new circuits such as the Riviera and the Fiorano Test Track. There are a total of 34 Ferrari motors to choose from in choices of GT Road , Race or Classic Cars which will all be incorporated into the new career mode. A new Assisted Mode has been added so that every skill level of racing can be met. There are three settings available- assisted, arcade and simulation.

Ferrari The Race Experience will be available by download only on the PlayStation Network for 14.99€ and those who already own the Ferrari Challenge will get a discounted rate of 12.99€ with a redemption code. Check out the trailer.

"Once compatible PS3 titles are available," read the update notes, "PS3 users can choose to access public information on Facebook – including user name, profile, uploaded photos and friends list – to enhance their gameplay experience."

Additional features include using a PS Move Controller as a makeshift mouse in the web browser, a revised PS Plus interface and the option for report PSN players for unwanted or abusive messaging.

The world's slickest driving game for PlayStation 3 to hit stores this November as a Standard Edition, a fully-loaded Collector's Edition and a luxury, accessory-packed Signature Edition.

Fanatec has released a new firmware for their Porsche 911 Turbo S racing wheel that is compatible to the PC, the Playstation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

The firmware includes various new tuning features such as the ability to adjust the deadzone, linearity and more using the wheel’s display. Make sure to watch the video below as Fanatec’s Thomas Jackermeier explains and shows the new features in effect.

VisionRacer is bringing out an adapter plate which will allow the Fanatec range to fit easily.  Check out the tech update.

Having set a complete set of Mandatory 3D Formats in HDMI Specification Version 1.4 (with the updates available in 1.4a), the association is trying to ensure interoperability for devices designed to deliver 3D content over the HDMI connection. Implementing the mandatory formats of the HDMI Specification facilitates interoperability among devices, allowing devices to speak a common 3D language when transmitting and receiving 3D content. Or in plain words that means that you’ll be able to plug in your PlayStation 3 console (when it is updated to support stereo 3D) into a 3D-ready Samsung HDTV for example, rather than having to use it with a compatible Sony TV set. Here is a list of the mandatory 3D formats that should all be supported by all compatible displays to ensure full compatibility…

This is the first video of a full lap on the Nürburgring Nordschleife in Gran Turismo 5, that shows a ride around the Green Hell from bumper cam view.

While the first video was filmed in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, this footage originates from the Nissan GT Academy finals. This results in neat driving as the driver obviously knows his way around the 16mile Nordschleife, driving the Nissan 370Z sports car.

Yep and coming to your home with head sensing and in 3D. Superb!

Sony Corporation is making a concentrated push to bring 3D entertainment to the home in 2010, with its technology applied to games such as LittleBigPlanet, Gran Turismo 5 and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift already impressing advocates of the format.

Firmware updates will add 3D gaming capabilities to the PlayStation 3 and 3D movie functionality to the Blu-ray player later this year, and alongside the launch of its own dedicated 3D TV channel, and the success of the billion dollar Avatar movie, 2010 could be a breakthrough year for the format.

"3D is an added thing and it hits every division that Sony has got," said Andrew Oliver, Chief Technical Officer at Blitz Games, speaking in an interview published today. "Sony is really pinning its hopes on the world wanting 3D and everybody is basking in the glory of Avatar."

Sony used CES earlier this month to show off LittleBigPlanet, Gran Turismo 5, Major League Baseball, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and Wipeout to the crowds, along with other tech from the entire Sony Electronics Division.

"The Sony stand was big with 3D games. They had an enormous stand with a theatre at one end and cinema projectors that are made by Sony, movie cameras made by Sony and they were showing Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs – a Sony ImageWorks film – in 3D, they had a Blu-ray player playing 3D film and then the PlayStation 3's were showing various games," detailed Oliver. "They looked absolutely stunning."

Motion control technologies and stereoscopic 3D are set to combine for brand new gameplaying experiences, according to Sony Europe's Senior Development Manager, Simon Benson.

Sony is already pumping a lot of resources into 3D gaming, with titles such as LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Killzone 2 and Gran Tursimo 5 already being retro fitted with 3D technology. With the launch of its motion control system due later this year, combining the two technologies is an obvious direction for future videogames.

"The idea of stereoscopic 3D marrying up with the motion controller is a bit of a no-brainer and you can certainly see applications there that open up plenty of opportunities for gameplay," Benson told Eurogamer's Digital Foundry blog. "There are a lot of other things we can achieve too. We're just at the tip of the iceberg with what 3D is going to enable. Once the technology's out there, it'll be interesting to see the things that follow."

According to Benson 3D can also help gamedesigners in the creation of content, making tasks easier than traditional methods.

"Building something with stereoscopic vision... you're putting the thing together in front of you," he said. "Traditionally you have to rely a lot more on grids and revolving cameras to help people understand where they've actually put something.

In the same way, when we're making 3D models for games, making a building or something... our artists need to spin it around, manipulate it on-screen to know how to build it properly. When you've got stereoscopic vision, that becomes far easier - you just see it before you. You can see how big something is relative to something else. It's not a little thing really close, or a big thing far away. I can understand where it is spatially because I can perceive that with stereoscopic vision. It helps the creation process."

Before joining Sony, Benson worked for British Aerospace and has been working with stereoscopic 3D for 12 years. He added that lessons and practises from industrial design can be incorporated into videogame creation as they have already been proven effective in other areas.

"A lot of cars these days - they don't bother going to all the trouble of making a clay model... they do it in 3D and they all wear 3D glasses to view it that way. It's far more efficient. It's already been proven to be a good creation mechanic."

Ian Bickerstaff, Senior Programmer at Sony Europe added: "Anything that's out there in the simulation or visualisation industry that's sort of cool and you can imagine the public liking, then you can imagine that rippling through at some point in the future. In car design there are immersive walls and there are these things called 'caves' where you have a 3D image on the walls of a cube around you," he continued. "It's typically 120Hz shutter glasses with a head-tracking system and a 120Hz projection screen that you can move around and it's constantly adjusting the image based on your viewing position. From a viewing point of view you don't notice that you're in a cube at all. It's constantly recalculating the perspective. So that's been done for many, many years now and it's something we've been familiar with in the simulation industry. It's almost bread and butter really. We can't comment on future R&D but you could imagine the way it could go."