Black Bean Games has revealed the first details about its new World Rally Championship game, which will be based on the 2010 season and released in a few months. The game is said to include all 13 rounds featured in the real championship as well as a rendered co-pilot, career mode and online modes. The first image of the game in action was also released today:

Sony has announced that it is delaying the release of Gran Turismo 5 – but only in Japan. The game was originally scheduled to be released there in March, and now moves back to the familiar territory of not having a release date at all.

The company has told Eurogamer that the delay is only applicable to Japan, but that’s more likely because the game has never had a European or North American release date since it was first announced.

Turn 10 has revealed that Autoweek will be lending its name to the next wave of Forza Motorsport 3 DLC, which is due to be released on January 12th. Once again the contents are cars only, but there seems to be a nice variety of vehicles on offer:

• 2010 Aston Martin One-77
• 2009 Audi R8 LMS
• 2009 Audi RS 6
• 2010 BMW Motorsport M6 Coupe
• 2010 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport
• 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500
• 2010 Saleen S5S Raptor
• 2009 Lotus 2-Eleven
• 2010 Pagani Zonda R
• 2010 Porsche Boxster S

The pack will sell for 400 Microsoft Points, and a few images of the new content have been released:

Sony appears to be sticking to its word that Gran Turismo 5 will finally arrive this year, today supplying the game’s boxart for all to see. Like a lot of people, they’re betting that the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG will be the most significant car of this year and have decided that a partial wireframe image of it is the best way to sell their game.

There are also a bunch of new images of the vehicle in-game to view today:

Full boxart image after the jump.

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Codemasters has confirmed to Chequered Pad that F1 2009 will have full support for Nintendo’s Gamecube controller when it is released for Wii in November. Despite being bundled with an F1-style “Wii Wheel” accessory, the game will support a multitude of options, including using the remote on its own, using the remote and nunchuk combo as well as the Classic and Gamecube controllers.

F1 2009 will not be the first game to be released with motion controls, however. Sony Liverpool experimented with this in F1 Championship Edition on PlayStation 3, and the option exists for users of both Dual Shock and Sixaxis controllers.

Codemasters is continuing its trend of releasing images of each circuit on the F1 calendar as the circus makes its way there in real life, and this weekend it’s the turn of Suzuka. The track is famous worldwide for hosting the Japanese Grand Prix and apart from a couple of years off in 2007 and 2008, it has done so every season in recent memory. It’s held in high regard by all drivers and is the only one on the calendar to feature a figure-of-eight layout. Check out the game screenshots and trailer featuring the track below:

The city-state of Singapore is the venue for the only night race on the Formula 1 calendar. I recall reading a comment many years ago about how time consuming F1 game developers found Monaco to create, but that must now pale in comparison to the challenge of creating a single circuit under floodlights.

It looks like Codemasters and Sumo Digital have risen to the challenge and today’s trailer is in my opinion the best we’ve seen of the game so far. Check it out below, after a few stills showing the cars under the lights:

Turn 10 has revealed four new images of Forza Motorsport 3 to supplement the array of Japanese screenshots released last week. The new additions include a first look at the Mazdaspeed 3, some more GT action and two trackside images from Tsukuba and Suzuka.

Codemasters has released a few more images of two of the tracks in F1 2009 – Valencia and Spa-Francorchamps. The images don’t reveal much about gameplay, but do give a taster of how the game will look when we finally get to see it in motion.

A couple of weeks ago we were treated to a plethora of images from Le Mans, which is one of the new circuits to appear in Forza Motorsport 3. This week Turn 10 has decided to move the focus East to Japan and has revealed the three Japanese tracks from the game as well as a bunch of new cars from the country.

There’s the usual low-slung Japanese race cars but more interestingly there are also images of cars with quite a bit less power, such as the Honda Jazz/Fit, Toyota Yaris and Nissan Versa. It’s refreshing to see extremely detailed cars which the normal man on the street can afford and it’s the ability to drive cars you see every day that makes me so excited about games like this.

The three tracks from Japan which are to be included in Forza Motorsport 3 are Suzuka, Twin-Ring Motegi and Tsukuba, all of which were present in its predecessor.