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Rather depressed with the apparently never ending wait for Gran Turismo 5, I realized I technically have a PC compatible wheel and an old Windows XP capable machine in the closet, and got to wondering just what was out there in the realm of PC racing sims. I tried a few out but the one that really got my attention was iRacing.

In times where gamers have grown accustomed to enticing pre-release information, screenshots and trailers, one glowing example of the old ways remains. A shining beacon of silence, vagueness, contradictory statements, secrecy, confusion, and mistranslations, these are the apparent modus operandi for Polyphony Digital.

The last few years have been rough for the hardcore fans. GT4 came out about five years ago, we've had a new console since 2006, and those who've grown to love Gran Turismo are naturally dying to find out what Polyphony Digital can do with the technology. Indeed they provided us with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in 2007, a title which is hard to know exactly what it means but you'll most often hear it referred to as a demo. I'm not sure if that's logical as demo's seldom pre-date the final version by three and a half years, but I digress.