Click the above for a series of pictures comparing cars in Gran Turismo 5 to their real life counterparts. No idea who put the picture together, as the faceless masses at Digg never bother to source images.

The official Playstation blog has also announced that the Scuderia Ferrari F2007 will be in Gran Turismo 5 for the low low price of two million credits, and they've posted some screenshots of the car in-game.

Industry and multi-console news

• Next Generation has analysis of February's NPD numbers, along with the newest UK and Australian sales charts.
• Gamestop says they plan to open an additional 575 - 600 new stores in 2008.
• 1up now has part 2 of their Denis Dyack interview.
• GamesIndustry.biz has an interview with Pandemic president Josh Resnick. "I'm very worried about how much money our games cost to make, I'm worried they take so long to make, I'm worried they have to have so many people working on them to make them and I'm worried the only place we can sell them is in bricks and mortar retail stores."
• Prey 2 has been officially confirmed as in development for the 360 and PC.
• EA's senior director of in-game advertising says you shouldn't expect in-game ads to bring down the price of games. "Advertising is not going to be that silver bullet to make everything okay."
• A new location test of Street Fighter IV in Japan will bring with it the introduction of ID cards that can be used with the game to save your personal ranking and registration data.
• The $10,000 Penny Arcade Scholarship is returning for the 2008-2009 school year.
• GameFly is apparently testing out a trade-in program.
• Gamers and all around nerds in the UK took place in an event to set the record for the "Largest Gathering of Games Characters" for the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition. Every day I'm hating this stupid book and its made-up records just a little more.
• It's possible the Beatles could show up in a future Guitar Hero game, though it's far from a sure thing at this point. Basically the head of EMI saying "It's something we have talked about and something I'd like to pursue."
• The Ludologist questions whether graphics are at a point of diminishing returns.
• Dvice lists the 13 best electronic versions of Dungeons and Dragons.
• Minnesota has lost its appeal of a 2006 ruling saying their "fine the buyer" game law was unconstitutional.
• Meanwhile the Boston Herald criticizes Massachusetts' own video game law, currently under consideration, as low hanging fruit.
• The Seven Degrees of Freedom blog looks at the increased number of game developers with children as a sign that game studios are maturing. "Breeders have a Significant Other that runs their life and if they are not home to help to help feed and delouse little v2.0 at an appropriate time then we have an unhappy SO. An unhappy SO means an unhappy game developer. An unhappy developer doesn't work well. So, to keep these experienced developers the studio has to offer sensible working hours (and pay) and to provide sensible working hours you need decent scheduling and planning."
• Adam Thierer of the Progress & Freedom Foundation has written up a point by point response to that disgruntled former ESRB rater's article in EGM about what should be done to fix the system.
• GamePolitics has excerpts from the Bar trial against Jack Thompson.
• The people who made those idiotic Video Mods on MTV2 have raised $550,000 in venture capital.
• Mexican law enforcement officials recently raided several pirate hideouts in Mexico City and came out with 28,800 illegal copies of games.
• In the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Jerald Block argues that Internet addiction -- including "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging" -- should be added to psychiatry's official guidebook of mental disorders.

PC and mobile news

New content: Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts 2.300 patch, Pirates of the Burning Sea 1.2.67.0 update, X Motor Racing 1.05 patch
New media: Red Alert 3 screenshots

• Bit-tech has an interview with Bioware's Matt Atwood about the upcoming PC version of Mass Effect.
• Acer is considering making a PC-based game machine.
• GameTrailers has a video interview with Starcraft II lead producer Chris Sigaty about the making of the game.
• MTV Multiplayer reports on Kwari, an online shooter where you can win real money. "Apart from the notorious 14 states which are known to be completely intolerant of any type of gambling or skill-based gaming, we are officially not gambling. We’re skill-based.”

Nintendo news

New media: Okami screenshots, House of the Dead 2 & 3 gameplay footage

• Eight EA Sports games are headed to the Wii.
• Smash Bros. Brawl has sold 1.4 million copies in the US so far, with 874,000 of those going on day one, making it the fastest-selling Nintendo game in history.
• Eidos has announced action/puzzler Soul Bubbles for the DS.
• The team behind the Ace Combat series is developing Sky Crawlers for the Wii, based on the novel and upcoming animated movie.
• Atlus USA is bringing DS action RPG Summon Night: Twin Age to America on May 20.
• CrispyGamer has a short interview regarding Disgaea DS.

Sony news

New content: Call of Duty 4 patch

• PSP firmware 3.93 was supposed to come out today, but it's been delayed slightly. However, 20 new radio players have been added for the PSP's Internet Radio feature.
• Persona 4 is slated for a July 10 release date on the PS2 in Japan.
• Famitsu has revealed the pricing on Metal Gear Solid 4 in Japan as well as showing a picture of the "steel" colored PS3 used in the MGS4 bundle.
• Eurogamer reports that the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue download clock in at 1870 megs. The reasonably small size was achieved partly by letting you download the cinematics separately in-game, if you want them.

Microsoft news

New content: Rock Band tracks, Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol 2 tracks, March Madness 08 Bracket & Jersey Pack

• One WiiWare developer explains his choice of platforms by saying that Xbox Live Arcade is "full of shit."
• A woman recently wrote in to Xbox.com to tell that she met her husband on Live playing Rainbow Six Lockdown and includes a photo of their new baby daughter laying on top of a silver 360. It's possible that the baby is also full of shit.