Limited edition bundles are rather common in video games industry but this one seems to have just set a new standard in that practice. Introducing the GRID 2: Mono Edition for PlayStation 3, which includes a real life car inside the package.

In fact, not just any given car – it is a 273kph (170mph) road-legal supercar called BAC Mono. Priced at around RM 572,573 (GBP 125,000), the GRID 2: Mono Edition will apparently made available for only one customer and has been graced by the Guinness World Records with the title of “Most Expensive Video Game Commercially Available – Special Edition”.

Apart from including a BAC Mono which is customized to the customer’s specifications and draped in GRID 2 livery, the bundle also features a full-day experience at BAC’s factory, a set of made-to-measure full race suit in BAC Mono and GRID 2’s branding, GRID 2: Mono Edition helmet by Bell Racing, a PlayStation 3 and the actual game itself with a special BAC Mono-themed artwork.

Last not least, the customer will also receive his or her GRID 2’s BAC Mono in six months rather than 14 months as per existing’s waiting list. Given that the price tag of a standard BAC Mono is already around RM 412, 198 (GBP 90,000), all the customization plus having the car to be delivered to you eight months earlier than usual is not a bad deal at all.

Of course, who are we kidding here? Meanwhile, if you wonder how it feels to drive BAC Mono on a normal road, click on the Read More link below to check out a clip by SuperVettura right after the jump.

One of the year’s most anticipated motorsports events will return to Malaysia once again, as the Japan Super GT will be making its way to Sepang International Circuit for the 13th consecutive year come June. This time, organizers JPM Motorsport are promising one of the largest ever edition for this year’s third round of the 2013 AUTOBACS SUPER GT Series.

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I’m sure one needs no introduction to daily deal sites in Malaysia that leverages on group / bulk purchases to get the lowest price possible for a service or a product, and it looks like soon, and I mean really soon, there will be a similar service but for properties in Malaysia thanks to PropertyPlus.

PropertyPlus is a group-buying portal that aggregates the buying power of individuals to create the ultimate discount for property seekers. This service has been successfully adopted in other countries and it will be reaching our shores for the very first time, offering “membership-free and cost free” channel for property buyers as well as investors to secure the best deal from property developers.

PropertyPlus will be launched tomorrow so stay tuned to find out more. Meanwhile, hit he break for more information and find out how things work, and maybe be able to afford your own home.

Just mere hours ago, Honda have just announced that the company will make a return to Formula One starting from 2015 and guess who will be their partner when that moment take place? The answer is the team that Honda have shared some F1 history together: McLaren.

You read that right: McLaren Honda will be racing together once again. According to the press statement by Honda, the Japanese automotive giant will be change of development, manufacture and supply for the engine as well energy recovery system for the team. On another hand, McLaren will be responsible for the chassis together with the management aspect of  the new McLaren Honda team.

Since 2014 will mark the arrival of 1.6-litre turbocharged V6 engine due to new regulations instead of the existing 2.4-litre V8 engine, their timing to return to F1 once again couldn’t be better. It is even more interesting to see if McLaren Honda are able to repeat the glory of their previous outing back in 1988 to 1992.

[Source: Honda. Image: Wikipedia]

It has been rumored for quite some time now that Google will be introducing its own music streaming service to go head on with the existing ones like Spotify, and true enough at the on-going Google I/O event, Google announced the Google Play Music All Access.

Google Play Music All Access not only allows you to stream music from three major record labels, in radio mode, you can even tweak your playlist and remove songs that you don’t like. Subscriptions costs USD$9.99 a month, in par with other similar music streaming services, and users who subscribe before 30 June 2013 will enjoy a USD$2 discount.

Unfortunately though, for now, All Access is only available in the US and is supported only on Android devices. More information available at our source link.

(Source: Engadget)

Today, the folks at Sony Computer Entertainment and Gran Turismo team are celebrating the 15^th anniversary of the famed racing game series for PlayStation consoles in Silverstone Racing Circuit. Among many agendas that they have include in the event’s schedule is an announcement by Gran Turismo’s producer Kazunori Yamauchi about the future of the series.

True enough, the producer has officially announced that the team is currently developing Gran Turismo 6 which has been scheduled for release during the holiday season later this year. It seems that the platform of choice for the game is still PlayStation 3, with no mention of PlayStation 4 or PlayStation Vita during the GT6 announcement by Yamauchi.

We’ll be discussing more about Gran Turismo 6 (based on the information that SCE provided to us) in a separate post soon. For the meantime, check out the trailer for the game below…and please wipe your computer/phone’s display after watching.

[Source: PlayStation Europe @ Twitter. Image: Toyota Europe @ Twitter]

In recent times, football has seen a shift with the rise of a new type of player: the “Engine”. There’s even a mathematical algorithm to back that claim – at least, that’s the thinking behind adidas’ new range of boots that the company will be launching tomorrow. The adidas Nitrocharge 1.0, as it will be called, has already been tested by some of the company’s sponsored players, and may even make its official debut during the UEFA Champions’ League final later this month.

Ahead of the launch, the company has already posted several teasers about the new Nitrocharge 1.0 boot, with YouTube teaser videos featuring Daniele De Rossi as well as a #theengine Twitter campaign that details the characteristics of the Engine player profile featuring Javi Martinez and Dani Alves.

Hit the jump for more information on the new adidas Nitrocharge boot, with some of the detailed infographics published by adidas about the Engine player profile.

Any fans of Daft Punk here? Well, some of us here in the HQ absolutely love their music too and are really looking forward for the band’s upcoming album called Random Access Memories which is scheduled to be out very soon.

Hence, we found it is rather intriguing that Daft Punk latest teaser video about Random Access Memories is actually an unboxing video (something that we do numerous times here at Lowyat.NET) for the vinyl version of the album. Just take a look at it below, which was just published on their YouTube channel around one hour ago:

It is needless to say that the Daft Punk fans in our team got really super psyched about this video especially towards the end of the video where the first few second of the new album was played out loud. At this rate, we are not surprised if these guys turn up in the office wearing Daft Punk’s helmets and disco suit very soon…that might be a sight to behold, frankly speaking.