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Rockstar Games has released “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look”, a 26-minute gameplay showcase made with Netflix. It is the most the studio has shown of the game since the first trailer. It also arrives after a week of leaks Rockstar had no control over. Netflix holds a six-hour exclusive window on the showcase. After that it goes up on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel, at 3am CEST. What’s i
Breach of Trust, the second paid expansion for Frostpunk 2, arrived on June 23 across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Two months on, its Steam rating tells an awkward story: Mixed, with 46 percent of 448 user reviews positive, and recent reviews trending Mostly Negative at 39 percent. Critics landed somewhere else entirely. The DLC holds roughly 75 on Metacritic, though from a small handful of review
Rockstar has finally spoken about the leaked Grand Theft Auto VI footage. In a statement posted to Instagram, the studio called the leaks “heartbreaking for our team”. It arrives a day before the game’s official unveiling on Netflix, and a full week after the first clip surfaced. Fifteen gameplay videos have circulated in that time, attributed to a leaker or group calling itself Cyberleek. Rocksta
Rebel Wolves and publisher Bandai Namco announced on September 5 that The Blood of Dawnwalker has passed one million copies sold worldwide. The game launched on September 3 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, putting the milestone inside its first three days on sale. That is a strong opening for a new IP at full price from a studio with no previous release. Rebel Wolves was founded in Warsa
Rockstar is not cutting the fuel system from Grand Theft Auto 6. And according to an extended preview of the game, the whole action lasts around 10 seconds. The figure comes from YouTuber TGG, who saw a demo guided by co-studio head Rob Nelson. When the car was filled up, Nelson pointed out how quick it was. “Hey, that’s pretty fast for a fill up,” Nelson said during the demo. “You can’t complain
Bulkhead’s 100-player shooter WARDOGS launched into Steam early access on September 10 and passed two million copies sold in under five days. It hit an all-time concurrent peak of 428,666 players on September 13, according to SteamDB. A week and a half in, the drop-off that usually follows a launch spike has not arrived. The game was still running between roughly 300,000 and 400,000 concurrent pla
Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine launched on September 15 as a PS5 exclusive, priced at $69.99 for the standard edition and $79.99 for the Digital Deluxe. It sits at a Metascore of 77 from 117 critic reviews. That is the lowest critic score any PlayStation Studios game has managed in the six years of the PS5, as Kotaku noted shortly after release. It is also, by a wide margin, the best-reviewed game
Grand Theft Auto VI launches in less than two months, and fans are already asking what Rockstar does next. This week’s favorite answer is L.A. Noire 2. Nothing has been confirmed. An old leak resurfaces The claim comes from a 2023 leak first posted on 4chan. Fans dug it up over the weekend, and it spread fast across forums and social media. Why take it seriously? Several of its GTA 6 details have
Rockstar Games has revealed the first collector’s set for Grand Theft Auto VI. It costs $399.99, and it doesn’t include the game. The Goodtime State, Vice City Collection arrives on November 19, launch day for GTA 6. Pre-orders are open now on the Rockstar Store, while supplies last. Inside the box The set is themed around Macca the Gator, a fictional TV show that’s a hit in Leonida, the game’s ho
Minecraft LIVE on Saturday, September 26, was packed. The Sift stole the headlines as the game’s first new dimension in over 14 years, but Mojang had plenty more to show. Here’s what else is coming. Ice Caves are the next game drop The next drop adds Ice Caves, a rare new cave biome that forms beneath cold regions. The caves are filled with ice crystals and icicles. The crystals can be placed vert
Some cheaters won’t even make it into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Team RICOCHET, Call of Duty’s anti-cheat team, has confirmed that more than 70,000 new hardware bans are already in place. Those bans will carry straight into the game when it launches on October 23. Why hardware bans matter An account ban can be dodged with a new account. A hardware ban can’t. “Recent enforcement updates helped
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Remastered launches on September 29, and it’s free for everyone who already owns the base game. It lands on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. That’s a surprise in itself, given that The Witcher 4 is already in development and the game got a next-gen update as recently as 2022. So is it worth another trip to the Continent? Here’s what’s new. Both expa
What does ARC Raiders look like without other players shooting you in the back? Embark Studios is about to find out. From October 13 to 20, the extraction shooter will test a PvE matchmaking toggle. Players can choose sessions with zero player-to-player damage and focus entirely on fighting ARC. Why now The numbers made the case. In a blog post, Embark said 51% of surveyed players want a dedicated
A US court has ordered Reddit moderator James “Archbox” Williams to pay Nintendo $4.5 million over Nintendo Switch piracy. US District Judge Lauren King, in Washington, granted Nintendo’s motion for default judgment in full on September 23. She also issued a permanent injunction that bars Williams from distributing pirated games or circumvention tools. What Nintendo accused him of Nintendo filed t
Minecraft is finally getting a fourth dimension. The Sift was revealed at Minecraft LIVE on September 26. It joins the Overworld, the Nether and the End, and it’s the first new dimension added to the main game in more than 14 years. Dungeons II players get there first The Sift will be playable before it reaches Minecraft itself. It’s part of Minecraft Dungeons II from day one, and that game launch
Bungie is rethinking Marathon. In a long update on September 25, the studio admitted that the game’s original extraction-focused vision didn’t connect with enough players. Now it wants Marathon to be much more than the high-stakes PvEvP shooter it launched as in March. What went wrong The update came with a Developer Insights video where the team spoke openly about launch. “Launch didn’t go the wa
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