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Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer suddenly drops, showing a saucy shower scene, a tense police chase, and high-flying heists

The trailer showcases the thrills set to come to the game on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S next month, with the footage itself apparently captured on the PlayStation 5. It features a selection of tidbits Grand Theft Auto fans may be interested in, including clips of heists in-action, one of which appearing to include a

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A co-op survival game where trolls aren’t just there to be killed? ‘We don’t talk about them as enemies, but rather as neighbors’

A deep forest of towering trees can be an intimidating place, especially if you’re only three inches tall. In co-op PvE survival game Trollheim: Gnomes, you’re a wee little Sprýg Gnome looking for a new place to call home after Oden has driven you from MidgÃ¥rd. That home is a dense, dark forest, and you’re

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DayZ creator Dean Hall says “our industry is rotting from its core” because of big-company “greed”, aiming shots at Epic’s Unreal and Unity

"Developers have surrendered an extraordinary amount of control." “Our industry is rotting from its core,” Hall wrote in an expansive post on Reddit, “outwards in every direction, and it has been for some time. Driven by greed, driven by a race to the bottom on price. It is my position that the games industry was

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‘There is no secret sauce’ to a successful live service game according to Overwatch’s associate game director, but knowing your audience is a good start

Not many live service games have stood the test of time quite like Overwatch. 10 years in and it’s still been able to retain its playerbase, maintain momentum, and even ramp it up. How, you ask? Well, besides having really cute skins and a very enticing game loop, Team 4 figured out exactly where Overwatch

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Disco Elysium splinter studio’s Red Rooster is going to be a ‘an incendiary, physics-driven RPG’ where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks

However, the surrealist elements are turned up. You’ll be playing Redrick Roost, an inmate turned arson investigator—and instead of Kim Kitsuragi, you’ll be getting “an opiate-dependent mathematician, Dr Astrid Albers, and a nunchaku-wielding truth-activist, the district bus driver Rico.” God. We’re so goddamn back. The major point of divergence—aside from an emphasis on 3D physics,

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007 First Light gets Switch 2 release date, with IO Interactive saying time for “optimisation and performance” was needed

“Since announcing additional development time to ensure the quality of experience players expect, IO Interactive has brought hands-on builds of 007 First Light to both gamescom and Tokyo Game Show, where players and press had their first opportunity to experience Bond’s world running on Nintendo’s hardware,” the company said in a press release statement. “Player

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Epic throws shade at Steam, admits to vibe-coding the new Epic Games Launcher with AI “to be faster than the other guy”

The Epic Games Launcher is the platform that grants players access to the Epic Games Store, their game libraries and a host of social features – and the app’s newest version was prompted into existence with the use of generative AI, according to the company. “We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher to be faster

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GTA 6 was delayed partially because the amount of NPCs was ‘horrifying’ and required a dedicated studio full of writers to handle

Grand Theft Auto 6, originally slated to be released back in May, was delayed to November—the reason given at the time was “to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve”. And while that still very much holds true, the reality of the game’s scope and stature was

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