Ahead of GTA 6 and as concerns over genAI PC ports grow, Take-Two's CEO says they're revving up their RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 6m ago

Ahead of GTA 6 and as concerns over genAI PC ports grow, Take-Two's CEO says they're revving up their "technical defences" and "legal activites" over piracy

It's a bit of a time for AI and games at the moment, 'ey? A bad time, obviously, as it's infecting everything from game development, to the ...

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2 years after Unknown 9: Awakening bombed, Bandai Namco is closing the studio that made it PCGamer ⚡ 10m ago

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Big Walk AI Controversy Is a GOTY Awards Twist Sparking a Bigger Debate Polygon ⚡ 40m ago

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Valve Is Giving You More Ways To Know If A Game Runs Well On Steam Deck GameSpot ⚡ 58m ago

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2027's Most Stylish Action Game Looks Spectacular in First Official Gameplay Polygon ⚡ 58m ago

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Batman Just Officially Saved DC Comics From a Terrible Fate Polygon ⚡ 59m ago

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WoW: Forever Just Received Its First Big Post-Launch Changes GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

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How to unlock Fire Arrows in Zelda Ocarina of Time Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

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PlayStation Plus PC app is being shut down in December because less than 0.4% of eligible subscribers are using it PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

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The Outer Worlds 2’s first story expansion announced VGC ⚡ 1h ago

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Overwatch brings back 6v6 role-queue following player feedback VGC ⚡ 1h ago

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Marvel Rivals confirms Nightcrawler and Dracula as playable characters VGC ⚡ 1h ago

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Marathon is becoming a whole new game next month with a roguelite PvE mode, a beta for a very Halo-esque team deathmatch mode, a vibey social space and more RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 1h ago

Marathon is becoming a whole new game next month with a roguelite PvE mode, a beta for a very Halo-esque team deathmatch mode, a vibey social space and more

Marathon is getting a lot bigger next month. In September, Bungie outlined their plans for the shooter making some big promises, namely the ...

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Bandai Namco Shuts Down Unknown 9: Awakening Developer Reflector Entertainment GameInformer ⚡ 1h ago

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Target's New 'Pokémon' 30th Anniversary Drawing Is A Must-See For TCG Fans Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

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PlayStation Plus November Games Lineup Officially Announced, Includes Death Stranding 2 Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

PlayStation Plus November Games Lineup Officially Announced, Includes Death Stranding 2

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Costco’s New 'Pokémon' 30th Anniversary Bundle Is An Unbelievable Deal Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

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Doomsday Officially Comes to Marvel Rivals With an X-Men Icon Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

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PlayStation Plus PC App Will Go Offline December 10, as Sony Continues to Retreat From PC IGN ⚡ 1h ago

PlayStation Plus PC App Will Go Offline December 10, as Sony Continues to Retreat From PC

Outside of the few games that Sony has ported to Windows, the PlayStation Plus app on PC was the best way to play PS5 games on PC, even if y...

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PlayStation Pulls Back Further From PC With End of PS Plus App Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

PlayStation Pulls Back Further From PC With End of PS Plus App

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How To Get A Sleeping Bag In World Of Warcraft: Forever Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

How To Get A Sleeping Bag In World Of Warcraft: Forever

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I installed a GTA 5 mod that makes it rain human beings, and no I don't know why either PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

I installed a GTA 5 mod that makes it rain human beings, and no I don't know why either

We should all be so lucky....

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Nvidia shareholders have filed a lawsuit against the tech company over claims that they were misled regarding CEO Jensen Huang's affair RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 2h ago

Nvidia shareholders have filed a lawsuit against the tech company over claims that they were misled regarding CEO Jensen Huang's affair

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DMZ key and locations in Modern Warfare 4 Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

DMZ key and locations in Modern Warfare 4

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Nintendo Officially Shuts Down Switch 2 Jailbreak in New Update Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

Nintendo Officially Shuts Down Switch 2 Jailbreak in New Update

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The 2,050-Piece LEGO Pokémon Pikachu and Poké Ball Set Drops to a New Price Low Ahead of Black Friday IGN ⚡ 2h ago

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Logitech Is Letting Employees Take Work Off for Game Releases, Just Ahead of GTA 6 IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Logitech Is Letting Employees Take Work Off for Game Releases, Just Ahead of GTA 6

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Bungie Tempts New Players With Free Period as PvE Mode and PvP Arena Battles Come to Marathon IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Bungie Tempts New Players With Free Period as PvE Mode and PvP Arena Battles Come to Marathon

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Save 50% Off a 1-Year Paramount+ Premium (Ad-Free) Subscription for Black Friday IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Save 50% Off a 1-Year Paramount+ Premium (Ad-Free) Subscription for Black Friday

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Save Up to 40% Off Samsung Nintendo Switch 2 Memory Cards Ahead of Black Friday IGN ⚡ 2h ago

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The Ultra-Slim Baseus Blade 20,000mAh Power Bank With 100W Output Drops to $39 for Black Friday IGN ⚡ 2h ago

The Ultra-Slim Baseus Blade 20,000mAh Power Bank With 100W Output Drops to $39 for Black Friday

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Grand Theft Auto 6 is 'the most pre-ordered' game of all time on both Xbox and PlayStation PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

Grand Theft Auto 6 is 'the most pre-ordered' game of all time on both Xbox and PlayStation

On PC, however, GTA 6 remains among the least pre-ordered games of all time because, well, you know....

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A Big Talk About Big Walk’s AI Fallout Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

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Get a Nintendo Switch 2 Console for as Low as $418 During the AliExpress Black Friday Sale IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Get a Nintendo Switch 2 Console for as Low as $418 During the AliExpress Black Friday Sale

Just in time to play the recently released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time....

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GTA 6 Fans Are Divided Over Confirmation of 30fps IGN ⚡ 2h ago

GTA 6 Fans Are Divided Over Confirmation of 30fps

GTA 6 will be 30fps, creating division among fans and frustration for PS5 Pro owners....

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Note to self: If playing Call of Duty in an airport, don't say words like 'bomb' lest you want to evacuate an entire plane PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

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Oopsie daisy....

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The November 2026 PS Plus Catalog Update Is Adding Some Very Good Games Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

The November 2026 PS Plus Catalog Update Is Adding Some Very Good Games

It's a solid month for anyone not playing Grand Theft Auto 6...

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MS has messily patched a Microsoft Paint security vulnerability, but the update still isn’t showing up for some PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

MS has messily patched a Microsoft Paint security vulnerability, but the update still isn’t showing up for some

What a shambles....

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Here's our second wave of PS Plus games for November 2026 - and Sony's scrapping its barely used PC app Eurogamer ⚡ 2h ago

Here's our second wave of PS Plus games for November 2026 - and Sony's scrapping its barely used PC app

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PlayStation announces end of PC streaming in December VGC ⚡ 3h ago

PlayStation announces end of PC streaming in December

The PlayStation Plus app for PC is being retired...

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Acer Predator Atlas 8 (G3 Extreme) review PCGamer ⚡ 3h ago

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LEGO’s Star Wars Battle Droid With STAP Gets Early Black Friday Discount at Amazon of 40% Off IGN ⚡ 3h ago

LEGO’s Star Wars Battle Droid With STAP Gets Early Black Friday Discount at Amazon of 40% Off

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Educational game dev program cancelled because students were submitting games made entirely with AI PCGamer ⚡ 3h ago

Educational game dev program cancelled because students were submitting games made entirely with AI

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Bandai Namco is liquidating Unknown 9: Awakening studio Reflector Entertainment, following multiple previous layoffs since the game's launch RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 3h ago

Bandai Namco is liquidating Unknown 9: Awakening studio Reflector Entertainment, following multiple previous layoffs since the game's launch

As another addition to the slew of smaller studios being dissolved by their parent companies, Bandai Namco announced in a press release that...

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‘AMDLSS5’ gets Nvidia’s neural rendering running on AMD graphics cards and claims 64% better performance than other mods PCGamer ⚡ 3h ago

‘AMDLSS5’ gets Nvidia’s neural rendering running on AMD graphics cards and claims 64% better performance than other mods

Seems like an easy install, too. Though not everyone is convinced it's worth it....

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Take-Two Boss Says Ocarina Of Time Is “Terrific,” But Is It Competing With GTA 6? GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

Take-Two Boss Says Ocarina Of Time Is “Terrific,” But Is It Competing With GTA 6?

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has reacted to the release of Nintendo's recent Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. He sa...

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Translucent 'Prism Collection' DualSense Controllers and PS5 Covers Now Up for Preorder, Out February 4 IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Translucent 'Prism Collection' DualSense Controllers and PS5 Covers Now Up for Preorder, Out February 4

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Death Stranding 2 Headlines PlayStation Plus Game Catalog For November GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

Death Stranding 2 Headlines PlayStation Plus Game Catalog For November

The next batch of games for the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog has been revealed. PS Plus Essential and Premium subscribers can grab 10 games...

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Grand Theft Auto 6 becomes the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history Eurogamer ⚡ 3h ago

Grand Theft Auto 6 becomes the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history

Sony has just announced that Grand Theft Auto 6 has become "the most pre-ordered game in the history of PlayStation Store". Note, it's not t...

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Surprising Literally Nobody, Grand Theft Auto VI Is The Most Pre-Ordered Game In PlayStation And Xbox Store History GameInformer ⚡ 3h ago

Surprising Literally Nobody, Grand Theft Auto VI Is The Most Pre-Ordered Game In PlayStation And Xbox Store History

Grand Theft Auto VI launches next week on Thursday, November 19. You can preload the game on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S starting toda...

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Alienware AW3226Q OLED gaming monitor review PCGamer ⚡ 3h ago

Alienware AW3226Q OLED gaming monitor review

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In a reveal that might worry eventual PC players glancing at their GPUs, GTA 6 will target 30fps on all consoles RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 3h ago

In a reveal that might worry eventual PC players glancing at their GPUs, GTA 6 will target 30fps on all consoles

In a press release coinciding with Grand Theft Auto VI becoming available for pre-load ahead of its November 19th release date, Rockstar has...

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New GTA 6 trailer showcases PS5-exclusive DualSense features VGC ⚡ 3h ago

New GTA 6 trailer showcases PS5-exclusive DualSense features

GTA 6 will use haptic feedback and more on PS5...

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Nintendo is hiring someone to document the history of its games VGC ⚡ 3h ago

Nintendo is hiring someone to document the history of its games

Nintendo is creating a 'digital archive' of its games...

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GTA 6 Is The Most Preordered Game Of All Time For PlayStation And Xbox GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

GTA 6 Is The Most Preordered Game Of All Time For PlayStation And Xbox

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 releases on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the game is breaking records before it even...

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Marathon’s Symbiosis Update Adds Host Of New Modes, Including Permanent PvE, Next Month GameInformer ⚡ 3h ago

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I fought Queens and Knights, but somehow my hardest opponents in Stack Order, the next great deckbuilder, were 2 birds PCGamer ⚡ 3h ago

I fought Queens and Knights, but somehow my hardest opponents in Stack Order, the next great deckbuilder, were 2 birds

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Watch A TCG Thief With No Plan Give Up At The Slightest Resistance Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

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GTA 6 Now the Most Preordered Game in PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store History, Official Preload Warning Issued IGN ⚡ 4h ago

GTA 6 Now the Most Preordered Game in PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store History, Official Preload Warning Issued

Sony has confirmed that GTA 6 is now the most preordered game in PlayStation Store history, although it failed to put a number on it. Micros...

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I feel better than ever waiting for GTA 6 on PC now Rockstar confirms it's targeting 30 fps on PlayStation and Xbox PCGamer ⚡ 4h ago

I feel better than ever waiting for GTA 6 on PC now Rockstar confirms it's targeting 30 fps on PlayStation and Xbox

This is NOT copium. Do not put on website that it is copium....

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GTA Releases Could Speed Up, Take-Two Boss Says GameSpot ⚡ 4h ago

GTA Releases Could Speed Up, Take-Two Boss Says

According to Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick, the "nature and velocity" of the company's content releases in its major franchises, including G...

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Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Has A Massive Second-Act Change That Took My Breath Away Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

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Phantom Blade Zero Doesn’t Have an Achievement for Beating Its Hardest Mode; A Growing Trend in the Games Industry Is to Blame IGN ⚡ 4h ago

Phantom Blade Zero Doesn’t Have an Achievement for Beating Its Hardest Mode; A Growing Trend in the Games Industry Is to Blame

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GTA 6 'Preload Now' Trailer Includes Nearly 30 Seconds of New Footage — SWAT Team, Nightclub Dancing, and More IGN ⚡ 4h ago

GTA 6 'Preload Now' Trailer Includes Nearly 30 Seconds of New Footage — SWAT Team, Nightclub Dancing, and More

Rockstar has released a new GTA 6 trailer announcing the launch of preloads, and it includes nearly 30 seconds of new footage....

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House House Discloses AI Use For 'Under 0.1%' Of Big Walk's Code Following IGF Voting Controversy GameInformer ⚡ 4h ago

House House Discloses AI Use For 'Under 0.1%' Of Big Walk's Code Following IGF Voting Controversy

Big Walk developer House House has found itself at the center of a controversy over the upcoming Independent Games Festival on March 3, 2027...

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You Don't Need a Current-Gen Console if You're Happy to Play GTA 6 at Xbox Series S Settings IGN ⚡ 4h ago

You Don't Need a Current-Gen Console if You're Happy to Play GTA 6 at Xbox Series S Settings

After months of speculation, Rockstar finally revealed that GTA 6 would be targeting 30fps on all of the current-generation consoles, includ...

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"A fight for all workers": SAG-AFTRA throw weight behind emerging Rockstar union ahead of its GTA 6 release week vote

In what has come to feel like the dawn of the final day before Grand Theft Auto VI's release, one thing that Rockstar really don't want peop...

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Here’s How Your Xbox One Can Play GTA 6 GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

Here’s How Your Xbox One Can Play GTA 6

Grand Theft Auto 6 is out next week, and the game is launching on both Xbox Series X|S and PS5. If you don't have an expensive current-gener...

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Rockstar details Grand Theft Auto 6 PS5 Pro enhancements, but it'll still only run at 30FPS Eurogamer ⚡ 5h ago

Rockstar details Grand Theft Auto 6 PS5 Pro enhancements, but it'll still only run at 30FPS

As Grand Theft Auto 6 preloads go live, developer Rockstar has detailed the enhancements coming to the PS5 Pro version of the game, confirmi...

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Update: You Can Preload Grand Theft Auto VI On PS5 and Xbox Today, And You Should Because It's Massive GameInformer ⚡ 5h ago

Update: You Can Preload Grand Theft Auto VI On PS5 and Xbox Today, And You Should Because It's Massive

Update, 11/10/26: Rockstar Games revealed last week that players can preload Grand Theft Auto VI on their console of choice the following we...

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GTA 6 Is Now Available to Pre-Load on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S IGN ⚡ 5h ago

GTA 6 Is Now Available to Pre-Load on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

You can now preload Grand Theft Auto 6 onto your PS5 or Xbox Series X|S. But you still have to wait until November 19 to play it....

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How Silent Hill: Townfall's developer created a fictional town that's still real—'It exists. It's there' PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

How Silent Hill: Townfall's developer created a fictional town that's still real—'It exists. It's there'

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BioWare co-founder and Star Wars KOTOR director say they’re interested in reuniting to try and save BioWare’s IP VGC ⚡ 5h ago

BioWare co-founder and Star Wars KOTOR director say they’re interested in reuniting to try and save BioWare’s IP

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Europe is about to get very tough on loot boxes in games, according to a leaked draft of the landmark Digital Fairness Act Eurogamer ⚡ 5h ago

Europe is about to get very tough on loot boxes in games, according to a leaked draft of the landmark Digital Fairness Act

An alleged draft of the potentially game-changing Digital Fairness Act has leaked ahead of its scheduled publication tomorrow (11th November...

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Rockstar Says GTA VI Is ‘Targeting’ 30 FPS And Will Use PSSR On PS5 Pro Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

Rockstar Says GTA VI Is ‘Targeting’ 30 FPS And Will Use PSSR On PS5 Pro

You can pre-load the game now so best get started on that hefty download...

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Grand Theft Auto VI Will Run At 30 FPS On All Consoles, But PS5 Pro Will Feature 'Improved Clarity' And Ray-Traced Shadows GameInformer ⚡ 5h ago

Grand Theft Auto VI Will Run At 30 FPS On All Consoles, But PS5 Pro Will Feature 'Improved Clarity' And Ray-Traced Shadows

Grand Theft Auto VI launches next week on Thursday, November 19, and you can preload the game on your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S start...

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Rockstar kills any hopes of streaming GTA 6 from Xbox to PC, but you can stream it to your old Xbox One if you like Eurogamer ⚡ 5h ago

Rockstar kills any hopes of streaming GTA 6 from Xbox to PC, but you can stream it to your old Xbox One if you like

Rockstar Games has today clarified a few remaining details about Grand Theft Auto 6's framerate target and visual settings on PlayStation 5,...

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GTA 6 PS5 Pro Features, Frame Rates, And Xbox Cloud Gaming Details Confirmed By Rockstar GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

GTA 6 PS5 Pro Features, Frame Rates, And Xbox Cloud Gaming Details Confirmed By Rockstar

Rockstar has finally shared details on what PlayStation 5 Pro owners can expect from Grand Theft Auto 6 on their expensive consoles, but has...

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Big Walk developer reveals it used generative AI 'sparingly', estimates 'well under 0.1%' was actually coded using LLMs PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

Big Walk developer reveals it used generative AI 'sparingly', estimates 'well under 0.1%' was actually coded using LLMs

House House says that generative AI was not used anywhere else....

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Big Walk’s AI Usage Was Tiny, But Its Disclosure Has Sparked A Bigger Debate GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

Big Walk’s AI Usage Was Tiny, But Its Disclosure Has Sparked A Bigger Debate

Big Walk developer House House has confirmed that it used AI during the "final stretch" of its development. The studio recently updated its ...

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Report: James Gunn Ousted Amid Messy Power Struggle Despite Superman’s Success Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

Report: James Gunn Ousted Amid Messy Power Struggle Despite Superman’s Success

The pair had only released three movies in the new DC Comics movie universe...

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The Witcher 3’s New Expansion Has Me Wondering if BioWare Should Have Focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC Rather Than Big New Games IGN ⚡ 5h ago

The Witcher 3’s New Expansion Has Me Wondering if BioWare Should Have Focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC Rather Than Big New Games

The Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion has me wondering: what if BioWare had returned to its older games and made new expansions?...

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Nintendo’s New Gift-Giving Feature Comes With Some Very Nintendo Restrictions GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

Nintendo’s New Gift-Giving Feature Comes With Some Very Nintendo Restrictions

A new update is available for all Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch consoles, and if you're on a Nintendo Account family plan, version 23.5.0 wil...

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Amazon Black Friday 2026 Dates Announced as Early Deals Go Live IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Amazon Black Friday 2026 Dates Announced as Early Deals Go Live

Amazon has announced its Black Friday 2026 deal lineup, starting on November 19. But you don't have to wait, as some deals are already live,...

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GTA 5 Simply Refuses To Stop Selling, Even With GTA 6 On The Way GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

GTA 5 Simply Refuses To Stop Selling, Even With GTA 6 On The Way

As Grand Theft Auto 6 gets ready to launch, GTA 5 is still selling impressively. The GTA series has sold more than 480 million copies, with ...

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GTA 6 Will Run at 30fps On All Consoles, Features Ray Tracing Improvements on PS5 Pro IGN ⚡ 5h ago

GTA 6 Will Run at 30fps On All Consoles, Features Ray Tracing Improvements on PS5 Pro

Rockstar has finally announced performance for GTA 6. It’ll run at 30fps on all consoles, but PS5 Pro enhancements that improve ray tracing....

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GTA 6 Preorder Numbers Are So Good, Even Take-Two Is Struggling To Believe Them GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

GTA 6 Preorder Numbers Are So Good, Even Take-Two Is Struggling To Believe Them

Grand Theft Auto 6 looks set to be the best-selling game of 2026, and even publisher Take-Two Interactive is surprised at just how big the d...

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Rockstar confirms GTA 6 targets 30 FPS, with PS5 Pro-exclusive ray-tracing VGC ⚡ 5h ago

Rockstar confirms GTA 6 targets 30 FPS, with PS5 Pro-exclusive ray-tracing

Rockstar also says GTA 6 will play best on PS5...

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Trump calls his pal Jensen Huang an ‘honourable guy’ and says he ‘probably has an excuse’ for Nvidia CEO’s affair with alleged spy PCGamer ⚡ 6h ago

Trump calls his pal Jensen Huang an ‘honourable guy’ and says he ‘probably has an excuse’ for Nvidia CEO’s affair with alleged spy

It's been a tough week for Team Green....

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Is the DC Cinematic Universe Just Cursed? IGN ⚡ 6h ago

Is the DC Cinematic Universe Just Cursed?

Is the DC Cinematic Universe just cursed? Because it sure feels like it after James Gunn and Peter Safran's departure from DC Studios....

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Fallout and Elder Scrolls actor Stephen Russell returns as Garrett in Thief: The Tarnished Mirror: 'Great to be back with the old guy' PCGamer ⚡ 6h ago

Fallout and Elder Scrolls actor Stephen Russell returns as Garrett in Thief: The Tarnished Mirror: 'Great to be back with the old guy'

Return of the King....

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Steam now shows average Steam Deck framerates when browsing games, but Valve says it's considering expanding the feature to other hardware Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

Steam now shows average Steam Deck framerates when browsing games, but Valve says it's considering expanding the feature to other hardware

Valve has released a new Steam update that adds Steam Deck framerate data to a game's store page, giving potential buyers an indication of h...

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Steam now lets you see exactly what frame rate you should get in games using a Steam Deck PCGamer ⚡ 6h ago

Steam now lets you see exactly what frame rate you should get in games using a Steam Deck

Valve opens up the doors to the data it's been collecting....

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Nvidia Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For ‘Misleading’ Shareholders Following CEO’s Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy Kotaku ⚡ 6h ago

Nvidia Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For ‘Misleading’ Shareholders Following CEO’s Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy

The proposed class action complaint alleges that Huang and Nvidia's executives provided 'false and misleading statements' to the press regar...

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Skydance Games has been laying off some of its staff, a month after merging with Warner Bros VGC ⚡ 6h ago

Skydance Games has been laying off some of its staff, a month after merging with Warner Bros

At least 25 people have been cut from the Paramount Games division...

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AMD's next-gen GPU architecture has appeared in new Linux kernel patches as GFX13 updates roll out PCGamer ⚡ 6h ago

AMD's next-gen GPU architecture has appeared in new Linux kernel patches as GFX13 updates roll out

The suite of GFX13 patches aren't particularly exciting in themselves, but they do suggest there might actually be some new GPUs next year....

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Tripwire Interactive says it's laying off 36 staff in a RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 7h ago

Tripwire Interactive says it's laying off 36 staff in a "necessary" decision, while reassuring that Killing Floor 3 and Maneater 2 are still in active development

In a statement posted yesterday, Killing Floor developers Tripwire Interactive have announced that the studio is laying off 36 "talented" in...

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Nintendo Shuts Down Switch 2 Jailbreak, Sending Hackers Back To Square One Kotaku ⚡ 7h ago

Nintendo Shuts Down Switch 2 Jailbreak, Sending Hackers Back To Square One

The SmileBASIC exploit is no more...

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As Arc Raiders celebrates its first birthday, publisher Nexon reveals the extraction shooter has topped 17 million sales, but revenue is set to decline Eurogamer ⚡ 7h ago

As Arc Raiders celebrates its first birthday, publisher Nexon reveals the extraction shooter has topped 17 million sales, but revenue is set to decline

Arc Raiders, Embark Studios' popular extraction shooter, has exceeded 17m copies sold, according to publisher Nexon. Read more...

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Steam's new Steam Deck framerate graphs are good news for handheld players, though I wouldn't fully trust the numbers yet RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 7h ago

Steam's new Steam Deck framerate graphs are good news for handheld players, though I wouldn't fully trust the numbers yet

Valve have finally made clear what they've been doing with all that hoovered-up performance data and all those "Framerate Estimator" text st...

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Redditor runs PC cooling loop outside of their house to keep it cool in one of the bravest yet unnecessary mods I’ve ever seen PCGamer ⚡ 7h ago

Redditor runs PC cooling loop outside of their house to keep it cool in one of the bravest yet unnecessary mods I’ve ever seen

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Law firms lining up for a chance to bop Nvidia’s nose on behalf of its own shareholders; president Trump says FBI are sniffing around the AI company's case PCGamer ⚡ 7h ago

Law firms lining up for a chance to bop Nvidia’s nose on behalf of its own shareholders; president Trump says FBI are sniffing around the AI company's case

It's all kicking off now....

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Rockstar is putting on a last-minute live music festival featuring Travis Scott and Cardi B to celebrate GTA 6's launch PCGamer ⚡ 7h ago

Rockstar is putting on a last-minute live music festival featuring Travis Scott and Cardi B to celebrate GTA 6's launch

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I'm so glad I'm not using a questing addon in World of Warcraft: Forever PCGamer ⚡ 7h ago

I'm so glad I'm not using a questing addon in World of Warcraft: Forever

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Valve Is Improving The Data About How Well A Game Will Run On Your Steam Deck Kotaku ⚡ 8h ago

Valve Is Improving The Data About How Well A Game Will Run On Your Steam Deck

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Skydance Games lay off an undisclosed number of staff in the wake of Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, in latest case of consolidation killing livelihoods RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 8h ago

Skydance Games lay off an undisclosed number of staff in the wake of Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, in latest case of consolidation killing livelihoods

A little over a month following the huge, vile, culture-defining (negative) merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. into Skydance, the cor...

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Big Walk studio says it used AI ‘sparingly’ in response to indie award jury statement against its use VGC ⚡ 8h ago

Big Walk studio says it used AI ‘sparingly’ in response to indie award jury statement against its use

House House says it used LLMs for help with coding, but some IGF jurors say that counts...

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Nintendo Switch Players Will Soon Be Able To Gift Digital Games, Kinda Kotaku ⚡ 8h ago

Nintendo Switch Players Will Soon Be Able To Gift Digital Games, Kinda

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Following site-wide discussion on AI use, Nexus Mods add a RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 8h ago

Following site-wide discussion on AI use, Nexus Mods add a "daily limit" to the spots in the new mods tab one person can hog via multiple rapid-fire uploads

The folks behind Nexus Mods have rolled out a new "daily limit" system which ensures modders who upload multiple works in bulk during a sing...

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Phasmophobia raises over $200,000 for charity in the annual Ghost Hunts for Hearts collaboration with the American Heart Association PCGamer ⚡ 8h ago

Phasmophobia raises over $200,000 for charity in the annual Ghost Hunts for Hearts collaboration with the American Heart Association

Players have managed to double the charitable donations reached last year....

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Warhammer Survivors review: More than just Vampire Survivors with Space Marines PCGamer ⚡ 9h ago

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House House Confirms ‘Under 0.1 Percent Of Big Walk’s Code’ Was Written Using AI Following IGF Controversy Kotaku ⚡ 9h ago

House House Confirms ‘Under 0.1 Percent Of Big Walk’s Code’ Was Written Using AI Following IGF Controversy

In a statement published on the game's FAQ, House House apologised to those 'trying to limit the harm generative AI is doing' after confirmi...

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World of Warcraft: Forever might live officially on PC, but people are playing it on phones and handhelds already Eurogamer ⚡ 9h ago

World of Warcraft: Forever might live officially on PC, but people are playing it on phones and handhelds already

If you're a World of Warcraft: Forever player you're almost certainly having your free time drained as you chain yourself to your desktop PC...

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I have converted GTA 5 to its final form: A GTA 6 countdown app PCGamer ⚡ 9h ago

I have converted GTA 5 to its final form: A GTA 6 countdown app

We should all be so lucky....

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Under pressure, Big Walk studio reveals it used generative AI Eurogamer ⚡ 9h ago

Under pressure, Big Walk studio reveals it used generative AI "sparingly" while making its hit 2026 game

Australian developer House House has revealed it used generative AI "sparingly" to help make celebrated, indie, multiplayer puzzle game Big ...

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Big Walk developer House House reveal genAI use in final stretch of development, only revealing it now as RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 9h ago

Big Walk developer House House reveal genAI use in final stretch of development, only revealing it now as "it has become a matter of public interest"

Friendslop du jour Big Walk is the latest in an unfortunately long series of games that have been confirmed to use generative AI in their pr...

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Switch 2 US sales soar again thanks to The Legend of Zelda effect, as it enjoys its best week of the year so far Eurogamer ⚡ 10h ago

Switch 2 US sales soar again thanks to The Legend of Zelda effect, as it enjoys its best week of the year so far

Could a remade Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time be exciting enough to revitalise Switch 2 hardware sales? That was the big question. And ear...

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Switch 2 and Switch consoles updated to version 23.5.0 as Nintendo quietly re-introduces eShop gifting Eurogamer ⚡ 10h ago

Switch 2 and Switch consoles updated to version 23.5.0 as Nintendo quietly re-introduces eShop gifting

Nintendo has just pushed out a new update to all Switch and Switch 2 consoles, bringing the firmware on both up to version 23.5.0. The headl...

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'The experiences on console and PC tend to be roughly the same,' says Take-Two CEO in response to question about GTA roleplaying PCGamer ⚡ 19h ago

'The experiences on console and PC tend to be roughly the same,' says Take-Two CEO in response to question about GTA roleplaying

Of course, in the case of Grand Theft Auto 6, the PC experience at launch will be a blank screen....

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