Recent coverage from the games press, pulled from five outlets and shown newest first.
Recent coverage from the games press, pulled from five outlets and shown newest first.
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The ongoing employment tribunal between Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games and IWBG union members laid off from the studio has been extended into November.. Read more
The video game layoffs continue. Ubisoft has announced it's closing Finnish studio RedLynx, creator of the Trials series of games, and that there's to be significant layoffs at Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced studio, Ubisoft Singapore. Read more
How much detail is too much detail? In the case of Grand Theft Auto 6 , developer Rockstar Games put an obscene amount of work into making the fictional city of Leonida as realistic as possible, including the nightclubs that players can frequent in the game. Those locations couldn't be pulled from thin air, and Rockstar embarked on several research trips to Miami to help inform the design of their party hubs, right down to the smallest detail. Speaking to Bloomberg , artist Aaron Garbut…
Rockstar has insisted GTA 6 did not cost more than $1.5 billion to make, countering an online rumor, but it’s still probably the most expensive video game of all time.
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It's no secret that video game development is more expensive than ever before, and in a hit-driven industry, Grand Theft Auto VI is rumored to be the most expensive game ever made. Various numbers have been thrown around, with one report even claiming that $1.5 billion was spent--around the budget of Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa skyscraper. Speaking to Bloomberg , Rockstar shot down that claim, but it hasn't confirmed just how much investment it has taken to get the game over the finish line for…
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Rockstar Games has revealed the original codename for Grand Theft Auto 6 was Project Americas, and that its intention was for the game to cover large areas of land in both the north of the country and the south. Read more
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Battlefield 6 has come under fire from fans after its latest battle pass was found to include new character skins with some pretty clear design flaws.
Rockstar Games reportedly established an entire studio in Los Angeles dedicated to creating NPCs for Grand Theft Auto 6 after realizing the game's ambitious world would need far more production resources than initially expected. Speaking to Bloomberg , Rockstar development lead Rob Nelson explained that the team had struggled to meet its targets for the number of NPCs that needed to be written and animated. That makes sense when you consider how much more interactive they're reported to be,…
Compared to previous games in the series, Grand Theft Auto 6 is aiming to add new layers of realism to the franchise. As the criminal couple Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, players will explore a city where actions have consequences , and it's not easy to shake the long arm of the law when you cause chaos. It continues ideas that developer Rockstar Games began experimenting with in Red Dead Redemption 2, but the studio says it initially struggled to figure out how realistic it wanted GTA 6 to be…
A department where just a little bit of creativity doesn't go amiss.
Vibe-coded games playable in web browsers have exploded in popularity recently, and amid a deluge of ports and remasters created with generative AI, Xbox is responding by creating Xbox Labs. The new branch of Xbox is described as an initiative designed to get more people playing games--especially on web browsers--but curiously, there's no mention of AI at all in the announcement. "In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally…
Farming dungeons, not gourds.
Rockstar has promised that its next game following GTA 6 won’t take as long to come out, although it failed to hint at what it might be.
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Rockstar has spent more than eight years developing Grand Theft Auto 6 , but the studio hopes its next project will arrive considerably faster. Speaking to Bloomberg , Rockstar's head of development Phil Hooker explained how the company expanded its team and developed its technology for the hotly anticipated upcoming game, and how that'll make it easier to build future releases. Hooker said the studio expects to benefit from the foundations established during the lengthy production of GTA 6.…
The original Destiny never made it to PC, but the shooter-MMO may not stay locked to PS4 and Xbox One for much longer. Some crafty modders have been working to get the game running on PC, and their efforts recently caught the eye of Bungie, which surprisingly didn't result in a take-down - not yet, at least. Read more
Activision has confirmed the global release times and preload details for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, which launches in various parts over the coming weeks.
