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Never Say Never: Rockstar on a GTA Set Outside America
Rockstar co-studio head Rob Nelson told The Guardian the door is still open to a GTA set outside America, but he promised nothing. Here is what he actually said, and the very different history behind GTA Tokyo, Rio and the rest.
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CD Projekt Red Is Using AI to Give Geralt His Old Voice Back, and the Actor Asked for It
CD Projekt Red confirmed it is using AI from Respeecher to match Jacek Rozenek’s new Polish Geralt lines in Songs of the Past to his Witcher 3 voice from a decade ago. Rozenek, who had a stroke in 2019, recorded every line himself and consented to the edit.
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I Spent a Week Hunting the Smallest Details in Every GTA Ever Made
Your shirt flutters on a motorcycle in GTA. I know that sounds like nothing. It is not nothing. That tiny piece of moving cloth was born in 2002, survived three console generations, and has relatives in games most people never even played. So I did the reasonable thing. I went through every single GTA ever…
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Claude Just Walked Into Your Meeting and Started Doing the Work
Anthropic launched Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets on November 10. Claude now joins Google Meet calls as a visible participant and starts drafting the work while people are still talking. Here is what launched, who gets it, and what Anthropic did not say.
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Sony Cancels Fairgames, and Haven Studios Survives It
PlayStation has cancelled Fairgames, the live service heist shooter Haven Studios announced in 2023, after a playtest with thousands of players fell short on retention. Nobody at Haven loses their job. The studio becomes a support team.
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GTA 6 Preload Is Live Now on PS5 and Xbox
Rockstar made it official with a video called Pre-Load Now. The 212 GB download is open on PS5 and Xbox, code-in-box buyers can start the second the box arrives, and there is a new Tove Lo single hiding in the announcement.
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Gemini 4 Carbon Is Now Available to Everyone, at a Quarter of Claude’s Price
Gemini 4 Carbon left the Fairwind Program and opened to every paying developer, enterprise and Ultra subscriber on November 10, at 2 dollars per million input tokens and 10 dollars output, a quarter of what Claude Fable 5.2 costs. Here is what Google claims, labeled as claims.
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GTA 6 Targets 30 FPS on Every Console, and the PS5 Pro Gets Shadows, Not Frames
Rockstar finally said the number. GTA 6 targets 30 FPS on PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X and Series S, the Pro gets PSSR and ray-traced shadows instead of extra frames, and Xbox One owners get the game on day one through cloud streaming. All of it confirmed on November 10.
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Every GTA Parody Brand, Decoded: The Real Companies Behind Rockstar’s Fake Ones
The viral charts mapping GTA’s fake brands to real companies get several famous ones wrong. Here is the decoded list: the blends, the corrections, and the brands the charts never print.
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The Last Ride: GTA Fans Will Cruise Los Santos One Final Time on November 18
On the night before GTA 6 launches, fans are organizing a peaceful farewell cruise through Los Santos, hosted in the voice of the game’s own radio DJ. The plan, the rules, and why nobody expects the peace to last.