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GTA 6 Is So Big That Nobody at Rockstar Knows Everything in It
Rockstar’s own head of development told Bloomberg there is no one person who has the whole of GTA 6 in their head. Here is how a game gets that big, and why players will be finding new details in it for years.
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AAA Games Want $80 Now. Most of Them Haven’t Earned It.
Mario Kart World opened the $80 door and every publisher rushed through it, including the ones shipping broken games. Here is the case file, and why GTA 6 is the exception.
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Always the Cars: Every Vehicle Fans Have Identified in the GTA 6 Trailers
People ask me what I am most excited to test when GTA 6 lands on November 19. The map, sure. The cops, the weather, the NPCs, all of it. But if I am being honest with you, and I usually am in this space, my first hour in Leonida is a car hour. I want…
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Vice City (2002): The Game GTA 6 Is Coming Home To
GTA 6 takes us back to Vice City on November 19. Before Jason and Lucia take the wheel, I went back to the 2002 original: the Scarface DNA, Ray Liotta’s Tommy, the radio that did half the acting, and a map you can cross before your coffee cools.
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GTA IV: The Serious One That Split the Fanbase (and Why I Respect It)
Every GTA has a personality. San Andreas is the friend who shows up with a jetpack and three cities worth of chaos. GTA V is the polished blockbuster. GTA IV is the cousin who sits in the corner of the party, drinks quietly, and tells you a war story that ruins your night in the…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Built the Team That Is Building GTA 6
Eight years ago today, give or take the time it took me to stop staring at the download bar, Red Dead Redemption 2 came out. October 26, 2018. I remember the feeling because it is rare: a game so big that the rest of the industry just quietly moved out of its way. Here is…
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Modern Warfare 4 Won Its Comeback. Now It Has to Survive November 19
Call of Duty got its best reviews in years, a number one debut and four clean weeks of runway. The problem is what lands at the end of those four weeks.
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Marvel’s Wolverine, Six Weeks Later: The Critics Shrugged and Everybody Bought It Anyway
Insomniac’s Wolverine landed with the softest reviews of the studio’s Marvel run, then quietly became the best-selling game in America. Six weeks on, I am looking at what actually shipped, what the patches fixed, and why the score and the sales refuse to agree.
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Stranger Than Heaven Is 50 Years, Five Cities, Snoop Dogg, and a Date With Ananta
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio looked at its own formula and got bored, and I mean that as the highest compliment I own. This is the team behind Like a Dragon, the people who turned one fictional Tokyo district into a second home for millions of us. For their next trick, they are not making another…
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GTA 5 Sold Over 200 Million Copies — Why Does This Game Never Die?
GTA 5 has now sold over 230 million copies, per Take-Two’s August 2026 earnings call. Thirteen years, three console generations, one GTA Online. Here’s why this game refuses to die, and what it means for GTA 6.