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For millions of players, November belongs to a single title: Grand Theft Auto 6. Rockstar’s long-awaited open-world crime epic is poised to become a cultural phenomenon on a scale gaming hasn’t witnessed since Animal Crossing: New Horizons arrived in 2020. That’s thrilling for fans, but it leaves everyone else with slim pickings, since so many...
Well-known tech insider KeplerL2 says the RAM and SSD (RAM + NAND) for PlayStation 6 alone now cost “more than $680.” With a little extra money, that amount would buy a PlayStation 5 Pro. Prices for various components, including memory, keep rising. That could significantly affect both the production cost of next-generation consoles and the...
Unofficial Grand Theft Auto VI editions with a “disc” have appeared, and players can get them, but there is a catch. Grand Theft Auto VI will have a physical edition, but the box will not contain a disc. Buyers will instead receive a key to download the digital version of the game. Not all players...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is one of the rare sequels that most people like better than the original. The 1991 sci-fi action thriller redefined the blockbuster with a relentlessly exciting story, mind-blowing special effects, and the star power of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It often outshines its predecessor, which also redefined the action thriller in the 1980s...
Valve is continuing to improve the technical state of Steam. The company recently released a Steam update that included improvements to “improve performance when launching the client.” Valve then released a beta update that continues the work on speeding up app launch and begins testing fixes for several bugs. Valve said it has completed a...
A decade ago, Netflix quietly released one of its biggest hits of all time: Stranger Things. Eldritch horror, a coming-of-age story and the presence of Winona Ryder helped cement the show’s place in pop culture. So did its nods to 1980s pop culture, including the works of Stephen King and Steven Spielberg. The lovable child...
Geralt Benchmarks has shared test results for the Demon’s Souls remake running on a PlayStation 5 emulator. The game averaged 60+ FPS, and enabling frame generation brought it to 120 FPS. The test ran on a PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card: This is a build...
Back when Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas came out, I was sure it had a Bigfoot in it, and so were plenty of other players. Not long after launch, a rumor spread across the internet that Rockstar had hidden the legendary creature somewhere in its new game. I first heard about this “secret monster” from...
The Mad King lives. The Royal Shakespeare Company’s sold-out stage production of Game of Thrones: The Mad King closed in Stratford-upon-Avon in September. The run’s end doesn’t finish the spinoff, which is a prequel to Game of Thrones from George R.R. Martin. The production team has revealed that The Mad King will return to the...
The Grand Theft Auto VI launch trailer appears to be free of an animation problem that has followed Rockstar Games’ engine since Grand Theft Auto IV. Rockstar Games recently released the launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. Players watched it, and so did Digital Foundry, whose specialists went through the footage and shared their...
