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Grand Theft Auto Won't Leave the US. The Game's Co-Founder Explains Why

Outside of the London expansion for the first Grand Theft Auto video game, the series has settled on satirizing America ever since. Gamers have committed mass atrocities in fictionalized versions of New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, and there’s a simple reason for that: There’s no place like the good ol' United States.

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OG Sims dev says it's "critical" the series embrace diversity during today's "reactionary cycle" echoing '00s censorship efforts: "We will always go through this"

"When we are in reactionary periods, to have stalwart, beloved brands that are capable of sending this message is critical to society"

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "this sort of feedback is a lot more useful during early access" as fans inexplicably ask Larian to "#showthegaleballs"

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"The greed on display is disgusting": Fortnite finally adds pets in the form of Sidekicks but finds a way to make everyone mad with "absurd" pricing

These new buddies don't come cheap

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I was one of the first to see Hades 2's true ending, and I don't know how I feel about Supergiant retconning the whole thing

Now Playing | Lack of belief in its own story, or a stroke of metagaming brilliance?

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This small Switch 2 upgrade has made my life so, so much easier

The virtual game card system is ideal (for me)

"If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens": Former Gears of War art director reckons the Xbox shooter franchise lost its horror edge over the years

Gears of War: E-Day is promising to go back to those horror-ish roots

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Fortnite Simpsons collab divides players with its cramped map, suggesting Small Map Syndrome is spreading through the air: "It feels like Reload, I want it to feel like Battle Royale"

Springfield has come to Fortnite

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Cyberpunk series creator Mike Pondsmith says he's watching Cyberpunk 2 closely at CDPR, just like he did with 2077: "People have been showing me what they're doing"

"They're showing me what's going to be happening in the new iteration of the game"

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Switch 2 update trailer didn't bother to mention one of the biggest quality-of-life changes coming to the game, despite fans begging for it since launch

"That's the number one thing I've been asking for and they just don't mention it??"

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No, World of Warcraft isn’t being dumbed down for consoles — Ion Hazzikostas sets the record straight

From addon restrictions to simpler rotations, Blizzard says Midnight’s changes are about making WoW easier to learn, not dumbing it down.

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Battlefield 6 player goes to extreme lengths to prove the new maps are much smaller than in previous games, painstakingly scaling pixels to meters: "I've done nothing but work on this the entire weekend"

Battlefield 3 is still the series peak for map size

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Just Cause 5 "would be a no-go" because of studio departures, Avalanche co-founder says, but he would've loved for Xbox's canceled Contraband see the light of day

The Just Cause movie is still going ahead

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No, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is not launching early — here’s why

The rumors that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will release early just won't go away, but hopefully now, people will stop buying into them.

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Palworld dev says "it's trendy to say 'eww UE slop'" but Arc Raiders "might be the new benchmark" for Unreal Engine games: "In awe of what they've achieved"

It's not "the most fun" when Megabonk and Ball x Pit exist, however.

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Behold the world's first Godzilla RPG, revealed exclusively here

Calling all kaiju fans, check out the first Godzilla RPG

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I love that The Outer Worlds 2's Flaw system calls me out on my RPG behavior and then asks me to double-down on it: "Because flaws are optional, we knew we could actually push them a little bit harder"

On the Radar | "We're always trying to look at and observe the player doing something"

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This mind-bending mixed-reality indie game breaks into the real world

You can even play with your cat.

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Resident Evil royalty will host the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, with Ultimate Game of the Year voting now open

Maggie Robertson, Lady Dimetrescu herself, will host this year's ceremony

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Arc Raiders catches heat over expensive cosmetic bundles and lack of earnable premium currency: "Helldivers 2 should be the gold-standard for paid-game content"

The game is still sitting at "Very Positive" on Steam, however

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Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser couldn't kill GTA 4's Niko Bellic as fans needed to be able "to play forever," so he killed Red Dead Redemption's John Marston instead

John died so Niko could live

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After 15 years, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser reveals the meaning behind Red Dead Redemption's Strange Man: "He's a manifestation of your shadow, your karma, the devil"

Rockstar added more storytelling because the game became "quite boring"

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The Outer Worlds 2 review – improved space-faring sequel is an enjoyable time sink

While its story fails to deliver, this enjoyable follow-up to Obsidian’s 2019 adventure makes it up with considerable advances elsewhere

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PlayStation bosses at Sony scrapping Days Gone studio's live service IP didn't come as a surprise to one dev: "We didn't make enough substantial progress over the 3 years I was there"

"I saw the eventual cancellation coming"

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"This is a Komplete FAILURE": Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with massive input lag and netcode issues ruining fighting game fans' experiences online

The PS5 version has significantly worse lag than other releases

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