December 2023

Rockstar has released the first GTA 6 trailer early, after it leaked online this evening. The video confirms that GTA will launch in 2025, and shows off the game's main characters - a Bonnie and Clyde-style couple who enter into a life of crime.

The 90-second clip had been due to launch tomorrow, but made its way onto the internet earlier than planned. It follows another GTA 6 video leak over the weekend.

"Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube," Rockstar wrote this evening in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Watch the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 below.

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We learned last week that Rockstar Games was going to release the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI this week. It was set to release on Tuesday, December 5, at 9 a.m. E.T., but after leaking online today, the team released the trailer early.

In this first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the highly anticipated sequel to Grand Theft Auto V more than 10 years in the making, we get a glimpse at our dual protagonists, the setting of Vice City, and more alongside a 2025 release year. A press release from Rockstar Games says the game will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2025, with no mention of PC. 

Check out the official Grand Theft Auto VI trailer for yourself below: 

Rockstar have uploaded the first GTA 6 trailer ahead of schedule this evening after a second leak saw the whole thing get plastered across social media. Tomorrow, December 5th at 2pm GMT, was meant to be the grand reveal of GTA 6's first trailer, but Rockstar have put the whole thing live early, confirming that, yes, it is going to be called GTA 6, and it's coming in 2025.

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Rockstar Games has released the GTA 6 trailer early after it was leaked online a day before its scheduled premiere event. The video confirms that the long-awaited sequel takes place in Vice City and will be released in 2025.

Following a leak on X (formerly known as Twitter), Rockstar responded to clips of their game being posted early by publishing the full Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer on YouTube. In a separate tweet, the developer explained, "Our trailer has leaked, so please watch the real thing on YouTube."

You can watch the full GTA 6 trailer here:

HoYoVerse offered an update on the moveset for Hanya in Honkai: Star Rail, going over her normal attack, Skill, Technique, and Ultimate. It also offered an “interview” with the character going over her tasks and sister Xueyi.

First, Hanya’s normal attack is Oracle Brush. That deals Physical damage to one enemy. If someone uses the Samsara Skill for Hanya in Honkai: Star Rail, then that deals Physical damage and temporarily puts Burden on one enemy. Any allies who attack the foe with that effect gets Skill Points back even if they use a Skill or Ultimate. Her Netherworld Judgment Technique also applies Burden to a random enemy when a fight begins. 

Meanwhile, the Ultimate Hanya uses helps a member of the party. When you use Ten-Lords’ Decree, All Shall Obey, she’ll increase someone’s attack and speed stats for a limited amount of time.

As for the interview, it goes over the Ten-Lords Commission judge’s background. She handles interrogation for the commission, while her sister is in charge of detention. It noted that both of their names are “codenames.” As part of her job, Hanya reads peoples’ memories. It also notes that her sister is most important to her, to the point where she’s willing to do extra work for more “reanimation” days with Xueyi.

As Chris Tapsell pointed out a while back, every GTA game is love wrapped in satire. The series seems edgy because the satire is very broad, and often fairly misdirected. But the series sells - and the individual games stick around for so long - because after thirty hours of playing, you're responding purely to the love. Love of the genre, certainly. Love of the excess, sure. But love of the characters too and, more than anything, love of place.

I expected love of place to be firmly in the foreground for the GTA 6 trailer, which leaked earlier tonight, causing Rockstar to just go ahead and publish the thing itself. I expected this because Rockstar's first trailers tend to be vibe affairs. These games take so long to make you're often getting glimpses of the team working on new hardware for the first time and that's always interesting, but also, Rockstar just likes place. It likes to capture the essence of a location - New York, LA, the south-west in the days of stagecoaches and whatnot - in a few key frames suffused with the kind of billowing bloomy light that you don't often see outside of Turner. And then it moves in close for the details that will sell the place: the oil wells scandalously close to the LA beach (they're there in real life), the exhausted realtor hammering in a sign, the people living under the bridge.

Developer Rockstar Games announced last week that it was going to release the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI on Tuesday, December 5. However, the studio released the trailer a day earlier – watch the official GTA VI reveal trailer here – after it leaked online. The trailer confirmed GTA VI will be released in 2025 and now, thanks to a new press release from Rockstar parent company, Take-Two Interactive Software, we know it's coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. 

Curiously, the press release only mentions those two platforms, leaving out PC. Here's what it says: 

Good news, everyone! Unless you’ve been living in a monastery, you’re likely aware that 2023 is the year that video games got horny again. And no, I don’t mean tastefully Hades frisky, I mean Leisure Suit Larry and Night Trap levels of unhinged lust, the likes of which “mainstream” gaming (whatever that means) hasn’t…

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Following the leak (and subsequent official release) of Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer, fans have already taken to social media to gobble up handles matching the fictional ones depicted in Rockstar’s upcoming game.

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Rockstar Games has confirmed that, at least at launch, the company’s long-awaited open-world crime sim, Grand Theft Auto VI, will launch on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 only, with no mention of a PC version.

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The first trailer for Rockstar Games’ upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI has arrived after a decade of rumors, speculation, and waiting.

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The trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI was planned to be released tomorrow, on December 5, but a random Twitter account seems to have leaked it early. According to the trailer, the game is planned to launch in 2025.

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Lawson has announced the “Hololive Kuji: Hololife” collection, in which you’ll be able to get small items you can use in your everyday life. The lottery will start on December 5, 2023, and it’ll cost 820 JPY per attempt.

You can pull for Hololive Kuji: Hololife prizes from any Lawson, HMV, or United Cinema in Japan. For every three attempts you make in one transaction, you can get an original Hololive sticker. There are a total of sixteen variations, with only one sticker of each. This means that the first sixteen customers in a store can get a sticker.

Here is the full list of items:

• 1-8: Tapestry (Going Out Version, with a copy of the Hololive member in question’s comment on the tapestry)
• 9-16: Tapestry (Roomwear version, with a copy of the Hololive member in question’s autograph)
• 17: Shirakami Fubuki’s tissue cover
• 18: Miko’s offering box-style storage case
• 19: Pekora’s miniature rabbit-shaped clock

The Boulder Town Super League event will return to Honkai: Star Rail starting on December 6, 2023. It’ll run until December 25, 2023, and will be a Conventional Memoir after that date.

As a reminder, Conventional Memoirs are time-limited events that remain in the game even after its initial period. When you look at these events from the Travel Log, you can see a symbol resembling a box with a star. Events with this sign are Conventional Memoirs, and you can access them anytime from the Event Log.

You’ll still be able to get rewards such as Stellar Jades from completing a Conventional Memoir, but not time-limited ones. Examples of Conventional Memoirs include the first Boulder Town Super League and Aurum Alley’s Hustle and Bustle. The Boulder Town Martial Exhibition event in Honkai: Star Rail will require players to first finish the “Gladiator” Adventure Mission and the “Jarilo-VI—Silent Galaxy” Trailblaze Mission.

Atlus character designer Azusa Shimada talked about the new battle outfit for the main character in Persona 3 Reload. The redesign was inspired by biker jackets and military uniforms.

Shimada said that he wanted to design the new battle outfit for Persona 3 Reload with the idea of equipment that would be best suited to support a group of young people facing their destiny on the battlefields of the Dark Hour.

Shimada also added that he wanted to increase the appearance of sturdiness and storage capacity while keeping a sense of ease of movement and not making it look bulky. The main inspiration for the new battle outfit was biker jackets and military clothing.

While creating the new design, they considered a version with the jacket closed but ultimately decided to keep the familiar version. At first, Shimada was worried that the new elements would detract from the charm of the original design, but he hoped they could enhance the sense of realism during combat.

You can check out the original Atlus social media post here:

Nintendo and Universal's partnership has been a fruitful one. Universal Studios Japan's version of Super Nintendo World kicked it all off in late 2020 and early 2021 with a magical experience for Nintendo fans (learn more about our experience here), then in February 2023, Universal Studios Hollywood's Super Nintendo World opened its doors (see our photo tour of that version here). The collaboration to this point culminated shortly after that with the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which garnered strong fan reactions and grossed more than $1 billion at the box office.

We knew it was coming. Heck, we knew it was mere hours away. But Grand Theft Auto VI is finally, truly happening for real, and we just got our first official glimpse of the game, thanks to Rockstar Games.

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A while back, I had a feeling we'd see a lot of games about nature and plants and the wild coming out over the next few years, as developers and players alike emerged from being shut inside for basically a year like dairy cows during their annual spring turnout. We may not all be not be naturally disposed to it, but there's much to be said for the fleeting, if unbridled happiness that comes from running barefoot into the teeth of the wind or getting caught in a rainstorm without a coat.

Nine times out of ten, you might get wet and have cold fingers, but that one time that you get wet, have cold fingers and feel red-raw and alive is a doozy. A Highland Song, a lone and dangerous jaunt through the Scottish highlands, is trying to capture that feeling, most especially in segments where you sprint across rocks and heather alongside a deer. At these times you leap in time to swelling music, and whoop and yell in spontaneous joy. It's lovely. It's also easy to stumble.

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GTA 6 will release in 2025 on both Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, Rockstar has confirmed.

There's no mention as yet of a PC version of the game.

"Grand Theft Auto 6 continues our efforts to push the limits of what's possible in highly immersive, story-driven open-world experiences," said Sam Houser, founder of Rockstar Games. "We're thrilled to be able to share this new vision with players everywhere."

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A surprise discovery I made a little way into A Highland Song, the latest from Overboard and Heaven's Vault developer Inkle: it doesn't matter if you fall off a cliff. This, I think, is quite weird for a climbing game. And especially one where a sense of peril seems at first to be such a central part of what it's trying to do. As a girl named Moira, you must run from a miserable home in the Scottish highlands to visit your uncle, at a faraway lighthouse. You spend a week, or probably more, scrabbling up the side of mountains, sheltering from storms in cave mouths, spelunking into dead ends in search of directional clues - you've no actual map, by the way - and you do this racing against both a shrinking health bar and each day's ever-fading sun.

But! No actual peril. Fall off or run out of health and you just pop back to where you were before. The result, combined with a few other snags, makes for a less than stellar game about hiking, or survival, or indeed climbing. But it makes for a wonderful game about the mountains - about experiencing the natural world, in fact - which is what A Highland Song is really aiming to be.

Woe, woe unto the poor marketing teams of BioWare, who had the misfortune to release their latest Dragon Age: Dreadwolf video hours before the leak of the GTA 6 trailer. The Dragon Age trailer is just a teaser, with a full reveal coming in summer 2024, but it sheds some light on the new RPG's setting, and introduces a rather menacing character who sounds like Patrick Stewart - BioWare have yet to reveal the actor.

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The first trailer for GTA 6 might have gone live ahead of schedule just as most of us in the RPS Treehouse were tucking down for bed last night, but it has, to no one's surprise at all, captivated the internet at large regardless. Now that we've had some time to digest and absorb it properly (and not with the words "BUY BTC" plastered across it), we've gathered some of our initial thoughts about the trailer below. And what can I say? A lot of us were very taken with those lovely flamingos.

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Grand Theft Auto 3 is to the open world game what 1993’s Doom is to the first-person shooter. The difference is that Doom is still worth playing today and Grand Theft Auto 3 is not - and neither is its better loved sequel, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

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According to Rockstar founder Sam Houser, GTA 6 "continues our efforts to push the limits of what's possible in highly immersive, story-driven open-world experiences". Broadcasting via Take-Two Interactive press release in the wake of yesterday's premature GTA 6 trailer release (I hope you didn't accidentally watch the leaked cryptocurrency-branded version), Houser added that "we're thrilled to be able to share this new vision with players everywhere" when it launches in 2025. Except on PC. For the moment, anyway.

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Fntastic, developer of zombie MMO The Day Before, has apologised for its marketing ahead of the game's release later this week.

The developer shared a statement shared on X, formerly Twitter, addressed to future players, supporters, and people who "didn't believe in us".

To the latter, Fntastic said: "We made this game for you, too. We accept any kind of criticism and don't hold a grudge against you."

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After years of waiting, Rockstar has finally given us our first slice of GTA 6. In the new trailer, we are introduced to the game's protagonists, Lucia and Jason, and the crime-riddled world that they live in. This is Vice City, GTA's take on Miami, Florida.

I am now going to break down the trailer, listing all the little things I noticed. While the whole thing's only 91 seconds in length (which is admittedly more than we got for GTA5), the studio has managed to pack a lot in. The trailer gives us a real sense of what we can expect on the game's eventual release, which is currently slated for 2025 across PS5 and Xbox Series consoles.

Before we dive on in, here is the first trailer for GTA 6 in all its glory once more.

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Universal Studios has announced that Super Nintendo World Japan will be opening its Donkey Kong Country area in spring 2024.

The theme park opening window was revealed at a media presentation held yesterday, as reported by WDW News Today.

The area will include a new rollercoaster called Mine Cart Madness, which will take riders through the jungle as Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong protect the Golden Banana from the Tiki Tak Tribe and will even contain a "leap across a collapsed track".

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EA has confirmed layoffs at UK developer Codemasters, the developer behind recent racing games F1 23 and EA Sports WRC.

It is unclear at present how many employees will be affected and from which departments.

"Our business is constantly changing as we strive to deliver amazing games and services that keep our players engaged, connected, and inspired," reads a statement from an EA spokesperson to IGN.

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