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Grand Theft Auto VI will launch in $80 and $100, single-player and disc-free
GTA VI. Screenshot: Rockstar Games, Take Two Interactive
After over a year of speculation, Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will indeed cost more than the average video game.
The open-world crime adventure set across...
Netflix proposes a different kind of single-player video game: 40 minutes long, scary, streamed to your TV
Unhinged. Screenshot: Night School, Netflix
I started and finished Netflix’s next video game—arguably its most interesting video game—in a hotel room in Manhattan last week.
It took me less than an hour.
I died twice.
The game is called...
Fumito Ueda and I discuss a large robot head
An interview with the lead designer of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian about his new game, its unexpected guns, its colossal cranium, and not hurrying up
On a recent sunny day in Los Angeles, I stood next to the great vid...
Sony drops “PC”, adds “AI” to official PlayStation business strategy summary
Plus: PlayStation division’s headcount went up for the first time since 2023
Sony had made some conspicuous edits and updates to its description of PlayStation’s “business environment and strategy,” in a new annual report filed to the U.S....
Xbox's reverse-2018
A composite image of Microsoft-owned game studios, circa the company’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Red X = studio closed (or, in Alpha Dog’s case, absorbed into another). Red line: major portion of the division/studio shut down. Gre...
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