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Grand Theft Auto VI will bring back functional fast-food restaurants, with players able to order food from drive-thrus without leaving their vehicle. The detail comes from YouTuber TGG, who was invited to Rockstar North for an extensive hands-off preview of GTA VI and later discussed additional gameplay systems during a livestream. TGG said drive-through restaurants are functional in the game and allow players to purchase food while remaining inside their vehicle.

PS5 Pro availability has tightened across several major U.S. retailers as anticipation builds around Grand Theft Auto VI, with some stores showing limited or unavailable stock and third-party sellers asking well above Sony’s $899 retail price. The situation drew renewed attention following Rockstar Games’ GTA VI Extended Look on August 27, although there is no evidence that the presentation alone caused the current shortage.

Grand Theft Auto VI was already taking shape conceptually in 2015, with Rockstar later moving entire teams onto the project as development ramped up around 2020. Rockstar Games head of development and Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson discussed the timeline in a new interview with French publication TroisCouleurs, providing one of the clearest accounts yet of how GTA VI evolved from early ideas into full-scale production.

Rockstar Games’ official Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look has been age-restricted on YouTube, meaning viewers now need to be signed into an account and confirmed as over 18 to watch the presentation on the platform. The restriction appeared after Rockstar uploaded the nearly 27-minute showcase to YouTube following its initial Netflix premiere on August 27.

Arkane Studios founder Raphaël Colantonio has shed new light on why Valve cancelled Ravenholm, the abandoned Half-Life project Arkane worked on in the late 2000s. Speaking in a recent interview with Press Box PR, Colantonio said the decision ultimately came down to the economics surrounding Half-Life 2’s episodic content and how much additional development time Ravenholm still required.

Zenless Zone Zero Version 3.2, titled Their Secret Histories, will launch on September 9 with two new S-Rank Agents, a brand-new combat specialty, new story content and several limited-time events. HoYoverse detailed the update during the Version 3.2 special program on August 28, confirming Claret and Roxy as the headline additions. Claret is an S-Rank Electric Agent and the first character to use the new Armorer specialty.

STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s promised multiplayer mode is still in active development, GSC Game World has confirmed, although the studio is not ready to provide a release window. The update comes from Gamescom 2026, where GSC Game World representatives told Insider Gaming that work on multiplayer remains ongoing.

EA has confirmed that the leaked gameplay footage from Motive Studio’s upcoming Iron Man game is authentic, turning what was initially an unverified development leak into the first genuine look at the project in action. The confirmation came through the newly surfaced official Iron Man game account on X after more than two minutes of work-in-progress footage spread online on August 28. “Well, that didn’t go as planned. But now you know, and we’ve got a lot more to show you.

Insomniac Games has released a new Marvel’s Wolverine features trailer detailing Logan’s Rage system, dozens of character upgrades, equippable combat techniques, collectible-driven memories, craftable suits and several post-game features. The official breakdown arrives ahead of the game’s September 15 launch on PlayStation 5 and provides one of the clearest explanations yet of how players will customize Wolverine during the campaign.

An experimental implementation of NVIDIA’s unreleased DLSS 5 Neural Rendering technology is already running in multiple games after modders extracted a new DLL from NBA 2K27, but the early results come with a severe performance cost. In one Control test on an RTX 5070 Ti at 4K, performance dropped from 71 FPS to 35 FPS after Neural Rendering was enabled.