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Rockstar has finally spoken about the leaked Grand Theft Auto VI footage. In a statement posted to Instagram, the studio called the leaks “heartbreaking for our team”. It arrives a day before the game’s official unveiling on Netflix, and a full week after the first clip surfaced. Fifteen gameplay videos have circulated in that time, attributed to a leaker or group calling itself Cyberleek. Rockstar said nothing about any of them until now. The studio also says sorry.

Rockstar Games has released “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look”, a 26-minute gameplay showcase made with Netflix. It is the most the studio has shown of the game since the first trailer. It also arrives after a week of leaks Rockstar had no control over. Netflix holds a six-hour exclusive window on the showcase. After that it goes up on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel, at 3am CEST. Anyone hoping for a developer documentary will be disappointed.

Breach of Trust, the second paid expansion for Frostpunk 2, arrived on June 23 across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Two months on, its Steam rating tells an awkward story: Mixed, with 46 percent of 448 user reviews positive, and recent reviews trending Mostly Negative at 39 percent. Critics landed somewhere else entirely. The DLC holds roughly 75 on Metacritic, though from a small handful of reviews. The gap between press and players is the real news here, not the launch itself.

Halo: Reach designer Niles Sankey has confirmed what a lot of players suspected back in 2010: Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare games shaped the tone of Reach’s campaign, and the game’s devastating closing objective grew directly out of that influence. In a post on social media, Sankey said the first two Modern Warfare titles were a major influence on how Reach’s campaign was built, and singled out the tonal control in those games as something Bungie admired at the time and still rates today.

Counter-Strike 2 can’t seem to stop the outflow. According to fresh Steamcharts data, the game’s average concurrent player count has slipped for the fifth month running – the kind of prolonged slide Valve’s shooter last endured back in 2021. The stats were flagged by the account NartOutHere. 📉 For the past 5 months, CS2’s average player count has gone down every single month Could this be related to more and more players asking Valve to finally fix the anti-cheat system?

Rockstar Games has confirmed that the download codes for Grand Theft Auto VI sold in stores for the PlayStation 5 will be region-locked. On Xbox Series X and S, those same codes carry no geographic restrictions at all. The reason is that GTA 6 won’t come on a physical disc when the game launches on 19 November 2026. Retail boxes will contain only a digital download code, and on PS5 the region on the code must match the region on the PSN account for it to be redeemed.

El analista de la industria Mat Piscatella compartió cifras que ayudan a explicar por qué Sony está dejando atrás los juegos físicos. Según él, apenas siete juegos de PlayStation vendieron más de 100 000 copias físicas en Estados Unidos en lo que va de 2026. Los datos llegan tras la decisión de Sony de dejar de lanzar nuevos juegos en disco después de 2027, una medida que generó un rechazo marcado entre los jugadores.

Blow up the bomb, everyone nearby dies. That’s been the deal since forever. Season 5 pokes a hole in it, and the fallout for how rounds end is sneakier than the patch notes suggest. Valve laid it out in a Steam post. The bomb no longer just cooks everything in a blast radius. Now the explosion rolls out from the site as a wave, travelling through the map. Sit on the bomb and you’re still dead. Take a few steps, though, and it changes.

Grand Theft Auto 6 doesn’t launch until November 19, preorders haven’t even opened yet, and there’s still no word on a PC version. None of that has stopped a crop of websites from telling fans they can buy “VIP early access” right now. Malwarebytes has looked at them, and the verdict is exactly what you’d expect: there’s nothing on the other end of the payment. The pitch is simple and effective. Pay “a few hundred dollars,” get into GTA 6 before everyone else. The catch is the payment method.

There’s a particular kind of internet joy in this: a series can be over two decades old, sold in the hundreds of millions, and still hide a detail in plain sight on every cover it ever shipped. A Reddit user recently posted a collection of all the cover art from GTA III to VI in r/gaming, and the thread blew up. Not for the nostalgia, but for something people suddenly noticed for the first time.