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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.

The marsupial might be coming back. Again. Fresh off the Spyro: A Realm Beyond reveal at the Xbox Games Showcase, the leaker who called that announcement before it happened has set his sights on another PlayStation-era icon. According to noarmsandnolegs, the X user with a track record on the Spyro tip, a new Crash Bandicoot project has been greenlit somewhere inside the machine. That’s the headline. The fine print is where the air comes out of the balloon. Not much, honestly.

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI go live Thursday, June 25, the studio announced across its social channels. The same post showed off the game’s official cover art, the first piece of polished marketing material we’ve had in months. GTA 6 has carried more release-date baggage than almost any game in recent memory. Originally pencilled in for 2025, it slipped to a May 2026 window, then landed on its current target of November 19, 2026. Plenty of people assumed another delay was coming.

DMZ is returning in Modern Warfare 4, and Infinity Ward looks to have learned from the rocky 2022 version. The studio is taking another swing at the extraction shooter, dropping the beta label this time and folding in new systems meant to fix what the original couldn’t nail. DMZ is Call of Duty’s extraction shooter: you drop into a large map, work through missions and AI threats, and try to extract while other squads do the same and may decide you are the better target.

After first showing the game during Minecraft Live in March, Mojang and Microsoft have locked in a hard release date for the sequel to their surprisingly sticky action-RPG, alongside a fresh reveal trailer. It’s set for September 29, 2026. The sequel again supports drop-in co-op for up to four players, with Mojang promising tougher challenges than the original. To keep up, players get a wide spread of weapons, armor, artifacts, talismans, and legendary gear.

Call of Duty is dusting off one of its more polarizing pre-launch perks. Activision says Modern Warfare 4’s campaign will open early on October 16, seven days before the worldwide release on October 23. The catch is simple: you need to pre-order to get in. Early access covers both the Standard Digital Edition and the Vault Edition on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, Battle.net, and Steam. Nintendo Switch 2 is included too, though pre-orders there won’t go live until later this year.

Blizzard is still hunting unofficial World of Warcraft servers, and this time Project Ascension is in the crosshairs. It’s one of the largest private servers around, with what the project claims is over a million players. The suit was filed last Friday, and Blizzard calls the operation a business built on ongoing infringement of its intellectual property. Ascension is a classless version of WoW where players stitch together existing and custom abilities into their own builds.

After the runaway success of Baldur’s Gate 3, it was always a question of when, not if, Wizards of the Coast would return to the Sword Coast. A new rumor suggests that return won’t only mean Baldur’s Gate 4 down the line, but a full remake of the older games, starting with the second. According to PC Gamer, a source familiar with the project says WotC is working on a Baldur’s Gate 2 remake.

A fresh GTA 6 detail has surfaced ahead of the long-awaited Trailer 3, and this time it’s about how much room the game will claim on your console. According to leaks circulating again this month, Grand Theft Auto VI could install at just under 200 GB on PS5. Nothing is official, but the number is worth a look given where it came from. The estimate originally traces back to GTA 6 Intel, an account that has previously shared accurate information about the game.