Rockstar Games installed a 'Welcome to Vice City' sign atop Miami's Kaseya Center for approximately $1 million as part of Grand Theft Auto 6's marketing campaign. The sign will remain through at least spring 2027, with potential for additional promotional events planned in collaboration with the city and Miami Heat NBA team.
Rockstar Games has released modding guidelines for its titles ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6's November 19 launch, prohibiting story modifications, cross-game content mixing, unofficial multiplayer, and unauthorized monetization including cryptocurrency and real-money mechanics.
Rockstar Games has introduced a new modding policy for Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption that restricts modifications to official storylines, multiplayer content, and unauthorized monetization. The four main rule categories prohibit storyline changes, IP infringement, harmful community content, and unpermitted commercial exploitation of mods.
Rockstar Games has released a modding policy ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6's launch that prohibits unauthorized commercialization of mods, including real-money exchanges, crypto transactions, and gambling. The policy blocks influencers from creating monetized servers where players could earn real income, effectively preventing plans by creators like Adin Ross to turn GTA 6 into a money-making platform.
Rockstar Games released updated mod guidelines for Grand Theft Auto 6 ahead of its November launch, establishing four key sections covering respect for the game's creative content, intellectual property protection, community safety, and monetization restrictions. The guidelines prohibit modifying official storylines and characters, infringing on IP rights, creating content that harms players, and unauthorized commercial use of mods outside Rockstar's official Creator Platform.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave has emerged as Nintendo's strongest Game of the Year contender for 2026, with a Metacritic score of 89 that positions it alongside other top nominees. While Grand Theft Auto 6 remains the frontrunner, the tactical RPG's critical acclaim and the franchise's growing mainstream appeal following successes like Three Houses make a GOTY nomination highly likely.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick responded defensively during a September 17 shareholders meeting when questioned about the company's history of game delays and reliance on major franchises. Zelnick highlighted Take-Two's transformation from near-bankruptcy in 2007 to becoming the largest publicly traded pure-play interactive entertainment company, with stock appreciation of 1,200% since then.
A massive 190 GB leak of Grand Theft Auto files from 2022 has resurfaced online, revealing canceled expansions for GTA 5 including a planned Liberty City DLC, an Agent Trevor single-player expansion, and Michael's zombie-themed expansion. The leak also contains a 2015 build of GTA 6's map that appears largely consistent with recent promotional footage, offering insight into Rockstar's early development process.
A new leak of GTA 5 source code reveals Rockstar Games had scrapped ambitious single-player DLC plans, including a Liberty City expansion and an Agent Trevor storyline featuring the character as an undercover FBI agent. The developer abandoned story content to focus on the more profitable GTA Online multiplayer updates.
A 192 GB cache of Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA 6 data from a 2022 Rockstar Games breach has resurfaced online, containing early GTA 6 map assets, details of canceled GTA 5 expansions including a Liberty City DLC and Agent Trevor single-player content with unreleased missions and alternate endings. The files have circulated privately for years but recently spread to a broader audience.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy revealed that GTA Online won't launch until 2027, after discussions with Rockstar. While Rockstar's Take-Two CEO confirmed GTA VI is a single-player title releasing in November with continued support for the current GTA Online, an official multiplayer component for GTA VI has not yet been announced.
Valor Mortis, a first-person soulslike from the creators of Ghostrunner, is priced at $40 to position itself as an 'and' game alongside major fall releases like GTA 6, Control, and Silent Hill: Townfall. Publisher Lyrical Games chose the lower price point to make the 20-hour game an accessible companion purchase rather than compete directly with full-price AAA titles during an unprecedented crowded release schedule.
Take-Two confirmed GTA Online will continue to receive support beyond GTA 6's November launch, though the single-player game will launch without multiplayer. Twitch boss Dan Clancy believes GTA Online multiplayer will release in 2027, while Take-Two emphasized that PC is becoming increasingly important to the company's platform strategy.
A prominent PS5 hacker named TheFlow announced he is quitting the PS5 hacking scene after another modder named Jordy reported a critical hypervisor exploit to Sony via HackerOne, despite allegedly agreeing to keep it secret until after Grand Theft Auto 6's release. TheFlow had been developing a Linux mod to turn PS5 consoles into Steam Machines and planned to release it in 2027, but the exploit's disclosure will likely result in Sony patching it out via firmware updates.
PS5 Linux developer TheFloW quit his project after a hypervisor vulnerability he had kept private was independently discovered and reported to Sony by another researcher. Nguyen had planned to preserve the bug until after GTA 6's release to allow users to run Linux on PS5, but the disclosure ended his plans for PS5 Pro support in 2027. The project remains available under GPL 3.0 for other developers to continue.