Los Santos CustomsI'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.You ever think about how weird cars are, as a concept? It's like sharing public space with enormous bullets piloted by...

The great Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks continued today with a new video from Leek, and this one is particularly impressive, and damaging, because now it looks like the leaker really does have access to a playable build of the game.The bulk of the video shared on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit (which, as with previous videos coming out of the leak, we will not be embedding) shows a...

Last week, Pocketpair head of publishing and communications John "Bucky" Buckley addressed a bubbling conversation about the developer's Palworld collaboration strategy, informing players that they "simply do not realize the sheer number of collabs we’ve rejected or scrapped" over a perceived mismatch.That exchange with the Palworld fanbase seems to have gotten the attention of No Man's Sky developer Hello Games, intensifying a flirtatious game of crossover footsie that's been ongoing...

In case you were wondering what Kintsugiyama's upcoming open world survival multiplayer game was all about, Jeff Kaplan has sat down and gone through 213 rapid-fire questions via an interview with MinnMax and boy, do I know a lot about cowboys in California now. For those who don't know The Legend of California is Kaplan's next big game, set in gold-rush-era California (1849-ish). It's an open world survival game (not...

This month, the biggest leveraged buyout in the history of private equity went through and now EA is owned by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. We don't know what EA will be like under its new owners, but Employees are bracing for the worst. The company took on $20 billion in debt as part of the...

The developers at Guerilla Games are making a last-minute pivot for their live service co-op game set in the Horizon universe after receiving negative player feedback during recent playtests, Bloomberg reports.Horizon Hunters Gathering was supposed to be a live service co-op action game where you group up as a team of animated heroes and fight mechanical beasts. Players reacted poorly to it over the three playtests earlier this year—one of...

A manifesto shared yesterday by the people responsible for the big Grand Theft Auto 6 leak contains a lot of language that will be familiar to anyone following the Stop Killing Games campaign, most notably a demand that any game with singleplayer content have an "offline fallback state" ensuring that games remain playable when their external server support has ended. In response, Stop Killing Games has now issued a statement...

Saudi Arabia's purchase of Electronic Arts, the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history, officially closed earlier this month. With that deal done, a new Game Developer report has found that an awful lot of employees are expecting much more stringent control over what kinds of games they are and are not allowed to make.This isn't really new, strictly speaking. After the buyout was announced, current and former EA employees...

Overwatch season 4 introduced a rank reset and you know what that means, it's every cat, hog, and retired sniper for themselves as players desperately try to claw back to where they finished last season. As if that isn't stressful enough, we've also got a new rank on our hands. Slotted between ranks Platinum and Diamond you can now find Emerald, the answer to the growing skill disparity between Plat...

Rockstar's been embroiled for some time in a legal dispute after firing 30 unionised workers in the UK, which has, naturally, been seen as union-busting behaviour by those impacted. The workers, who are part of The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), have been making solid progress. In June of this year, it was decided that IWGB would be allowed to present its case that Rockstar had allegedly blacklisted...