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• GTA 6 Screenshot Suggests It Won’t Be Shy About Movie References

  02-10-2026 21:41 via gamespot.com
  
  A new screenshot from Grand Theft Auto 6 has arrived, and fans immediately noticed that it appears to be referencing the iconic opening scene from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 crime movie Pulp Fiction.
  The image was shared by Love magazine on Instagram. The GTA 6 Countdown social media account put it next to the diner scene from Pulp Fiction, and the similarities are there, especially in the framing.
  In Pulp Fiction, Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer's characters, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny, go on to rob the
  
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• GTA 6 Should “Blaze A Trail” To More Expensive Games, Dev Says

  02-10-2026 19:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar's GTA 6 is priced at $80 for its standard edition. Another voice has come forward to say they hope other teams follow suit and charge more for new games to help the industry at a time when developers are closing up shop, cancelling games, and laying off developers on a regular basis.Martin Klima, the co-founder of Kingdom Come developer Warhorse, told PC Gamer that raising unit prices would "help a lot," but "everybody's scared to death" to do it."Now, hopefully, GTA will blaze the trai
  
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• GTA 6 Takes The Ridiculous World We Live In And Turns It Up To 11

  02-10-2026 19:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Video games are usually a few steps removed from reality, but with Grand Theft Auto 6, developer Rockstar Games aims to reflect and amplify the current state of the world with an "over the top" experience. As seen in the trailers and gameplay previews so far, GTA 6 is a contemporary game about doing whatever it takes to make it to the top, and that pursuit of fame and glory is often bookended by shootouts, car chases, and explosions in its Bonnie and Clyde narrative."If you are going to put all
  
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• Xbox Game Pass Loses These 9 Games In October

  02-10-2026 18:34 via gamespot.com
  
  The start of the month usually brings several new Xbox Game Pass titles for subscribers, along with confirmation of which games will leave the subscription service in the coming days. This month, at least nine games will be leaving, including one of the best games of 2025, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.Other big departures this month include A Plague Tale: Requiem and-- inconveniently for horror fans during the spookiest month of the year--the Dead by Daylight spin-off The Casting of Frank Stone.
  
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• In 5 Years, Will Netflix Still Be In Gaming? Here’s What The CEO Said

  02-10-2026 17:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Netflix has been experimenting with video games for a while, but is the streaming giant going to eventually drop out of gaming? That's the question Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw put to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos at the Screentime event this week.
  Regarding whether Netflix will still host games in five years, Sarandos said, "I think so." He said Netflix's push into mobile gaming was "a gateway to cloud gaming," which is something Netflix is "much more interested in."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lsV
  
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• Sony’s Revised PS5 Slim Could Be Getting Cheaper To Make, But Not To Buy

  02-10-2026 16:17 via gamespot.com
  
  It looks like Sony has quietly revised the PS5 console once again, with new internal changes across the (mother)board. It's not clear when these new models came into service, but they seem to have entered circulation around the same time Sony released limited-edition Marvel's Wolverine PS5 consoles.Spotted by Modyfikator89, longevity and repairability appear to be the key areas that Sony has focused on. The redesigned motherboard offers easier access to the CR2023 battery, the streamli
  
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• NBA’s Miami Heat Will Wear GTA 6 Jerseys And Play On A Branded Court The Day Before Release

  02-10-2026 15:38 via gamespot.com
  
  The NBA's Miami Heat have announced that they will wear GTA 6-inspired jerseys when they host the Milwaukee Bucks on November 18, a day before the game releases. Additionally, the game will take place on a "never-before-seen court," and it'll be inspired by GTA 6 and Vice City.The Heat play at the Kaseya Center in Miami, which was recently adorned with "Vice City" signage, airlifted in by helicopter. The game will air on ESPN on November 18. Tickets are on sale now.https://twitter.com/MiamiHEAT/
  
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• Blizzard Might Finally Be Serious About WoW: Forever Gold Buying, Bans Streamer For Promoting It

  02-10-2026 15:13 via gamespot.com
  
  A prominent World of Warcraft: Forever streamer has been banned following comments made on stream encouraging his viewers to buy gold on his behalf. Forever, which is currently in beta ahead of the MMORPG's full launch in November, is currently mired in a gold buying and real-money transaction (RMT) controversy. Players buying gold from third-party websites that use bots to farm the game's primary currency has been a problem for the entirety of WoW's existence and has always been against th
  
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• Disney Responds To Rumor That It Could Buy Fortnite Studio Epic Games

  02-10-2026 15:08 via gamespot.com
  
  One juicy gaming rumor that continues to swirl is that The Walt Disney Company could buy Epic Games and Fortnite. It remains to be seen if such a deal may materialize, and now a top boss at the House of Mouse has directly responded.Speaking at Bloomberg's Screentime event this week, Disney executive Dana Walden reminded everyone that Disney already invested more than $1.5 billion into Epic for an equity stake. But could talks progress to a full acquisition?"Those are not the conversations we're
  
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• The Street Fighter Movie’s Most Obscure Easter Egg Is For True Fighting Game Nerds

  02-10-2026 14:45 via gamespot.com
  
  Ahead of its release later this month, marketing for the Street Fighter movie has focused on deep references to the long-running fighting game series. How deep? We already knew that fighting game legend Justin Wong--alongside Michael "IFC Yipes" Mendoza--was making a cameo as one of the inmates who watches Ryu take on Blanka in a prison fight, but even his prisoner costume hides one heck of an Easter egg. Any fighting game fan will instantly recognize it: on Wong's neck, you can spot the nu
  
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• Activision Could Be Giving Halo Something It Hasn’t Had In Years: A Clean Slate

  02-10-2026 14:26 via gamespot.com
  
  Halo has a new home at Activision following recent changes at Xbox, and while it's still early days, Activision has reportedly proposed a total reboot for the series. This would be a fresh start, moving away from the convoluted Halo lore built up over the last 25 years through various games and spin-off media. That's according to sources who spoke to Rebs Gaming, who also stressed that nothing is concrete right now. Call of Duty developer Sledgehammer Games presented conceptual prototypes for a
  
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