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• GTA 6 will "provide mechanisms that encourage" empathy "for the first time in a GTA"

  14-11-2026 19:24 via GamesRadar+
  
  Certain things are synonymous with Grand Theft Auto - crime, cars, corruption, guns, mayhem and murder. You normally might not expect empathy from a game like GTA 6 with the series' past in mind, then, but Rockstar Games have added "mechanisms" to create empathy anyway.GTA has always been somewhat of a cynical and comically rude franchise, but it seems Rockstar's now borrowing some lessons from its more grown-up Red Dead Redemption 2. Unrestrained violence and city-wide chaos will still be possi
  
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• As the 13-year wait for GTA 6 ends, it’s time to remember the first 10 games released in 12 years

  14-11-2026 19:00 via GamesRadar+
  
  Game development has changed substantially since the '90s. Hit games were often assembled by small teams in a couple of years – sometimes months – and you'd often see new entries in major franchises every single year. For a 12-year span from 1997 through 2009, that's exactly how the Grand Theft Auto series was, which throws the 13-year wait for GTA 6 into sharp relief.These days, Rockstar encompasses many studios around the world, but lead development on the GTA series is handled by Rockstar
  
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• GTA 6: The Album seemingly leaks with Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey as part of the 34-song tracklist

  14-11-2026 18:47 via GamesRadar+
  
  While GTA 6 comes out in just a few days, Rockstar Games has remained a little quiet about the 34 songs that make up Grand Theft Auto 6: The Album, but a recent leak seems to have revealed the mystery artists included on the tracklist. A new video seemingly recorded from a music record store shows off the front and back of the Grand Theft Auto 6: The Album vinyl. We already knew the star-studded album would feature the likes of Travis Scott, Cardi B, Pinkpantheress, SZA and Keith Richards - and
  
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• Ahead of GTA 6, Take-Two CEO calls out Anthropic and OpenAI over AI game clones

  14-11-2026 14:10 via GamesRadar+
  
  In the lead up to GTA 6's long-awaited launch, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has called out companies like Anthropic and OpenAI for allowing users to plagiarize and clone pre-existing games using generative AI.Generative AI's usage in game development has been highly controversial for many reasons, but in recent months, AI copycats have become an increasingly prevalent issue. Some Steam developers even cancelled demos or playtests out of fear their games would be cloned and put up for sale before
  
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• Majora's Mask remake is "a foregone conclusion" after Ocarina of Time, ex-Nintendo marketers say

  14-11-2026 13:15 via GamesRadar+
  
  Now that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's latest remake is out in the wild, all eyes have turned to a certain smiling moon up above. But while fans speculate about the series' future, two former Nintendo marketing leads reckon a Majora's Mask remake is almost definitely on the way.The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's Switch 2 revival sold in droves earlier this month, moving more than 5 million copies in its first four days and leading to speculation about what comes next. For Kit Ellis
  
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• Epic's Tim Sweeney says Steam's AI rule is "unfair to developers who use AI to make good games"

  14-11-2026 01:39 via GamesRadar+
  
  Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has been in a bit of a one-sided beef with Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell for a while now, lately about Steam's AI disclosure that requires developers to include a label informing Steam users of AI-generated content. Sweeney has had a number of complaints about Valve's storefront over the years, which makes sense as he owns one of its main competitors, the Epic Games Store, but he's been doubling and tripling down on the AI disclosure issue as of late. In a new i
  
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• Nintendo just broke the Zelda timeline by 10,000 years

  14-11-2026 00:30 via GamesRadar+
  
  The Legend of Zelda timeline has gotten yet another confusing new update, shifting the events leading to Breath of the Wild by 9,900 years and directly contradicting established lore. It's such an about-face for the existing story that series fans are pretty sure it's just a mistake, but the new word comes straight from Nintendo of America, which is often treated as gospel.The Zelda timeline splits into three different branches based on the end of Ocarina of Time, but those branches all converge
  
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