Get ready to do the Silksong release date shuffle all over again: GTA 6’s delay just blew up the whole game industry’s holiday 2026 plans

Pity the poor studio who dares release day-and-date with Grand Theft Auto 6. If you thought the countless indies who scrambled out of the way of Silksong’s launch in August was eye-opening, imagine the feeling of doom that would arise from having GTA 6 suddenly land in your release window. For studios planning a November…

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Well, PC gamers, time to make peace with the fact that we probably won’t be playing GTA 6 until, like, 2028 unless we cave in and buy the console version

Grand Theft Auto 6, once meant to be available on gaming consoles, well, now, has been pushed further down the road from its already delayed target of May to November 2026. Take-Two announced the news in its earnings call on Thursday, but what it didn’t announce—and hasn’t even hinted at, since confirming the game was…

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Blizzard’s reason for adding premium currency to World of Warcraft after 21 years of doing just fine without one has everyone worried about player housing

World of Warcraft’s next expansion will introduce player housing and it’s coming with WoW’s first ever premium currency. Wowhead recently dug up something called “Hearthsteel” in the files of the Midnight alpha and now Blizzard has made a blog post confirming that it’s real and on its way with the expansion. It clarified a few…

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It took a staggering 28 days, but DICE has finally disabled the bugged lock-on missile that broke Battlefield 6

Beep-beep-beep-BOOM. One of the most disruptive bugs in Battlefield 6 has finally been addressed. DICE has temporarily disabled the lock-guided missile in the IFV tank, bypassing a bug that causes countermeasures not to work against the attack. Hear that? That’s the sound of thousands of helicopter and jet pilots collectively sighing. The bug itself has…

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Take-Two boss says ‘we’ve never regretted’ delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while

The big news of the day, and the month so far, was the delay of Grand Theft Auto 6, from May 26 to November 19, 2026. That’s more than a year away from today (which, notably, is roughly the same size of pushback seen in the first GTA 6 delay, which happened in May 2025),…

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Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it’d be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers

With the release of its latest quarterly financial results, Square Enix published a progress report on its “Square Enix Reboots and Awakens” medium-term business plan. Initiated last year, the three-year plan aims to overhaul the company’s game development and publishing strategy. In the progress report, Square Enix announced that, as part of its efforts to…

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Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed to November 2026: ‘These extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve’

Grand Theft Auto 6 still hasn’t been confirmed for PC, and Take-Two announced today that it’s going to take longer than expected to come to consoles as well: Instead of launching on May 26, 2026 as planned, the game is now slated for release on November 19 . “Grand Theft Auto 6 will now release…

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