Rockstar animator posts unseen GTA 6 clips in demo footage which is immediately nuked, but the internet just does not forget

An unlucky former Rockstar animator has made themselves the new temporary focus of Grand Theft Auto fans, after posting a demo reel of their work on various company titles to Vimeo. The two-minute reel includes finished scenes from the likes of GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, alongside various one-off animations with Pixar-style cartoon characters,…

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The Speranza Watchlist isn’t Arc Raiders’ answer to evil players—it’s just a roleplaying tool for people who want to spice up their games

Some Arc Raiders players have been desperately searching for a way to identify and punish evil players, to warn others that they aren’t to be trusted before any more blood is shed. Some dabbled with the idea of virtual sheriffs, while others took to naming and shaming on Reddit, but now they’ve taken to using…

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Dispatch being ‘basically a live-service game for a month’ did gangbusters, but leads say don’t expect to copy it and get the same result

It feels like everyone I know’s gone batty for Dispatch, AdHoc’s superhero management sim that picks up Telltale’s choose-your-own-adventure torch and runs with it to, so I hear, great success. A particular triumph? Its episodic release structure, which even won over our Fraser Brown—noted episode-sceptic—quite quickly. Indeed, the game’s executive producer Michael Choung said the…

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This is getting ridiculous: Videographer directs three short films in Arc Raiders using real players as actors

Just two weeks ago, I talked about how cool it was that Arc Raiders players had been trading guns for binoculars to effectively create lore-abiding news reports and nature documentary-style footage. There were some very eye-catching photos, too. Players bravely adopting such creativity mere weeks into Arc Raiders’ life—a game where terrifying robots and other…

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