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Last week, we reported on a new round of lay-offs taking place at Crystal Dynamics. At the time, I reported that this was likely impacting the Perfect Dark team, as Microsoft/Xbox opted to cancel the game this year. Now, we have confirmation on that and as it turns out, the reason for the delayed impact at Crystal Dynamics was due to a deal that was brewing between Microsoft, Embracer and Take-Two, which would have seen Take-Two taking over the game and funding it through to completion. 

Borderlands 4 marks the next major entry in the long-running looter shooter series, with the progenitor of the sub-genre set to launch their successor in just under two weeks’ time. While the game already features plenty of content to look forward to on day-one, the team at Gearbox have now detailed the post-launch roadmap for Borderlands 4.

While Grand Theft Auto 6 was originally supposed to release this year, the game was pushed back to May 2026 over the Spring. Due to the ambitious nature of Grand Theft Auto 6, many are anticipating a second delay, but Take-Two CEO, Strauss Zelnick, says that no such delay is being considered. 

Following its arrival earlier this year, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has admitted that Civilization VII has been off to a “slow start.”

Like clockwork, Take-Two announced that GTA V has once again sold a further 5 million copies – pushing total sales past 215 million.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of Rockstar’s biggest games of all time, with the open-world title having sold more than 50 million copies since its launch back in 2019. Despite this, the game’s online mode has been mostly abandoned by the team. In a surprise announcement however, Red Dead Online has gotten its first update in 3 years.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has told fans to not expect many discounts for Borderlands 4 following its release in August.

Since seeing the trailer in December 2023, fans around the world have been eagerly awaiting the release date for GTA 6. Today, Rockstar finally made that announcement, pushing the game out of 2025 and landing on a May 2026 launch date. While this news is being celebrated around the industry, …

Earlier today, Gearbox confirmed that Borderlands 4 will be releasing sooner than originally announced. The release date has been brought forward to the 12th of September, but Gearbox head, Randy Pitchford, has been quick to stamp out speculation that the release date change has anything to do with Grand Theft …

ake-Two CEO, Strauss Zelnick, shed some light on the marketing plan for GTA 6 this week, indicating a much shorter gap from Trailer 2 to release.

With GTA VI set to launch later this year, many major publishers have reportedly put plans in place to delay titles so as to not clash with Rockstar Games.

Due to various leaks, we've known quite a bit about Grand Theft Auto 6 for years already. At one point, a slew of game files had leaked and while Take-Two did its best to contain it, those files are still floating around today. With that in mind, it should come …

Moon Studios' critically acclaimed Ori series has achieved a remarkable milestone, surpassing 15 million copies sold across Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Thomas Mahler, the series' director, celebrated this achievement on social media, noting that it's “not too shabby” for a genre …

With Grand Theft Auto VI on the horizon, Take-Two has confirmed that 2013's GTA V has now sold over 210 million copies worldwide.

Despite the only trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI releasing more than a year ago, Take-Two has reaffirmed that the game is planned to launch in Fall of 2025.

As part of the company’s latest fiscal earnings report, Take-Two’s CEO confirmed that the publisher “would fully expect to support” Switch 2.

Video game leaks come from all kinds of unlikely places. We've seen plans for a Tomb Raider game leaked due to someone leaving their laptop open on a train. Other leaks have happened simply by walking into the bars near game studio offices. The most recent GTA 6 reveal makes the list for unusual leaks, as it appears to have come from an office cleaner.

2K has finally removed its controversial game launcher from all of its titles across both Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Take-Two isn't even a little bit worried about Grand Theft Auto 6 on Xbox Series S. He's right. Grand Theft Auto 5 ran on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Over the past six years or so, Take-Two has operated its own indie publishing label, known as Private Division. Over time, Private Division supported games like The Outer Worlds, Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program. Now, following on from Take-Two's major acquisition of Gearbox Software, the company is selling off Private …

Rockstar has made a ton of money from the Grand Theft Auto franchise but Red Dead Redemption is certainly pulling its weight too. Almost 100 million units have been sold to date since the franchise began.

Gearbox is swiftly moving the news cycle away from the flop of the star-studded Borderlands film and towards the next game in the series. That's right, Borderlands 4 has now been officially revealed. While Gearbox announced that it was working on Borderlands 4 quite some time ago, this is the …

It’s safe to say that 2024 has been a terrible year for the games industry. While from the outside, things might seem relatively okay – with new and great games coming out at a regular cadence – internally things are much more dire. In the wake of 10s of thousands …

While Take-Two is still being coy about the status of Intercept Games, reliable sources have stated that the studio is closing down, there is even an official closure notice that has been filed with the state of Washington. While Take-Two doesn't want to confirm the lay-offs right now, the people …

Take-Two provided a number of updates yesterday as part of its quarterly earnings report. We now have a more solid timeframe for when Grant Theft Auto 6 will be out, and the folks over at 2K Games are preparing to reveal the next game in one of its “biggest and …

Take-Two's quarterly earnings call just wrapped up last night and it brought about some unexpected Grand Theft Auto 6 news. Rockstar already announced that the game was planned for 2025 with the reveal trailer, but now the release window has been narrowed down further.  During Take-Two's quarterly earnings report, the …

2024 has been a terrible year for devs in the video games industry, with each new day spawning news of another round of lay-offs or studio closure. Following the report that Roll7 and Intercept Games are both being shut down by Take-Two, a new leak has revealed that the holding …

While Take-Two's CEO had said just a few months ago that the company had no plans for lay-offs, things have swiftly changed. Now that Take-Two has acquired Gearbox Entertainment from Embracer Group, the company has reassessed its situation and unfortunately, it has led to the closure of two studios behind …

People Can Fly has been keeping itself busy since the release of Outriders. The studio has had multiple other games in the works, including one known as Project Dagger. While initially planned to be published by Take-Two, this deal was later scrapped, leaving People Can Fly to self-publish. Now, after …

The team at Hangar 13 has been working on a new Mafia game for a couple of years at this point. The next game in the long-running series is now expected to be announced later this year, and it will be built on Unreal Engine 5.  We already knew from …