A GTA 6 fan in Brazil said they politely emailed Rockstar Games asking for a poster and an executive actually replied and shipped an official GTA 6 poster from the company's New York office. The fan shared images of the poster and emails on Reddit, blurring out personal details and asking others not to flood Rockstar's inbox. Rockstar is counting down to GTA 6's November 19 launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Modders are furious as Claude-powered mashup mods flood social media. https://bit.ly/4rMbGrv
Push Square editors share their weekend gaming plans: Aaron Bayne is playing Silver Pines, Jamie O'Neill is revisiting Naughty Dog's 1999 Crash Team Racing on PS Vita, Liam Croft is playing Control Resonant, and Sammy Barker is clearing events in Zenless Zone Zero ahead of a new update. Sammy also notes several embargoed reviews are in the works.
A leaker claims that cut content for 'Silver Pines' amounts to three times the content actually used, with most of it no longer present in the game files. The same person previously provided similar material.
"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 653 https://www.pushsquare.com/features/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-653"
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A mod called Doom 2 in GTA 5 Hell On Earth (D2IGTA5HOE) imports Doom 2 into GTA 5, switching the game from third-person open world to first-person shooter when you hit F9, with players supplying their own .wad file. Pressing F10 triggers Hell On Earth mode, spawning authentic Doom 2 enemies in the streets of Los Santos, where you can fight with a super shotgun and plasma cannon.
PlayStation Blog's Share of the Week highlights player-submitted Marvel's Wolverine screenshots featuring allies and villains including Omega Red, Jean, Sabretooth, Mystique, Deathstrike and Nathaniel Essex. The next theme is Marvel's Wolverine – Suits, with submissions due by 11:59 PM PT on October 14, 2026.
Share of the Week highlights allies and villains in Marvel's Wolverine: https://play.st/4dy00CZ #PSshare #PSBlog
Next week, share your favorite looks from Marvel's Wolverine using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.
Nintendo Life has opened its six-monthly "Games We Missed" callout, asking the community to recommend Switch 1 and Switch 2 games the site has not reviewed. In April the feature highlighted 31 unreviewed Switch games. Submissions are capped at 100 words per game, one entry per game, and must be sent via the Contact page under the subject "Switch eShop Hidden Gems"; these games will not be reviewed.
The latest GTA VI leaks show several signs of coming from a development build, including NPCs not reacting to a fully naked Jason, a tank spawning out of nowhere, missing textures and broken animations, and a HUD without controller button prompts. The footage also shows first-person mode, which Rob Nelson said was not available at the recent previews. These signs do not prove such features will be in the final game on November 19.
Which are the best holes in video games? We're trying very hard to take the topic seriously https://www.eurogamer.net/five-of-the-best-holes
A Reddit r/Games poster asks whether there is a name for "living world" emergent simulation games such as Kenshi, Mount & Blade, Starsector, the original STALKER trilogy, and Drox Operative. In these games NPCs live their own lives under deep simulation, so raiding caravans can weaken connected cities' economies and leave them vulnerable to invading armies, while autonomous factions form alliances and conquer cities. The poster notes the genre is thin but has a niche, and suggests "world sim" or "emergent sim" as possible names.
Xiaohongshu's RED LAND event ran October 2-6 on Fuxing Island in Shanghai's Yangpu district, expanding from 80,000 to 150,000 square meters with over 160 game and anime IPs and more than 80 booths, both doubled from last year. miHoYo's Dawei Ge attended to promote the new game "Starry Valley," joining stage activities, a float parade, and meeting a physical robot of the game's AI cafe owner "Naluo," inviting players to try the game at public beta. The four miHoYo titles "Genshin Impact," "Honkai: Star Rail," "Zenless Zone Zero," and "Starry Valley" appeared together offline for the first time.
Ben Affleck said on the New Heights podcast that he's a big gamer who favors first-person shooters, but when he tried Fortnite he was eliminated immediately and mocked by the 12-year-olds who took him out, prompting him to shout back, "I don't suck! I'm a grown man!" He also recalled his son wanting Fortnite skins for Christmas and being shocked that the specific skins cost hundreds of dollars, calling it "bullsh**" that they aren't even real. Affleck is a big fan of the competitive shooter Valorant.
PC Gamer's FOV 90 column is running a community tournament to determine the greatest FPS mode of all time through 1v1 matchups, with over 7,000 votes tallied in Round 1 over five days. Round 2 voting closes Monday, October 12 at 11:59 PM PDT, with matchups including Team Deathmatch vs Battle Royale and Conquest vs Bomb Defusal. Results and Round 3 will follow next week.
An IGN reporter clarified that a shower scene featuring naked protagonist Jason Duval in GTA 6 did not include full-frontal nudity due to carefully positioned camera angles. The leaked European PEGI rating had already confirmed nudity, intercourse scenes and sexual fetishes in the game, but stopped short of confirming full-frontal nudity. Whether Jason has a fully rendered penis remains unknown.
Arc Raiders' newest foe, the Bully, living up to its name 😩
Ace Combat 8 has now been officially out for a week, and a Reddit user is asking for others' thoughts on it. The poster rates it 10/10, calling it their favorite in the series and praising its story, characters, and soundtrack, which they have listened to in full about 10 times in the past week. They say it might genuinely be worthy of Game of the Year at TGA.
Sony and Hideo Kojima have abandoned their collaboration on the new game Physint, stirring discussion in the industry and raising more doubts about the PlayStation brand, now over 30 years old. The podcast Second Read, hosted by event planner Blindlight and indie developer Chensheng, invited guest Jacknight to discuss PlayStation's current crisis.
Tokyo Game Show 2026 expanded to five days for its 30th anniversary, running September 17 to 21, but organizers canceled the September 21 on-site events as Typhoon No. 25 approached, leaving the show at four days with 257,642 attendees. SEGA/ATLUS brought 16 games and 27 stage events, CAPCOM held the world's first on-site demo of Monster Hunter Wilds: Iceborne-style expansion content, and SQUARE ENIX opened public demos of Final Fantasy VII REVELATION.
Critics attacking Gears of War: E-Day over its inclusion of women are ignoring that the series has featured female characters since the very first game on Xbox 360. Fans on the Gears of War subreddit point to Anya Stroud, Queen Myrrah, Bernie, Sam, and Sofia Hendrick as examples spanning nearly 20 years of the franchise.
An IGN interview with Rockstar mentioned that during a GTA 6 demo, switching to Jason's perspective showed him fully naked in the shower, though it's unclear whether anything below the waist is obscured. Kotaku's request to Rockstar for clarification went unanswered, and Kinda Funny's Greg Miller said the demo he saw featured no naked Jason. The game launches on November 19.
The Weeknd posted several images from a visit to Shift Up studio with CEO Kim Hyung-tae, including one showing the startup screen of Stellar Blade BLOOD RAIN and another of him inside a multi-camera 3D photogrammetry and body-scanning rig. The rig is used to scan real-life models and recreate highly detailed in-game models with the person's exact body shape and facial features. Sharing the photo does not guarantee he is being scanned as a character for the game, though it appears to be a strong implication.
In GTA 5, using the "Toy Cars – Make any car tiny" mod to shrink a taxi caused the game to seemingly stop registering the car as having a driver, sending it careening out of control. Pressing F to exit only produced a notification that there are no deer nearby, and the only fix was tapping F7 again to restore the car to normal scale.
Browser game Dog Online has surpassed 10,000 users in a sudden resurgence more than six months after its open beta launch, forcing its small team to scramble to upgrade servers. The dog-themed game, described as an MS Paint-drenched version of Neopets, offers fishing, farming, cooking, trading, and a turn-based RPG dungeon, with 73 fish, 238 foods, 57 enemies, and 76 crops. Lead developer Mimi said the team got started a little less than a year ago and launched the public beta this past April Fools' Day.
A PlayStation homebrew developer known as Zer0Day used AI to reverse-engineer GoldHEN, a closed-source PS4 homebrew tool, and published it on GitHub, claiming he has "the right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression." GoldHEN is primarily designed by Sistro with several maintainers and took roughly five years to build. The incident comes as forks of the PS5 emulators KytyPS5, SharpEmu, and AnyPS5 on GitHub grew from roughly 1,300 to roughly 1,840.
Quarterfinals: Vote for the best RTS unit of all time https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rts/quarterfinals-vote-for-the-best-rts-unit-of-all-time/
UK retailer Sports Direct / GAME has listed a Theatrhythm Final Fantasy sticker set for £499.00, more than the Switch 2's £419.99 RRP. The listing shows it at half price from an apparent RRP of £999.99, with a minimum £4.99 delivery fee even for in-store pickup. It is likely a mistake.
The latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ trailers have left players confused about whether a PvE-only mode exists. Episode seven of From the Ward showed a "Single Squad Mission" option with no on-screen description, but the DMZ Dynamic Ops trailer released a day later omitted it. DMZ launches with Modern Warfare 4 on 23rd October for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2.
PC Gamer's tournament to crown the best RTS unit of all time has reached the quarterfinals, with 8 of 16 units remaining. The matchups include Warcraft 3's Peon versus the Mammoth Tank and Battle for Middle-earth's Rohirrim versus Homeworld 2's Pride of Hiigara. Voting on each battle runs until the end of Sunday (BST).
The second RED LAND, hosted by Xiaohongshu on Shanghai's Fuxing Island, expanded its exhibition area from 80,000 to 150,000 square meters with over 160 IPs and grew its "islander" NPCs from 34 to 54. Each NPC memorized over 4,000 characters of dialogue from a 60,000-character training manual, shifting from simple guidance to interactive performances and emotional support. The team said it aims to reinforce players' "protagonist-style" experience under the theme "Welcome home, always the protagonist."
During the Jonas Brothers' current tour, Joe Jonas has been trading his tambourine for Pokémon cards offered by fans, with videos circulating online. Trades include a Zekrom slab at the SNHU Arena in Manchester on September 26 and a 1999 Mew card at the September 30 show at Capital One Arena in D.C. Other fans are hoping to make similar trades at upcoming shows.
I don't think it's much of a flex to say that most RPGs aren't actually that hard on hard difficulty. So what would you do to make your run a little more challenging?
/r/Games has opened its daily "Suggest Me a Game" discussion thread for suggestion requests that would normally be removed, such as overly general or overly personal questions. The thread sorts comments by "new" by default, and such requests posted during the rest of the week should go to /r/gamingsuggestions, /r/ShouldIBuyThisGame, or /r/AskGames.
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Call an ambulance. But not for me! 🚑
When 4:3 cost you the round 🤭 @karriganCSGO
A storage unit bought at auction turned out to contain a game developer's design documents, concept art, and chips believed to hold prototypes, including one for Contra III: The Alien Wars. Pixel Game Squad's Aaron Stapish said in a comment that much more of this gaming history went to numerous collectors, sparking debate over preservation and ethics. The materials are believed to have belonged to developer Tom Tanaka, and commenters have called for them to go to a museum or the Video Game History Foundation.