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Oct102026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

“Shadow of the Road” Won’t Be Released A Week Before “GTA VI”

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Credit: Owlcat Games In late August, Owlcat Games and Another Angle Games announced plans to release “Shadow of the Road” on PC on November 12—just one week before the console debut of the highly anticipated crime action game “GTA VI” As Owlcat explains, the developers needed extra time to refine the "tactical aspect" of combat and adjust the balance. It is important to the team that positioning, initiative, and abilities play a significant role in every skirmish, and that every battle encourages thoughtful planning and meaningful decision-making. Additionally, the developers are enhancing progression systems to give players more reasons to experiment with skills. Credit: Owlcat Games As a reminder, the events of “Shadow of the Road” unfold in an alternate 19th-century Japan: ...

Oct92026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered” Gets New Patch

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Credit: CD Projekt Red CD Projekt RED has released another free update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered. The Polish developers continue to refine this action RPG on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. The patch introduced a number of graphical improvements, including refinements to the glow effects and tone mapping—which players had complained about—as well as character lighting, ray tracing, and path tracing. On PC, fixes were implemented for issues where the GTAO quality setting reset after restarting the game, ability tooltips failed to update, the game selected the wrong graphics card, and DLSS/XeSS activated on unsupported GPUs. On consoles, settings for bloom, light shafts, and depth of field were added; various performance improvements were introduced; and incorrect frame...

Oct72026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

GTA V Launched Directly In Browser

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Credit: Rockstar Games The hit open-world crime action game GTA V, developed by the British studio Rockstar Games (owned by Take-Two Interactive), received an unofficial browser-based version 13 years after its release—but lost it almost immediately. After its launch, PlayGTA5.com initially displayed a Cloudflare 1014 error, and the site's content was subsequently replaced with vintage 1970s-style food advertisements. The site is now completely inaccessible. No official reason has been given for the site's shutdown. There is no confirmation that Take-Two Interactive or Rockstar Games have issued legal demands to the developers. However, intervention by the rights holders remains a possibility; Take-Two has previously succeeded in shutting down other unofficial projects involving t...

Oct42026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

2XKO Was Doomed To Fail From The Very Launch

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Credit: Riot Games Riot Games co-founder Marc "Tryndamere" Merrill explained why the fighting game “2XKO” failed to gain significant popularity. According to him, the studio missed a window of opportunity while “Street Fighter” was without a new installment. Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill revealed on the “Lemonade Stand” podcast that, given maintenance costs, continued development of “2XKO” required a monthly audience of hundreds of thousands—or even millions—of players. "We have no one to blame but ourselves. I think we had the opportunity to do something really great for the fighting game community, but then *Street Fighter 6* came out. By that point, we had been working on [2XKO] for eight years," lamented Merrill. The executive believes that had Riot released the game a...