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Hello! This piece is part of our GTA Week coverage here on Eurogamer, as we explore all things Grand Theft Auto across the launch period of the wildly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 . For more like this, see our GTA Week hub - or for the exact opposite, look out for our Not-GTA week of counterprogramming, running from 23rd November. Read more

Hello! This idea started as a single theme week, which we thought we might run in the lead up to Grand Theft Auto 6 's launch. Then it turned into a pair of theme weeks. Then we realised we had so much stuff - and that, frankly, GTA 6 would be so dominating it'll be around for far more than a week itself - that we couldn't really fit it into two weeks either. Read more

Despite all the outrage and criticism around game developers and publishers using generative AI in gaming, a new report from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) calculates that as many as 40 percent of developers active in the industry use the controversial tools in their work. This is up four percent compared to the same report last year . Read more

With less than a week to go before GTA 6's hugely anticipated release , the game's final map - or at least a stylised poster version of it, depicting the state of Leonida's key landmarks - has surfaced online. It was reportedly snapped during Selfridge's sizable GTA 6 's takeover, and is seemingly the physical map included in Rockstar's £350 collector's edition. Read more

Slay the Spire 2, which released into early access earlier this year, is expanding once more with a major new beta update. This introduces the deckbuilder's first new character since launch - a whimsical musician armed with a bow - alongside two new modes, and more. Read more

Xbox boss Asha Sharma has confirmed Wolfenstein 3 is in development at MachineGames, the Swedish studio behind the acclaimed Wolfenstein: The New Order , Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossal, and 2024's celebrated Indiana Jones and the Great Circle . Additionally, she revealed Doom developer idSoftware - one of the Microsoft-owned studios heavily impacted by sweeping Xbox job cuts earlier this year - …

As Grand Theft Auto 6 breaks pre-order records on the PlayStation and Xbox stores , and looks poised to break many more sales records once it launches next week, questions of whether it will also break the internet arise. Collective network load will undoubtedly spike around its release - will regional infrastructure be able to bear it? Read more

Last night, Xbox Game Studios and Halo Studios have announced a free update for the recently-released Halo: Campaign Evolved, which promises to add the four-player co-operative PvE mode, Firefight, to the game. Read more

Xbox leader Asha Sharma has alluded to harnessing the power of generative AI when making games, in a memo published this afternoon. Read more

World of Warcraft: Forever players are having a blast in the new MMO, but not everyone is basking in the rays of its successful launch. Players located in Australia, New Zealand, and other Oceania countries are having a bit of a sunlight problem. Read more

More indie developers say they've been forced to delay the impending release of their games as a result of Steam's growing approvals backlog - a relatively recent problem that's believed to stem from an influx of AI slop on the platform . Read more

Nvidia's founder and CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his position as leader of one of the most valuable companies in the world. Read more

CD Projekt Red has revealed that it used - and is using - generative AI technology to treat and alter the voice of the Polish actor who portrayed Geralt of Rivia in upcoming Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past . Read more

Developer FromSoftware has announced that online multiplayer servers for Dark Souls 2 and 3 are back online following a nearly two-week outage. Read more

Paradox Interactive's Frederik Wester has announced he's stepping down from the role of CEO after a combined decade and a half leading the company. The news follows several tumultuous years for the publisher best known for grand strategy games including Stellaris, Europa Universalis, and Crusader Kings 3 . Read more