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Miami's transformation into Vice City has fans hunting for clues about what Rockstar Games might unveil next, and a wave of speculation about a live-action GTA 6 trailer has taken over social media. The paperwork suggests that isn't what's happening. Crews spotted across downtown Miami The rumors follow a run of Vice City promotion across the city, including the GTA 6 blimp, ads and building signage. Over the past few days, filming crews were seen in downtown Miami with cameras mounted on vehicl

The Miami Heat have partnered with Rockstar Games on a limited merchandise line themed around Grand Theft Auto VI. The "Vice City Collection" went live on the team's online store today, October 2, and shoppers moved fast. Within minutes of the shadow drop, several items had already sold out in certain sizes. The launch follows the franchise's recent announcement that it will rebrand as Vice City for one night only on the eve of GTA VI's release. The Heat will take on the Bucks at the Kaseya Cent

Rockstar Games' marketing push for Grand Theft Auto VI is spilling out of the gaming world and into professional basketball. The Miami Heat have announced a one-night collaboration with Rockstar in which the NBA franchise will temporarily rebrand as Vice City, trading its usual look for the neon pink aesthetic the series is known for. The event, billed as "A Night in Vice City," takes place on November 18, the night before GTA VI hits shelves. The team will host the Milwaukee Bucks at Kaseya Cen

A proposed city-wide marketing partnership between Rockstar Games and Miami-Dade County for the launch of GTA 6 has run into resistance from local law enforcement, with a Republican Commissioner and the County Sheriff publicly rejecting the idea. What Was Proposed Last month, details leaked of a pitch sent to Rockstar by Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava's office, outlining ways the county and the studio could collaborate on a major marketing push around GTA 6's launch. The proposal reported

With roughly two months left before Grand Theft Auto VI launches, Rockstar's real-world marketing push into Miami has officially begun — and it starts on a rooftop. Travelers flying into Miami International Airport from over the ocean will now spot a large "Welcome to Vice City" sign, accompanied by GTA VI branding, perched atop the Kaseya Center, home of the NBA's Miami Heat. Local outlet WPLG Local 10 News captured aerial footage of the installation, which took place on Tuesday when a helicopt

The latest Xbox Game Studios title making the leap to PS5 is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, a highly acclaimed aviation sim landing on the console on 8th December, 2025. Aspiring pilots may be interested to know what's expected of them with regards to Trophies, and fortunately, the list has made its way online prior to release. Over on PSNProfiles, the full rundown of digital trinkets is available for your perusal, and it looks like a fairly manageable to-do list, albeit time-consuming. One Tr

Fancy topping up your Microsoft Rewards earnings over the next week? Well, there's a new promotion on the Microsoft Rewards dashboard that's allowing you to "double your points" until early December through Bing searches, which you can do on PC, mobile or through the Microsoft Edge browser on Xbox. To find it, you just need to head to the Microsoft Rewards dashboard and look for the relevant banner and "activate now" button that'll hopefully show up in your region. Here's what it looks like: Af

At the end of last week, the developers beyond the critically panned MindsEye released Update 6 for the game, adding "enhanced gameplay" alongside a Free Starter Pack that means anyone can now try it for free on multiple platforms. Specifically, the MindsEye Free Starter Pack features the Robin Hood campaign mission along with 14 ARCADIA missions, and it'll be updated regularly with new ways to play. To access it on Xbox, you'll need to find the MindsEye page on the Xbox Store and then look for

The promising MARS FPGA console is dead, according to one of the project's developers. Todd Gill – a longstanding and influential figure within the FPGA community – broke the news on Discord recently. Gill, who was designing the console's casing, reveals that the person in charge of the MARS board development "just disappeared", putting the project on ice. Gill says that the rest of the MARS team was effectively "Ghosted" by the individual, meaning work could not continue. MARS was promoted as a

Has it really been eight entire years? Yes, it really actually has, so sit up and pay attention at the back. Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which as every Xenoblade nerd worth their salt knows is actually the third game released in the series, dropped into existence on this very day back in 2017, and it's a bit good. We gave it a well-deserved 9/10 in our review, so it's a bona fide banger as officially ordained by the bona fide banger squad™. To celebrate this eighth birthday (they get big so quickly

We were delighted to see Ustwo Games' gorgeous mobile puzzler, Monument Valley 3, make the jump to Switch earlier this year, and today the dev has given us even more story chapters to sink our teeth into — for free! The 'Garden of Life' expansion is now available on Switch, bolting four additional chapters onto the end of the main game, packed with even more of the series' signature perspective-bending puzzles. There are even some hidden optional puzzles to find in the bonus levels, for those af

IO Interactive has confirmed that it's hosting a gameplay-focused livestream later this week, where it will share more on its upcoming PS5 title 007 First Light. Having been the star of a recent State of Play showcase, the James Bond game will next appear in a Beyond the Light livestream this Wednesday, 3rd December 2025. Gameplay director Andreas Krogh and senior level designer Thomas Pulluelo will "pull back the curtain on all things gameplay" from 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT on Wednesday. It'l

After all of the Pokémon Legends: Z-A: Mega Dimension DLC news earlier this month, The Pokémon Company announced that another trailer drop would be heading our way on 19th November (that’s tomorrow, if you were wondering). Well, with the day almost upon us, we’ve got some more specific details about when we can expect things to get underway. As brought to our attention by Serebii.net, tomorrow’s new trailer will debut on the official Pokémon Company YouTube channel at 2pm GMT / 9am ET / 6am PT /

Nintendo released a new firmware update for the Switch 2 earlier this week, and it's now been followed up with compatibility fixes for select Switch titles. Apart from the update for NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition, several other titles have reportedly received compatibility fixes. Here's the rundown via Nintendo Everything: DOOM + DOOM II Guardian Tales NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition Skies Above Sugardew Island Super Mega Baseball 4 Timespinner Apart from this, some proble

A North American arcade operator has reported over $25,000 worth of items stolen recently, sparking a heartfelt campaign to recover the missing items. Charlie Mosley, owner of the Seattle-based Gamecenter arcade, found that his truck was missing one morning last week. Contained within were two arcade machines and a selection of other components, the total worth of which is estimated to be between $25,000 and $40,000. "On Wednesday, our 26' box truck with tens of thousands of dollars in PCBs, arc

Polymega maker Playmaji has announced that DMA Design's Body Harvest is now available on the modular emulation system. Included on the same disc are: Burning Road PS Dead in the Water PS S.C.A.R.S N64, PS The N64 title is part of the Polymega Collection of physical releases, and is joined by A Boy And His Blob. That disc includes: A Boy and His Blob NES, FC KKND2: Krossfire PS Uprising X PS Gunboat TG16 Super Solitare SNES You can order both directly from the Polymega website.

This week in GTA Online is all about Neighborhood Watch . Vincent Effenburger needs players' help to curb the filth and corruption in Los Angeles . Plus, there's a fresh Police Summer Uniform , double bonuses on Police Calls , a free Enus Deity to collect from the Junkyard mission , and a final call for up to GTA$2,000,000 before summer ends. We also have steep discounts on retired police cars, GTA+ bonuses , new cosmetics, and dealership rotations. Everything's explained step-by-step below. Ne

In a staggering piece of news this Friday, streaming giant Netflix has announced that it has entered an agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery to acquire Warner Bros. in a deal that's valued at roughly $82.7 billion — an equity value of $72 billion. Netflix is specifically acquiring Warner Bros.' Streaming & Studios company, which it created in June 2025 and includes including Game of Thrones, the DC Universe, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and platforms such as HBO and HBO Max and Warner B

Update [Fri 5th Dec 2025, 7:45am]: We have an update on this coming from Game Developer, where a Warner Bros. spokesperson confirms that its video game division will be included in the sale to Netflix. We'll throw a quick quote from the site on this confirmation down below: Original Story: In an announcement that's sending shockwaves throughout the entertainment world, streaming giant Netflix has announced its intentions to buy Warner Bros. - for a whopping $72 billion (or $82.7 billion as a "to

Paramount has revealed some of its future movie plans, but for us, the biggest draw is that Sonic the Hedgehog will be getting a brand new spin-off movie in 2028. Variety reports that this upcoming spin-off is currently untitled, but it's being referred to to as the "Sonic Universe Event Film". It will launch in cinemas on 22nd December 2028. More than three years away! Note that this isn't the planned Sonic the Hedgehog 4 movie, which is coming out in March 2027. We have no other details right

It appears Rockstar Games have introduced some GTA 6 assets into GTA Online before the new game has come out. That’s according to a couple of dataminers who have delved into the game’s files from the Money Fronts update. Last week, Rockstar launched a series of new mansion teaser missions called the New Listing missions. As part of it, it led dataminer Lucas7yoshi_RS to examine how the missions work. He found some interesting things such as how the pool cover at Devin’s mansion is actually a bun

With GTA 6 pre-orders expected to open any day now, a fresh leak suggests another piece of the game's cast has slipped out — this time through an actor's own résumé. As first spotted by mp1st, actor Brett Gipson has Grand Theft Auto 6 listed among his upcoming credits. Gipson is shaping up to have a packed year: his résumé also lists him as Sabretooth in Insomniac Games and Marvel's Wolverine, which is set to release before GTA 6. He's recently appeared in Borderlands 4 and the Stranger Things:

Rockstar Games has quietly slipped another piece of GTA 6 footage onto its official website, and fans are already poring over every frame. The clip surfaced as part of a broader update tied to the game's Ultimate Edition pre-order page, which also brought pricing details, more than 60 new screenshots, and other promotional material. Where to find it Unlike a traditional trailer, this footage isn't hosted as a standalone video file you can easily pull up and rewatch. It's built into the GTA VI Ul

Rockstar Games has released a fresh piece of key art for Grand Theft Auto VI just weeks ahead of the game's next major reveal, giving fans their first proper look at protagonists Jason and Lucia together outside of a gas station. The artwork, officially titled "Jason and Lucia: The Heist" (with the underlying file named "Jason and Lucia Robbery"), depicts the pair standing in front of a petrol station and arrives alongside confirmation of what is effectively GTA 6 Trailer 3 — though Rockstar is

Rockstar Games has kept GTA 6 under wraps tighter than a high-stakes heist, but every so often a genuine crumb slips through from inside the studio. Today’s leak isn’t some blurry screenshot or anonymous forum post — it comes straight from a former Graphics Programmer who spent three years on the game. And what they casually listed on their LinkedIn profile has fans buzzing about one of the most overlooked (yet wildly immersive) features in any open-world title: breakable glass. The detail was f