Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth features the biggest map in the Yakuza franchise. Marking the series' first venture outside of Japan, the upcoming title will transport players to the tourist hotspot of Hawaii — Honolulu City, to be exact. Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio claims that the vast new stage is more than three times the size of Yakuza: Like a Dragon's Isezaki Ijincho, the suburb where the afro-haired Kasuga Ichiban was introduced. That means, the Hawaii map is nearly nine times the size of the Kamurocho district, the series' primary Japanese setting punctuated by shops, restaurants, and nightclubs, where we dabbled in action-packed illicit acts through the eyes of Kazuma Kiryu, the series' main protagonist who keeps getting pulled back into the life of crime.
The biggest question GTA 6 has to answer is: what to do about GTA Online?
08.11.2023 - 19:07 / rockpapershotgun.com / Gta Online / Rockstar Games
When first I played GTA Online back in the Xbox 360 days it felt like an afterthought, a chance to play some random good-for-nothing in GTA 5's sizzling alt-Los Angeles, securely cloistered away from the events of the all-important singleplayer story. Having built yourself a no-name crim, you galloped around cranking out cash and XP by means of glorified sidequests handed down by headliners such as Lamar. Skip forward to 2023, and as Alice0 observed when we discussed Rockstar's GTA 6 announcements this morning, GTA Online is effectively an MMO with ten years of updates, expansions and community projects under its belt. The no-name crim has become the star attraction.
GTA Online is a perennial Steam chart-topper encompassing a wealth of scripted and spontaneous funtimes, sprinkled across official and unapproved third-party servers. Its offerings range from multiple-part co-op heists and Dr Dre cameos to Just Causey engagements featuring rocket cars and orbital strikes, custom-designed racetracks, amateur photography clubs, clashes between street gangs of green or purple space aliens, and so, so many hacks and cheats.
It's a significant money-spinner, too, with in-game microtransactions and a GTA+ subscription service that rake in hundreds of millions annually, according to such figures that have been divulged. While the main game continues to be a strong seller, GTA Online has long since eclipsed GTA 5 as a topic of discussion and perhaps even as a source of revenue, not least thanks to player communities like the game's armies of role-players, who have taken Rockstar's creation in directions the developers never dreamed of. As such, the big question I have ahead of the first GTA 6 trailer in December is: how should Rockstar approach straightforward GTA sequels in a world that now contains a thriving GTA MMO? And what on Earth should Rockstar do with GTA Online in the wake of GTA 6?
I'm only starting to think about these questions, as we ramp up to next month's reveal. Amongst other things, I've spent a lot of today trying to puzzle out how much the two projects will be in competition. The obvious route for Rockstar is to keep GTA Online going as a separate experience, rumbling onward with the existing pattern of upgrades and additions, at least until pressure to comprehensively rework the supporting technology becomes irresistible.
This would be my and probably most other players' preferred option, but it might not be the one that earns the fattest stacks for publisher Take-Two. If GTA 6 has a comparable multiplayer open world component, it's hard to imagine it being as awash with features and activities as GTA Online, which is the result of a decade's worth of expansion and tinkering. If the
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GTA 6 preorder date LEAKED online! When can you preorder the highly-anticipated GTA 5 sequel?
GTA 6 preorder date: For nearly a decade, die-hard Grand Theft Auto fans have been awaiting any news about GTA 6, the highly-anticipated GTA 5 sequel. They've been left disappointed, with Rockstar Games placing a complete information blackout. However, that all changed last year when 90 early development videos of GTA 6 surfaced online, showcasing the various gameplay features and mechanics. Since then, a flurry of leaks has surfaced, giving us a glimpse into GTA 6's rumoured Vice City. Just a few weeks ago, Rockstar Games revealed that the GTA 6 trailer will arrive in December, generating a lot of hype among gamers. Now, the alleged GTA 6 preorder date has been leaked online. So, if you've been waiting for the game for over a decade, know when you could preorder it online.
Self-described gay furry hackers breach one of the biggest nuclear labs in the US, and demand it begin researching 'IRL catgirls'
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the biggest nuclear lab in the US with thousands of employees, has been hacked by the group Sieged Security (stylised SiegeSec). The latter are self-proclaimed «gay furry hackers» who have posted a sample of the data obtained online, and are threatening to release huge amounts of employee data unless the lab makes a peculiar deal: «we're willing to make a deal with INL,» says SiegeSec alongside the posted data, «if they research creating IRL catgirls we will take down this post.»
Disney never realized the biggest key to Frozen’s success: two female leads
It’s been 10 years since Frozen ignited Disney’s modern revival era and got “Let it Go” permanently stuck in millions of heads. But even after a decade, it seems that Disney has never really figured out what made Frozen and its sequel such a cultural phenomenon. Was it the infectious music? The villainous twist? The magical powers? The subversion of “true love”? Subsequent Disney animated films have tried to replicate these elements, but none of them have really achieved the sheer magnitude of Frozen’s impact on culture, let alone its $1.3 billion box office success (or the sequel’s $1.4 billion).
5 interesting facts about GTA 6: AI NPCs, dual protagonists, and more
Grand Theft Auto 6 or GTA 6 has become one of the most anticipated games of all time. Rockstar Games' previous entries such as GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, and most recently GTA 5 have raised the bar of open-world games, bringing a sprawling city to life in which gamers can spend hours. It has resulted in GTA 5 becoming the second best-selling video game of all time and has raised the expectations from the next entry into the series, GTA 6. If Rockstar's last game, Red Dead Redemption 2, is anything to go by, GTA 6 could very well be the best game ever released.
Fortnite Insider Claims Chapter 5 Will Be The Biggest Update Fortnite Will "Ever Have"
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