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Grand Theft Auto 6 just got its trailer released a bit early, and that’s not the only surprise here. There’s a bit of an unexpected music choice accompanying our first look at Rockstar Games’ upcoming open world game, and that’s Tom Petty.

With thousands standing by waiting for it to release tomorrow, something happened and the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer just released. The 90-second-long features what looks to be mostly cutscenes, showing off a handful of locales including a massive city, a beach, and a bayou while playing Tom Petty’s Love is a Long Road. The trailer ends with the GTA6 logo and coming 2025.

November has come and gone, but what of the games that were in it? Which ones stood out? We can tell you that!

World of Warcraft once again greets players with an error code when trying to play the game. Thankfully, code BLZ51934200 is not a user error, but a Blizzard one.

In Spirttea, you play as the keeper of a bathhouse where spirits rest their weary souls. To recruit new bathhouse customers and stop the ghostly mischief around town, you must seek out new spirits that are haunting the townsfolk.

Two off-screen videos that claim to show Grand Theft Auto 6’s map have gone viral on TikTok ahead of the game’s imminent reveal on December 5 - and the aftermath has left the community bewildered. 

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1 Underground is a big departure from anything that’s come before, especially the OG season. There are a lot of new features for players to understand and master if they want to make the most of their time in-game.

It’s been 10 years since Rick and Morty premiered on Adult Swim, and in that time it’s grown to reshape all of pop culture in its image through its idiosyncratic blend of dark humor, irreverent creativity, and well-written characters. Co-created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, the animated sci-fi sitcom about the multidimensional misadventures of an alcoholic mad scientist and his hapless adolescent grandson has become one of the most important animated shows since The Simpsons in its heyday.

Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite: OG will return at some point in 2024, presumably in response to requests from players for the original map to become a permanent fixture in the game.

Looking for help with Wordle today? Keep your win streak safe with our tips and hints. Whether you want to polish your tactics with our advice, read a clue for today's game, or instantly reveal the answer to the December 2 (896) Wordle, you'll find everything you need below.

It might have surprised some fans when they saw the comments made by Tim Stuart, the Xbox CFO. If you don’t recall, it was just a couple of days ago now that reports flooded in that Tim stated that Xbox would like to see Game Pass on competitor platforms such as Nintendo and PlayStation. This might have sparked speculation that Microsoft was actively working on a plan to get Game Pass on some of these rival platforms. However, don’t get too excited, as Phil Spencer is looking to clear the air.

Paramount Plus’ Haloisn’t exactly anyone’s idea of the perfect version of the Halo universe. Despite all the ways that Paramount has insisted the show’s first season, which debuted in 2022, was a success, it didn’t exactly take over pop culture the way the Paramount and Xbox probably wanted. But with season 2 on the way, the streaming service has a new plan to get people to watch season 1: make it free on YouTube.

Will the Suicide Squad ever win over the hearts of the masses? The DC comic book team jumped to the big screen in 2016 with David Ayer’s lambasted Suicide Squad, which made for a better trailer than movie. Birds of Prey tried to give Margot Robbie her own moment, but that bombed. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy touch was supposed to redeem the villains with 2021’s The Suicide Squad, but the half-reboot, dropped in theaters and HBO Max on the same date, didn’t exactly pop. Max’s Peacemaker and Harley Quinn animated series have found success in a sitcom-ier mode, but it’s hard to call either a true Suicide Squad vehicle. Pray for Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which looks like fun… despite a number of delays.

Loki season two appears to have injected some much-needed life into the MCU, although its finale hitting Disney Plus as The Marvels, which fans don't seem to be quite as interested in, arrived in cinemas might have held it back a little. Nevertheless, Disney was clearly well aware of the impact more Loki would have, turning the God version of the anti-hero into a Funko Pop! as soon as season two ended. That Pop! will be available later today (December 1, 2023) alongside four other Funko Pop! products pulled from Loki's second season.

Fortnite's Chapter 5 Battle Pass has seemingly been leaked on the Xbox Store, revealing that Family Guy's Peter Griffin is finally joining the game after years of rumours alongside Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid.

Driving survival game Pacific Drive will release on February 22, 2024, as announced in a new trailer during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted.

Fortnite is filled with cosmetic items and skins for players to unlock and show off in every match they play. Some are rarer than others, and others, such as the Competitor’s Time Brella, are so exclusive that they’re only available to the most skilled players.

Baldur's Gate 3's latest fix brings a raft of welcome fixes, though my favorite is that taking and giving from everyone's inventory is finally becoming less of a headache. 

Baldur's Gate 3 patch 5 is adding a brand new epilogue scene set six months after the main game, and it has a boatload of new dialog.

Larian has released Baldur’s Gate 3’s hotly anticipated Patch 5, which adds loads of new content to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

By Antonio G. Di Benedetto, a writer covering tech deals and The Verge’s Deals newsletter, buying guides, and gift guides. Previously, he spent 15 years in the photography industry.

Baldur's Gate 3's fifth patch will be out "soon", but Larian Studios is already issuing warnings for our poor, worn, and tattered storage. Best clear some space, gamers. It's a massive 30GB update, meaning you'll need around 130GB of free space to install it.

Solar Hunters are a challenging build to put together due to how versatile they can be. But once all the pieces come together, their combo of throwing knives and Tripmine Grenades make for a deadly mix. Here is a solid PvE and PvP build for a Solar Hunter in Destiny 2 right now.

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With the end of 2023 just around the corner, I feel confident in saying that Monster Hunter Now is one of my biggest surprises of the year. It’s easily Niantic’s best game since Pokemon GO, and with the game’s first major update on the horizon, it’s looking like the title will stay relevant heading into 2024.

It’s the most wonderful time of year — Spotify Wrapped season! Every year, the music streaming service aggregates its users’ listening data and presents them with fun little infographics about their most-listened-to artists and songs. In addition to the standard things like your Top Artist (Taylor Swift for me) and Top Song of the year (thanks to an association with an NPC in our D&D game, mine was Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville”), Spotify likes to get a little quirky and come up with other categories like listening archetypes. This year, one such category was “Sound Town,” which supposedly tells you which town’s population has the listening habits most similar to yours.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Ravensburger has revealed its plans for the upcoming PAX Unplugged convention, and it includes, among other things, the debut of a brand new format for Disney Lorcana.

Unmatched, the wildly popular action board game from Restoration Games, will add Geralt of Rivia — the Witcher himself — and five of his closest allies to a slate of fighters already teeming with talent. The game’s roster includes notable fighters from across the pantheon of pop culture, including Bruce Lee and several Marvel characters. The announcement, made Wednesday, pegs the game for a late 2024 release.

Destiny 2‘s Season of the Wish has already begun, but one of its most important pieces of content – the new Dungeon, Warlord’s Ruin – won’t be available until November 30. Some bits and pieces of Warlord’s Ruin have already leaked out, however, such as its all-new armor set.

One of the rarest skins in Fortnite history, the Black Widow skin, has made an unexpected return to the Item Shop after more than four and a half years of not being on sale.

Even though there are more than 13,000 different Funko Pops out there right now, if you collect them or even if you don't, there are likely still characters or variations on those characters you would love to see get the Funko treatment. The good news is even though there are already so many Pop! figures, the Funko train shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. Especially at this time of year, and Funko has shown off two new Pop! figures for the first time from the worlds of Pokemon and Marvel.

"I think immersive sims started to believe their own marketing material. That never fosters creativity," says Mosa Lina developer Josh Hollendonner, explaining why he felt compelled to create what he describes as a "hostile interpretation" of the genre.

Have you heard of the Jam Man of Silent Hill: Ascension? You're about to. In the third episode of what started out as a potentially interesting experiment and has quickly snowballed into a complete disaster, Karl Johansen (a Norwegian farmer) runs into the Jam Man. 

Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition has appeared again, this time on Microsoft’s Xbox store.

When it comes to professional communications, Gmail is a go-to for many, including us. But it is not easy to master. However, if you want to turn into a Gmail ninja, then we have some tips just for you. Navigating from 'Compose email' to 'Forward email' daily is a tedious trackpad routine. Despite honing this skill, it's inefficient — especially with a flood of incoming emails. But this is where Gmail keyboard shortcuts emerge as a game-changer. These commands are straightforward and easy to use, significantly cutting down the time taken to get through the tasks. Let us take a look at the most quintessential Gmail shortcuts that you should be using.

The LUMINKEY 80 is a love-letter to the keyboard community, authored by the designers of Create Keebs , creators of some of the most popular custom keyboards of the last several years (most notably, the Thera75 ). Available as a barebones kit for $215 or fully built and tuned for sound and feel at $280. It comes with an anodized aluminum case, complete with a copper badge and rear weight, tri-mode wireless connectivity for gaming and productivity, and the best sound and feel I’ve experienced in a pre-built custom keyboard yet. 

Tim Burton's original 1989 Batman film casts a very long shadow over the superhero movie genre. Burton conjured a wonderfully gothic vision of Gotham City, while Michael Keaton's wired and dangerous take on the Caped Crusader remains rightly beloved - he certainly won our hearts again this year in The Flash.

No matter what field of entertainment you’re in, there is always the possibility of bad reviews and thoughts about what you make. The key thing is how you respond to those negative reviews. Some people take them personally and lash out at those who made them. Others ignore them because they “don’t mean anything” so long as you enjoyed the thing you made. Some people simply don’t read reviews so that they don’t have thoughts from either side clouding their minds. But in the case of Bethesda, they’re taking the negative reviews of Starfield rather hard, as some of their customer support team are trying to explain away the things that gamers don’t like.

It's all too easy to forget that Nvidia's AI-accelerating uber-GPUs started off as little more than an experimental offshoot from graphics chips for gaming PCs. So, if we do end up as slaves to artificial overlords, we really will only have ourselves to blame.

One of my favorite indicators that Lethal Company is popping off right now isn’t the fact that the co-op horror game is the highest-rated Steam release of 2023; it’s the goofy clips across Twitter and TikTok that show you exactly why.

Another week, another major crossover for Fortnite. The battle royale bonanza has continued to add figures from the world of pop culture, with the latest rumours suggesting a LEGO collaboration is next in the works.

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, the game about a brother-sister duo who commit murders for fun and profit on the streets of London amidst the bustle and furor of the Industrial Revolution, is free to keep from the Ubisoft Store, as long as you grab it before December 6.

PlayStation and Xbox probably won't be releasing their own handheld consoles anytime soon because, well, trying to compete with Nintendo in that arena would be ill-advised. PlayStation did just release the PlayStation Portal, though. A handheld device rather than a standalone console since it needs WiFi and to be paired to a PS5 in order to work. Seemingly something a lot of PS5 owners are in the market for as the Portal has been sold out in the US pretty much everywhere since release day.

There are plenty of interesting creatures and monsters you can come across in this co-op horror game. But now Lethal Company fans have a new enemy idea and are begging for a Mimic type of creature.

What are the first words that come to mind when The Game Awards are mentioned? Well, aside from Doritos and Mountain Dew. “World Premiere,” right? For years, Geoff Keighley’s awards show has somewhat pretentiously referred to any new trailer shown during the show as a World Premiere, with the title card popping up constantly throughout the proceedings. Most people kind of roll their eyes at it, but what would The Game Awards be without the constant World Premiere talk? Well, it seems we’re about to find out.

Taylor Swift has already conquered stadiums and movie theaters in 2023, and now we know she’ll be rounding out the year with video on demand. The pop star announced on Monday that she will release the VOD rental version of her Eras Tour movie on Dec. 13, her birthday.

Spoilers for The Dark Urge origin in Baldur's Gate 3 ahead.

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a quick update about Eurogamer, and its future which now looks to lie outside the Reedpop business.

Best Buy has an exclusive line of Disney 100 4K Blu-ray discs in Steelbook cases, and it has put them all on offer for Cyber Monday, down to $16.99 from $29.99.

343 Industries has a new job opening up for a Multiplayer Playlist Designer.

Need to write a document but short on time? Google Docs has a cool feature called Voice Typing that can save the day. It lets you talk, and like magic, your words show up on the screen. The Google Docs voice typing tool is available in Google Docs and Google Slides speaker notes, and it's super useful. However, keep in mind that it only works in Chrome browsers, and some cool features like voice commands for editing and formatting are limited to certain languages.

Rockstar has done modern times, they’ve done the hardboiled 1940s, they’ve done the Old West, and now they might be about to go medieval on our asses. No, really. Eagle-eyed fans recently picked up on this rather interesting line in Rockstar India artist Pawas Saxena’s LinkedIn profile…

NVIDIA's repurposed GeForce RTX 4090 "AI" GPUs for the Chinese market have been pictured in detail showing us how these gaming cards are getting a new life to serve the bigger and lucrative markets after the recent ban.

That's right, the Asus ROG Ally just got another price cut, and while I fully didn't expect this Cyber Monday deal, I'm pleased nonetheless. The new offer isn't as big a drop as the initial Black Friday discount, but it does knock it to a new record low and close the gap between the handheld gaming PC and Valve's Steam Deck. 

The developer of the Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team, is seemingly just as confused as the rest of us as to why we haven't had any news on the game since its initial announcement.

If you find yourself slamming your keyboard in frustration against Giant Eagle, the boss of UTTU Stage 30 in Reverse 1999, know that you’re not alone.

Black Friday itself may be beginning to fade into the distance to be replaced by the wonders of Cyber Monday, but we're still finding plenty of deals that look like they're going to stick around a little while longer. This year we've seen plenty of great Black Friday OLED monitor and TV deals, and for those of you that weren't quite sure whether to pull the trigger on the big day the good news is they seem to be hanging on for a bit longer than they might have done in previous years.

Black Friday is over! Or is it? Was Black Friday ever truly just a day? Was it a weekend? Or is it even perhaps a state of mind. No, it's definitely that first one. The good news is that even though the darkest of retail days has come to pass, there are still plenty of deals available throughout the weekend and on into Cyber Monday. In fact, most of our favorite deals haven't budged an inch. 

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Crucial is one storage and memory brand whose name always pops up when discounting a multitude of products, and for Amazon Black Friday 2023, the deals go the extra mile today, with a total of three 4TB SSD models available, starting from just $159.99. There are two PCIe NVMe solid-state drives, along with one SATA III model if you own an older desktop or laptop that features that particular slot and needs to be populated.

Even though most modern RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 and Tears of the Kingdom are designed with a heavy focus on exploration and telling interesting stories, you'll always have a certain section of fans who try to beat them in the most ridiculous ways possible. Starfield fans are absolutely no exception, as one individual recently managed to complete the entire game by just gun bashing their enemies to death.

Ubisoft has said a “technical error” was to blame for a pop-up advert appearing in Assassin’s Creed games for some players this week.

It's Black Friday proper and the deals are… well, kinda the same as they've been all week if I'm being perfectly honest. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing as there have been some excellent discounts doing the rounds including some great prices on PC Gamer's favorite products, too.

Pokemon Squishmallows are not only the hit toy of this upcoming festive period, they've been the most sought-after toy of 2023 as a whole. Almost every time one of the six designs available so far pops up somewhere, it sells out almost immediately. Especially the Gengar one which continues to elude me. That collection of six Squishmallows has now finally become eight as the Clefairy and Teddiursa additions revealed months ago are finally available.

As Black Friday 2023 rages on and the pandemic and supply-chain induced price spike for all things PC related all but fades from memory, I can't help but notice some good deals on gaming monitors. Some very good deals, indeed.

Ubisoft has responded to reports that they seem to have added pop-up ads to their games, that work while you are in the middle of playing a game.

Companies in the games industry have figured out a stupid number of ways to try and get as much money out of their paying customers as possible, but they never seem to run out of new ideas. Recently, it was reported that ads for Ubisoft’s Black Friday sale had started popping up in-game for some players playing older Assassin’s Creed titles, which, as you might imagine, sparked the ire of many in the community.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

The Truman Show is one of those films that instantly become a foundational pillar of pop culture, a story so iconic that there’s no chance to borrow even a sliver of its core conceit without this film being an obvious point of inspiration. American Arcadia is massively indebted to The Truman Show, but adds its own twists and more modern day ideas and themes into the mix.

It looks like Prison Architect 2 will soon be revealed after a listing for the game popped up online.

Most headset or webcam mics are a disappointment at best, so a dedicated desktop microphone can be an easy way to hugely improve most setups. Most gamers could benefit from having a better quality mic for multiplayer sessions, and with streaming becoming ever popular, a good mic can be the difference between welcoming viewers or scaring them away. This makes mics a great addition to most setups, and often a great choice for the gamer who has everything else already.

MediEvil was a cult classic for PlayStation, loved by many and a great example of how weird and wonderful the PlayStation 1 era was. Unfortunately, the series co-creator James "Jay Gunn" Wilson has been finding work a little hard to come by recently, and following the sale of his original game design Bible back in May, he's now selling his Game of the Year BAFTA that he won back in 2000 for MediEvil 2 to help "keep the wolves at bay".

Fortnite’s maps are always packed with weapons and items for players to gather and cause havoc with. It’s the essence of its battle royale mode, but some matches can see players go long periods of time without them, so it’s handy to know where Chests and Ammo Boxes are.

Alienware 34 AW3423DWF | 34-inch | 165Hz | QD-OLED | $1,099.99$799.99 at Dell (save $250) Alienware's fancy QD-OLED panel just got that little bit cheaper. It's still not exactly entry-level at $800, but think of it as a long term investment that will make every single gaming session pop. Once you've experienced per-pixel OLED-style lighting, you won't want to go back to LCD tech. You can read our Alienware QD-OLED review for more.

There’s a whole slew of big changes coming to Destiny 2 with the release of the Season of the Wish on November 28. Aside from getting rid of Legendary Shards, for example, Bungie is also about to finally push out the working version of the long-awaited Fireteam Finder.

Space Intern is a clever new platformer that you can play right now on Android. You play as an intern in space, hence the name, and have to completer over 40 clever levels in a variety of different worlds.

At Polygon, a lot of us are fans of sitting down to a movie with as little up-front information as possible, for the feeling of discovery. But sometimes, it helps to know a few things going in, whether it’s an interesting fact about the movie’s history, or just knowing how many end-credit scenes to wait for. Here are five things we think you should know about Walt Disney Animation Studios’ new animated feature Wish before watching.

As players jump into more matches in MW3 Zombies and bring back better and better loot each time, they’ll discover they need to push harder to get the best items in the game. Schematics. However, these are incredibly hard to find and farm without the right strategy.

Since World of Warcraft's release, «twinks» have been a problem. For those familiar enough with gay culture to be scandalised, I promise that's the actual MMORPG lingo. A twink in an MMO is a low-level character you pour a bunch of effort (and typically money) into, giving them absurdly powerful gear—proportionately, at least. Etymology lessons will come later.