Game Podunk writes: "We all know GTAV is on its way, although Rockstar have yet to officially announce it. The 'leaked video' is in all likliehood a complete fabrication, but that doesn't mean it hasn’t reignited the fires of expectation and speculation that only GTA seems able to feed. Where and when will GTAV be set?
Sure Call of Duty and Halo might have been taking all the limelight and some serious dollar in recent years, but let's face it, we all know what to expect with those games. The mere locale for a new GTA game is enough to send fans crazy with desire. On the other hand, Rockstar have been known to recycle their settings, Liberty City being the biggest offender. New York (aka Liberty City) is done and needs to be banned from all GTA titles for at least another ten years. She’s served us well, but too many games are obsessed with the Big Apple: Prototype, Crysis 2 and so on. Unless it's Spider-Man, stay out."
Take-Two Interactive revealed it is pausing development on its Nintendo Switch 2 edition of "Borderlands 4" in its latest quarterly earnings.
O'Dell Harmon Jr. writes: "Before we say goodbye to 2025, let’s take a look back and see what were the most downloaded games of the year. It was a great time for sports, shooters, and some new PlayStation VR2 games. Sports favorites topped the charts in US/Canada and EU, with NBA 2K26 and EA Sports FC26, respectively.
Juggernaut GTA V found a home in the top three for both regions, with new 2025 release Battlefield 6 claiming second place in the US. Fortnite took top place for free-to-play games, and Beat Saber continues its PS VR2 success."
I think it shows how shortsighted it was for Sony to let go of Evolution and not get them to make some sort of competitor (open world Driveclub?) 10 years ago.
After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.
It’s funny to watch the only games EU and USA agree on was Minecraft and back ops 7 both regions on 6 and 7 spot respectively other than that FIFA rules EU
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I would like to see a list that has both free to play and paid games together, but at least we have this.
To this day GTA5 is a top downloaded game and it makes me wonder if the industry is really ready for GTA6. I imagine almost nothing else will sell during that game's release window.
Another night of Fortnite with the boys then?
I’ve never played Fortnite GTAV or CoD BO7 but I do own GTAV for PS4/5 because I got them cheap.
i think we should either take those games out, or make a singleplayer list too ha
What exactly are we not getting?
Did we not just have a 2025 filled with nice games like...
Silksong, Doom TDA, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Ghost of Yotei, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Hades 2, DK Bananza, and so many more?
Agree that all you just posted are great games. Expedition 33 is one of my favorites. Spent a large chunk of time on BG3 in 2023. Another for my all-time list.
My point though not well articulated in the OG post is that we would get more of the games of the quality you mentioned if so many valuable resources were not allocated to FTP slop and/or heavy monetization schemes. Some of what used to be my favorite franchises have been ruined by them.
To sum it up, I would like to see games like 33 outperform the profits made by games like Fortnite so more resources are allocated to great games. When heavily monetized FTP games are at the top of the list, we end up being stuck with a significant chunk of games that are not good. Or worst case scenario games that spend years in development, but get cancelled due to industry trend chasing.
Popsicle, I actually think we're getting more great games because of the slop. Developers are seeing that people aren't happy and taking advantage of big AAA studios not delivering for people.
Australia lol :P
Vice City...but I'm hoping for a way bigger map. Like Vice City are just two small islands in the corner of the map and you have other islands above and a massive mainland at the side.
I like Vice City but it's too small.
"It would be foolish to rule out the possibility of other locations making a comeback though. San Andreas had a great mixture of environments like LA, woodland, deserts and even Area 51, but it was considered too big by many"
"but it was considered too big by many"
Who the hell thought that, SA map was amazing. That's what I was dissapointed about in GTA4, that it was small compared to Saints Row 2 or Just Cause 2.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo bring it to Ireland xD
edit@ S2580
I'd rather Donegal cus thats where im from and i would be familiar with it all xD
I'd like to see somewhere on the mediterranean.
unless something big happens and RS announce GTA5 later this year either through GAMEINFORMER or GTTV but GTA doesn't need either of those 2. RS can just hold a party and announce it.
I liked when gameinformer's editor in chief said GTA is bigger than E3 and he said even if they have something plannedf if RS call GTA5 will be on the covere when ever RS wants.
now down to location.
I think we will see a combo city kind of thing
vice city
SA
as one big city or state
and please have all those RPG elements of gta SA
damn now i will go and play SA all day today with jetpacks lol