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BREAKING: Rockstar Games officially confirms that GTA 6 has been delayed to May 2026.

GTA 6 will not release in 2025, Rockstar Games has announced. The highly anticipated sequel is now due out on May 26, 2026, the developer said on the Rockstar Newswire. This puts Grand Theft Auto 6 firmly in Take-Two's FY27 period, which runs from April 1, 2026 - March 31, 2027.

Take-Two Interactive shares dropped as much as 16% after the announcement.

With the release of TES IV: Oblivion Remastered, and Skyblivion on the horizon, 2025 is shaping up to be a fantastic year for Elder Scrolls fans. To add fuel to the fire, the team from Tamriel Rebuilt has completed a large content expansion for TES 3: Morrowind - Grasping Fortune - which released yesterday.

For context, Tamriel Rebuilt is an expansion project that's been in development since 2001. It aims to recreate the entire mainland of the Morrowind province (outside the base game's setting of Vvardenfell) in Morrowind's game engine, with new regions released incrementally in each major update. Lore accuracy is a huge emphasis for the volunteer project, drawing directly from Bethesda's official materials, in-game books, and dev notes for each of its expansions.

The latest update, entitled Grapsing Fortune, introduces Narsis - the capital of House Hlaalu. Grasping Fortune represents one of the biggest leaps in scale in the project's history - adding over 270 new quests, 140 dungeons, 2,500+ unique NPCs, and 410 new map cells.

Apple has warned iPhone users in 100 countries about their devices being compromised due to spyware, and advised affected users to contact a nonprofit that specializes in investigating cyberattacks.

So far, two people have come forward about Apple's recent alert. One is Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino, who works for an online news outlet called Fanpage. Pellegrino explained in an article that Apple's alert arrived in the form of an email and a text message that informed him that he was targeted with spyware. The second individual who has come forward about the alert is Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a Dutch right-wing activist who took to X to share Apple's message in the form of screenshots.

Apple's message states the attack is mercenary spyware, which the company warns is "vastly more complex than regular cybercriminal activity and consumer malware" as mercenary spyware attackers apply exceptional resources to target a very small number of specific individuals and their devices. Apple writes on its website explaining its threat notifications that "Mercenary spyware attacks cost millions of dollars and often have a short shelf life, making them much harder to detect and prevent. The vast majority of users will never be targeted by such attacks."

Larian Studios has officially closed the door on new content updates for its universally acclaimed Baldur's Gate 3, and has since commenced a hiring push for its new dedicated storytelling department.

The announcement, posted by the studio's official X account and shared by its director of publishing, calls for new talent to assist with "concocting tales, complete with world-building and pronunciation guides" for its next two RPG projects.

While little information is available regarding the new projects, it's been confirmed that the titles won't take place in the Baldur's Gate universe. As you'd expect from Larian, the two "very ambitious" RPGs will stick to the studio's DNA, focusing heavily on immersive worldbuilding, roleplaying, and storytelling.

A Californian man has pleaded guilty to hacking Disney's Slack channel and stealing 1.1TB of internal company data, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The man is 25-year-old Ryan Kramer, who operated under the alias "NullBulge," and according to the DOJ, Kramer created a malicious program in early 2025 that he promoted as an AI image generation tool on GitHub and various other platforms. The program was actually malware that enabled Kramer to gain access to a computer that downloaded the program and steal the passwords and data from the device.

The Wall Street Journal writes that one of the people who downloaded the program was Disney employee Matthew Van Andel, who had his passwords stolen from his 1Password password manager. With Van Andel's passwords, Kramer signed into Disney's Slack Channels where he began downloading data, amounting to 1.1TB of Disney's confidential company data.

Modding naturally lends itself as a key benefit of gaming on PC. With the latest Raimi-verse addition to Spider-Man 2 (PC), you can live out your fantasy of dance-pointing down the street - or channeling your symbiote-driven angst - just as you saw it in Spider-Man 3 (2007).

Vader's Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, uploaded by a creator named GuitarthVader, allows players to change Peter's appearance to a selection of different Tobey Maguire face skins from the Sam Raimi trilogy - including his younger appearance from Spider-Man (2002), a slightly older look from Spider-Man 2 (2005), and the infamous Bully Maguire appearance from Spider-Man 3 (2007).

The mod also comes with a range of outfits, including Peter's get-ups from the first two films, the infamous black dance suit, and even his "pizza time" appearance. Mods are also available to enhance the existing Raimi suits and swap in Venom's look from the third movie.

Microsoft is looking to shave the load times for Word by implementing a preload feature that should increase performance.

Microsoft wrote in a new Message Center note to IT admins that in a coming update, it will be introducing a new Startup Boost task from the Microsoft Office installer. Here's how it will work. Preloading on a PC can be a very useful technique for making applications, images, or various files run or at least appear to run faster. An example of this would be loading web content, such as images or videos, when they aren't needed.

These images, videos, or files are being loaded in the background, and when the user goes to access them, the loading process is already completed, giving the user the illusion that the files presented themselves extremely quickly. The Windows creator plans on rolling out the same feature for Word, and according to Microsoft, the new feature should be arriving sometime in May. Notably, when enabled, the system will perform the task shortly after the system is booted up, and after the process is completed, the app will remain in a paused state until the user launches it.

The Trump administration is working on fresh changes to Biden-era rules that limits global access to AI chips, where we could see the US splitting the world into multiple tiers that would determine how many advanced semiconductors a country can receive.

The news is coming from a new report pushed over at Reuters, with the usual "sources familiar with the matter" who also said that these plans are still under discussion, and that they could change. But, if they were enacted, removing these tiers would open up the US chips as an even more powerful bargaining tool for trade talks with other countries.

These new semiconductor export rules would better limit access to bleeding-edge AI chips, and will remove the Biden-era tiered system that currently seperates nations into tiers, with the 1st tear getting all of the chips they want, with 17 nations and Taiwan on that 1st tier list, 120 countries on the second tier, while third-tier nations including China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are blocked from AI chips completely.

It was only yesterday that we got our first look at the PCB of NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q Blackwell GPU (limited to 300W of power, but still rocks 96GB GDDR7) but now we have the PCB from the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU with its max 600W TDP.

The PCB design of NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU was posted on Chiphell, and since the new workstation cards haven't been launched yet, these are some really early shots of the PCB. NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell features a compact PCB that is split into 3 parts: the motherboard for the GPU and GDDR7 memory, and the PCIe interface board, with the only missing part here being the display connector board.

NVIDIA has placed the GDDR7 memory on both sides of the PCB, with each side featuring 48GB GDDR7 for a full 96GB using 3GB GDDR7 memory modules.

Last year, we reported on LG's new blue phosphorescence (PHOLED) technology for OLED displays, a brand-new way of stacking "phosphorescence and fluorescent blue OLED technologies for better efficiency, brightness, and longevity." Yes, it's considered a holy grail for OLED displays, with LG referring to it as 'Dream OLED.'

The good news is that after 8 months, LG is now reporting that it has successfully verified "the performance of commercializing blue phosphor OLED panels on the mass production line for the first time." This is excellent news as it's on track to become a game changer for OLED gaming displays and TVs in the coming years.

So, what makes it a game changer? Well, it solves all of the issues associated with current OLED technology. It's more efficient, significantly brighter, and alleviates 'burn-in' or image retention issues.

With The Outer Worlds 2 pushing towards its 2025 release window, Obsidian sat down to discuss some of the memorable experiences the game seeks to create. Particularly, drawing parallel to infamous moments from the opening of Fallout New Vegas.

Speaking with IGN, Obsidian's lead systems designer, Kyle Kanig discussed how the combat has been updated to feel more modern, drawing on some familiar titles for inspiration.

One of the biggest new games on the horizon is id Software's DOOM: The Dark Ages, a prequel to DOOM Eternal (check out our hands-on with the game here) that will once again deliver intense action with cutting-edge visuals. This is id's first game that will require a ray-tracing capable GPU on PC because it uses the technology for both gameplay (enhanced hit and material detection) and Path Tracing or Full Ray Tracing.

It launches on May 15 and is coming to NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming platform. Subscribers can play the game on a cloud-based RTX rig via Steam, Battle.net, Xbox, or PC Game Pass. With GeForce NOW offering up to GeForce RTX 4080 levels of performance, gamers will be able to play on a wide range of devices with ray-tracing, DLSS 4's enhanced Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction technologies, Reflex, Frame Generation, and even G-Sync.

DOOM: The Dark Ages joins 20 other PC games joining the GeForce NOW library in May 2025, including the following 10 dropping this week.

In the latest push towards a password-free Windows, Microsoft has implemented a new initiative that prompts new users to set up their accounts with passkeys, push notifications, and security keys over traditional methods.

The recent update, launched alongside Microsoft's new sign-in window, changes the behavior for new accounts to be "passwordless by default." The sign-in screen has also been adjusted to smoothly facilitate passwordless logins.

Windows has supported alternative login methods for years, but the recent move signals Microsoft's intent to prioritize simplified UX and to reduce friction in the sign-up process.

NVIDIA is denying reports that it would be spinning off its Chinese operations so it acted as a standalone business, which would side-step strengthening US export controls.

There have been rumors and reports of this for the last few days, but NVIDIA has officially said: "There is no basis whatsoever for any of these claims. It is irresponsible to publish baseless claims and speculation as fact".

The original post was on X by leaker @Jukanlosreve and later reported by the likes of DigiTimes, that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was considering establishing a joint venture in mainland China to maintain the operations of the company's leading CUDA computing platform, as well as other business interests in the company.

Overwatch 2's new Stadium game mode has been a huge success, so much so that it's the most played game mode so far, beating out Competitive and Quick Play modes, with developer Blizzard rolling out a huge Stadium-packed roadmap. Check it out:

There were 2.3 million matches played across 7.8 million hours of Stadium during its launch week, which is twice the number of the prior most popular game mode's launch week -- which was OW Classic when it was added to Overwatch 2 -- where in its first week, 900 billion in Stadium cash was collectively earned. On top of that, 206 million items were chosen by players during rounds.

Since the new Stadium game mode has been so popular, Blizzard has published an article explaining the development history, with director Aaron Keller writing a very personal story of how Stadium came to be. Keller writes: "Stadium emerged as an idea before Overwatch 2 launched. In fact, before it was presented to the team, one of my kids created the first pitch document with a sample level and presented it to me! Stadium has come a long way since then, but I always think of my son when playing".

We haven't stopped hearing about AI for a couple of years now, but recently Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admitted that as much as 30% of the company's new code is written by AI.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the news during the recent LlamaCon, which is Meta's conference focusing on generative AI tools, where when sitting across from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg when he said: "code reviews are very high. In fact the agents we have for reviewing code, that usage has increased, and so I would say maybe 20, 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today and in some of our projects are probably all written by software".

Nadella also asked Zuckerberg how much of Meta's code was being written by AI, to which Zuckerberg said he didn't know the exact figure off the top of his head, but noted that Meta is building an AI model that can in-turn build future versions of Meta's in-house Llama family of AI models.

Xbox has expanded significantly and is now making more money in Q3 than ever before--Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gives updates on Xbox's Q3 performance.

Xbox's Q3'25 period was the best-ever third quarter in the history of the brand. Gaming generated $5.721 billion in the Q3 period from Jan - Mar 2025, driven by content, software, subscriptions and services, which made up 94% of total revenues. Hardware was down for the fifth consecutive quarter in a row.

Naturally, Microsoft was eager to expand on these results to investors. While we didn't get integral details like operating profits or even an update on Xbox Game Pass subscribers, Nadella did confirm some high-profile targets including a staggering 500 million monthly active user count across all platforms and geographies, with cloud also hitting 150 million hours streamed. PC Game Pass spending is also up +45%, no-doubt sparking the $5.4 billion content & services results, and Microsoft also took notice that Xbox dominated the PlayStation Store's pre-order charts at the very end of Q3.

Bethesda Game Studios has always fostered mod creation throughout the decades, and 2025 is no different, Oblivion Remastered or not: the current lead of Bethesda's paid mods Creation Club has praised the Skyblivion team for their total-conversion creation.

Oblivion Remastered recently released and Bethesda is celebrating with a new videos and contentabout Elder Scrolls, Oblivion, and the studio's history with the game. A new dev spotlight video highlighted Dan Lee, an art lead who worked on numerous BGS projects including landscaping the world art throughout the original Oblivion. Dan is also the lead on Bethesda's Creation Club programs, so he's in close connection with the more professional mod-makers who are able to sell their content for real money in the Creation Club store.

In the interview, Lee said he was looking forward to the Skyblivion mod: "Even though I worked on Oblivion Remastered, I'm still excited for Skyblivion. I think what they're doing is very special, and I am excited to see their interpretation of what we've done in the past. I think it's a great year for Oblivion fans."

Epic just announced a major new business update aimed at attracting developers to the Epic Games Store.

Today, Epic dropped two big news updates: The first is that devs releasing their games on the Epic Store won't have to pay any revenue share fees on the first $1 million earned, per app, per year. After that, the previously announced 88-12 split kicks in (88% to developers, 12% to Epic).

The second update is something called Epic Webshops. Devs can use these digital browser-based shops to sell in-game items, DLC, and content at a better rate than they'd otherwise have on Android or iOS. This basically means that gamers would be able to buy microtransactions outside of the app itself--click a button that opens up a web browser, and then you'd buy the content that way instead of directly within the dedicated game app.

Oblivion Remastered, while being a complete visual overhaul of the original game, still retains much of the original game's charm, released in 2006. Included in that old charm are glitches, exploits, and a character voice by Bethesda's own Todd Howard.

That character can be found in Oblivion Remastered, and if you interact with it in the right way enough times it will profess its love for you with the voice of Howard. The character Howard voices isn't roaming around the world and requires you to enter the following command into the console. Here's how to do it.

After performing those steps, you will be transported to a small house. This house was used by developers to test various characters/items in an isolated environment before they were placed into the wider world. Within the room, you will find a character called Alban Corinis who is wearing a full set of Elven armor. Speaking to Corinis will trigger the following voice line, which isn't in Howard's voice: "I knew one day someone with unyielding virtue would heed my words and speed my release. You risked much to perform such a selfless act."