The 17-year-old suspected of hacking Rockstar Games and leaking footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 has pled not guilty to the charge of computer misuse. He has reportedly pled guilty to breaching bail conditions however and is now being held in a youth detention centre.
We're just a handful of days on from what is easily the biggest Grand Theft Auto 6 leak yet and Rockstar Games has been hit hard by it. While the developer is undoubtedly "disappointed" with the leak, studio leads believe it won't impact the ongoing development of the title. While this statement has stolen the spotlight in the last 24 hours, we still need to talk about the actual gameplay footage because it makes GTA 6 look more like Red Dead Redemption 2 than GTA 5 - and that's not a bad thing.
It goes without saying that we know that the next GTA game is going to be quite a bit different from Rockstar Games' 1899-set Red Dead Redemption sequel. However, if you look past the unfinished environments and the unpolished graphics (after all, this is still a game in active development) it looks like GTA 6 is going to play much more like the slower open-world western than it does the Los Santos-based sandbox shooter we know and love, and that's because of a thing called RAGE.
RAGE is the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine - something that Rockstar Games has been updating and adapting for well over a decade now, and the game engine that both GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 are built on.
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Ahead of the upcoming Call of Duty Next showcase which will update fans on the future of the franchise, a fresh batch of Warzone 2 leaks have hit social media, this time via a popular Warzone YouTuber and streamer.
Taking to Twitter, 'Metaphor' dumps a whole load of information on Warzone 2 based on gameplay he has reportedly seen. A lot of this lines up with previously leaked information, but some of it we're hearing about for the first time.
One of the most interesting Warzone 2 leaks being reported by Metaphor is that Warzone's iconic gas storm that closes in around players in the battle royale is being swapped for a dust storm. This could signal the end of gas masks, although a new piece of equipment serving the same, storm-protecting purpose could certainly be introduced in Warzone 2.
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For a long while, Call of Duty games like Warzone were the butt of any joke around console storage space and file sizes. The battle royale, before going on a file size-shrinking diet, would commandeer a huge chunk of your internal storage, as do the likes of Black Ops Cold War and . But with the imminent release of NBA 2K23, Xbox players may have a new game to poke fun at when it comes to hogging storage space.
As first spotted by MP1st, the ability to pre-install NBA 2K23 on Xbox Series X|S has shown just how chunky this year's iteration of the basketball game is going to be. The NBA 2K23 file size weighs in at 152 GB, making it one of the biggest games on the platform right now.
This dwarfs plenty of titles that would be perceived to have rather hefty file sizes. According to listings on the Xbox Store, the now slimmed-down Warzone has a file size of 95 GB, GTA V is 96 GB, Assassin's Creed Valhalla comes in at 112 GB, and Forza Horizon 5 will take up 119 GB of your storage space. It's even bigger than the massive survival game ARK: Survival Evolved, which has a file size of just under 150 GB.
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