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Rockstar has confirmed the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto VI, titled Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, comprising 34 original songs. Six singles are already available, featuring artists like Travis Scott, Keith Richards, Morgan Wallen and Yung Lean, spanning multiple genres. The album will release on streaming services, CD and vinyl on November 19th, matching the game's launch date.
Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil film, opening September 18, has earned a 97% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes ahead of release, with several critics calling it the best video game movie ever made. The film reportedly leans harder into horror than past franchise entries, drawing praise for its faithfulness to the source material despite dropping familiar characters like Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield.
CNET's daily Wordle guide confirmed that the solution for puzzle #1916, released Sept. 17, is THETA, the Greek letter often used in Greek life symbols. The site also provided hints beforehand, noting the word starts with T, ends with A, contains two vowels and one repeated letter. Wednesday's answer, WISPY, and other recent solutions were listed for reference.
Lionsgate has released a fresh action-heavy trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which chronicles a young Haymitch Abernathy competing in the 50th Hunger Games. The film stars Joseph Zada as Haymitch alongside Mckenna Grace, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Billy Porter and Maya Hawke. Separately, Laika Studios unveiled a trailer for its upcoming stop-motion feature Wildwood.
In an interview with io9, director Na Hong-jin and actress Hoyeon discussed the ambiguous conclusion of their sci-fi film 'Hope' and addressed speculation about future installments. The pair offered insight into their creative intentions behind the ending without confirming concrete sequel plans.
Microsoft revealed its September Xbox Game Pass additions, headlined by prequel title Gears of War: E-Day and Minecraft Dungeons 2, arriving alongside titles like RuneScape: Dragonwilds and Kernel Hearts. The rollout comes as Microsoft faces scrutiny over the service's costs, having already announced it will cap cloud gaming hours by tier starting in November instead of offering unlimited access.
Employees of Build A Rocket Boy have posted on LinkedIn that their jobs are ending, and Kotaku reports the studio is shutting down entirely. The closure follows the disastrous June 2025 launch of MindsEye, which prompted PlayStation refunds, multiple layoff rounds, and founder Leslie Benzies' claims of internal and external sabotage.
Sony has reached a preliminary $7.85 million settlement in Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment, a class-action lawsuit accusing it of eliminating competition in digital game sales by discontinuing vouchers that let PlayStation users buy games from other retailers. The case claims this forced customers to overpay by shopping only through the PlayStation Store. A final court hearing is set for Oct. 15 to approve the payout and distribution plan, though Sony denies any wrongdoing.
Lionsgate has unveiled a fresh trailer for 'Sunrise on the Reaping,' the next installment in the Hunger Games franchise centered on a young Haymitch Abernathy. The film stars Joseph Zada in the lead role alongside Ralph Fiennes and Glenn Close, and is scheduled to open in theaters this November.
Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil film reimagines Capcom's franchise around Bryan, an invented medical courier played by Austin Abrams, who gets pulled into a zombie outbreak while making a delivery run near Raccoon City. Unlike Paul W.S. Anderson's earlier film series, this version pares the story down and blends comedy with genuine scares rather than expanding an elaborate mythology.
A developer working at 505 Games on porting a custom PC game engine to consoles published a technical blog post explaining the hidden complexity of converting texture data between platforms. Using a 1024x1024 BC7-compressed wood texture as an example, the post walks through concepts like block compression, texel ordering, mip levels, and texture tiling that must all be correctly handled together to avoid corrupted images.
Denuvo has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against an unidentified hacker known as 'voices38,' accusing them of circumventing its Anti-Tamper protection in at least 26 titles, including Hogwarts Legacy, Black Myth: Wukong, Resident Evil Requiem, and Doom: The Dark Ages. Since Denuvo doesn't hold copyrights to these games, the suit relies on the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules rather than copyright infringement claims, seeking damages and an injunction against further tampering.