The irony of Cyberpunk taking place in 2077 and still having physical media. I have to give Night City some props for that
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Is GTA franchise just going to cycle through Vice city, Liberty city, and San Andreas forever? If not, which real-world cities would make for a good GTA game?

With all the hype around GTA VI and me watching some videos about older entries it got me thinking how locations in GTA main-line games progressed and how it would suck for GTA as basically the one of a kind franchise to forever just solely stick to a very small set of locations to explore: Los Santos / Los Angeles, Liberty City / New York, Vice City / Miami, Las Venturas / Las Vegas, and San Fierro / San Francisco.

Obviously even the same city in different games is not 1:1 but the feel is same, references are similar, locations look similar, etc.

I guess it makes sense in a way because those cities are centers of modern pop culture, which the game parodies. Those cities feel familiar to many people around the world, and with the budgets being so high and thus the risk as well, it is a safer bet. But it would be nice for GTA to also explore some other locations or have more freedom to even assemble completely fictional areas.

What do you think? Will main-line GTA titles only stick to these major US cities as references or will Rockstar start opening its franchise to more diverse locations and thus stories? (I mean, crime looks a bit different in Japan, Brazil, Europe, Mexico, Russia, etc.)

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Just started that 007 game everyone was talking about.
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Making Friends Monday! Share your game tags here!

Use this post to look for new friends to game with! Share your gamer tag & platform, and meet new people!

This thread is posted weekly on Mondays (adjustments made as needed).

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Unannounced Halo Multiplayer Game Codenamed Project Ekur Has Reportedly Been Canceled
https://twistedvoxel.com/unannounced-halo-multiplayer-game-project-ekur-canceled/

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Crazy to think that the PlayStation outage of 2011 that lasted 24 days is now over 15 years old. It’s the only reason for the first Xbox purchase.

It lasted 24 days and impacted 77 million users and their personal data.

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Its crazy how much gaming has evolved in a single human lifespan.

I saw a post today that was an interview between Jimmy Fallon and Anthony Mackie. In it, he makes the claim that he's a gamer and he at some point had purchased a custom console from someone at his barber that had all the old Atari, GB, GBA, N64, etc games pre-installed. He claimed that he had skill in astroids or Ms Pacman. He was proud of it and I say more power to him. The part that caught me is that someone not old enough to be my dad was proud of being a gamer but referring to astroid and Ms Pac-Man. Its not a negative but less than 2 decades apart between him and I and the games I consider central to my upbringing was earliest Mario 64 but then its Halo 2 and GTA 4. There's Mario Sunshine and Kirby Air Ride in there as well but those are differently leagues of games above Astroids.

So someone who could be considered on my same generational level has such huge difference view of games because of how fast games have changed and I thought that was interesting.

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"Don't Kill the Disc": Petition Against Sony PS5 and PS6 Digital Media Plans Reaches 120,000 Signatures - Digital Foundry
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/dont-kill-the-disc-petition-against-sony-ps5-and-ps6-digital-media-plans-reaches-120000-signatures

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Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-06/microsoft-s-xbox-to-cut-3-200-jobs-divest-five-studios-in-major-overhaul

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Nintendo Switch, Switch Lite, Switch OLED getting discontinued in Europe starting February 2027
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Nintendo-Switch-2/Information-about-upcoming-battery-related-revisions-to-some-Nintendo-products-3132901.html#:~:text=What%20about%20other%20products%20that%20aren%E2%80%99t%20listed%20in%20the%20table%3F

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Double Fine & Compulsion Studios going Independent, and Microsoft is selling Ninja Theory & Undead Labs | Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts [The Verge]
https://www.theverge.com/news/961546/xbox-layoffs-studio-sales-2026

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Dev tells Valve to fix Steam's exploitable 2-hour refund policy as "over 55,000" players refund his short game and even brag about it in reviews
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/dev-tells-valve-to-fix-steams-exploitable-2-hour-refund-policy-as-over-55-000-players-refund-his-short-game-and-even-brag-about-it-in-reviews/

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Sony goes radio silent after announcing end of PlayStation physical discs
https://www.polygon.com/sony-killing-physical-disc-releases-backlash-radio-silent/

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WSJ- Gamepass has about 30m subscribers. Xbox forecasted they would have 77m by now during the Activision trial
https://www.wsj.com/tech/microsoft-layoffs-xbox-59e7f6df

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My greatest gaming achievement
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Obsidian Losing 25% Of Staff In Xbox Cuts (60-70 People)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/even-obsidian-couldnt-escape-the-xbox-cuts-with-losses-ranging-from-a-21-year-veteran-artist-to-an-engineer-whod-only-been-there-2-months/

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Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard
https://www.ign.com/articles/we-need-to-change-course-bethesda-boss-tells-staff-the-company-must-focus-on-our-strongest-franchises-as-xbox-layoffs-hit-hard

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Dualshockers - Backlash Over PlayStation's All-Digital Move is Outviewing GTA 6 on Social Media
https://www.dualshockers.com/backlash-over-playstations-all-digital-is-outviewing-gta-6/

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"Game execs remain stupid detached money grubbing idiots," says former Halo and Bungie dev
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/game-execs-remain-stupid-detached-money-grubbing-idiots-former-xbox-boss-wanted-halo-4-to-copy-diablo-3s-horrible-real-money-auction-house-dev-says/

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PlayStation Axed Discs and Didn’t Tell Publishers or Business Partners
https://highchaosrun.com/2026/07/07/playstation-killed-discs-without-telling-its-publishers-or-business-partners/

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