Online games news Tedious Retro Gamer, 08-11-2025
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Grant Theft Auto VI, yet another highly anticipated game of recent years, is delayed. Let the sarcastic clapping begin.
Yup, GTA 6 is delayed again, this time from May 2026 to November 2026. Rockstar Games have added in the announcement that "these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve". Yup, same BS every single publisher spews when postponing the premiere of a game. How many of them are actually published, polished? Not too many as I recall.
But things must be a bit ugly behind the scenes, since recently Rockstar have fired more than 30 people in, what was described as those laid off, as "union-busting" move.
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At the end of July, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced that they are gonna take steps to remove view bots from the platform. Now they have and... the results are quite surprising.
It seems like the media in the gaming industry has still a lot to learn from the examples such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Anthem - hype is not everything. Why do I mention it? No, I’m not gonna talk about Cyberpunk 2077 again, some other title caught my attention and by pure coincidence it was a Polish game as well.
One of my favourite quotes from Mystery Science Theater 3000 is "he came, he changed nobody’s life and then he left", which pretty much describes what happened to Cyberpunk 2077. Again.
Phasmophobia was just upgraded with Apocalypse update, which is... a good news. But at the same time made the biggest problems of the game even more visible.
Untamed Isles, an open world MMO game, which was funded by users of Kickstarter, just went into hiatus after 2 years of development. The project got 4 times the money the developers asked for, so... of course it is another huge fail.
Steam just took a stand against NFTs in the games available on the platform. Is this the first sign of getting back to normal?
Great news for all of the fans of Cheech and Chong comedy duo - now you can play as their characters in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty Warzone! And... it is hard to tell why.
Wargaming, company behind World of Tanks, World of Warships and World of Warplanes, is known for its predatory marketing approach towards customers, so article like this is nothing new or nothing surp...
