GTA VI has received a new delay, this time being pushed back toward the end of 2026. When the game was announced a few years ago, it was initially planned for a late 2025 launch date. The game was then delayed until the Spring of 2026, giving developers at Rockstar just a little more time to get things ready for the game’s grand debut. This was a good thing, at least for Rockstar’s development staff and for gamers. Developers would now be getting a more comfortable development window to work within, and the majority of gamers would rather wait longer for a game if it meant a more polished and finished product with fewer potential bugs.

Of course, this delay wasn’t necessarily going to benefit everyone. Any studio that had planned to launch their games in the Spring of 2026 would now be contending with GTA VI. A game that is undoubtedly going to be so massive it’s going to shoot Rockstar’s profits into the stratosphere. Now that the game has been delayed again, things are shifting for some games, while new developers are potentially starting to panic.

The GTA VI delay to November 2026 could shift other Fall game launches

According to Rockstar’s post on X, the game is now being delayed until November 19, 2026. This is more than likely going to shift the plans of any developers who were going to launch games that same month, or even within a few weeks of GTA VI’s new launch date.

One good example is Call of Duty. It tends to launch toward the end of October or the middle of November every single year. This year, the latest Call of Duty game, Black Ops 7, is launching on November 14. If Microsoft and Activision were planning to launch next year’s entry around the same time, they may want to come up with a different date. Call of Duty is a massive franchise in its own right, but GTA VI promises to be one of the most successful games of all time. Massive franchise or not, going up against it in sales isn’t exactly a smart move.

Of course, just because it would make sense for developers to be scrambling to come up with new launch dates, it doesn’t mean they will. Pushing things up means crunch for the staff and forcing longer hours, and that’s not good either. It also means more potential issues, as there would be less time for QA to fix anything that comes up. At the end of the day, the launch of GTA VI was always going to get other games caught in the crossfire. Now, that will just be happening later than expected.

No matter how sure you are, changes are always possible

Another interesting detail about this delay is that it’s happening at all. It’s surely happening for good reasons. And it’s better that Rockstar takes all the time it needs to ensure the product meets its standards, and the standards of every prospective gamer who wants to buy it.

That being said, it is in contrast to the most recent statement from Take-Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick. Back in August, Zelnick said he had “very, very high conviction” that GTA VI was sticking with its May 2026 launch date. That is obviously not happening, and Zelnick obviously answered a question about possible delays to the best of his ability. It just goes to show that delays in the industry are inevitable these days.

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Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed, which means we'll have to keep going back to Grand Theft Auto V to get a fix for Rockstar's best-selling franchise. If you're one of the handful of people who have yet to play one of the highest-selling video games ever, it looks like you'll get another chance, at least on PlayStation. According to Billbil-kun at Dealabs, Grand Theft Auto V is heading back to the PS Plus Extra games catalogue. Billbil-kun and Dealabs have a strong track record when it comes to reporting PS Plus games, whether it's one of, or sometimes […]

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Cloud gaming on the PlayStation Portal has gotten a lot better this week, as the handheld now lets you stream PS5 games from your library. These are games that you own on the PS5, and not games that Sony deems fit to be in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. There are lots of little nuances to this update and new feature, but the key takeaway is that you can stream your own games over the cloud.

Sony technically launched this feature as part of a beta update for beta participants earlier this year. I’ve had the capability on my own PlayStation Portal for a while, but admittedly never used it. That is, until today, with the new update that added the feature for all PlayStation Portal owners. Long story short, it works great. Games are much smoother than they are with Remote Play. The Remote Play aspect of the Portal can work well, too, but you need a pretty unshakeable internet connection, and it works best if your PS5 is hardwired. If it’s connected via Wi-Fi, the experience is of varied quality. Now, PlayStation Portal owners with this connection and latency problems can probably kiss those problems goodbye.

The PlayStation Portal PS5 cloud game support includes over 2,800 titles

While the idea of the Portal was always kind of a cool concept, requiring the Remote Play aspect has turned some people off. That should change with this update, now that the streaming happens entirely in the cloud without the need to be tethered to a PS5 console. To make things even better, there are over 2,800 supported titles that you can stream from your library. In total, there are 2,853 games.

That being said, Sony does say that games available to stream from your library will vary over time, by region, and country. So, the list of games for this feature might not be the same for everyone everywhere around the globe.

Progress carries over, so you can pick up where you left off

One really nice feature of the ability to stream your library of games is that it carries over your progress if you started playing a game on the PS5. I wasn’t sure if this would be the case, but after testing with Ghost of Yotei, it’s confirmed that if you start playing a game on the PS5, you’ll pick back up from your stopping point if you decide to stream that game over the cloud. This allows for seamless pick-up and play opportunities, and is surely going to be a delight for owners of the handheld. You do need to have the PlayStation Plus Premium subscription to access this feature. So, that could be a downside for some. If you already subscribe to that tier, however, and you own a Portal, you should check this feature out.

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Games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 tend to come with rather hefty requirements for PC specs. At least, that’s what you would think. This week, Activision officially released the launch trailer for Black Ops 7 and, along with it, a list of the requirements for minimum and recommended PC specs to play the game. Given the way the game looks in trailers, you would expect the PC spec requirements to be quite high, but they’re surprisingly low. Meaning, it should be relatively easy for many PC gamers to enjoy the latest title in the franchise. Provided, of course, there are no other glaring issues that will need to be addressed.

Both Modern Warfare II and Modern Warfare III remakes on PC (the Steam version) dealt with crashing issues as part of the launch. Game crashes are most certainly not enjoyable. So, if Activision can avoid that pitfall, then Black Ops 7 should be off to a good start, as it won’t cost a lot to own a machine that’s capable of running it.

The required PC specs for Black Ops 7 include an 11-year-old GPU

If you’ve played Borderlands 4, there’s a good chance you encountered issues with the game’s performance due to poor optimization, which, of course, was blamed on gamers simply needing to upgrade their hardware. Borderlands 4 is certainly a graphically demanding game, but not so demanding that even with top-tier components, you’d struggle to get a stable 60 frames per second.

Enter Black Ops 7, which, astoundingly, will support PC’s that are running only an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 3GB of Video RAM and 8GB of system RAM. This is an 11-year-old GPU. Obviously, PCs with those specs won’t be jumping into the game with graphics maxed out. However, compare that to the minimum requirements of other games, which either look only as good or worse.

For example, Borderlands 4’s minimum PC specs are an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 GPU with 16GB of system RAM. Granted, it also has a fairly large map that’s semi-open-world, and Black Ops 7 will have much smaller maps for its missions. Still, the minimum requirements listed are a great example of what good optimization will allow. Heck, Activision even made optimizations for Windows handhelds, as noted in the publisher’s block post.

4K graphics will require a little more oomph

All of that said, if you want to run the game at its highest settings and still have smooth gameplay, you’ll want more powerful components, but even those aren’t as demanding as you’d imagine. 4K Ultra is listed as requiring an Intel Core i7-10700K CPU or equivalent, only 16GB of RAM, and either an RTX 4080/5070 or an AMD Radeon RX 9070XT. It’s worth keeping in mind that this doesn’t mention anything about display size. Obviously, the larger the display you have, you might need to make some adjustments to keep running the game at 4K while also getting a high frame rate. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be released on November 14 for PC via Steam and Battlenet, Xbox, and PlayStation. It’ll also be available as a Day-One game on Xbox Game Pass. You’ll need to subscribe to that $30 plan to get access, though.

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