Sony's new QSSR brings AI upscaling built with AMD to the base PS5, starting with two first-party games, Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei. How far it spreads now depends on other studios, and Sony's graphics engineer puts the work at a few days of tuning for a game that already runs PSSR.
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- Evidence66
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Dan Houser says Absurd Ventures is developing two untitled games, an open-world comedy built on character memory and a sci-fi story about a rogue AI. More on the comedy is due within months, Houser said, and of the two pitches it is the one that names something players can test.
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- Evidence40
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Dutch police detained an alleged ShinyHunters leader on September 15, seven days before the group defaced the FBI's jobs website. The FBI says it is still chasing the rest of the group, so the vendor services and web portals it has used to get in remain the exposure to manage.
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No one has been sued. The filings still seek login IPs, linked Google and Xbox accounts, device identifiers and cloud files tied to users of several Discord servers since June 1.
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The third trailer debuts to subscribers before it reaches YouTube. That six-hour lead turns a streaming service into a launch channel, and it buys Rockstar a window nobody can enforce against anyone with a capture card.
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- Evidence45
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The extended look went to Netflix subscribers first and to everyone else, free, later the same night, a week after leaked footage was already circulating -- a sequence that shows exactly what the gate was holding.
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- Evidence58
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A proposal to let the City Manager negotiate with Rockstar Games reached the Miami Beach commission on Thursday, where one commissioner counted the million dollars the city has spent scrubbing its lawless image.
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The group told 404 Media it reached apply.fbijobs.gov through Oracle's PeopleSoft, and the FBI says the point of breach is still undetermined. Three of the bureau's recruiting pages have been serving error screens.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19. The objections circulating now are assembled from leaks and preview footage, so launch teams are deciding what to answer before anyone has played the thing.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Dayne Oram told an employment tribunal he believes a 2023 return-to-office petition became the basis of an internal watch list. Rockstar says the dismissals followed the sharing of confidential company information.
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Stephen Totilo lost his X account over screenshots of public court orders, on a notice that argued trademark law using a copyright form; GameStop got struck for running the screenshot Rockstar hands to the press.
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Malwarebytes has now documented three different GTA 6 scam payloads since June, so awareness copy written around one lure is describing a page the operators have already rebuilt. The drainer arrives before any click.
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- Evidence68
- Adoption30
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives65
- Confidence58
Four buyers say a $70 download was sold to them as a purchase. Sony's answer is that its terms sat next to the button and its arbitration clause binds, which would leave AB 2426's plain-language rule for some other court to read.
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- Evidence56
- Adoption81
- Hype gap+19
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
The crime statistics that quieted the public argument cannot settle the scientific one. The researcher still defending the link now places violent media behind provocation on his own list of risk factors.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption81
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The 26-minute extended look was captured on a PS5 and sold on fine detail, then went out first through Netflix, where Gizmodo's reviewer said server load and a locked quality setting made it hard to judge.
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The Extended Look pinned blended cutscenes, a focus-meter combat system and a six-star wanted meter to November 19. A good part of the feature list circulating afterwards came from IGN and from a leak account, not Rockstar.
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More than a week after a playable build began leaking, the studio's first public letter apologises for delays, thanks fans and asks for patience. It never mentions the source or the hole.
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- Evidence78
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
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The publisher wants MachineGuid values, device IDs and OneDrive contents for members of three servers going back to June 1. Microsoft and Discord have until September 4 to answer.
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- Adoption24
- Hype gap+24
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CyberLeek's drip-feed of stolen footage carries no notification clock. Take-Two's answer has been DMCA subpoenas, and researchers read the case as an insider threat investigation.
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- Adoption45
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Fake Rockstar pages push a 1.1 MB Vidar sample that takes session cookies as well as saved passwords. Cookies replay past 2FA, which makes this a corporate access problem wearing a consumer costume.
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- Evidence61
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives73
- Confidence44