It isn't 2013 anymore. High profile games are only partially on the disc and a necessary chunk has to be downloaded for it to run, which will only work on release date.
I'm sure the top review companies have working copies and have been playing...
I doubt a tiny indie studio of a grand total of two persons can afford to pay for any kind of underhand mass marketing. There's closed gaming forums where bots can't register and new accounts have to be verified, and the players on those who've...
Sounds like something wasn't done right as this was solved by Steam more than a decade ago with Witcher 3's patches causing Steam to introduce differential patching, where the playerbase only has to download the few MB in difference between files...
Rockstar tends to release their games late Nov-Dec, after the qualification period has ended for nominees. GTA6 probably won't be at any major game awards this year, it's release date will most likely qualify for the 2027 awards.
There is a large expansive well designed map, as well as population dense areas full of NPC, quests, side activities, enemies, bosses and tons of optional content. The quests range from MMO style fetch quests to typical rpg questlines you find in...
Completed at about 200 hours in. There's maybe another optional 150 hours (or so) of content left.
- The open world is the star of the show - arguably the best ever designed open world in a videogame ever
- The sheer amount of content in the...
Sort of but they will need angel investors. The devs can leave and form their own studio (and this has actually happened fairly often before, devs splitting off from a massive org to form their own small indie or doubleA studio) - however they...