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GTA 6 release date still on track for this autumn, Take-Two insists, despite delay fears

Rockstar Games' hugely anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track to launch this "fall" publisher Take-Two Interactive has reiterated, despite persistent rumblings of a delay.

Take-Two recommitted to its release window as part of its Q3 FY 2025 earnings study, writing, "This calendar year is shaping up to be one of the strongest ever for [the corporation], as we plan to launch Sid Meier's Civilization 7 on 11th February, Mafia: The Old Country in the summer, Grand Theft Auto 6 in the Fall, and Borderlands 4."

Take-Two unveiled an autumn 2025 release target for GTA 6 last May, narrowing down what had previously only been a 2025 window at the time of the game's first trailer reveal. However, rumours of a possible delay have continued to dog the game since then.

A findings last March suggested Rockstar had originally been targeting a "spring" 2025 release but that development had "fallen behind". An autumn launch was expressed to be more likely - just as 2K later unveiled - but it was claimed a 2026 release could happen as "fallback plan".

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier later called the rumours unfounded, and Take-Two has continued to stand by its autumn launch window, even if it still hasn't quite got as far as revealing the release date the entire games industry is waiting for.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has acknowledged the mounting anticipation around GTA6 in an interview with IGN. "I think the game is eagerly anticipated both internally and externally," he expressed. "We know that Rockstar seeks perfection. I never claim success before it occurs. I'm fond of saying arrogance is the enemy of continued success, so we're all running scared and looking over our shoulders and we know that the competition is not asleep. Our whole organisation is super excited."

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There's a reason you can hear someone coughing on Civ 7's Age Transition screen

Civilization 7 players say they can hear coughing and grunting while browsing the game's Age Transition screen - and now publisher 2K has acknowledged the issue.

A lengthy reddit thread discussing the problem includes examples of strange audio clips that players have recorded - and yes, you can clearly hear something going on in the background, behind the Age Transition menu's soaring orchestral music.

"I thought maybe I'd left a stream on or was somehow in a Discord call," one player reported, "but I double-checked and no. You can really hear a person clearing their throat and coughing throughout the music. I'm not sure how this is even possible but it's kind of hilarious if you ask me."

Other examples uploaded to YouTube include snippets of characters grunting, or the sounds of swordfighting.

But rather than the game's actual music track being taped over by someone with a sore throat, 2K has expressed a more benign reason is likely to blame.

"During an Age Transition, players might hear strange noises," a 2K spokesperson confirmed, in a post on the official Civilization support site. "This is likely due to the audio from the Main Menu being played over Age Transition screens.

"This means you may hear short voice lines, shuffling around, and general idle noises while on the Age Transition menu."

Other players analysis hearing audio from the leader they're playing as looping in the background, including mumbling and clothes rustling.

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These will include improvements to UI interactions and map readability, as well as adding Teams to multiplayer games and adding in hotseat multiplayer.

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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 get first PC patch following launch week woes

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has had a bit of a bumpy start on PC, but with a couple of emergency hot fixes now under its belt, developer Insomniac, alongside porting partner Nixxes, has released its first major patch - targeting reports of crashing, among other things.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 made its long-awaited PC debut last Thursday, but reports from frustrated players soon surfaced, highlighting significant crashing issues, bugs, and poor optimisation. It didn't take long for the game to amass a "mixed" rating on Steam as complaints continued piling in, and Insomniac responded quickly with a series of hot fixes.

Now, though, the studio has released its first full patch for Spider-Man 2, primarily targeting "several crash fixes based on feedback from [players] and our crash reporting system." There's more beyond that, however, with modification [website] also implementing a backup system for autosaves, fixing a number of visual bugs related to DLSS Ray Reconstruction and raytracing, and addressing a range of UI related bugs.

Menu toggles have also been introduced for Film Style Animation and Comic SFX, and there are interface improvements intended to simplify starting New Game+.

Insomniac acknowledges not all reported issues have been addressed in its first patch, but says it's "committed to improving your experience and [will] continue to work on regular updates with more bug fixes, improvements and performance optimisations."

Eurogamer's Chris Tapsell had good things to say about Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on PlayStation 5, calling it "simple, familiar, and occasionally cluttered [but] still brilliant fun" in his four star review. Hopefully, Insomniac and Nixxes can resolve the PC version's current issues and give the game the port it deserves. For now, though, you'll find full patch notes below:

Various crash fixes based on player feedback and data from our crash reporting system.

Improvements to crash reporting with screenshot support.

Film Style Animation and Comic SFX can now be toggled via Settings > Game > Camera.*.

User interface improvements to simplify starting a New Game+.

Implemented autosave backups. At key points in the story the game will create a backup of the autosave slot.

Added mouse scrolling to the manual load/save menu.

Various improvements and bug fixes to the user interface.

Reduced noise in character hair when using DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

Enemies webbed to surfaces no longer have a black background when using ray-traced shadows and ray-traced ambient occlusion.

Fixed a bug related to ray-traced reflections that could cause pixelation artefacts along water edges.

Settings for Subtitle Text Size, Closed Caption Text Size, Icon and Prompt Size and Audio Listening Mode are no longer synchronized between different devices.**.

*These options become available after obtaining the Across the Spider-Verse Suit. ** As a result of this change, these settings will be reset to their defaults after you install this revision.

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