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Frozen Morning edition

Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

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The most consequential gaming stories, ranked by independent coverage and momentum.

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Rockstar Pushes Back on Rumor GTA 6 Cost More Than $1.5 Billion to Make, but It's Still Probably the Most Expensive Video Game of All Time

Rockstar has insisted GTA 6 did not cost more than $1.5 billion to make, countering an online rumor, but it’s still probably the most expensive video game of all time.
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Horror Adventure ‘1999TOKOYO Building’ Launches November 10 on Steam, Free Demo Available Now

Publisher Kodansha and developer TOKOYO FUDOSAN announced that their horror-adventure game 1999TOKOYO Building will launch on PC via Steam on November 10, 2026. A free demo is available now, allowing players to experience the game’s opening chapter over two hours. The full release will support English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. 1999TOKOYO Building…
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The Drug Store is this week’s Console Archives game

The Drug Store is joining the Console Archives lineup. The title will be made available tomorrow, October 15, 2026. The Drug Store originally released in 1998 on the PlayStation, and is essentially a drugstore management simulation game. Keep in mind that this release is only in Japanese. Here’s some more information on the game: Let’s create the drug store…
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 4.0.1 update out now, patch notes

As a heads up for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe players, a new version 4.0.1 update just released. A number of different bugs have been addressed with this patch. Sometimes, Nintendo is quiet about the details of its bug fixes. However, this time around, the company has provided actual information. One of the issues addressed here is the amount of obstacles...
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Hytale introduces its first dungeon, a multi-phase boss, and minigames in its Out of the Breach update

Hytale hasn’t gotten too many big updates over the course of its early access launch, but that has most certainly changed this week, as the voxel-y multiplayer survival RPG released its Out of the Breach update, which adds several new items, new abilities, and its very first hand-crafted dungeon, complete with a multi-phase boss fight. The [...]
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