The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and Rockstar Games have traded more blows following a preliminary tribunal hearing this week. There, the IWGB asked a judge to grant the fired Grand Theft Auto 6 developers interim relief.
The top five games played on the PlayStation in 2025 by US players were exactly the same as in 2024, according to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker.
A preliminary employment tribunal hearing has seen the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) request that a judge grant interim relief to the 31 UK-based GTA 6 developers fired by Rockstar, reportedly following discussion of changes to Rockstar's company Slack policies by staff on Discord. The union, which filed legal claims against the company over the dismissals last year, continue to assert that they were a form of union busting. Rockstar, meanwhile, have released a fresh statement claiming that the root of this is simply stopping info about GTA 6 from leaking.
“Weird spiderwebs appearing at odd hours of the night in Rockstar’s open world game Red Dead Redemption 2?” you chortle. “That sounds like the testimony of crazy old Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, the guy who writes about new Molyneux projects like a pauper child returning from market with a handful of magic beans”. Mates, I promise I haven’t fallen victim to a scam of some kind. There are weird spiderwebs in RDR2. I read about it on the internet!
The spiderwebs appear to be part of a huge Easter egg puzzle the community (aka Youtubers, Xitter users and redditors) are now attempting to solve – an Easter egg that has allegedly lain uncracked since the game’s initial release in 2018. Spoilers to follow, of course.
Ah, hello, Prince Arthur. This is King Dutch. Long time no see. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. The katamari. The gunslinger suffering from tuberculosis. Where the first rolls the second follows. Roll, roll, roll.
That, essentially, is the ethos behind a Red Dead Redemption 2 mod which streamer Blurbs created late last year, and has since shown off in a video that's heavy on large masses of horses and pardners being rolled into rootin' tootin' chaos balls.
GTA 5 voice actor Ned Luke - aka Michael de Santa - got swatted for the eighth time over Xmas. I don’t mean that somebody belted him on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. I mean that somebody put in a hoax call to emergency services in a bid to have armed police sent to his house. The latest incident happened this December while Luke was streaming GTA Online with Rob Wiethoff, the voice of John Marston in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2. YouTuber IceBladeNinja has the whole clip for you to watch below.
Over the weekend, Grand Theft Auto 6’s legions of fan weather-watchers spotted a portfolio reel created by former Rockstar animator Benjamin Chue that includes what appears to be some WIP stuff from GTA 6. Assuming the leak is legitimate, this isn’t nearly an eruption on the scale of the 2022 GTA 6 leaks: it contains a couple of extremely non-final animations from the forthcoming open world game.
One is of deuteragonist Lucia Caminos jumping out of a pick-up truck, which seems like a thing she’d do, though official GTA 6 trailers suggest she’d do it with a lot more bum jiggle than this. Another is of a placeholder baldy man – let’s christen him something appropriately generic, like Jean-Luc Picard – undocking a bike from a public bicycle hire station. Yes, GTA 6 has Boris Bikes.
While the 2010 Red Dead Redemption is finally available on Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and the Nintendo Switch 2 with the option for owners of the game on Xbox One, PS4 or the original Switch to upgrade to the current-gen edition, Xbox players have seemingly been facing an issue doing so. Players who upgraded the original Xbox 360 release of the title to its Xbox One version have seemingly been unable to further upgrade it to the Xbox Series X/S versions.
It is worth noting that those who only had the Xbox One version have seemingly avoided the bug. Developer Rockstar Games has taken to social media to acknowledge the existence of this issue, and has said that it is working with Microsoft to try and get it resolved as soon as possible.
“We are aware of an issue where Xbox players are unable to upgrade their digital Xbox 360 version of Red Dead Redemption to the Xbox Series X/S version and are working with Microsoft to resolve it. Thank you for your patience,” wrote the developer on its support-oriented social media account.
According to PureXbox, Rockstar’s efforts have already begun to bear fruit for players affected with this issue. An update to the publication’s report about the matter notes that some users have started to see the roll out for a free upgrade for the Xbox 360 version of Red Dead Redemption. The upgrade is listed as being “Free” with a “-100%” discount applied to it, and also has a banner on its store page that this free upgrade will expire in 13 days. However, it is believed that this upgrade will be made free for all Xbox 360 version owners down the line.
The current-gen upgrade for Red Dead Redemption is priced at $49.99 for those that don’t already own the game. Subscribers to PlayStation Plus Extra/Deluxe and GTA+ can get it for free, however. The upgrade brings with it the ability for the title to run at 4K and 60 FPS, along with overall improvements to the visuals. The Nintendo Switch 2 version also gets its own benefits, including 60 FPS and support for DLSS and mouse controls.
Interestingly, PS4 and Nintendo Switch owners who already had Red Dead Redemption for their respective consoles can carry over their save data to the current-gen version. It is currently unknown whether Xbox One version owners will get similar cross-progression with the Xbox Series X/S version once they’ve completed the upgrade.
Red Dead Redemption, despite being the first game in the duology, has a story taking place after the events of Red Dead Redemption 2. The title puts players in the shoes of John Marston who has been tasked by federal agents to take down the remnants of Dutch Van der Linde’s gang. Along with the base game, the recent re-release also includes the Undead Nightmare expansion that tells a weird west-styled horror story where Marston gets to take on zombies and other spooky creatures.
For more details about Red Dead Redemption, check out our review of the PC release.
We are aware of an issue where Xbox players are unable to upgrade their digital Xbox 360 version of Red Dead Redemption to the Xbox Series X|S version and are working with Microsoft to resolve it. Thank you for your patience.
— Rockstar Support (@RockstarSupport) December 2, 2025
The Grand Theft Auto 6 developers dismissed by Rockstar for gross misconduct were allegedly fired for leaking internal policies on Slack emoji use, though this may not have been the only reason. That’s according to a new report that reveals some of the messages believed to have contributed to the latest GTA 6 controversy.
A new report claims the firing of 34 developers by Rockstar Games for alleged "gross misconduct" followed a Discord discussion which cited emails about changes to the company's internal Slack policies. Rockstar have been accused of union busting by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain over the firings, with the union having filed legal claims against the company.
GTA 6 creators Rockstar have been called out by a member of the UK parliament for dismissing 31 Rockstar North employees in an alleged instance of union-busting. The politician in question, Christine Jardine of Edinburgh West and the Liberal Democrats, says that she has been approached by several of the fired developers, whom Rockstar accuse of leaking confidential information during conversations with union organisers in a private Discord channel.
Former Rockstar Games staff were fired last month due to internal company messages being discussed on a Discord server shared privately between staff and union workers, a new report has suggested.
Yesterday, we published part one of our interview with former Xbox 360 boss Peter Moore, where he talked about the creation of Microsoft's beloved machine, the grand idea encompassing it, and how his team had to break from the stuffy office-worker image Microsoft had. "Guys with pocket protectors and thick glasses", as he described it. He also talked about "throwing punches" to provoke the Xbox vs. PlayStation console war.
There are nine games leaving PS Plus next month as part of a regular refresh of the subscription's catalogue.
Take-Two Interactive's CEO believes the gaming industry is heading towards PC dominance, despite the company's upcoming publishing juggernaut GTA 6 so far only slated for Xbox and PlayStation.
A new report has dug into the alleged Rockstar Games Discord and message that led to the controversial firing of 34 employees.
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Red Read Redemption will next month receive a free update for current gen consoles, as well as a release across mobile devices and Netflix.
Sony has revealed the next slate of games set to arrive on PS Plus for Extra and Premium subscribers this November.
