No GTA 4 U!

It was...a somewhat disappointing gaming news week for (mostly console) gamers.  Probably the biggest news of the week was the (completely unsurprising) delay of the greatly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.  If you are a console gamer and thought you'd happily be looting, shooting, and exploring a sprawling new Rockstar world this year...welp, not so much.  The new release date is in late May of 2026 now.  Sad face.  There has still been no news about the status of a PC release (we all know that a PC date is probably far in the future), so while the news might have been disappointing for console folks, us PC folks can do nothing but shrug.  There has also been some speculation about the potential price of Rockstar's latest and greatest with some projections that it could cost around $100.  As much as it sounds insane, let's be real, people will pay it.

No one is going to be playing this for awhile!

There was a bit of good news this week though!  Borderlands 4 has pushed its release date up two weeks, so at least fans will get a chance to shoot a billion baddies a bit earlier.  Before the GTA VI news rolled out there was some speculation that this was being done to avoid a potential conflict of release dates.  Guess that's not a problem anymore.  I haven't been paying a ton of attention to Borderlands related news largely because the third game was a bit meh.

In "games I actually play" news, Two Point Museum premiered its first big update.  This update features many new cosmetic features like more wall and floor patterns, but also a big batch of quality of life and fan requested features.  I've already completely played through it, but all these changes seem like they're going to make the game even better.  I didn't mess around with some of the features (like establishing patrol zones for security) and know that some of them weren't working as intended.  Hopefully they're fixed and working better.

The GPU/PC hardware news has remained fairly bleak with tariffs looming.  NVIDIA released its spate of 5060 GPU's that seem very lackluster (and, of course, overpriced) and AMD is likely going to release its own 9060 series of lower cost cards soon.  Prices are still well above MSRP and likely to remain that way for awhile.  The prices of non-GPU hardware were on a downward trend for awhile but that also seems like it's starting to move the opposite way.  It's just not a great time to build.