Rockstar Games has said Grand Theft Auto 6 will have no microtransactions or generative AI when it launches in November.

The studio behind GTA 6 confirmed this year's monumental open-world game will dodge two potentially controversial practices during a conversation with Kinda Funny Games earlier this week. It means launch should be free of backlash (at least when it comes to these two particular topics) when it arrives in a few months.

Kinda Funny's Andy Cortez said he asked Rockstar if players will be able to use real-world money to purchase things in-game during a preview event that preceded the GTA 6: Extended Look. He went on, saying, "no monetizations in this game."

The site's Greg Miller immediately followed that topic, saying he asked Rockstar "point-blank" if there is generative AI in GTA 6. The team told him that there is "no AI" used in the game.

From Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Arc Raiders, generative AI has proven time and time again to be an especially troublesome element for developers to include in their games. The millions of gamers who have waited 13 years for the next Grand Theft Auto might be pleased to hear similar claims won't mar its mid-November release date. The issue of microtransactions, however, does come with a few things worth noting.

Rockstar says GTA 6 will not feature the kind of monetization strategies that allow players to purchase content with real-world cash. That might arrive as good news for an entirely single-player release, but it's also yet another reminder that it doesn't look like the team has any intention of sharing any updates on a new iteration of Grand Theft Auto Online any time soon.

Meanwhile, while Rockstar has made it clear that, while there will be no monetization strategies like microtransactions in a traditional sense, there will be content gated off for some players in the form of its Ultimate Edition. Priced at $99.99 – a $20 increase from the $79.99 standard edition – this version of the game grants access to a host of exclusive content, including cosmetic packs, cars, guns, and even some shops, such as the Electric Fang tattoo parlor and Stock 305 clothing store. An official support page confirmed standard edition owners will be able to purchase an Ultimate Edition upgrade separately.

"Ultimate Edition bonuses are threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia's story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter," the page added.

Other than that, it sounds like players shouldn't expect any other microtransaction tactics – or generative AI – when GTA 6 launches for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S November 19, 2026. There will surely be plenty more to show off ahead of its release date, but until then, you can check out IGN's exclusive preview and interview. You can also catch up on every licensed song revealed during the extended look, the GTA Online character who's making a comeback, and everything else Rockstar had to share during its big gameplay debut.

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).

EA Motive Studio's Iron Man game suffered an unexpected leak, but it may have resulted in Marvel fans being more excited about it than ever.

Leaks in the gaming world are generally perceived as bad. Just look at Grand Theft Auto 6, a game that suffered a waterfall of leaks so significant that it sent Rockstar scrambling to pick up the pieces. When a trailer for Motive's Iron Man game was hit with a leak earlier this week, however, EA chose to handle its unexpected gameplay reveal a little differently.

Unlike GTA 6, Iron Man only had to deal with a controlled (and early-in-development) peek behind the curtain, leaving fans to comb through every second of footage for highlights. Seeing Tony Stark zipping around skyscrapers and dodging enemies on S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers is far and away the most we've seen so far, but considering the damage had already been done, EA decided to have a bit of fun with it. Just hours after clips began to circulate on social media, EA erected a new, official X/Twitter account and shared a tongue-in-cheek message. The result? Millions of views and hundreds of thousands of reactions.

Well, that didn't go as planned. But now you know, and we've got a lot more to show you. See you when we’re ready. pic.twitter.com/tU4TtUoZYZ

"Well, that didn't go as planned," EA's post, which boasts 14.8 million views and 198K likes at the time of this story's publication, said. "But now you know, and we've got a lot more to show you. See you when we're ready."

There had been some concern EA had quietly shelved its Iron Man game when Motive was brought in to help the Battlefield 6 team in 2024. We're just a few weeks shy of four years since its initial announcement, and updates have been few and far between in the time since.

A leak of this magnitude showing an in-development game could have been seen as a net-negative – and for EA, maybe it still is. For everyone else who has waited years to see what a standalone Iron Man game could look, play, and sound like, it couldn't have come at a better time.

Motive when they saw that their Iron Man Trailer leaked but everyone loves it and is gassing them up pic.twitter.com/ANRO6NtGOj

Yeah the trailer leaked so what your honour? We’re cooking straight fire and now everyone knows that https://t.co/AzBeV67l8B pic.twitter.com/21ai3hBZog

Using the leak to gas yourselves up instead of ignoring it??? https://t.co/3sMEbQoGJr pic.twitter.com/mHk5rf9tzF

How Motive feels after successfully using gaming leaks as free marketing https://t.co/Iy9jfBekuJ pic.twitter.com/1qXPikFJ6l

"CRYING," one popular reply said. "GOATED RESPONSE. LET'S GOOOOOO."

"Very on brand for Iron Man to get hacked and aura farm because of it," another fan said.

"See this is how you handle a leak," another added. "Embrace it and keep cooking. Not burying your head in the sand."

There is an ocean of positive responses to this one post, which dropped almost out of nowhere in the middle of a Friday. Many also stick with the theme, saying that acknowledging the leak in this way feels reminiscent of the kind of move Tony Stark would pull.

It's been so long since we last heard from the next project from the Dead Space remake and Star Wars: Squadrons developer that you don't have to look too hard to find responses from those who had no idea a standalone Iron Man experience was even in development. For them, this might as well be a brand-new game announcement for one of the most popular Marvel superheroes in existence.

we’re really getting a whole iron man solo game pic.twitter.com/TVZwOQiSNX

IT DIDNT GET CANCELED pic.twitter.com/SqYvGBHBIi

Although it's unclear when exactly the leaked footage was captured or how much longer it will be before an official launch, fans online seem to be quite happy with how EA and Motive's Iron Man game is shaping up. Some of the footage suggested things like armor customization and wrist-mounted laser attacks will be part of the experience. A few blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments also teased Marvel comics characters like James Rhodes/War Machine and Pepper Pots could show up throughout what seems to be a globe-trotting adventure, too.

"You know what's funny," another fan online said, "I feel like this leak might have helped them because all I'm seeing is overwhelmingly positive responses to it."

"Their response was great and the footage looked fire," another said. "Can't help but root for them."

Although the leak did turn out to be real, there's a good chance some or even all of what we've seen could be cut before the final build. EA Motive's Iron Man game currently has no release date, nor does it have a list of launch platforms. While we won't share that leaked footage here, we can confirm that clips are absolutely still out there, and you probably won't have to look too hard to find them.

For more, you can see how Iron Man is coming back to theaters with the Avengers: Endgame re-release. You can also read about Avalanche Studios' canceled Iron Man game, which also recently leaked.

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).

If you were attending parties in the mid 2010s, there is a pretty good chance that at least some of those gatherings you partook in the party game “Fibbage” from the folks behind Jackbox Games. This digital party game has gone on to spawn multiple iterations over the 12 years since the first was released back in 2014, and now Jackbox Games is cutting the cable and bringing this mainstay party game to the tabletop with a card-based version for your board game nights.

All of the rules that have helped make this digital bluffing game have carried over to this new card game. As in the other iterations, in Fibbage one of the players will serve as a “revealer” who will draw a card and read aloud a prompt with a portion blanked out, and it is up to the other players to write down a plausible option to complete the prompt. However, the person who drew the prompt will have the correct answer and will write it down and add it as the correct answer. The players will all put in their answers, which will be shuffled, followed by a voting period where you vote for which you think is the right answer. From there, points are earned based on whether you guessed right and if others voted for your submission, and the person with the most points at the end of however many rounds you decide on (by default it’s six rounds) wins.

Inside the box, which is roughly the size of a standard hardcover book, the rules are on a single side of paper (the other side is an ad for Jackbox Party Pack 4), cardboard voting/point tokens (but strangely no bag to put them in), six dry-erase markers with boards, and 300 cards with prompts. The prompts themselves span an eclectic range of topics, from asking about chefs who cook ducks with hair dryers to Japan-exclusive flavors of Pepsi. The impressive number of cards means you will have a good number of games to get through before you start getting many repeats, which is great.

The Fibbage Card Game, just like the digital version, is ripe for expansion after expansion, and knowing Jackbox, I imagine it won’t be long until we start seeing packs of additional prompt cards, different themed prompts, and extra markers and boards to write on. There really isn’t any reason that you can’t expand the player count to as high as you want, so long as you have things to write with and on, and something to keep track of the points with.

Everything about Fibbage has made the jump to a physical game rather successfully, with one slight exception - the writing the answer part. Does it work? Sure. The issue is that considering the revealer knows that answer, unless your group has really similar handwriting, or at least writing box letters similarly (which the game suggests you use), before too long you will probably start recognizing the handwriting of the players. Especially in lower player count games. A situation I ran into.

A bit of homebrew magic I worked out was that I had the revealer gather the submissions, then, on a separate sheet of paper, copy down all the answers, and the group would vote on that list. It does add an extra step and a little more time, but this does manage to keep the votes tied to the answer as opposed to everyone pretending they are a forensic document examiner (I looked that one up; an FDE looks at and compares handwriting and signatures for the court - also may or may not be a question on one of the cards).

Regardless of how you play it, Fibbage ranks up there as one of my favorite purely party games out there. It's one of those games that even ol’ grandma and grandpa can get in on and have a good time with. I’ve always appreciated the fact that Fibbage asks a bit more of its players, requiring you to be a bit more clever and creative without relying so much on “who has the funniest response” to score points. An outcome that I’ve found games of Cards Against Humanity and others tend to devolve into. This physical version of Fibbage is a really faithful adaptation of a game with a proven track record of being a hit at parties, and one I can see myself bringing out frequently.