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The two biggest games of 2026 are set to launch just a few weeks apart in November.

On the one side you have the behemoth that is Grand Theft Auto VI , an experience 13 years in the making, and the sequel to one of the best-selling games in history. Its predecessor, GTA V , has sold a staggering 230 million copies since it launched in 2013, and was re-released across three generations of consoles. Developer Rockstar is a pioneer in the realm of open-world games, dating back to GTA III , and the scale and ambitions of those worlds have steadily grown since then. With GTA V and later Red Dead Redemption 2 , the studio’s ideas reached a new level of realism.…