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Dale, Matt P. and Emma chat about everything shown and announced in the May 30th PlayStation State of Play, including an Alien VR game, Monster Hunter: Wilds and the biggest new announcement of all; the return of Astro Bot! Dale has also seen the Stranger Things live theatre show, Stranger Things: The First Shadow and needs to rave about its amazing production.

As ever, there’s also the regular dose of madness thanks to your feedback, including a hideous pasta pudding concoction.

Send in your food nonsense to ign_ukfeedback@ign.com (or questions and thoughts about games, TV, and films – we should probably stay on topic at least 60% of the time).

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Is GTA 6 coming to PC after console? PC gamers have assumed it would ever since Rockstar unveiled perhaps the most-wanted video game on earth for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S only. Now, the boss of Rockstar parent company Take-Two has issued a vaguely-worded statement that, if you read in between the lines of the corporate doublespeak, suggest that yes, GTA 6 will eventually come to PC.

During an interview at a TD Cowen conference this week, as reported by VGC, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick responded to a question about whether Rockstar’s lack of a PC announcement was set in stone, or if a PC version would be announced later.

Here’s Zelnick’s response in full:

Well, the lack of an announcement is not something that could be set in stone as near as I could tell, because the only thing that happens after the lack of an announcement is an announcement, I suppose, or a continuing lack of an announcement, I guess that could happen too. It doesn’t seem to me that either would be set in stone.

But Rockstar has an approach to platforms which we’ve seen before, and they will make more announcements in due time. I do believe that the right strategy for our business is to be where the consumer is, and historically what this company has done is address consumers anywhere they are, on any platform that makes sense, over time.

Zelnick dances around the inevitable PC version of GTA 6, but he does point to Rockstar’s release strategy for its previous games. Fans of Rockstar games have noted the studio’s historical reluctance to release other past games on PC day-and-date with console, as well as its fraught relationship with the modding community over the years. Still, some had hoped that a game as big as GTA 6 could be a turning point for the studio’s PC gaming attitude, only to have those hopes dashed.

Big Rockstar titles tend to get to PC eventually, but the question of how long PC gamers will have to wait for what could end up being one of the biggest games ever remains. Given GTA 6’s fall 2025 release window, it seems likely PC players won’t get to play the game until 2026 at the earliest.

In December, a former developer at Rockstar attempted to explain why GTA 6 is coming to PC after it hits PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, and called on PC gamers to give the studio the “benefit of the doubt” over its controversial launch plans.

The first official GTA 6 trailer is the most-viewed video game reveal on YouTube within 24 hours. Set in modern-day Leonida, a fictionalized version of Florida, GTA 6 will let players control Lucia and an unnamed male that some fans speculate is named Jason.

Questions have swirled around GTA 6’s release date ever since the initial reveal, with fans going feral over details like website updates. Internal conflicts over Rockstar’s return to office policy has led to questions over whether GTA 6 will ultimately be delayed into 2026. However, as of right now, it looks like Take-Two and Rockstar are determined to get GTA 6 out the door during its intended release window.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Mobile game Command & Conquer: Legions is getting characters, units, and stories from the beloved Red Alert universe.

Red Alert launched in 1996 as the second game in the legendary Command & Conquer real-time strategy series. It acts as a prequel to the original 1995 game, taking place in an alternate early history when Allied Forces battle the Soviet Union for control over the European mainland.

Developer Westwood Studios created fondly remembered FMV cutscenes for Red Alert’s story, which revolved around Albert Einstein traveling back in time to meet a young Adolf Hitler and creating a new timeline in which the Soviet Union grows even more powerful under Stalin, kicking off an alternate World War 2.

Voice actor Jason Griffith says he once recorded “hours” of content featuring Shadow the Hedgehog dropping the F-bomb.

Griffith spoke about his time voicing the Sonic character during a conversation with GameLuster at MomoCon. The actor says that when developing 2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog, Sega was, at one point, shooting for a “Mature” rating with the ESRB and asked him to record different versions for many of Shadow’s lines. Griffith says that in these M-rated takes, “they had me say f*** in every single line.”

“It was just every sentence, I would be yelling ‘Sonic, give me that f***ing Chaos Emerald!’ or something like that,” Griffith added. “I had no idea what was going on but I just went with it, and I had fun. There’s a hard drive somewhere with hours of recordings of Shadow yelling f*** at Tails and Sonic and stuff.”

Sega typically keeps curse words out of its anthropomorphic mascots’ mouths. Sonic is a series suited for children with one major exception: Shadow the Hedgehog. The spinoff game sees Sonic’s edgy other half using a variety of firearms as players navigate a choose-your-own-adventure-style campaign. It’s a darker take on the Sonic universe that even sees Shadow saying things like “damn” just before threatening to send Eggman to “hell.” It’s a lot, but apparently the ambivalent hedgehog almost used some other choice words, too.

Alas, Shadow the Hedgehog wound up with an E10+ rating when it eventually launched for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. This is the first we’re hearing of Shadow’s more colorful vocabulary, and it’s unclear if those recordings are truly out there somewhere or if they will ever see the light of day.

IGN has asked Sega for comment.

Shadow is having quite the moment, as Sega has gone as far as to dub 2024 the “year of Shadow.” The character, who first appeared in Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast, is getting the spotlight in more ways than one. He’ll make his theatrical debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (with voicework from Keanu Reeves) when it premieres later this year. There’s also Sonic x Shadow Generations, a remaster featuring extra red-and-black-hedgehog-themed content that is set to release this fall.

Meanwhile, we didn’t love Shadow’s standalone game when it first released in 2005. We called it “bad” in our 4.7 review, saying that its speedy gameplay “doesn’t make up for the game’s long list of shortcomings, from stupid level design, unrefined controls and useless gunplay to disappointingly outdated graphics.”

Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He started writing in the industry in 2017 and is best known for his work at outlets such as The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx.

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