GTA 6’s NPC system is on another level.
Rockstar confirmed:
• NPCs have unique personality traits (temperament & aggression) and will remember how you’ve treated them
• Some have fully enterable homes with unique possessions and living spaces
• They react differently if you’re carrying a gun — some run, others might challenge you
• During a robbery, an NPC can try to play hero and stop you to protect others
• Different towns have NPCs with their own storylines and behaviors (like a biker gang that actually likes the police)
This isn’t just background noise anymore. The world is going to feel alive.
Which feature are you most excited to mess with?
#GTAVI #GTA6 #NPC #RockstarGames #OpenWorld #ViceCity #GamingNews
Grand Theft Auto VI | Edge Magazine new details:
▫️ Map is roughly the size of GTA 4, GTA 5, & RDR 2 combined
▫️ RDR2 had a 'profound influence' on the narrative
▫️ Much more interior areas than previous GTA titles
▫️ The game features fully functional bus and train systems
▫️ Coffee buffs your stamina, protein shakes buff health
▫️ The density is even more impressive than the size
▫️ Rockstar head of development says there are still new areas he hasn't seen before, even after years
▫️ The amount of detail Rockstar has put in is insane - there's a new system where characters can dynamically react to varying degrees of disgust based on the current area they're in
▫️ Rockstar created an entire studio just to focus on NPCs
▫️ Each NPC is assigned personality traits including temperament, aggression, where they are, what they have seen, and the player's behavior towards them
▫️ NPCs in each district behave differently - no more generic GTA NPCs that immediately run
▫️ Rockstar began building a new type of open world with RDR2 - one with richer interactive systems, NPC behaviors, and player interaction - that plan began building GTA VI since at least 2015
▫️ Bonnie and Clyde dynamic was decided on after Red Dead Redemption 2 was complete
▫️ For several years, the two projects overlapped
▫️ Streets and highways have been narrowed to feel more believable
▫️ The day and night cycle has been expanded
▫️ In GTA 6, walking around holding a shotgun can be enough to disturb the peace. In previous GTAs, they wouldn't react until you pointed the gun at them.
▫️ Pedestrains even notice how you're carrying it - if it's slung over your shoulder they might not react as much, versus carrying it in your hands. Some pedestrians may even try to challenge you.
▫️ You can drop the weapon, and the game allows a certain degree of latitude before crossing into the Wanted Level
▫️ Your Criminal Profile is scaled from 'Professional' to 'Irredeemable' represented by angel and devil icons
▫️ You can choose to incapacitate an enemy rather than kill them, or attempt threats and intimidation before resorting to violence
▫️ Your Criminal Profile will even affect how Jason and Lucia's story unfolds
▫️ Similar to GTA Vl, you can switch characters at any time
▫️ Unlike GTA V where each character was an opportunist, Jason and Lucia are 'bound together by an emotional history'
▫️ Their closeness is measured on a four-point scale, which increases the more you spend time together
▫️ While you can choose their closeness and what kind of criminal you are, the story is built around being partners in crime
▫️ "Quitting crime is, however, a fundamental theme of the storyline"
▫️ The game asks whether your criminal life is worth it
▫️ Being a criminal feels more precarious in GTA VI
▫️ The heat system tracks your location, clothing, and accomplices
▫️ Stealing cars will be more challenging - some drivers will be armed and ready to fight back
▫️ Certain vehicles will be marked with trackers too
▫️ "A pedestrian you are robbing for his wallet might attack you [...] a holdup in a gas station might go south when a shopper decides to play the hero [...] later, during another escape [...] a group of youths in a customized 4x4 challenge you to a street race."
▫️ GTA VI will be a game where you can really make whatever you want of it
▫️ There were dedicated teams for brands and billboards, radio advertising, television shows, pedestrians, political races, and more Releasing November 19th, 2026
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NEW GTA 6 INFO:
Map:
- Double the size of GTA V, nearly as big as IV + V + RDR2 combined
- Far more interiors, all hand-built
- Narrower roads and a longer day-night cycle
- Dynamic weather that moves across the map and affects boats, planes, and NPCs
NPCs:
- ~600,000 animations with personality-driven reactions
- Holding a gun in public scares people/provokes them
- Some drivers flee when carjacked, others fight back
Police:
- Heat system tracks your description, clothes etc.
- Stinger strips and K9 units
- Expensive cars may have trackers
Jason & Lucia:
- Switch between them mid-mission, even mid-chase
- Criminal Profile affects the story
- Relationship closeness grows through beach walks, gym, cycling, and driving. Marriage not confirmed or denied
More:
- Working buses and trains
- Fuel and engine health on every vehicle
- Scooter Bros app delivers your car
- WAINK app lists cars fences want to buy
- You’ll sometimes need to rob stores or steal cars to fund the next story mission
Police in GTA 6 will be able to track this information after you commit a crime:
• Physical description
• Clothes & face coverings
• Whether you were working alone or together
• Whether CCTV captured you
• What weapon you were carrying
• What car you were driving
(Source: https://t.co/kx4cLLhrLj)
2026 keeps doing things that nobody said was possible.
The models, the rockets, the cures, the cars, the art, all of it was “someday” ten years ago.
Optimism isn’t naïveté. It’s the bet that “someday” compounds.
What’s the “someday” you stopped doubting?
Anime concerts used to be “a fan thing.”
Now they sell out 50,000-seat arenas with pyro, choreography and 3D projections produced like rock tours.
This genre started as people drawing in notebooks.
Where do you see anime live music in 10 years?
Red carpet photos: 200 cameras, 40,000 fans, one person who has to look good in all of them.
Celebrities don’t have a job anymore, they have a 24-hour content schedule.
We’re all doing the same job now. They just have PR.
What’s the hardest part of being “public”?
Blender 5.3 lands Nov 10, and it's a big one for 3D artists.
✨ Gaussian Splatting support
⚡ DLSS denoising
🎬 A better Video Sequencer
🆓 Still free and open source
Character artists: what's the ONE feature you still want in Blender?
Amazon quietly put most of its Nova AI models in “keep the lights on” status and folded its AI teams under one roof.
The message isn’t “we’re out of the AI race.”
It’s: one model. All the compute. No side projects.
Focus or fold, which one is yours?
AEW Dynamite is TONIGHT.
While we’re still arguing about last week’s card, the next one is already being set.
Wrestling is the only sport where the ending is written first, and it still sells out arenas.
Best Of Five Series #3 Tag Team Match
The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (w/Stokely)
AEW TBS Title Match
Persephone (c) vs. Queen Aminata
AEW TNT Title Match
Darby Allin (c) vs. Josh Alexander
Who’s on your must-see list tonight?
#AEW #AllEliteWrestling
The IBM 701: first commercial scientific computer.
Filled a room, cost roughly $1M (over $10M today), did about 30,000 additions per second.
Your phone does that in a blink and weighs less than a coffee mug.
What would a 1950s engineer say about what we carry in our pockets?
A family is suing OpenAI: their 31-year-old daughter used ChatGPT to taper off seizure meds and hide it from doctors.
The Times reviewed 270,000 messages.
Not a “bad bot” story. The first time we must answer: how much of a person’s mind is on our phones?
Where’s your line?
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT
GTA 6 is 3 weeks away (Nov 19).
🎮 29% of US console and PC gamers say they plan to buy it, the highest purchase intent Circana has ever measured
🛒 Pre-orders estimated near 6.9M, closing in on Cyberpunk 2077's 8M record
💻 Still no PC date
Day one, or wait for reviews?
Nobody claps for day 47.
Day 1 gets the hype.
Day 365 gets the applause.
Day 47 is just you, tired, doing the thing anyway.
That's the day that actually builds you.
What's your day 47 right now?