GTA 6 downloads are live — check your console to make sure it's actually downloading — and Rockstar dropped a new 30-second trailer to celebrate. Take-Two posted a slight earnings miss yesterday, but the stock is up anyway on launch expectations, and the game could pull in $3 billion in its first month. But here's the real question: this is the first GTA without Dan Houser, Lazlow, and Leslie Benzies. Will the tone change? Will the script skew younger? Every GTA has been an homage to R-rated action and drama movies — the writers think they're making games for adults. Red Dead and GTA 4 were tragic tales, GTA 5 was lighter but still grown-up. So will Rockstar age with the audience that grew up on Vice City and San Andreas, or chase the younger, larger demographic?

Plus a staff pick: Panchiko's Ginkgo — the wild backstory of a demo found rotting in a charity shop that went viral a decade later, and a good excuse to finally learn the difference between shoegaze and dream pop (this one's dream pop, with billy woods on one track). Bonus pick: Maps by billy woods. Then the news: Gunn and Safran are out at DC — is this a mess, does anyone care, and somebody protect John Stewart. Hot CPI has the Fed floating a 50-point December hike, Wemby dropped 40/11/9 in 25 minutes as the Spurs won their ninth straight, Schumer's leadership is already under fire, California killed the billionaire tax, U2's new album lands Friday, the Blade Runner 2099 trailer is out, and France says Iran hacked supermarket freezers.

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