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Rockstar Games is giving us our clearest look yet at Grand Theft Auto Six, and the scope is staggering. Game Informer's exclusive cover story confirms a massive open world across Leonida and Vice City, one hundred seventy animal species, a dynamic weather system, and yes, your character can doomscroll social media in-game. The line between simulation and reality keeps blurring.
Shifting gears, Audible is launching what it calls Interactive Stories, and the first experiment puts you in conversation with Renfield, the long-suffering servant from Bram Stoker's Dracula. The dialogue is AI-generated, which raises the obvious question of whether this deepens a classic or simply reanimates it for engagement metrics. Jury is still deliberating.
And in regulatory news, Illinois has agreed to delay its controversial zero point two percent Digital Asset Tax from January first to July first, two thousand twenty seven, while a legal challenge from crypto industry groups works its way through state court. It's a pause, not a retreat, and the broader question of how states tax digital assets remains very much unsettled.
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