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Leaked Footage Of EA's Long-Silent Iron Man Game Comes Blasting Onto The Helicarrier, Showing Off WIP Combat, Characters And Customisation featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from Rock Paper Shotgun
Rock Paper Shotgun

Leaked Footage Of EA's Long-Silent Iron Man Game Comes Blasting Onto The Helicarrier, Showing Off WIP Combat, Characters And Customisation

I am TONY STARK... and my brassy crimson pantaloons may have sprung a few leaks. A work-in-progress trailer for Marvel's Iron Man, an air-capable action game in development at EA Motive, has appeared online. You can find it on Resetera , though I imagine the video will be taken down soon. The timestamp "Aug26" indicates that it's a recent creation. The video itself uses unfinished assets, but the direction and editing suggest that it could be an early version of an official trailer. Or it could be for an internal...

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GTA 6’s Long Wait Has People Realizing Their Own Mortality featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from GameSpot
GameSpot

GTA 6’s Long Wait Has People Realizing Their Own Mortality

You might expect people to talk about the visuals, lighting, action sequences, or gunplay after Grand Theft Auto VI's brand-new extended-look trailer showed off over 25 minutes of new footage. But the top comments on Rockstar's YouTube upload of the video deal more with the human condition than expected. In fact, there's quite a bit of talk about death and remembrance. The top comment (at the time of publication) states: "a moment of silence for people that didn't make it here." Meanwhile, another person writes:...

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GTA 6 Lets You Throw Dog Poop At People featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from GameSpot
GameSpot

GTA 6 Lets You Throw Dog Poop At People

A very important piece of news has come to light about GTA 6 : You can pick up dog poop and throw it at people in the upcoming open-world crime game. YouTuber TGG visited Rockstar North's offices and spoke with the team, and one of the things he learned was how dog poop can be a weapon. "If someone is out on the street and they're walking their dog, and the dog takes a dump, you can wait for the person to pick up the dog sh** with a doggie bag, and then you can hit that person, making them drop that doggie bag full...

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Fable: Watch Brand New Quest Gameplay From Gamescom 2026 featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from Xbox Wire
Xbox Wire

Fable: Watch Brand New Quest Gameplay From Gamescom 2026

If you weren’t able to attend gamescom 2026 this week – and thus haven’t been able to see Playground Games’ presentation of brand new quest gameplay from Fable – never fear. Above, you can watch a full 18 minutes of gameplay centred on a quest through Bowerstone, the series’ reimagined capital city. Along the way, […] The post Fable: Watch Brand New Quest Gameplay from gamescom 2026 appeared first on XBOX Wire .

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"Hopefully A Meteor Will Strike The Earth Soon": Game Devs Talk GenAI Witchhunts And The Importance Of Honing Your Visual Literacy featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from Rock Paper Shotgun
Rock Paper Shotgun

"Hopefully A Meteor Will Strike The Earth Soon": Game Devs Talk GenAI Witchhunts And The Importance Of Honing Your Visual Literacy

The era of generative AI has kindled an era of generative AI witchhunts. It's routine right now for videogame developers to fend off accusations of using the technology, even when they are full-throated in their disapproval of ChatGPT, Claude and their ilk. Recent examples include Sandustry , the 2D factory builder from Hooded Horse with strangely haunting physics , and the just-announced Humankind 2, whose creators Amplitude have rushed to assure players that their announcement trailer is genuine live action film....

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GTA 6: All The Biggest Takeaways From The Big New Trailer That You Need To Know featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from GameSpot
GameSpot

GTA 6: All The Biggest Takeaways From The Big New Trailer That You Need To Know

Rockstar finally lifted the veil on GTA 6 during a high-profile Netflix event on August 27. The nearly 30-minute video revealed a lot . We saw main characters Jason and Lucia in action in snippets of multiple different missions, while there were cutscenes and character interactions on display as well. The broadcast also featured a new look at some of the updated gameplay systems, like how NPCs will notice if you're carrying a weapon in public , how stealing cars works , and that the game has a Red Dead Redemption...

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