GTA 6 Pre-Order Date Leaked, Forza Horizon 6 Leak, Crimson Desert Success + more!

Duration: 07:41

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:12 GTA 6 Pre-Order Date Leaked

1:32 Forza Horizon 6 Leak

2:59 Crimson Desert Success

4:25 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:30 Overwatch and Fortnite Collaboration

4:58 eBay Rejects GameStop’s Takeover Bid

5:39 Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Treasure Hunt

6:14 Dead Space 4 Isn’t Happening

6:53 Steam Controller Easter Egg

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

CHAT - IS THIS REAL?

GTA 6 pre-orders are reportedly going live next Monday, with a leaked Best Buy affiliate marketing email detailing that the campaign will run from May 18 through May 21. https://gamerant.com/gta-6-pre-order-date-leak/

https://insider-gaming.com/gta-6-pre-order-date-has-allegedly-leaked-via-best-buy/

Streamer Frogboyx1Gaming was streaming when he received an email and quickly broke the news on stream, holding up his phone to prove he wasn't just making things up for engagement,

https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA6/comments/1tcm7vc/youtube_channel_frogboyx1gaming_showing_his/

He then shared screenshots of it on twitter.

https://x.com/Frogboyx1Gaming/status/2054749929919422489/photo/1

Insider Gaming independently verified the email after two more affiliates forwarded the same Impact-routed email - Impact being the marketplace Best Buy uses to wrangle creators. https://lmg.gg/Insidergamingverifiedtheemails

The email also showed a 5% commission for creators who shilled the pre-order links to the November 19 release,

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/ak3ak31a49a221/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-set-to-launch-november-19-2026

Take-Two Interactive's chief executive, Strauss Zelnick told a Variety reporter at the Interactive Innovation Convention in Vegas that GTA 6 marketing is ramping up "soon.” The company's earnings call has also been coincidentally delayed to May 21, the date the preorder campaign ends.

https://lmg.gg/Zelnicksaysmarketingeffortssoon

It’s Pronounced “FORT-ZA”

Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/pirates-are-already-playing-forza-horizon-6-days-before-its-launch/

https://mezha.ua/en/news/playground-games-leaked-forza-horizon-6-before-release-311143/

https://x.com/WeArePlayground/status/2053895284930105772

https://x.com/SteamDB/status/2053929811240730877

https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/razrabotchiki-forza-horizon-6-otritsayut-svyaz-utechki-igry-s-predvaritelnoj-zagruzkoj

https://www.ign.com/articles/forza-horizon-6-dev-bans-pirate-who-leaked-gameplay-footage-until-the-year-10000-but-faces-uphill-battle-plugging-the-leak

https://opencritic.com/game/19996/forza-horizon-6

CRIMSON OASIS

Crimson Desert should probably be called Emerald Oasis, because studio Pearl Abyss just dropped a Q1 earnings report that quintupled their revenue to roughly $220 million USD. That's a 420% year-over-year jump driven almost entirely by Crimson Desert's March launch, selling five million copies in under a month. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/crimson-desert-increases-pearl-abyss-q1-earnings-more-than-fivefold-to-2206m

The game had a rocky start - early reviewers called it kinda mid, and it launched to a stream of bugs and zero support for Intel GPUs.

https://www.polygon.com/crimson-desert-impressions-early-hours/

https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelArc/comments/1s0itdf/intel_says_crimson_desert_devs_ignored_offers_of/

Despite being a Korean studio, over 80% of sales came from North America and Europe.

https://lmg.gg/cdhighlight

But not every game is printing money and Pearl Abyss recently sold CCP Games, the Icelandic studio behind Eve Online back to its CEO for $120 million. That's almost half the $225 million they paid in 2018, so they're essentially cutting losses to focus on their new gold mine .https://lmg.gg/paymentquoteCCPPearl

And unlike the $20 million CCP paid using their own space-sim's crypto tokens, https://www.gamesindustry.biz/pearl-abyss-sells-ccp-back-to-its-ceo-for-less-than-half-what-it-paid-plus-20-million-in-crypto

QUICK BITS

Enter the FortWatch

Several Overwatch heroes are about to hit Fortnite

https://www.engadget.com/2172080/several-overwatch-heroes-are-about-to-hit-fortnite/

https://gamerant.com/fortnite-overwatch-crossover-release-date/

https://gameranx.com/updates/id/562691/article/overwatch-is-officially-answering-the-call-in-fortnite/

https://gamerant.com/fortnite-overwatch-weapons-pulse-pistols-caduceus-staff-tracer-mercy-items-how-to-get/

EBID DENIED

eBay has publicly rejected GameStop's $56 billion buyout bid, a shock to no one who saw the interview where GameStop's CEO Ryan Cohen - couldn't answer how a company four times smaller would actually pull this off. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/ebay-rejects-gamestops-audacious-56-billion-takeover-bid-2026-05-12/

eBay Chairman Paul Pressler said the offer is "neither credible nor attractive,"

https://lmg.gg/Ebayquote

and just last night Cohen went on Piers Morgan to say “eBay is run by a bunch of losers!”

https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/1tcgrxk/gamestop_ceo_ebay_is_run_by_a_bunch_of_losers/

Which makes sense as GameStop is a company roughly four times smaller then ebay

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/gkvlkkrjwpb/Screenshot%202026-05-04%20083657.png

Treat Me Like a Pirate

AC unveils real life treasure hunt worth half a million usd , marketing for Black Flag Resynced

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/news/ignt.60277/embark-on-a-thrilling-treasure-hunt-and-take-your-shot-at-winning-500-000

https://goldandcrystal.eu/en

]https://gamerant.com/ac-black-flag-resynced-treasure-hunt/

Sorry Isaac

Dead Space 4 likely won't happen

https://wccftech.com/dead-space-4-wont-happen-says-writer-the-numbers-arent-there/

https://frvr.com/blog/dead-space-4-likely-wont-happen/

https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-rejected-recent-dead-space-4-pitch-original-creators-say

AHHHHHHH!!!

Yes, Valve's new Steam Controller screams if you drop it from a great enough height