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Recent issues
A taste of the desk. Full issues live in the archive.
Issue #2The $80 question: what you're actually paying for →
Take-Two bet $8 billion on one date. The price is how they collect — the anchor math, why two SKUs is the tell, and why the box isn't the real product.
Friday, July 10, 2026 Issue #1Pre-orders are live, and Rockstar said the quiet part →
$79.99, two editions, and four words — "a single-player experience" — that reset every GTA Online assumption. Three readings, in order of likelihood.
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