November’s lineup of games on PlayStation Plus has been revealed by Sony.

Ahead of the holiday season, PlayStation Plus members are getting a wide variety of free games that they can try out on the service, including two big titles from Kojima Productions and Ryu Ga Gotoku.

The first game on this list is Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. The sequel to the first Death Stranding game, this follow-up takes eleven months after the events of its predecessor, featuring Sam Porter Bridges and Fragile as they set out across Australia to connect surviving colonies with the Chiral Network. It’s well worth a play, especially with this deal on PS Plus; in our review, IGN’s Simon Cardy scored the game a 9 out of 10, calling it a “triumphant sequel that emphatically delivers on the promise of its original.”

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is the second game on this month’s list. Join an amnesiac Goro Majima after he wakes up stranded on an island, gather a crew of pirates, and uncover a hidden treasure in this spinoff of the Yakuza series. It’s a delightfully fun romp, and another title that’s well worth taking advantage of if you’re a PS Plus subscriber; IGN’s Tristan Ogilvie scored the game an 8 out of 10 in our review, calling it “a consistently captivating voyage that kept my timbers shivering whether on land or at sea.”

Other games included in this month’s PS Plus lineup are Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, a reimagining of the beloved classic that earned a 9 out of 10 from our reviewer, as well as 2025 survival-action game Atomfall, first-person shooter Trepang2, and racing game MotoGP 26.

▪️Death Stranding 2

▪️Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

▪️Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

▪️Atomfall

▪️Trepang2

▪️MotoGP 26

▪️Hell Let Loose

▪️Cricket 26

▪️Freedom Wars Remastered

▪️Soul Reaver 2

Let us know which games you’re excited to try in the comments below! Although GTA 6 is likely going to take up the bulk of most players’ time, these titles might make for a good break between heists.

Back when Rockstar showed off a bunch of GTA 6 gameplay on Netflix, one thing was incredibly clear: The game was running around 30fps. And now that Rockstar has confirmed that it is targeting 30fps on every console, including the PS5 Pro, it's clear that the game likely never would have run at a solid 60 on console.

In a blog post today, Rockstar finally shared some performance information, saying it was targeting 30fps on every console, with the PS5 Pro instead getting some extra ray tracing and PSSR to make it look better. While I'm sure there are plenty of people who would rather that effort go into a 'performance mode' that runs a bit faster, it might not have even been possible.

The biggest difference between all of the different levels of consoles, the Xbox Series S, the base PS5 and Xbox Series S, and the PS5 Pro is the strength of the GPU. That's why the PS5 Pro is getting ray tracing effects that the other consoles aren't. But, with an open world game like GTA 6, the limiting factor is probably the CPU.

Rockstar has already gone on record saying that the map in GTA 6 is bigger than any other game from the developer, and that, specifically, it's going to be densely populated. When we interviewed Rob Nelson, co-studio head of Rockstar North, he told us the team was "doing everything we possibly can to create the largest, deepest, most densely populated and complex world we have ever built for people to get lost in." And no matter how much trickery you can pull with a GPU, simulating an entire city full of NPCs is going to tax the CPU.

Just watching the Netflix extended trailer, and there are a lot of people in every scene, each of which needs to be simulated by the CPU. But, due to the nature of GTA, it's more than just individual scenes having a lot of people wandering around. This is an open world game, where you can get in a car and traverse the entire map at high speeds. The game needs to be able to account for this and load in new actors dynamically, and there's only so much you can do with an 8-core Zen 2 CPU at a 3.85GHz boost clock.

Remember, too, that on every current-gen console, the CPU and GPU share a unified memory pool. That really matters in a game like GTA 6 because that memory has to handle both simulation data like NPCs and detailed weather events, along with graphics data like textures, lighting and character meshes. No one outside of Rockstar has seen the performance metrics for this game, but I wouldn't be surprised if the game is running up against its limits on all four of the consoles.

As it stands, the only way you're going to be able to play this game at 60fps is to either wait for the PC version or the inevitable PS6 and Project Helix ports. But, I think even most gaming PCs are going to struggle to get a solid 60fps in this game.

If you look at the most recent Steam Hardware Survey, most people are on CPUs with 8-cores or less, which could run into some of the same limits as the console versions. The difference, though, is that most PCs have dedicated RAM and VRAM for their CPU and GPU, respectively, so there should be less of a bottleneck – especially if you're on a speedy X3D processor with all of that speedy cache available. At least it looks like I probably don't have to wait too long to see how GTA 6 is going to run on PC.

Only time will tell just how well GTA 6 is going to run on these consoles, and hopefully it stays locked at a solid 30fps most of the time. Rockstar probably chose its words very carefully when it said it was 'targeting' 30fps in its blog, so I'm very curious at how well the Xbox Series S is going to hold up. Now that we're just 9 days out from GTA 6's November 19 release date, we won't have to wait long to find out.

Logitech has announced that it will be giving employees the option to take time off for video game releases ahead of GTA 6's launch.

The tech company announced that it will label this perk as "Logi Game Day" for its employees. Logitech explained that this idea came about from an internal study, which concluded that "81% of gamers believe that gaming builds real-world confidence, reduces anxiety, and correlates with stronger day-to-day work performance." Another study noted that 98.8% of enterprise ITDM respondents believe that gaming translates to actual workplace skills, such as problem-solving and acting under pressure.

As a result, the company is going to lean into that and give people the freedom to take time off to play new video games.

“It’s time to retire the stereotype that gaming is a waste of time,” said Hanneke Faber, Logitech’s chief executive officer. “As a company designing products for work and play, we see every day how engagement in one sphere supports performance in the other.”

On November 19, Logitech G, the company's gaming division, will host a live-streamed event at its San Jose headquarters to celebrate the occasion. This, likely coincidentally, aligns with the release day of GTA 6. It's unclear exactly what the event will feature, but it will be hosted by Logitech G’s general manager, Robin Piispannen.

“Whether diving into a game like GTA 6 or Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4, shaving seconds off lap times in Forza, or teaming up in an online battle, Game Day gives our team a shared purpose," he says. “We see firsthand how Logitech employees who sharpen their skills in-game translate directly back to work & problem solving.”

GTA 6 is officially almost a week away from launch, and fans can officially preload the massive game starting today. Millions of people are expected to take the game's launch day off, and some countries are even advertising ways for people to do so. It's expected to be one of the biggest cultural events of the decade, if not the century. Rockstar hasn't revealed GTA 6's preorder data so far, but its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, has confirmed that they're "far in excess" of their expectations.