Ned Luke, the actor behind Grand Theft Auto 5's Michael De Santa, said people who think Grand Theft Auto 6 looks too much like GTA 5 are "out of their minds."

Luke has remained an important figure in the GTA community since he first appeared as one of three playable professional criminals in the 2013 installment. Now that he and the rest of the world have gotten a closer look at what Rockstar Games is cooking up with GTA 6, he's stepped in to defend it from the naysayers.

One of the many, many talking points to emerge in the wake of last week's GTA 6: Extended Look was that playing as protagonists Jason and Lucia looked a little too similar to the kind of gameplay one could expect from GTA 5. While most seem to believe Rockstar has wisely used the 13 years since that game's release, it hasn't stopped skepticism from creeping in.

Luke doesn't seem to be included in the new game's cast, but he still made sure to refute some of the criticisms popping up online while collaborating with YouTube channels Partychat and House of Highlights. When asked for his thoughts about those who believe there are too many similarities between GTA 5 and GTA 6, he made his stance clear.

"This looks nothing like Grand Theft Auto 5," he said. "I think they're out of their minds."

"I'll tell you one thing: I never looked that good," he added, pointing to an image of Jason on his screen."

Rockstar's GTA 6 extended look officially revealed footage of a host of new features, including tons of new side activities, story missions, a reworked Wanted system, and more. For Luke, one of the best examples of how Rockstar has reimagined Grand Theft Auto can be seen in how its many characters move.

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"Watch the way the people move," he continued. "The walks are actual human walks. We still had a little bit of that mechanical thing going with our walks and the way we'd stand. For me, I felt like my legs were never fully straight. They always had this little bend in them."

He continued: "The technology has grown by leaps and bounds, you know? What would make you think it's going to be better than those games? It's no diss to those games. It's like between [GTA 5] and GTA 4. Our graphics blew GTA 4 away. They weren't even close."

Luke then called attention to the high level of detail in the planes, helicopters, and car explosions shown through the extended look. He even went as far as to address the comments saying GTA 6 didn't look much better than 2018's Red Dead Redemption 2, saying, "Sorry, guys, you're wrong. The graphics here beat Red Dead."

The actor behind GTA's Michael has stayed in touch with Rockstar fans in the years since his debut and has been known to speak his mind. In 2024, for example, he praised Lucia's introduction in GTA 6 as "huge."

"Lucia's hard, man," he said at the time. "In the trailer, she looked good. You get a lot of these clowns out here going, 'Rockstar's going woke, they're caving into the wokeness of the world,'" Luke said. "First of all, there's been other female protagonists in the past, but not in something as huge as this."

GTA 6 is scheduled to come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S November 19, 2026. While its extended look on Netflix gave fans a lot to chew on, Rockstar still has plenty more to show between now and then. While we wait, you can check out all of IGN's exclusive coverage, including our preview and interview. There's also our list of 99 details we caught during the extended look and the 69 details we saw at Rockstar HQ.

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Fable's main quest will take around 20 hours to beat, Playground Games has confirmed.

Associate game directors Will Kennedy and Craig Littler shared the estimated length for the 2027 fantasy RPG during a group Q&A attended by Polygon at gamescom 2026. While the Xbox and Playground say Fable will have plenty of content to keep players busy for as long as they want, players won't be sinking hundreds of hours into the main story just to reach the credits.

"We have around 15-20 hours of mainline quest gameplay, we have around 15-20 of side and open-world exploration content gameplay," Kennedy said.

As sprawling RPGs have continued to fill the space, that might come up a bit short for what some players were expecting. Open-world games like Elden Ring, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla have famously delivered massive worlds with main quests that could have players spending 50 hours or more just to complete the story. For Fable, that won't be the case, but longtime fans probably expected that.

Howlongtobeat has the original 2004 Fable's main quest clocking in at about 12 and a half hours. Fable 2 isn't much longer at 13 hours, and Fable 3 inches just further past that at 13 and a half hours. If anything, next year's Fable reboot is already shaping up to be the longest in the series, and pushing its main campaign on much longer would have it launching with a story almost twice as long as the one in the original game.

That's not to say that players won't be able to get lost in Fable's fantasy world if they so choose. Kennedy promised that the new Fable game's "life systems are limitless, so you can play them for as long as you want." When one attendee remarked that Fable is "not a huge game," Littler clarified, again, that "you can literally play it forever if that's what you want to do."

Compared to the rest of the series, completionists will typically spend about 30 hours seeing all there is to see in the first game and around 50 to do the same in the second and third games. The next Fable appears to be fall in line with that trend, but we won't truly see all it has to offer until Playground and Xbox see it launch next year.

Fable is currently set with a February 23, 2027, release date for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. IGN got to see one of its full quests in action at gamescom 2026 and came away even more excited to see what the full game has to offer. After first being announced six years ago in July 2020, director Ralph Fulton tells us he's happy to see it launch alongside a bunch of other games and relieved that Grand Theft Auto 6 isn't one of them.

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Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe has delighted readers ever since his first book, Elantris, released more than two decades ago. Now, it spans over 20 books with more in the works and even a new movie and television series looming based on the immensely popular Mistborn and Stormlight Archive books, respectively. Over the years, the tales of Vin, Kaladin, and the Shards of Adonalsium have made the jump from page to the tabletop as well, with a number of board games and tabletop roleplaying games having been released for players to enjoy.

This list showcases all of the tabletop games that you can currently experience, along with the ones that we know about!

Brotherwise Games, publishers of games like Boss Monster, Night of the Ninja, and Call to Adventure, this studio is the official partner for Sanderson’s Cosmere when it comes to the board game space. So far they have released a solid mix of titles with something for nearly all ages of Cosmere fans, with some of their biggest stuff still on the way.

Built on Brotherwises’ “Call to Adventure” board game system, Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive asks players to create the most epic and interesting character they can. A bit of an engine builder, you will be drafting cards to build out your character's history, motivation, and destiny while balancing their morality, all culminating at the end in your own personal hero’s journey and scoring points. Complete quests by rolling nifty rune slabs, balance on the thin line between hero and anti-hero through three rounds with the winner being whoever has the most dragic/awesome character backstory (aka has the most points). Not only can CtA: The Stormlight Archive is not only a solid game, but also a great character-building exercise which is perfect for the next game…

For the tabletop roleplaying fans, the Cosmere RPG gives you the tools and systems to live out your dreams in the world of Roshar. Whether you want to walk down the path of becoming a knight radiant, take on the form of a singer, or perhaps just a simple soldier trying to survive, the Cosmere RPG gives you the tools to do all that and more. Your character’s motivation and the story you and your friends create in the Cosmere are the driving force behind this system and Brotherwise is just getting started with the world of Scadrail and its Allomancers coming soon as well. A host of products are available, from the Stormlight Handbook with all you need to run a campaign on Roshar, the Stonewalkers Adventure for a constructed story, and even a welcoming Starter Set if you just want to get a taste.

Read our review for the Cosmere RPG.

Showcasing events and characters from the first book of the Mistborn series, The Final Empire, the Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game puts 1-4 players in the roles of beloved characters including Vin and Kelsier. Players will build out their decks from an available pull of cards while also learning and improving their ability to burn metals as allomancers - the signature magic of the world of Scadriel. All the while, working to become strong enough to complete missions and take out the other players, or the Lord Ruler himself in an optional cooperative game mode. With gorgeous artwork and solid deckbuilding at its core, this game is a great buy for fans of Mistborn, and it will be getting an expansion soon as well, that adds new characters, powers, and highlight moments from the second book, the Well of Ascension!

Read our review for Mistborn: The Deckbuilding game.

The lightest of the main three Cosmere games from Brotherwise, Shards of Creation is a ticktaking card game where depending on which of the Shards of Adonalsium get picked can greatly change how you play. Each of the Shards included in the base game: Autonomy, Cultivation, Devotion, Dominion, Honor, Odium, Preservation and Ruin feature unique powers that can both help or hurt you as you form sets of suits for end game scoring. Featuring canonical depictions of the vessels of the Shards (up to a point, anyway), some of which first appearing in Shards of Creation, make this a great option for both fans of the Cosmere but also folks who just enjoy a good trick-taking game to bust out when they have a little time on their hands.

Read our review for Shards of Creation.

Prior to Brotherwise securing their partnership with Sanderson, another group, publisher Crafty Games, had a go adapting the author’s popular Mistborn series for the tabletop.

Set during the first book, House War is a resource management game where as opposed to taking up the Mistcloak of a specific character, each player assumes the role of one of the factions around the city. The aim is to keep down the unrest by solving issues around the Empire, competing to earn the most favor. This game is less about burning metals and pushing through the mists and more about making deals, but House War has the twist where its possible the player with either the lowest or highest score could potentially win. There are also rules that allow shorter games to play out in 60-90 minutes or longer games between two and three hours long, give you and your group flexibility to slot this in either as a bit of a filler game or be the main game of the night. An expansion, “The Siege of Luthadel” expands the game and sets the game during the second novel and attempts to hold everything together.

The first TTRPG set in the world of the Cosmere, released first back in summer of 2012, this tabletop adventure system lets players build Nobels, Skaa, Terrismen and even Kandra in the world of Scadrial to live out their stories during the first era of the Mistborn saga. Developed by Crafty Games, this d6 based system is far more narrative-driven where factors like Destiny and Tragedy factor into character creation. There are a host of expansions and additional books that were released for MDA including Terris: Wrought of Copper that focuses on the Terris people and Feruchemists, Alloy of Law, Skaa: Tin & Ash, Alloy of Law: Masks of the past, and Nobels: The Golden Mandate.

If you are still hungry for more, Brotherwise Games should have you covered to get your Cosmere tabletop kick for some time yet, with a number of games and expansions on the horizon. The Mistborn deck builder has its first expansion, “The Well of Ascension,” featuring a new cooperative mode where players need to work together to defend the city of Luthadel from a horde of Koloss, and more pulled from the second book of era 2 Mistborn.

Staying on the Allomancer train, the Cosmere RPG will also soon be getting its Mistborn books, letting players create their own mistborns and allomancers while taking part in adventures set in both the first and second eras of the series!

Lastly, later this fall, Brotherwise will be bringing the Stormlight Archive to Kickstarter with their War for Roshar board game. Previously covered here on IGN with an exclusive preview, this is a heavy area control / euro title that will see up to four players facing off against either on the side of Honor or of Odium, struggling to capture Oathgates and turn the tide of the war in their favor.

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