GTA 6 made a surprise appearance on South Park with just shy of 20 seconds of genuine, exclusive gameplay that showcased dog poop.

The latest episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s hit comedy series, titled Guinea Pig On A Stick, shows a dog doing a poo on a beach (this is South Park after all!). The NPC dog walker picks up the poo, and here things get a little messy. We see Jason attack the NPC with the dog poo, which explodes in their face. That's one way to start a fight.

The gameplay is shown during a scene in which the main characters visit a cattle ranche, where a woman hypes up GTA 6 by providing a quick look at the game. “The graphics are seriously next level,” the woman says. “You see the worldbuilding? It’s a dog taking a poop. And people can pick up the dog poop. You can throw things at the person with dog poop, and if they choose to fight back, you can pick up the dog poop and actually attack them with the dog poop. That is what’s coming in November.”

“Wow!” Stan says. “Holy s**t!” Kyle exclaims. “Dude, that game looks f***ing tits!” Cartman offers.

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The woman is voiced by Tish Hicks (as confirmed in the credits of the episode). Hicks is a voice actor who narrated the GTA 5 gameplay trailer all those years ago, so fans will probably find her voice familiar.

As for the gameplay, Rockstar had confirmed the dog poop mechanic already, but it’s fun to see it in action. And it’s great to get a sense of the density of NPCs on the beach in gameplay, too, given this sort of scene has been at the heart of official pre-launch videos and screenshots.

South Park is of course no stranger to video games, with its 2006 World of Warcraft episode perhaps the most high-profile example of Parker and Stone taking aim at the culture. But it’s also had plenty to say about Rockstar games, too. Red Dead Redemption 2, for example, was at the heart of episodes Time to Get Cereal and Nobody Got Cereal?, which featured the game heavily.

With GTA 6’s November 19 release date just weeks away, Rockstar’s marketing has ramped up considerably. And we’re learning more and more about how the game works every day. Overnight, we learned how GTA 6 named one of its biggest mechanics after a beloved GTA 4 meme, and how GTA 6's map will open up relatively early and let you explore freely.

Not long now!

GTA 6's world won't be blocked off by story progression, Rockstar confirms.

In a new preview from Edge magazine (as relayed by the podcast GTA VI O'Clock), Rockstar Games confirmed a ton of new details about GTA 6. One of the big bits revealed was that GTA 6's map will open up relatively early. In some GTA games, like GTA 4, the game forces you to progress through its story before you can access the entire map. GTA 4's Liberty City uses police blockades on bridges to make sure the world only expands as Niko continues his journey. That changed in GTA 5, as you could go wherever your heart desired once the game's tutorials were finished.

It seems like GTA 6 will be similar, as Edge's story confirms that the state of Leonida will open up relatively early on. Of course, there will likely be some initial story bits to introduce the characters and mechanics before you can go wherever you want. So, if you wish to head north and see the top of the map at the start of the game, you can do so. Of course, the story itself will take you to a lot of places around the map as you experience it, but you won't be chained to Vice City for the first 10 hours if you don't want to be.

Red Dead Redemption 2 also largely lets the player freely explore the map, but there was one area that they couldn't visit until the end of the game: the entire map from the first Red Dead Redemption. While there wasn't as much to see and do there, it was a fun surprise that almost doubled the scope of the game's map. If players tried to go there before the story was ready, they would be shot and killed by snipers.

Similarly, the first Red Dead Redemption game prevented the player from visiting Mexico until John Marston's journey took him there. It seems like GTA 6 will give players a lot of freedom off the bat... and it may take a while before you see anything. Rockstar North co-studio head Aaron Garbut also confirmed that he's still discovering new locations in Leonida.

Part of that comes from how dense the game is, with Garbut noting that there are "an order of magnitude more interiors" compared to other Rockstar titles, and all of them have been handcrafted with an exceptional level of detail.

GTA 6 will release on November 19 for Xbox Series X|S and PS5.

A 1981 promotional poster for the original Donkey Kong, featuring the first public appearance of Mario, has become the the most expensive piece of original video game art ever sold at auction.

But this artwork nearly got thrown out in the garbage. According to Landry Pop Auctions, who facilitated the sale, a former Nintendo of America employee named Donna Darbous saved the poster from a collection of materials that were marked for disposal.

The poster was drawn by artist Leslie Cabarga as an arcade flyer for Nintendo of America, depicting Donkey Kong angrily hoisting a barrel over his head as a determined Mario — then simply named ‘Jumpman’ — makes his way up a building to save Pauline, who cowers in fear behind her hulking captor.

As told in a press release shared with IGN, this flyer has now sold for an eye-watering $329,400, making it the most expensive video game artwork ever sold at auction. That record was previously held by the original cover artwork for Prince of Persia, which sold at Heritage Auctions in 2023 for $63,000 — meaning the Donkey Kong poster blew it out of the water by a staggering $266,400.

The poster inspired a sale of other historic Nintendo artworks titled Landry Pop Auctions' Jumpman: The Beginning of an Icon. This event included original production artwork from Super Mario Bros. and even some of the first illustrations of the game series’ iconic enemies.

For example, original artwork of Mario and Luigi from Super Mario Bros. sold for $17,080, which Landry Pop Auctions said was nearly three times its estimate of $6,000. Original artwork of a Goomba, an ever-recurring enemy in the Mario games, raked in $10,370, more than double its $5,000 estimate.

A first-production 1985 copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES , boasting an 8.0 grading from PSA, went for $34,160, while a curious piece of history, a Nintendo of America employee orientation VHS tape that featured Mario, was also sold in this auction for $3,660 against its $1,500 estimate.

"Long before Mario became the face of a multibillion-dollar entertainment franchise, he was a character on an arcade flyer. The $329,400 result is a striking reminder of how far Nintendo's most famous plumber has come, and how valuable the surviving artwork from his earliest days has become," Landry Pop Auctions said in a press release.

This is the latest game-related auction sale to raise eyebrows after a retired decorator in the UK sold their collection of Pokemon cards for $2 million earlier this month. And in June, a PSA-graded 9.6 A++ copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES was sold at auction for a record-breaking $3 million, becoming the most expensive video game in history.

Image Credits: Nintendo of America, Landry Pop Auctions