Maybe It's a Good Thing AAA Games Take 13 Years to Make

GTA 6 is sucking up all the oxygen, but nobody told The Witcher 3 Patch Notes is a weekly newsletter bringing you the best of Polygon, sent on Fridays and published on the site on Sundays. You can subscribe here. Gamescom may be, as I've argued, the most vital convention in the gaming calendar now, but it still leaves something to be desired when it comes to generating headlines. This week, Geoff Keighley's two-and-a-half-hour Opening Night Live showcase was comprehensively overshadowed by a 26-minute Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer on Netflix — although I guess both proved, in their way, that going long can work. Rockstar offered little comment on the contents of the Extended Look, but that didn't stop the rest of the internet (or Josh Broadwell)... …while Austin Manchester ran down a mammoth showcase that was more substantial, but also less …while Austin Manchester ran down a mammoth showcase that was more substantial, but also less Tough beat for Opening Night Live, which is suspended awkwardly between its ringmaster's other big nights — Summer Game Fest in June and The Game Awards in December. There are only so many paying customers who absolutely have to debut their game footage at