Chiefly, both GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 will both be playable via backwards compatibility. Rockstar aren’t saying what next-gen features the two games will take advantage of, but you will be able to pick off right where you left off with save transfers.

Additionally, the most recent HD versions of LA Noire will also be playable on all next-gen consoles. For the PlayStation VR, you’ll be able to play LA Noire: The VR Case Files on PS5.

Thankfully, your progress on both GTA Online and Red Dead Online will carry over to next-gen platforms. That’s one hell of a relief for players that have no doubt put hundreds of hours into both online modes (especially in the case of GTA Online).

But a litany of classic Rockstar titles are coming to next-gen consoles as well. You can read the full list for yourself over on Rockstar’s website (opens in new tab), but the list of games include the likes of Bully: Scholarship Edition, GTA 4, Red Dead Redemption, GTA 3, Manhunt, Max Payne, and The Warriors.

For a complete list of all the other games that are available on Sony’s next-gen console through the backwards compatibility feature, head over to our PS5 backwards compatibility guide for more.

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Skupa, who also worked as design director on United Front’s 2012 action title Sleeping Dogs (opens in new tab), recently spoke at length in an interview with Eurogamer (opens in new tab), discussing the past, present, and future of his already impressive career in games development. 

Most notably, however, Skupa had more to say about the upcoming untitled survival horror game (previously called The Chant) in the works at Brass Token, in which players step in the shoes of a woman facing her own inner turmoil amidst the backdrop of a new age retreat in the middle of nowhere.

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Skupa, who describes the game as “other-worldly”, explains that it’s “a story I wanted to tell that draws on a lot of things I’ve seen, or seen around me, and people I’ve met. [….] There are certain elements of my life I’ve brought into it.”

The experience will slowly veer into the realm of cosmic thriller as the main protagonist begins to lose her sense of self and sanity, according to Skupa, and Brass Token’s in-office motion capture suite has allowed the studio to create “a small cast of characters so that we can really focus on you meeting them when things start, and then as everything unravels, you can see them change.”

“We take things like crystals and sage, you can create these items to craft arcane weapons”, continues Skupa, which – incidentally – doesn’t sound too far off from the kind of parody that his former studio Rockstar went for with GTA 5 (opens in new tab)’s Epsilon cult missions. There’s no release attached to Brass Token’s first major project, but the studio is currently looking to bring it to PC and at least one console in the future, so stay tuned for more announcements over the coming months. 

Check out the biggest new games of 2019 (opens in new tab) still on the way, or watch the Release Radar video below for a guide to everything else out this week.

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