Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick reckons that the time is nigh for video games to start charging a few bucks extra. Nigh we say! NIGH! Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference (cheers VGC), Zelnick was asked why the publisher had added an extra $10 to some of its games, or as we in the industry call it, a whole Hamilton.

According to Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick, while remasters will always be considered, they won’t be a pivotal pillar for the company to focus efforts on.

The only problem with going after GTA Online with cheat trainers that threatened the bottom line of a game that continue to be extremely lucrative every year? Underestimating Take-Two Interactive, who had become just as fed up as numerous gamers who had to deal with griefers running amok on the servers with god mode activated, while also threatening to destabilise GTA Online’s in-game economy with infinite money cheats.

Slipping through Take-Two Interactive's blind spot and taking pole position, EA's revving its engine for a potential takeover of racing games giant Codemasters.

Facial animation technology captures every nuance of a performance, worlds look real enough to live in, and ray tracing is resulting in the lighting that gives life to these environments looking better than the real deal. There’s going to come a time when video games are indistinguishable from reality, and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick believes that it’ll only be a mere decade to reach photorealistic visuals within video games.

Using a very specific set of ban-hammer skills, GTA Online developer Rockstar Games has gone after those players who made use of the Apartment glitch exploit, resetting the accounts of the cheaters and plunging them back into digital poverty.

Forget about caviar, diamonds or a new Ferrari in the garage. If you really want to be the most annoying humble-braggart on the block, nothing will annoy everyone around you more than a collection of video games that were bought on day one of their launch. Interactive entertainment doesn’t come cheap, and even though the $60 price mark has held firm for many a year now, that number will jump upwards as the next-generation of consoles pop up.

What began with all of the buzz and hype quickly faded, as Google’s attempt to muscle into the gaming space with cloud-based software that could stream your chosen title from wherever you happen to be (provided that your internet connection was up to scratch), just hasn’t taken off within the larger gaming consciousness.