Preorder Date Set for Highly Anticipated Game, Prime Day Savings, and More

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026

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This is not a drill. Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will open for preorders on June 25.

The game has been delayed so long that it became an inside joke online, but the title fans have been dying to play since it was first announced in 2022 is now in its home stretch before a full release on Nov. 19.

Speculation has already begun about the price, with reports that a French retailer listed the game at €89.99, which would put GTA VI in America somewhere around $90 to $100. The site also showed four additional price variations, suggesting different editions fans can buy.

See a full breakdown of the pricing and how to place a preorder.

Get out your wallets, because Prime Day runs from today, June 23, through June 26.

Over those days, Amazon will run sales across its platform, ranging from $2 off to 80% off. Browse the best deals.

In the past, Amazon has been accused of raising prices only to "slash" them during the sale, so it's worth making sure you really are saving money. Here's how to check.

Ask any soccer fan about the World Cup, and you'll hear the same thing: love the tournament, hate FIFA.

FIFA oversees the World Cup and everything around it, from selecting host cities to selling tickets, and it has a well-earned reputation for corruption and outsized demands on hosts.

Its contracts with host cities ban taxes on tickets, vendors, and merchandise; require cities to provide security, public transportation, and medical services; and, most baffling of all, let FIFA demand a city add a dome to a stadium roof. Those demands are exactly why Chicago refused to offer Soldier Field.

FIFA also bars competing advertising, which is why Gillette's logo on more than 64,000 seats at a Boston stadium got taped over, condiments inside the stadium were covered up, and Levi's Stadium was renamed "San Francisco Bay Area Stadium" beneath a giant white tarp.

Well, Levi's isn't having it. See the company's response to the tarp.

For 120 years, Schwebel's has baked bread in the Mahoning Valley and helped feed thousands of Ohio families. Now it's closing.

The company said it had been facing challenges, including aging facilities and equipment, and lower demand for traditional bakery and bread products. But its labor contracts and pension obligations, it said, kept it from ever getting its head above water.

Schwebel's bakery workers belong to BCTGM Local 19, and some belong to Teamsters Local 377, which means that even when sales fall, the company still has to write thousands of dollars in checks toward employee pensions.

The bakery reportedly spent months looking for a buyer and asked to delay some pension payments. The answer was no.

See what happens next for Schwebel Baking Co.

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