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  • Hamas agrees to new Gaza ceasefire proposal

    Hamas agrees to new Gaza ceasefire proposal

    Gaza City: A Hamas source told AFP on Monday that the Palestinian group had agreed to a new proposal from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, devastated by more than 22 months of war.

    “Hamas has delivered its response to the mediators, confirming that Hamas and the factions agreed to the new ceasefire proposal without requesting any amendments,” the Hamas source told AFP, requesting anonymity.

    A Palestinian source familiar with the negotiations told AFP that mediators were “expected to announce that an agreement has been reached and set a date for the resumption of talks.”

    The source added that “mediators provided Hamas and the factions with guarantees for the implementation of the agreement, along with a commitment to resume talks to seek a permanent solution.”

    There has been no immediate response from the Israeli government side to the development.

    Efforts by mediators Egypt and Qatar, along with the United States, have so far failed to secure a lasting ceasefire in the war, now in its 23rd month, which has created a dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

    A separate Palestinian official earlier on Monday told AFP that mediators had proposed an initial 60-day truce and hostage release in two batches.

    A source from Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant faction that has fought alongside Hamas in Gaza, told AFP that the plan involved a 60-day ceasefire “during which 10 Israeli hostages would be released alive, along with a number of bodies”.

    According to the same source, “the remaining captives would be released in a second phase, with immediate negotiations to follow for a broader deal” for a permanent end to the war “with international guarantees”, the source added.

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    Out of 251 hostages taken during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, 49 are still held in Gaza including 27 the Israeli military says are dead.

    Hamas’s attack resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

    Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 62,004 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

  • China’s Foreign Minister Wang arrives in India

    China’s Foreign Minister Wang arrives in India

    New Delhi: China’s Foreign Minister landed in neighbouring India on Monday, seeking to bolster long-fraught relations in the face of intense pressure and tariffs from the United States.

    Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with his counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and is also expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his three-day visit to New Delhi.

    Modi, according to Indian media, might also visit China this month.

    India’s foreign ministry said in a social media post that “important engagements of the India-China Special Representatives and on bilateral relations” were scheduled over the next two days.

    The world’s two most populous nations are intense rivals competing for influence across South Asia, and fought a deadly border clash in 2020.

    But caught in global trade and geopolitical turbulence triggered by US President Donald Trump’s tariff war, the countries have moved to mend ties.

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    Restarting border trade across their icy and high-altitude Himalayan border is expected to feature high on Wang’s agenda.

    Its resumption would be significant for its symbolism, and follows agreements to return direct flights and issue tourist visas.

    India is also part of the Quad security alliance with the United States, Australia and Japan, which is seen as a counter to China.

    – Modi calls ‘friend’ Putin –

    Warming ties between China and India come as relations between New Delhi and Washington are strained.

    Trump has issued an ultimatum for India to end its purchases of Russian oil — a key revenue source for Moscow’s war in Ukraine — or Washington will double new import tariffs from 25 percent to 50 percent.

    Modi said Monday he spoke to “my friend” Vladimir Putin, with the Russian president “sharing insights” on his Alaska summit with Trump last week.

    “India has consistently called for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict and supports all efforts in this regard,” the Indian premier wrote on social media.

    Indian hopes that the Alaska meeting would ease US tariff pressure were tempered earlier Monday by US trade adviser Peter Navarro.

    “If India wants to be treated as a strategic partner of the US, it needs to start acting like one,” he wrote in a sharply-worded column in the Financial Times.

    “India acts as a global clearinghouse for Russian oil, converting embargoed crude into high-value exports while giving Moscow the dollars it needs,” he wrote.

    “The proceeds flow to India’s politically connected energy titans, and in turn, into Vladimir Putin’s war chest,” he added, in an apparent swipe at India’s big refiners, which include tycoon Mukesh Ambani.

    Navarro said the 50 percent tariff — due to begin on August 27 — will “hit India where it hurts”.

  • Sally Rooney pledges UK TV fees to Palestine Action

    Sally Rooney pledges UK TV fees to Palestine Action

    London: Irish author Sally Rooney has vowed to give fees generated by two BBC adaptations of her books to the Palestine Action group, which was recently proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK.

    The writer, whose second novel “Normal People” (2018) and its 2020 BBC television adaptation won her international acclaim, announced her plans in the Irish Times.

    Rooney said she had chosen the Dublin-based newspaper to publicise her intention rather than a UK one as doing so “would now be illegal” after the government banned Palestine Action as a terrorist group in early July.

    “The UK’s state broadcaster… regularly pays me residual fees. I want to be clear that I intend to use these proceeds of my work, as well as my public platform generally, to go on supporting Palestine Action and direct action against genocide in whatever way I can,” she wrote.

    More than 700 people have been arrested, mostly at demonstrations, since the group was outlawed under the Terrorism Act 2000.

    If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

    “I feel obliged to state once more that like the hundreds of protesters arrested last weekend, I too support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it’,” Rooney said.

    The government ban on Palestine Action came into force on July 5, days after it took responsibility for a break-in at an air force base in southern England that caused an estimated £7.0 million ($9.3 million) of damage to two aircraft.

    The group said its activists were responding to Britain’s indirect military support for Israel during the war in Gaza.

    Being a member of Palestine Action or supporting the group is now a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

    More than 500 people were arrested at a protest in London’s Parliament Square on August 9 for displaying placards backing the group.

    The number is thought to be the highest-ever recorded number of detentions at a single protest in the capital.

    At least 60 of them are due to face prosecution, police said.

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s official spokesperson on Monday declined to be drawn specifically on Rooney’s comments.

    But the spokesperson added: “Support for a proscribed organisation is an offence under the Terrorism Act and obviously the police will… implement the law.”

  • ‘Weapons’ maintains Box Office hold for the second week

    ‘Weapons’ maintains Box Office hold for the second week

    Buzzy horror film ‘Weapons’ won the North American box office for a second week running with $25 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.

    The Warner Bros. movie ‘Weapons’, starring Julia Garner (Ozark) and Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War), tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of a group of children from the same school class.

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    Analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research called it a ‘strong’ week-two performance, especially in a quiet summer weekend at the movies in the United States and Canada.

    Holding in second place was Disney’s ‘Freakier Friday’ starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, the much-anticipated sequel to the 2003 body-swapping family film, at $14.5 million, Exhibitor Relations said.

    Debuting in third place was Universal action sequel ‘Nobody 2’, starring Bob Odenkirk of ‘Better Call Saul’ fame, at $9.3 million.

     

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    “Critics like this story about a workaholic assassin trying to take a vacation with his family while getting caught up in trouble. Reviews and audience scores are both very good,” Gross said.

    ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’, Disney’s reboot of the Marvel Comics franchise, dropped to fourth place at $8.8 million.

    Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Emmy winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach star as the titular team of superheroes, who must save a retro-futuristic world from the evil Galactus.

    Universal’s family-friendly animation sequel ‘The Bad Guys 2’, about a squad of goofy animal criminals actually doing good in their rebranded lives, dropped to fifth, earning $7.5 million.

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    Rounding out the top 10 were:

    ‘Superman’ ($5.3 million)

    ‘The Naked Gun’ ($4.8 million)

    ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ ($2.9 million)

    ‘F1: The Movie’ ($2.7 million)

    ‘Coolie’ ($2.4 million)

  • Hamas receives new Gaza truce plan: Palestinian official

    Hamas receives new Gaza truce plan: Palestinian official

    CAIRO, Egypt: Hamas negotiators in Cairo have received a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, a Palestinian official said Monday, with the prime minister of key mediator Qatar also in Egypt to push for a truce.

    Efforts by mediators Egypt and Qatar, along with the United States, have so far failed to secure a lasting ceasefire in the ongoing war, which over more than 22 months has created a dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

    The Palestinian official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said that the latest proposal from mediators “is a framework agreement to launch negotiations on a permanent ceasefire”, calling for an initial 60-day truce and hostage release in two batches.

    The official said that “Hamas will hold internal consultations among its leadership” and with leaders of other Palestinian factions to review the text.

    A source from Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant faction that has fought alongside Hamas in Gaza, told AFP that the plan involved a “ceasefire agreement lasting 60 days, during which 10 Israeli hostages would be released alive, along with a number of bodies”.

    Out of 251 hostages taken during Hamas’s October 2023 attack that triggered the war, 49 are still held in Gaza including 27 the Israeli military says are dead.

    According to the Islamic Jihad source, “the remaining captives would be released in a second phase, with immediate negotiations to follow for a broader deal” for a permanent end to “the war and aggression” with international guarantees.

    The source added that “all factions are supportive of what was presented” by the Egyptian and Qatari mediators.

    Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, visiting the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Monday, said that Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani was visiting “to consolidate our existing common efforts in order to apply maximum pressure on the two sides to reach a deal as soon as possible”.

    Alluding to the dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people living in the Gaza Strip, where UN agencies and aid groups have warned of famine, Abdelatty stressed the urgency of reaching an agreement.

    “The current situation on the ground is beyond imagination,” he said.

  • Iran president heads to Armenia for talks on US-backed corridor

    Iran president heads to Armenia for talks on US-backed corridor

    TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian headed to Armenia on Monday for talks on a planned corridor linking Azerbaijan with its exclave near the border with Iran, part of a peace deal signed at the White House.

    “The (possible) presence of American companies in the region is worrying,” Pezeshkian said before departing on a pre-planned trip that also includes a visit to Belarus.

    “We will discuss it (with Armenian officials) and express our concerns,” he added, according to footage broadcast on state television.

    The land corridor, dubbed the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP), is part of a deal signed earlier this month in Washington between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    Under the agreement, the United States will hold development rights for the proposed route, which would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave, passing near the Iranian border.

    Iran has long opposed the planned transit route, also known as the Zangezur corridor, fearing it would cut the country off from Armenia and the rest of the Caucasus while bringing potentially hostile foreign forces close to its borders.

    Since the deal was signed, Iranian officials have stepped up warnings to Armenia, saying the project could be part of a US ploy “to pursue hegemonic goals in the Caucasus region.”

    On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described it as a “sensitive” issue, saying Tehran’s main concern is that it could “lead to geopolitical changes in the region.”

    “They (Armenian officials) have assured us that no American forces … or American security companies will be present in Armenia under the pretext of this route,” he told the official IRNA news agency.

    Earlier this month, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said Tehran would not allow the creation of the planned corridor, warning that the area would become “a graveyard for Trump’s mercenaries.”

  • Amnesty says Israel deliberately starving Gaza’s Palestinians

    Amnesty says Israel deliberately starving Gaza’s Palestinians

    Rights group Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of enacting a “deliberate policy” of starvation in Gaza, as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian territory.

    Israel, while heavily restricting aid allowed into the Gaza Strip, has repeatedly rejected claims of deliberate starvation in the 22-month-old war.

    In a report citing testimonies of displaced Palestinians and medical staff who treated malnourished children, Amnesty said that “Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip.”

    The group accused Israel of “systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life”.

    “It is the intended outcome of plans and policies that Israel has designed and implemented, over the past 22 months, to deliberately inflict on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction — which is part and parcel of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” Amnesty said.

    The report is based on interviews conducted in recent weeks with 19 displaced Gazans sheltering in three makeshift camps as well two medical staff in two hospitals in Gaza City.

    Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military and foreign ministry did not immediately comment on Amnesty’s findings.

    In April, Amnesty accused Israel of committing a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians by forcibly displacing Gazans and creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged territory, claims that Israel dismissed.

  • Zelensky, European leaders head to US for talks on peace deal terms

    Zelensky, European leaders head to US for talks on peace deal terms

    WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said reclaiming Crimea or entering NATO were off the table for Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington for Monday talks aimed at ending the war with Russia.

    Zelensky, who has repeatedly rejected territorial concessions, will meet Trump in Washington on Monday, accompanied by European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and other leaders.

    The meeting comes on the heels of a summit between Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, which failed to yield a ceasefire breakthrough but produced promises from both leaders to provide “robust security guarantees” to Ukraine.

    Zelensky was not invited to the Alaska meeting, after which Trump pivoted to the long-held Russian position that a ceasefire was not needed before a final peace deal.

    “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump posted on his social media platform. “Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!”

    Trump and Zelensky are expected to meet one-on-one before being joined by a cohort of European leaders on Monday, according to the White House schedule.

    Along with von der Leyen, NATO chief Mark Rutte and the leaders of Britain, Finland, France, Germany and Italy will be present.

    It will be the first time Zelensky visits Washington since a bust-up with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in February when the two men berated the Ukrainian leader for being “ungrateful.”

    On Sunday night, after arriving in Washington, Zelensky said: “We all share a strong desire to end this war quickly and reliably.”

    Security guarantees

    Since the Oval Office row in February, Trump has grown more critical of Putin and shown some signs of frustration as Russia repeatedly stalled on peace talks.

    But Washington has not placed extra sanctions on Moscow and the lavish welcome offered to Putin in Alaska on his first visit to the West since he invaded Ukraine in 2022 was seen as a diplomatic coup for Russia.

    Speaking in Brussels on the eve of his visit to the United States, Zelensky said he was keen to hear more about what Putin and Trump discussed in Alaska.

    He also hailed Washington’s offer of security guarantees to Ukraine as “historic.”

    Trump said he spoke to Putin about the possibility of a NATO-style collective defense guarantee for Ukraine.

    The promise would be outside of the framework of the Western military alliance that Ukraine wants to join and which is seen as an existential threat by Russia.

    French President Emmanuel Macron said European leaders would ask Trump “to what extent” Washington is ready to contribute to security guarantees for Ukraine.

    Discussion on land

    Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff said Moscow had made “some concessions” regarding five Ukrainian regions that Russia fully or partially controls, and said that “there is an important discussion with regard to Donetsk and what would happen there.

    “That discussion is going to specifically be detailed on Monday,” he said, without giving details.

    Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 following a sham referendum and did the same in 2022 for four Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia — even though its forces have not fully captured them.

    A source briefed on a phone call between Trump and European leaders on Saturday told AFP that the US leader was “inclined to support” a Russian demand to be given territory it has not yet captured in the Donbas, an area that includes the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and which has seen the deadliest battles of the war.

    In exchange, the source cited Trump as saying, Moscow would agree to “freeze” the front line in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, where Russian forces hold swathes of territory but not the regional capitals.

    Russia has until now insisted that Ukraine pull its forces out of all four regions as a precondition to any deal.

    ‘Capitulation’

    There is concern in Europe that Washington could pressure Ukraine to accept Russia’s terms.

    “For peace to prevail, pressure must be applied to the aggressor, not the victim of aggression,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Sunday.

    Macron said: “There is only one state proposing a peace that would be a capitulation: Russia.”

    Zelensky has repeatedly pushed back against ceding territory, but said he is ready to discuss the issue in the context of a trilateral summit with Trump and Putin.

    Trump has raised the possibility of such a meeting, but Russia has played down the prospect.

    Moscow’s forces have been advancing gradually but steadily in Ukraine, particularly in the Donetsk region.

    Russian attacks on Kharkiv killed three people and wounded dozens more, Ukrainian authorities said Monday, while a separate overnight attack on the Sumy region near the border wounded two others.

  • Hurricane Erin restrengthens as it lashes Caribbean with rain

    Hurricane Erin restrengthens as it lashes Caribbean with rain

    WASHINGTON: Hurricane Erin restrengthened into a Category 4 storm late Sunday, with forecasters warning it is expected to intensify and grow in size in the coming days as it lashes Caribbean islands with heavy rains that could cause flash floods and landslides.

    The first hurricane of what is expected to be a particularly intense Atlantic season, Erin briefly strengthened into a “catastrophic” Category 5 storm before its wind speeds weakened.

    Forecasters do not currently expect it to make landfall along its expected course, but tropical storm warnings are in effect for the southeast Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.

    Hurricane Erin was located about 130 miles (205 kilometers) east of Grand Turk Island at 11:00 pm Atlantic Standard Time (Monday 0300 GMT), with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).

    “The core of Erin is expected to pass to the east and northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas overnight into Monday,” the NHC said in its latest report.

    The North Carolina Outer Banks, Bermuda and the central Bahamas were advised to monitor Erin’s progress.

    Hurricane Erin had reached the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson scale just over 24 hours after becoming a Category 1 storm, a rapid intensification that scientists say has become more common due to global warming.

    It could drench isolated areas with as much as six inches (15 centimeters) of rain, the NHC said.

    “Some additional strengthening is expected over the next 12 hours followed by gradual weakening,” the agency said.

    “However, Erin is forecast to continue increasing in size and will remain a large and dangerous major hurricane through the middle of this week,” it added.

    The NHC also warned of “locally considerable flash and urban flooding, along with landslides or mudslides.”

    Climate hazard

    In San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, fishermen cast their rods into the storm-swollen waters of a local river on Sunday, AFP images showed.

    Earlier last weekend, surfers rode the swells along the island’s coast before the storm approached.

    Areas of Puerto Rico — a US territory home to more than three million people — saw flooded roads and homes.

    Swells generated by Erin will spread to the Bahamas, Bermuda and the US and Canadian east coast in the coming days, creating “life-threatening surf and rip currents,” the NHC said.

    While meteorologists have expressed confidence that Erin will remain well off the United States coast, they said the storm could still cause dangerous waves and erosion in places such as North Carolina.

    The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June until late November, is expected to be more intense than normal, US meteorologists predict.

    Several powerful storms wreaked havoc in the region last year, including Hurricane Helene, which killed more than 200 people in the southeastern United States.

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — which operates the NHC — has been subject to budget cuts and layoffs as part of US President Donald Trump’s plans to greatly reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, leading to fears of lapses in storm forecasting.

    Human-driven climate change — namely, rising sea temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels — has increased both the possibility of the development of more intense storms and their more rapid intensification, scientists say.

  • Games industry in search of new winning combo at Gamescom 2025

    Games industry in search of new winning combo at Gamescom 2025

    The global games industry gathers for the vast Gamescom trade fair in Cologne this week, with hopes that upcoming heavy-hitters like “GTA VI” can help the industry escape its doldrums.

    Tuesday’s opening night event will show off major releases slated for the months ahead, with the starring role going to “Black Ops 7” — the new instalment in the sprawling “Call of Duty” saga.

    Trade visitors will have Wednesday to peruse the stands and make connections, before tens of thousands of enthusiastic gamers are unleashed on the vast salon from Thursday to Sunday.

    Last year’s Gamescom drew almost 335,000 people to the Cologne exhibition centre, where studios lay on vast stands with consoles or PCs offering hands-on play with the latest releases.

    Nintendo is back in 2025 after staying away last year, surfing on record launch sales for its Switch 2 console.

    And Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division will show off new portable hardware expected to be released towards the end of the year.

    Sony, the Japanese giant behind the PlayStation, has opted out this time around.

    The mood is mixed for the roughly 1,500 exhibitors attending this year, as major publishers have recently steered back into profitability but the job cuts seen over the past two years continue.

    In early July, Microsoft said it would lay off around 9,000 people, with hundreds leaving game studios like “Candy Crush” developer King and several games cancelled, including “Perfect Dark” and “Everwild”.

    – Battle for attention –

    “The industry is consolidating quite a bit” after the bumper years when Covid-19 lockdowns created a captive audience, said Rhys Elliott of specialist games data firm Alinea Analytics.

    Around 30,000 workers have lost their jobs since early 2023, according to tracking site Games Industry Layoffs — more than 4,000 of them so far this year.

    Revenue in the global games market should hold steady at just under $190 billion this year, data firm Newzoo has forecast.

    The number of players and hours spent with the medium are stable while an ever-expanding number of titles are jostling for attention.

    And with leviathans like “Roblox” or “Fortnite” swallowing the attention of hundreds of millions of monthly users, “everyone’s fighting for a smaller share of that pie,” said Circana expert Mat Piscatella.

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    The need to find new audiences has pushed Microsoft’s Xbox, the biggest games publisher in the world, to switch strategy, increasingly offering its titles on competing console makers’ hardware.

    “They’ve had really great success on the PlayStation platform. Sony is making a bunch of money on that too,” Piscatella said

    “It’s a little bit of a win-win all the way around.”

    Some PlayStation games are making the trip in the opposite direction, with “Helldivers 2” the first to be made available on Xbox as well as the traditional PC port.

    – Success on a budget –

    Shoring up sales is vital in an era where the cost of developing high-spec “AAA” games has mounted into the hundreds of millions of dollars — exposing studios to massive risk should their games not perform as hoped.

    But several breakout hits have recently shown that lower-budget games can still win over players with gameplay, story and art style, such as four-million-selling French turn-based battler “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”.

    “There’s a realisation you don’t need to spend masses of money to deliver a high-quality game that can appeal broadly and so everyone is rushing towards that model,” said Christopher Dring, founder of industry website The Game Business.

    But “for every ‘Clair Obscur’ success story, there are 10 games that fail to find an audience at all,” Piscatella pointed out.

    “It’s hyper-competitive for those products outside of that big sphere” and smaller developers must fight hard for the funding they need to get games to market.

    Nor is the cult-hit trend likely to displace the mega-budget mastodons.

    Analysts predict that Rockstar Games’ vast “Grand Theft Auto VI” could notch up the biggest launch for any entertainment product in history.

    That might be the juice the flagging industry needs to regain some of its mojo.