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Ananta developer says free GTA 6 competitor's two massive maps will offer 'anything you’d want to do in a modern city' with countless districts to explore

Free-to-play open-world adventure Ananta will feature two massive maps
The second, Chongxiao, was revealed in a trailer at Gamescom 2026
It's inspired by the real-world cities Shanghai and Hangzhou, home of the game's developers

Upcoming free-to-play Grand Theft Auto 6 competitor Ananta got a new trailer at Gamescom 2026, revealing a second massive open-world map.

Players will be able to venture from the coastal Nova City to the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Chongxiao, with producer Ash Qi promising "dozens of hours of story content and a huge range of urban gameplay" in a new interview with TechRadar Gaming.

"Nova City was the first map we created," they said. "Chongxiao is something we knew we had to make about a year into developing Nova City. In terms of scale, Chongxiao is quite a bit bigger than Nova City, but each map has its own identity, with different stories and a distinct...

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Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It.

The driving force behind our universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. While this force, which scientists refer to as dark energy, pervades our universe, we know almost nothing about it. Located on a remote mountain in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic

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Cognizant is betting its AI future on how fast its people can learn

Every enterprise now claims to be “AI-first.” Far fewer can show that their workforce has actually caught up with that ambition. Cognizant’s Chief Learning Officer, Thirumala “Thiru” Arohi, argues that this gap — between the AI an organization deploys and the AI its people are actually ready to use — is

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Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff

NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago Natural Resources Wales (NRW) says diversity data belonging to around 2,000 current and former employees who worked at the environmental regulator between April 2013 and March 2018 was exposed in a

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Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

PERSONAL TECH Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability One year into the EU's repairability rules for smartphones and tablets, more than 80 percent of devices still lack the necessary repair information,

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Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It.

Cognizant is betting its AI future on how fast its people can learn

Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements