Video games 2026: 5 projects that we’re excited to play

One game will define the upcoming year, and the hype surrounding it is so meteoric that it will likely dwarf anything around it. After several delays, “Grand Theft Auto VI” is scheduled to arrive Nov. 19 with as much hoopla as “The Phantom Menace” did in 1999.

It’s been more than a decade since the release of the previous entry in the series, and there’s a near-bottomless reservoir of pent-up demand for a sequel. So what took so long? One of the biggest reasons for the gap between “Grand...