While Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed into 2026, gamers will still be able to get their crime simulator fix with Mafia: The Old Country. The game, which was originally unveiled last August, will seemingly release this upcoming August, according to a leak on Steam.
Having never succeeded critically, Mafia is hoping to change that with The Old Country.
The next entry in the long-running Mafia franchise is slated to get a full gameplay trailer next week on May 8 at PAX East, with an informational panel to follow that same day. Ahead of that reveal, a trailer posted on social media has shared that the game will launch with in-game purchases, or microtransactions.
In the Mafia Twitter account's latest post teasing the upcoming panel, the opening of the trailer reveals the game's ESRB rating (M for Mature), plus the "In-Game Purchases" disclaimer.
Unfortunately, the game's ESRB rating page doesn't shed any light on what those purchases could be. It does, however, give a glimpse at the kind of gameplay loop that will be present, with knives, pistols and shotguns being named as weapons, and extortion, theft and murder as activities.
That said, per the ESRB's...
