Each autumn, the entertainment calendar reveals something about what a culture is ready to receive — and this fall, the video game industry has organized itself around a single gravitational center. Grand Theft Auto VI, arriving November 19th after more than a decade of anticipation, carries the weight of 230 million copies sold by its predecessor and a mythology so embedded in popular consciousness that studios have quietly stepped aside. Around that center, a rich constellation of releases — horror, nostalgia, survival, fantasy — fills the months of September and October, each staking its cl