Some well-placed witty puns might have helped Max Payne 3's cutscenes too, because it definitely sounds funny mixed with the dark story-telling of Max Payne.

Starting today, you should begin to see money filling up your delicious virtual Los Santos coffers—Rockstar just announced that the GTA Online stimulus package will kick off today.

Was your GTA Online character deleted during the Great Server Catastrophe of 2013? The good news is, you get a free $500,000. The bad news: you probably won't get your old character back.

I didn't know there was a bad side to watching Breaking Bad, yet here's Late Night's Jimmy Fallon weighing in with his pros and cons. Los Santos County and Trevor's little business in GTA V already have a lot in common with AMC's drama, but this will end all doubts.

YouTube's DefendTheHouse put out a Mythbusters-style video for Black Ops 2 earlier this year, and now returns with some sage advice for managing Grand Theft Auto V's bigtime threats—from sharks to police choppers.

It seems the launch week of a hotly anticipated game can't pass without a problem keeping some folks from playing. Several tips and complaints we've received, and a long forum thread backing them up, allude to a specific problem facing Grand Theft Auto V: the game appears to crash on older models of the Xbox 360.

$800 million. That's the first-day sell-through number for Grand Theft Auto V—the highest in GTA history, the corporate overlords at Take-Two say.

You can't get GTA V on Steam today, but you can get GATV, a pack of downloadable content for Saints Row 4 that seems to have been created just to troll Rockstar.

I have two immediate reactions to this video.

This is it, ladies and gentlemen. All those other Grand Theft Auto V trailers were merely warm-up acts, keeping the crowd entertained until this, the official trailer, was ready to take the stage.

Look what just got finished in downtown L.A. The gigantic, amazing mural for Grand Theft Auto V is finally up on the Figueroa building, which is already well-known for its gaming ads. And look, it wasn't a banana in Michael's hand after all.

Rockstar promised new trailers for Grand Theft Auto V today, and here they are. Meet Michael, Franklin, and Trevor, the game's three protagonists.

Rockstar not only recreated the 2D universe of the previous games in 3D, but the developers also came up with a new standard for the North American box art. For each title after Grand Theft Auto III, the cover art would focus on characters and various staples from the game.

The digital issue of December's Game Informer is out now, and with it comes a boatload of new information on Grand Theft Auto V, including the fact that its world will be bigger than the worlds of Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas, and Grand Theft Auto IV combined (at least according to Rockstar).

Grand Theft Auto V will star three protagonists. All male. Here they are.

All video games have a history... a history of rumors and official statements, of leaks, of screenshots, of trailers and other things that excite us, confuse us or do both. So how do we get from the smallest hint of a new game to the real thing? What's the journey?

July 12, 2012