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GTA Online’s Latest Update Adds A Huge New Heist
Grand Theft Auto Online got a new heist today, a rare and wonderful occurrence. The Diamond Casino Heist update includes a new heist, as well as new music, weapons, collectibles, and balance changes that make it harder to grief other players. The big star of this new update is, of course, the heist. After the…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 12, 2019 -
CultureOur Best (And Worst) Memories Of The PlayStation, 25 Years Later
On this day 25 years ago, the Sony PlayStation released in Japan. A lot of us here at Kotaku have pretty fond memories of the PlayStation, from bartering for access with our siblings to sitting in dark, dusty basements, illuminated only by the light of an old TV and some sharp, sharp polygons. Take a…
By Natalie Degraffinried Published December 3, 2019 -
CultureNew Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Speedrunning Trick Shaves Three Hours Off Previous Record
Grand Theft Auto games are huge, which makes speedrunning them a time-consuming proposition. A complicated new trick discovered for San Andreas has shortened a run that normally took almost four hours to under 30 minutes. The new trick—whose name, “Arbitrary Jump In Skip,” could honestly use some work—is only doable on the Windows Store version…
By Ian Walker Published October 10, 2019 -
Just How Accurate Were All Those GTA V Rumors And Leaks?
Grand Theft Auto V turned six years old this past weekand to celebrate it I wanted to take a look back at some of the rumors that existed about the game before it was released. How accurate were they and what, if anything, did they correctly predict? Six years is a long time and fans…
By Zack Zwiezen Published September 22, 2019 -
CultureThere Are Now 100 Hidden Action Figures To Find And Collect In GTA Online
The world of Grand Theft Auto Online is filled with crime, action, and destruction. Often players are given jobs that involve robbing banks, assassinating enemies, stealing cars or blowing up drug dens. But in the latest GTA Online update, players have a decidedly more mundane task: Collect 100 action figures for a toy collector. To…
By Zack Zwiezen Published September 7, 2019 -
CultureTotal RecallA Single Image That Helped Lead To Grand Theft Auto
Mike Dailly, of Lemmings and GTA fame, shared something very cool on Twitter over the weekend: an image he made in 1994 that, in a very direct way, led to the creation of the original Grand Theft Auto He also shared an animated version of the image created for an old talk, which you can…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2019 -
CultureGTA V Speedrunning Has Changed A Lot Since 2014
Grand Theft Auto V speedrunner FriendlyBaron recently released a video comparing how different GTA V speedruns are today compared to the first world records set back in 2014. Like older games, such as Super Mario 64, GTA V speedrunners have learned new and improved ways to complete sections of the game. But unlike those older…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 18, 2019 -
The GTA San Andreas Mission That’s So Easy, There’s No Way To Fail It
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is filled with some famously annoying and difficult missions. Everyone knows of the infamous mission where the player is tasked with following a train while riding a dirtbike. Or the extremely hard Zero RC missions, which were so bad and challenging that Rockstar actually changed them in later versions of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 11, 2019 -
CultureMonths After Labor Controversy, Rockstar Converts Game-Testers To Full-Time
Workers at Rockstar Lincoln, the British studio that does the lion’s share of testing for the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption games, are being converted from contractors to full-time employees, three sources familiar with the studio have told Kotaku The move will remove the uncertainty of working on temporary contracts, a positive turn…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 6, 2019 -
It Sucks Being A Valet In GTA Online
The newly opened casino in Grand Theft Auto Online is a popular spot. Players are driving up to the casino constantly right now. Luckily for them, there is a valet working the front of the building. But being a valet in GTA Online is a dangerous job, especially if you are unarmed and out in…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 28, 2019 -
GTA 3’s Liberty City Now In Crazy Driving Game
BeamNG, a very fun driving game that’s mostly about destroying cars in the best way possible, now lets you smash stuff up on the streets of Grand Theft Auto 3’s Liberty City, without any hassles like health meters or police intervention. Put together by Swift502, it’s a literal port of GTA 3‘s map, which means…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2019 -
A Modder Has Spent Years Adding Spider-Man Into GTA San Andreas
J16D is a modder who has created a lot of different mods for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. But one particular idea has been lodged in their brain since at least 2015. J16D has been working on and improving a simple idea: Bring Spider-Man and his web-swinging into San Andreas. After four-plus years of working…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 21, 2019 -
Fake GTA Online Money Streams Are Popping Up Ahead Of Casino Update
Grand Theft Auto Online’s upcoming casino update has a lot of players hoping for expensive cars, new clothing items and lots of other things to buy. Some scammers are taking advantage of players’ excitement using fake online streams claiming to drop in-game money, sometimes in exchange for real money donations. Money drop streams aren’t a…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 18, 2019 -
The GTA San Andreas Myth That Turned Out To Be True
Back in 2005, I was almost 15 years old and I was still playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game at this point was over a year old. But I was still spending hours every week playing it. It was during one of these sessions that I experienced a strange and spooky encounter with…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 13, 2019 -
It Takes A Lot Of Work (And Mistakes) To Pull Off An Impressive GTA Stunt
If you’ve visited Kotaku over the last few years, you might have seen videos of skilled Grand Theft Auto Online players pulling off impressive stunts. Sometimes they use bikes, sometimes cars, sometimes multiple vehicles are involved. These videos are always entertaining to watch. But have you ever wondered how many attempts it takes to successfully…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 6, 2019 -
The Best Moment In GTA San Andreas Is Leaving San Andreas
I have a lot of memories of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The first time I got to the top of Mount Chiliad. The first time I saw that big Golden Gate Bridge knock-off. Playing the last mission and actually beating the entire game. But my favorite memory from GTA San Andreas is when I…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 2, 2019 -
Former Rockstar Designer Says Former Top Executive Groped Him
When Colin Bundschu first started at Rockstar Games in November of 2014, he says his new colleagues offered a warning: Don’t cross Jeronimo Barrera. Barrera, the vice president of product development, would often fly in from New York to visit Rockstar’s offices in Carlsbad, California, where they were all working on the Western game Red…
By Jason Schreier Published May 28, 2019 -
GTA Online‘s Latest Missions Go Back To The Game’s Roots
Over the last few weeks, Rockstar has been adding new missions to Grand Theft Auto Online based around repossessing, selling and stealing vehicles. Most new GTA Online content often focuses on PvP action, grinding tasks for a new business or racing against others. These latest missions are a return to the simple missions the game…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 15, 2019 -
Uncovered Developer Tools Let Players See Behind The Scenes Of GTA III
Grand Theft Auto III has some interesting features and code hidden within the game. These hidden features were originally used by developers to debug and fix glitches during development and should have been removed. Crafty GTA fans and modders have been able to not only find these hidden features in retail copies but reactivate them…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 10, 2019 -
CultureTwitchThe GTA V Role-Playing Scene Has Lost Some Of Its Biggest Streamers
Stream long enough, and you become mercurial. Either that, or you watch the passion you once felt for your favorite game slowly fade into a hazy silhouette of duty. Over the past few weeks, big streamers who helped turn Grand Theft Auto V role-playing into a Twitch phenomenon have started to burn out even as…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 8, 2019