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Grand Theft Auto Online Cheater Owes Take-Two Over $150,000

Florida man Jhonny Perez, creator of the Grand Theft Auto Online cheat program Elusive, has been found guilty by default by a district court in New York of copyright infringement, and has been penalised with both a fine and legal costs. As Torrent Freak report, Elusive was a cheat program that allowed Grand Theft Auto…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2019

GTA Online’s Latest Update Adds A Deadly New Game Show

Yesterday, Rockstar releasedthe latest free expansion for GTA Online, Arena War. While it isn’t the game’s biggest update, it’s very different from previous expansions. Arena War introduces seven new modes, all set inside the Maze Bank Arena, which is located near downtown Los Santos. These seven modes are part of a new in-game reality competition…

Zack Zwiezen Published December 12, 2018

Culture

PlayStation Classic Plays Fine, But It’s A Bare-Bones Experience

With the PlayStation Classic’s release less than a month away, I went to PlayStation HQ this week for three hours of hands-on time with Sony’s nostalgic mini-console. It plays its selection of 32-bit classics like Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil: Director’s Cut just fine, but the features of the device are pretty much the…

By Chris Kohler Published November 8, 2018

Grand Theft Auto V Mods Continue To Look Incredible

NaturalVision Remastered, a mod we’ve covered previously, takes Grand Theft Auto V—already still a very good-looking game!—and turns it into something extraordinary. It’s just got its final update, and surprise, it now looks even better. In a chat with PC Gamer the mod’s creator, Razed, explains that the last update was also one of the…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2018

GTA Online‘s Remixed Modes Shake Up The Game

GTA Online’s newest game modes might seem familiar. That’s because Rockstar has recently begun remixing old modes by adding new vehicles, rules or other features. While this isn’t the first time Rockstar has taken something old and added to it, these new remix modes freshen up GTA Online by drawing on what works best about…

Zack Zwiezen Published October 11, 2018

GTA V, Five Years Later

Today marks the five year anniversary of the original release of Grand Theft Auto V. It had the biggest launch in entertainment history. GTA V has gone to become one of the most successful games of all time, and its multiplayer mode, GTA Online, has a huge fan base and continues to be updated. After…

Zack Zwiezen Published September 17, 2018

GTA Online‘s Biggest Problem Is Other Players

GTA Online has a problem. Not with shark cards or servers, though many players aren’t happy about those things, but with other players. Over the years GTA Online has added content that has made other players some of the biggest hassles, and now much of the community is actively trying to avoid other players in…

Zack Zwiezen Published September 13, 2018

Thanks, Burt Reynolds, For Helping Make Vice City So Good

Vice City is one of the all-time greats, and while we’ve got stuff like its soundtrack and setting thank for that, there’s also the under-appreciated fact that maybe the smartest thing Rockstar ever did to was to go and hire some proper celebrity voice talent. The GTA games have had a massive cultural impact, and…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2018

Culture

The Real-Life Celebrities Who Appeared In GTA

Grand Theft Auto games have had their fare share of celebrities and famous actors doing voice over roles, like Samuel L. Jackson as officer Tenpenny in GTA San Andreas or Ray Liotta as Vice City’s protagonist Tommy Vercetti. But the GTA franchise also has a lot of celebrities appear in-game as their actual selves. Some…

Zack Zwiezen Published September 4, 2018

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A Retro Grand Theft Auto Would Now Be Set In The Year 2002

Frosted tips! Brick phones! Shiny jeans! Boot cuts! Nu metal!

By Luke Plunkett Published August 29, 2018

Court Blocks Maker Of GTA Online Cheating Programs From Selling Them

Yesterday, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction against a man distributing cheating software for Grand Theft Auto V. In other words, he’s prohibited from making or selling any more cheat programs for the game until the court can definitively sort out whether…

By Ethan Gach Published August 17, 2018

GTA Online‘s Newest Truck Is Really Helpful (And Pretty Expensive)

GTA Online’s latest free expansion, After Hours, has been focused primarily on nightclubs, drinkingand music. But the expansion’s latest update adds some new and dangerous toys to GTA Online: a powerful little drone, an armored and highly-advanced truck and the already feared jet bike, the Oppressor Mk. II. While it might not be the most…

Zack Zwiezen Published August 16, 2018

GTA Online Is Full Of Places Where You’ll Automatically Die

A GTA Online player goes to the top of a building and walks towards the end of the roof. Before they reach the edge, their character suddenly dies and is teleported to the ground below. Another player is walking up a set of stairs when the same thing happens. There are no gunshots or explosions—just…

Zack Zwiezen Published August 15, 2018

The Modders Bringing A Bunch Of Rockstar’s Cities Into GTA San Andreas

The Grand Theft Auto games’ massive cities are separate from one another. You can’t fly west from the Florida-based Vice City to the LA-inspired Los Santos. But one fan and his small team of modders are trying to make this possible, in GTA: San Andreas. There are a bunch of fan projects and mods focused…

Zack Zwiezen Published July 11, 2018

GTA Online Is Full Of Fake GTA VI Announcements

Many Grand Theft Auto Online players got a surprise when they started the game on July 1st. Some players received a message purporting to be from Rockstar Games advertising GTA 6 was launching in 2019 and could be pre-ordered now. Unfortunately for those excited for a new GTA, the messages are fakes likely being sent…

Zack Zwiezen Published July 2, 2018

GTA Online‘s New Modes Are More Creative Than You’d Expect

Grand Theft Auto Online is always being updated. Every week new events and discounts go live, and many recent updates have also added new modes. Here’s a roundup of some of the modes added in the last few months. Many of these newer modes show GTA Online continuing to head into an interesting direction, including…

Zack Zwiezen Published June 26, 2018

Modders Keep Finding Ways To Make GTA V‘s Violence More Intense

Even without mods, Grand Theft Auto V is a violent game. You can run over human beings and animals, shoot people with powerful long range rifles, burn police officers alive with molotovs or even beat someone to death with a baseball bat. But some players desire more realistic and sometimes gory details. GTA V modders…

Zack Zwiezen Published June 4, 2018

Rockstar Pulls David Bowie And More From GTA IV

As reported previously by our sister site in the UK, Rockstar is removing a number of songs in Grand Theft Auto IV due to licensing issues. A sizable patch for the game went live today cutting lots of songs across all the radio stations, including some classics, while only adding a few back by way…

By Ethan Gach Published April 26, 2018

Rockstar Must Cut Some Music From GTA IV, But Plans To Replace It

Our colleagues at Kotaku UK broke the news yesterday that music licensing issues will force Rockstar Games to remove some songs from Grand Theft Auto IV, a game that celebrates its 10-year anniversary this month. A Rockstar representative confirmed to us today that songs will indeed be removed but added that the company will add…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 10, 2018

Culture

Ten Speedruns That Take Over Nine Hours To Finish

Speedrunners want to complete games or meet special conditions as fast as possible but some games are so massive that it can take days to get through them, even if you’re playing as quickly as possible. After I reported on Undertale’s absurd, 33 hour long “True 100%” speedrun, my coworkers and readers were curious about…

By Heather Alexandra Published January 5, 2018