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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

GTA Online’s Doomsday Heists Takes Players Inside Mount Chilliad (With Jetpacks)

Jet packs, flying cars, underwater cars and a trip inside the mysterious Mount Chilliad—all that and more look like they’ll be part of The Doomsday Heist, a surprise “epic new online adventure” Rockstar announced today for Grand Theft Auto Online. It’ll be out on December 12. GTA Online players have spent years trying to unravel the…

By Mike Fahey Published December 7, 2017

The Most Popular and Influential GTA Mods Over The Last 20 Years

Over the last 20 years, modding has been a huge part of Grand Theft Auto’s culture. Not only do mods keep older GTA games alive, they allow large communities with different interests to form around the series. Here are some of the most popular, influential, and weirdest mods in GTA history. Superheros The phenomenon of…

Zack Zwiezen Published October 13, 2017

Grand Theft Auto And Lego Always Go Great Together

The playful simplicity of Lego and the senseless violence of Grand Theft Auto will never officially collide, but YouTube movie makerslove bringing the two togetherNukazooka’s latest short brings the winning combination into the real world. Our little Lego anti-hero experiences many of the guilty pleasures GTA has to offer in just under three minutes, from…

By Mike Fahey Published September 6, 2017

Upcoming Mod Wants To Take Grand Theft Auto V To Space

Aliens? That’s old hat, baby stuff—a rack of old hats made for babies. Modders have decided to turn Rockstar’s small step outside the bounds of planet Earth into a giant leap. Grand Theft Space is a GTA V mod being made by sollaholla and a team of ten other modders. It isn’t done yet—and may…

By Nathan Grayson Published July 31, 2017

I Can’t Stop Watching A GTA V AI Learning How To Drive On Twitch

Right now, a little over 1,000 people are watching an AI drive like a maniac on GTA V. I can’t look away, even as the AI causes pandemonium across the streets of Los Santos. Hosted on the Twitch channel sentdex, “Charles” is a neural network that learns by throwing shit at a wall and seeing…

By Patricia Hernandez Published May 19, 2017

Someone Actually Ate That Famous (And Giant) GTA San Andreas Fast Food Order

Last year, some people became obsessed with an old fast food order that happens in GTA San Andreas. And now, a competitive eater tracked down all the food in real life, ordered it, and then tried to eat it all in one sitting. Matt Stonie is Youtuber who creates food challenge videos, such as eating a…

Zack Zwiezen Published May 11, 2017

GTA V‘s Police Are A Danger To Themselves And Others (But Mostly Themselves)

You thought Grand Theft Auto V’s firefighters were bad? The police would like to have a word with you. Documenter of incidental GTA chaos and disaster artist extraordinaire Merfish turned the police into their latest muse. Unlike GTA V’s firefighters, the police had to be provoked a little, but once they turned aggro, things quickly…

By Nathan Grayson Published May 10, 2017

GTA IV’s Slow Opening Hours Were Also Some Of Its Best

You can go several hours in Grand Theft Auto IV before you get a gun. Soon after that, you’re blasting your way through shootouts with SWAT teams. But for those first few hours, you’re just some guy in Brooklyn, trying to make a new life. I’ve been replaying GTA IV, which came out nine years…

By Kirk Hamilton Published April 28, 2017

Persona 5 vs Grand Theft Auto

In case your team of Phantom Thieves ever feel like moving onto crimes of a more tangible nature, here are a series of downloads that will let you run around Los Santos as Ann, Makoto, Yusuke and Joker. If you’re wondering why Ryuji isn’t included, it’s because Ryuji is a piece of shit. You can…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2017