Grand Theft Auto

GTA Online Revisits Its Top-Down Roots Next Week

Grand Theft Auto Online’s Tiny Racers update, releasing next week, applies a little historical perspective to the game’s stunt racing, a callback to the series’ top-down origins. Before Grand Theft Auto III intruduced us all to free-roaming vehicle thievery in 3D the series was all about the top-down perspective. Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto…

Watching GTA V Firefighters Try To Put Out Fires Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

I don’t think anybody would call GTA firefighters “competent,” but even so, their chaos can reach hilarious new heights under the right conditions. Merfish documented some recent instances of firefighters trying to do their job in GTA V, only to fail miserably—if not make things worse. “All of these events occurred randomly with minimal provocation,”…

GTA Online Glitch Locks Cops Out Of Their Cars

For brief period over the weekend, Grand Theft Auto Online players were robbed of one of the game’s basic joys—they couldn’t steal police cars. Fortunately for them, the police couldn’t access them either. The issue arose on March 24, when players across all platforms discovered that standard police vehicles were being flagged as personal vehicles…

What It’s Like To Be An Iranian Game Developer In Trump’s America

Navid Khonsari has been a legal resident of the United States for 17 years. He’s worked on games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Resident Evil 7, and an interactive story about the Iranian Revolution called 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. These days, though, he doesn’t feel entirely welcome in the US or Iran, and he’s…

10 Awesome Experiments GTA Online Players Are Pulling Off With The New Update

Last month’s GTA Online update, Import/Export, added a slew of wacky vehicles.Since then, fans have used the update to do all sorts of outlandish things that must be seen to be believed. Stunt-wise, the most popular car appears to be The Ruiner 2000, an expensive car that can jump, fire missiles, and deploy its own…

Crazy Stunt Brings Rocket League To Grand Theft Auto V

That…is not how cars are suppose to work. Or bridges, for that matter. Or physics. But we’re not here to worry about that. We’re here to check out this GTA V stunt video by EvolveStunting, and in particular, the bridge trick I’ve set the clip below to auto-play at.

Modders Are Adding The Entirety Of Liberty City Into GTA V

OpenIV was used to start cracking open Grand Theft Auto V back in 2015, and now the Russian developers behind the modding tool have set their sites on bringing GTA IV’s Liberty City into the series’ latest entry. The group made the announcement yesterday, stating, “The Liberty City will not replace Los Santos or Blaine…

Once You Can Afford It, GTA Online‘s Newest Expansion Is Terrific

Last week I started sizing up the new GTA Online update, Import/Export. It added a ton of new missions and wacky cars. But a lot of this content was inaccessible if you didn’t have a lot of in-game money. You’d have to be rich (virtually, at least) to play it. So I spent the last…

Grand Theft Auto Online’s newest free expansion, Import/Export, is out today. It mostly involves stealing and driving incredible cars, including the ramp car in the video here, posted on YouTube by gamer Oderus Orungus. More details on Rockstar’s site

The Debate Over Cheating In Grand Theft Auto Online, Waged By Two Friends Who Disagree

Dirty Worka and Carbine King—not their real names, as you may have guessed—are two Grand Theft Auto Online players who clash about one important thing. Dirty Worka hates the rampant cheating in the game. Carbine King is a boastful cheater. Despite this, they’re friends and sometimes play against each other. “Dirty Worka is a great…

Years Later, Rockstar Releases New PC Patch For GTA IV

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been sitting around wondering when the next next Grand Theft Auto IV PC patch is going to hit. Wait no longer. I’m actually not entirely kidding—I’ve been wanting to replay GTA IV for a while now, and have been bummed to find it so difficult to even start the…

10 Wild Ways GTA V Players Have Tried To Stop A Train

For years now, GTA V fans have tried their best to stop a digital train by any means necessary. Some schemes are logical. Others…not so much. Here are some of the most ridiculous ways GTA V fans have tried to stop the train. Spoilers, most of them didn’t work. But, as all good trainwrecks prove,…

GTA V Has A Big YouTube Scene Dedicated To The Most Brutal Kills

While fans would argue there’s more to the series than endless murder, GTA is still infamous for being violent. Appropriately, YouTube has spawned an enormous subculture of GTA Online videos documenting the most vicious ways to kill NPCs, and that footage is enjoyed by millions. Typically, videos in this genre include the words “Brutal Kills”…

GTA Online, Now With Tron-Style Lightcycle Battles

Today’s Deadline update for Grant Theft Auto’s ever-expanding multiplayer component transforms GTA Online into GTA Tronline, with futuristic light-trailing motorcycles and a new adversary mode in which to crash them. At the center of the Deadline update is the Nagasaki Shotaro, a decidedly Tron-looking machine that comes in a variety of glowing neon colors. The…

On YouTube, Millions Watch Shows For Children Made Entirely In GTA V

GTA V is rated M, meaning it is intended for people aged 17 and above. And yet, on YouTube, some people use GTA V to make shows for children, some of which get millions of views per episode. Kids are big business on Youtube, and many of thelargest channels on the servicecater specifically to them.…

Rockstar Cracks Down On GTA Online Cheaters, Deletes Trillions Of ‘GTA Dollars’

Grand Theft Auto Online players who amassed mountains of in-game money through exploits and mods woke up today to gargantuan deductions from their virtual bank accounts. Rockstar Games started the day with a new offensive against players who break the game’s terms of service to their advantage. On forums for the game, players who freely…

GTA V Player Sinks A Yacht With 100 Bodies

Ah, yes, Grand Theft Auto V: where destruction is crowd-sourced. Recently, GTA V player RZED was curious about whether over a hundred people could sink a yacht in-game. With admirable scientific rigor, RZED collected a mass of bodies onto the bow of a large boat. He used a mod to make it drivable. What happens next is…

YouTube Blocks Samsung’s Takedown Of GTA V Note 7 Bomb Video

Yesterday, Samsung filed a copyright claim on a viral video of a Grand Theft Auto V mod that turns the notoriously explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7 into, well, a bomb. The video got taken down, even though it clearly wasn’t in violation of any copyrights. After the video got taken down, the video’s creator, who goes…

Samsung Gets GTA V Video Taken Off YouTube, Because It Turned A Note 7 Into A Bomb

Earlier this month, a mod that added Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 to Grand Theft Auto V started making the rounds. The twist? In the game, it was meant to be used as a bomb, because the real Note 7 can get a little explode-y from time-to-time. Samsung, apparently, did not love the joke. If you…

The People Who Roleplay As Cops In Grand Theft Auto

None of the handful of police roleplayers we spoke to said they were an actual officer. A lot of them do like watching the TV show Cops.