Grand Theft Auto

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…