Grand Theft Auto

GTA V Players Celebrate Christmas With Deadly Snowballs

How do you celebrate Christmas the GTA way? In a word: murder. Okay, maybe it’s more like two words. Festive murder. Now that it’s snowing in GTA Online, players are finding all sorts of funny things to do with snowballs. In Los Santos, people pack snowballs with rocks and razer blades, apparently. Watch as majestic_steed…

By Patricia Hernandez Published December 24, 2014

Guy Turns Grand Theft Auto Into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

It’s been a while since I was really into a skateboard game, but I have to say, the idea of Grand Theft Auto‘s massive world as the mother of all skateboard parks hits me right into the Tony-Hawk-shaped portion of my nostalgia. JulioNIB is doing that which not even Rockstar dared attempt: teaching grouchy old…

By Nathan Grayson Published December 22, 2014

GTA Online’s Gingerbread Mask Makes Everything Better

This week, Rockstar released a holiday update with all sorts of seasonal goodies. One of those things included a gingerbread mask—and players are using it to great effect. Turns out, the happy-go-lucky face looks amazing in just about any context you can think of. Parties and get togethers? You bet. (Click on the thumbnails or…

By Patricia Hernandez Published December 20, 2014

It Ain’t Easy To Recreate The Star Wars Trailer In GTA V

Star Wars features things like the Millennium Falcon, lightsabers and droids. Grand Theft Auto does not. You’d think this would make recreating the new Star Wars trailer impossible in GTA V, especially without the use of mods, but no. People just had to get creative! Props to Powerlight-13 for finding a way to remake the…

By Patricia Hernandez Published December 19, 2014

GTA V’s Version of Operation Is Way More Explosive

Remember the board game Operation, where you have to do your best to extract all sorts of stuff from a patient’s body without touching the edges of the cavities? This is sort of like that, except way more unsafe. AH Community takes the time to show how you can ‘recreate’ the classic game in GTA,…

By Patricia Hernandez Published December 18, 2014

Film Trailer Made in GTA V Is Better Than Some Real Movie Teasers

Y’know, Rockstar’s open-world games would be a great place to make a goofy comedy about bumbling crooks… The Most Wanted trailer clip from the folks at YouTube’s Commandoflauge channel hits all-too-familiar beats that are standard fare for loads of criminal caper flicks. But, something about seeing those familiar plot points done in GTA V makes…

By Evan Narcisse Published December 15, 2014

Kotaku East

China’s Official News Outlet Thinks GTA Was Made in 1968

Chinese Central Television is interesting. It’s worth watching just to guess at what the Chinese government wants to disseminate, but one thing about CCTV that is true is that it’s often error prone. In a recent broadcast about violent video games, CCTV claims that GTA was made in 1968 1968 During a report about the…

By Eric Jou Published December 15, 2014

Grand Theft Auto V Shows Other Games How Graffiti Is Done

Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos is based on Los Angeles, so graffiti is a big source of the color in its concrete jungle. And while it’s easy to think of graffiti as simple window dressing, these things often come from a very real place. AbsolutePab put together a video that fuses GTA V graffiti…

By Nathan Grayson Published December 12, 2014

The End Of The World, GTA V Style

It’s the year 2014. Grand Theft Auto V is now on next-gen consoles. So what’s that mean for last-gen? Why, the rapture, of course, if this fan video is to be believed. The folks at 8-Bit Bastard, in conjunction with Sonny Evans, put together this video about the last desperate souls roaming the abandoned wasteland…

By Nathan Grayson Published December 10, 2014

Culture

GTA V‘s Most Famous Stunt, In First-Person

In today’s Highlight Reel we have daredevil skydiving in GTA V, a perfect slam in Destiny, and an interdimensional karaoke hostesses in Sleeping Dogs. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Deft…

By Chris Person Published December 10, 2014

Tiny GTA V Tricks You Into Thinking Los Santos Is Cute

“Cute” is not normally a word I’d use to describe Grand Theft Auto…unless it has been miniaturized. Then GTA becomes so adorable you could just eat it up. Check out GTA Series Videos‘s take on Los Santos—they use something called tilt-shifting to get a really striking effect that miniaturizes GTA V: Neat, right? You might…

By Patricia Hernandez Published December 9, 2014

GTA V Still Looks Beautiful Even When Nothing’s Happening

Los Santos: the city so pretty you won’t notice the dead bodies. At least not right away. The documentation of quiet beautiful moments is turning out to be one of the best, unintended consequences of the new-gen upgrade for Grand Theft Auto V. The majority of Jeremy Leon’s in-game photography focuses on the beauty of…

By Evan Narcisse Published December 4, 2014

Where To Find All of GTA V’s Secret Peyote Plants

Hidden across all of Los Santos are secret drugs that let your GTA V character do wild, funny things. There are twenty seven of them—and if you want to find them all, you’ve come to the right place. If you don’t want to be spoiled on this cool feature included in the current-gen versions of…

By Patricia Hernandez Published December 3, 2014

Target Australia Pulls GTA V Due To Depictions Of Violence Against Women

Citing customer concerns over “the game’s depictions of violence against women”, Target stores in Australia are no longer selling Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V. Update: Take-Two Interactive chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has issued a statement regarding Target’s action. In an official statement (via Kotaku UK), Target’s general manager of corporate affairs said that the…

By Mike Fahey Published December 3, 2014

Grand Theft Auto V Comes Alive At Night

The current-gen versions of GTA V are really something else—and it’s all in the details. So many small things pop out at you if you take the time to walk through the streets of Los Santos. This video by The XXI, which showcases the nightlife in GTA, is but a small taste of what I’m…

By Patricia Hernandez Published December 2, 2014

GTA V’s Franklin is a Lonely Man

All the guy wanted was a drink with a buddy. Trevor’s rejection was the last straw. This golden little moment of derpy GTA V AI behavior comes from YouTuber BustedHead who, playing as Trevor, came across Franklin by a gas station. After declining Franklin’s offer for a drink, things went a bit crazy. Take a…

By András Neltz Published November 28, 2014

Behold, GTA V’s Amazing Mountain Bike Physics

Watch as one player glides through all of Los Santos…on a Scorcher mountain bike. He just keeps going and going! Junior Mints‘s bike does eventually stop gliding through the air. But he doesn’t immediately fall to the ground. Instead, the bike just stays in place, mid-air, as if it were magic. Junior Mints has to…

By Patricia Hernandez Published November 25, 2014

Someone Made A Documentary About GTA V’s…Ocean

Not only that, but the documentary is actually pretty damn good. I’m not sure how scientific this video by 8-BIT BASTARD, and it kind of doesn’t matter. It’s great to watch the marine wildlife just do its thing, and to listen to 8-BIT BASTARD come up with rationalizations for why everything acts the way it…

By Patricia Hernandez Published November 24, 2014

GTA V Stunts Are Even More Intense In First-Person

Aaaaa! His plane just barely avoided smashing nose-first into that— oh no! Swoop under the stoplight! Swoop! OK, phew, but oh god there is a building RIGHT IN YOUR FACE. I think I’m gonna be sick. There is a long and storied history of physics-defying GTA V stunts that’d drain both the evil and knievel…

By Nathan Grayson Published November 21, 2014

People Are Taking Really Great Pictures in The New Grand Theft Auto V

Many oohs and aahs rang out at the upgraded visuals when Rockstar first started showing off the upgraded PS4 and Xbox One versions of Grand Theft Auto V. Now that the game’s out, players are documenting the game’s beauty themselves with some amazing photographs. In-game tools let readers share in-game photography on Twitter, Facebook and…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 19, 2014