Grand Theft Auto

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

​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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Secret Drugs Do Surprising Things In The New GTA V [Update]

The new versions of GTA V on the PS4 and Xbox One hide some things you haven’t seen before, even if you’ve played the last-gen versions of the game. And some of this stuff can be a little…wacky. If you don’t want to be spoiled on this secret, I suggest you stop reading now! OK.…

In response to player complaints about not being able to bring over last-gen GTA Online characters to new-gen GTA V, Rockstar is deploying a patch for to address a GTA Online character transfer problem. PlayStation platforms will be getting the patch today, with an Xbox version to follow tomorrow.

Yes, You Should Play The New Version Of GTA V

This week, Rockstar is re-releasing Grand Theft Auto V on PS4 and Xbox One. The new version, which also comes to PC in January, has better graphics, new music, and a new first-person mode. You can now play the the bulk of the game—shooting, driving, skydiving, sexing—in first-person. It is bananas. I figured first-person mode…

GTA V’s First-Person Driving in Chaotic GIFs

First-person shooting and driving are coming to Grand Theft Auto V with the game’sre-release. And if these GIFs are anything to go by, it’s going to be great. As pointed out on webforum NeoGAF, someone, it seems, has been streaming GTA V. GAF user Dreamlock made GIFs from the footage. The GIFs are spreading around…

Here’s The Launch Trailer For Grand Theft Auto V On PS4/Xbox One

Hot off Rockstar’s presses, this is the launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, which comes to PS4 and Xbox One next week (and to PC in January). This current-gen version of GTA V, which is out November 18, will come not only with fancy new graphics but with a brand new first-person mode that…

A New Look at GTA V on PS4 , Compared to PS3

Curious as to the level of visual upgrades the new-gen versions of GTA V will be getting? Here’s a taste of the improved details, reflections, and crowds coming to Rockstar’s open-world game. Some of the changes are small—not at all on the scale of something like first-person mode— like clouds in the sky or detailing…