Grand Theft Auto

This is what a timelapse day-night cycle of Los Santos looks like in GTA V. That is, if you climb Vinewood Hills, stand there for hours, and take pictures with the in-game phone—just as Plonkey on the GTA V subreddit did. Incredible! Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

The Fallacy Of “Keep Your Politics Out Of My Video Games”

It can often feel as though some people who like video games want to have it both ways: They want games to be taken seriously and acknowledged as an exciting artistic medium, but the moment someone critiques a game’s politics they respond, as if cued by an invisible conductor: “It’s just a game! Stop taking…

If You Can’t Pull Off These Awesome GTA Stunts, Try Using Moon Gravity

A month into its release, most everyone has figured out that every curb is an opportunity for an insane stunt jump in Grand Theft Auto V—with or without the moon gravity cheat enabled. Some of the drivers behind the stunts in this video say they pulled off these feats without using Moon Gravity, and yes,…

The Actors Behind GTA’s C.J. and Franklin Are Teaming Up—but for What?

Interesting response—or non-response, as it is—by the voice of Franklin in Grand Theft Auto V at a New York Comic Con 2013 panel. When he and his co-stars were asked which Grand Theft Auto character they wish they could have portrayed, Fonteno replied Carl Johnson—the protagonist of 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. According to…

The Funniest GTA V And GTA Online Glitch GIFs

Time to hit the road cause someone found the best vehicle in the latest GTA. Luckily so many people are playing GTA V that we don’t even need mods or anything like that to see awesome glitches, like this one, or these others… Guessing that all hell will break loose when a PC port comes…

Your Missing GTA Online Characters Are Likely Gone For Good

Was your GTA Online character deleted during the Great Server Catastrophe of 2013? The good news is, you get a free $500,000. The bad news: you probably won’t get your old character back. Although Rockstar has released a patch for GTA V‘s multiplayer service that seems to have fixed things, a representative for the company…

GTA Online, Week Two: All People Want To Do Is Kill Each Other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNfhcD… I’m a week into playing GTA Online. My character mysteriously had a sex change during one of the Social Club outages. She still never has arms when I log in, and changes clothes every time I look away. Somehow I ended up in a dogfight with a fighter jet and, some time before that,…

GTA Online Players Get $500,000 In-Game Make-Good for Unstable Launch

If you’ve played GTA Online over the last few days, you might have noticed that things feel a bit better than when the multiplayer portion of GTA V first opened its doors. It takes patience to stick around during a launch as creaky as the one GTA Online had. So Rockstar wants to say thank…

Rapper Says GTA V Stole His Music

Grand Theft Auto V is packed with tunes. But according to rapper and music producer Daz Dillinger, the game uses two of his without permission. Now, he wants Rockstar to pay up or to destroy all unsold copies of the game. Dillinger’s tracks “C-Walk” and “Nothin’ But the Cavi Hit” appear in the game. But…

Report: Grand Theft Auto V Coming To PC Next Year

We’ve always kind of assumed that Grand Theft Auto V will be out on PC at some point in the near future, but Rockstar has stayed quiet about the possibility, even after loads of speculation and murmurs from outside companies Today, the rumor cloud gets a little bit thicker. Gaming website Eurogamer says “multiple industry…

GTA V Would Make A Tremendous Horror Film

If Rockstar ever decided to switch gears and turn their open-world extravaganza into a nightmare-inducing horror flick, this would be a good start. Check out this trailer, put together by Kotaku reader Adrian Jurek, and just try to tell me you wouldn’t watch this movie. “You were my best friend!!!”

Kid Sneaks Past Security, Hides In Plane, Blames…Grand Theft Auto

“We assumed he was at a friend’s house. We had no idea where he was”. Says the father of a 9 year-old boy who wasn’t at a friend’s house. By the time his parents figured out he was missing, the boy had somehow snuck onboard an aircraft and travelled halfway across the US as a…

New GTA Online Patch Promises No More Missing Characters

Your missing character issues may be going away—Rockstar says they’ve got a patch coming that promises to fix game progress issues in Grand Theft Auto Online, which has been facing serious problems since it launched last week. You won’t get your zapped characters back, but at least the mass character deletions—widely reported by players of…

Glitch Turns GTA V Into An Accidental Bloodbath

In this dramatic Grand Theft Auto V cutscene, Michael and his friend Trevor have a heated conversation. A stupid-AI bug makes it even more so. Warning: This clip might contain spoilers, blood. The bug has police officers firing on both characters as they talk at Michael’s house. If only the cops could’ve given a fuck…

Wrecked GTA Car Still Runs Pretty Well

I’m not entirely sure how this pile of junk is still functioning, but I’m also not sure I want to know. Because it’s magical and magical things deserve to be preserved in their mystery. YouTuber MetalDevils hows us how to get a fancy sports car in GTA Online all banged up while still working. Basically…

Found by Redditor Hulk_Pants in Egypt, this GTA V bootleg has everything on its cover (even Patrick Brown’s art and the helicopter on the top left side!). According to him, it is GTA: San Andreas for the Playstation 2, with modded Trevor, Franklin and Michael skins. That’s just too much effort for a bad knockoff!…

GTA: Australia Has The Same Old GTA Problems

Weird animation issues? Check. Crazy civilians? Check. Australians buying drugs and…wait a minute. Only once has the GTA series left American shores. I can’t see it happening again, and if it did, it won’t come to Australia. But a man can dream. And so can these guys. The Thing About GTA V… [Max & Sam]

How To Survive Driving Into The Ocean In GTA V (And Other Fun Facts)

Speaking of the little details that make GTA V so great, here’s a video that answers questions I didn’t even know I had. Like, does a helmet actually do anything to protect your head? Can a car run out of gas? Can a car that’s run out of gas still explode? If a tree falls…

Unintentionally Awesome Moments In GTA Online

You really are a bastard, Ohcrapnick (I think that’s your name. That’s the what the guy called you at 0:28 of this video, anyway). But you’re one hell of a driver, straddling the highway barrier in Grand Theft Auto Online, I’ll give you that. Ohcrapnick’s daredevil antics, death by cash register, and a couple of…

Don’t Buy This Grand Theft Auto App on Android

Friendly reminder, the “iFruit” companion app to Grand Theft Auto V is available, as of now, for Apple iOS devices only—and it is free. That hasn’t stopped some guy from selling one under the same name for $2.79 for Android phones and tablets. What’s more, users allege the name of the app was changed, from…