Grand Theft Auto

Have you noticed the GPS goes out in a tunnel in Grand Theft Auto V? Or that nasty-ass backsweat on your character? How about water pressure that crushes your submersible? GermanScientistTV has, in this third installment of the little things in GTA V. Of course Donald Love has a star on the Vinewood Walk of…

Rockstar Delaying GTA Online Stimulus Package Until Bugs Get Fixed

Been waiting for the first chunk of that $500,000 in-game cash infusion that Rockstar promised as a make-good for the bumpy launch of GTA Online. You’re going to have to wait a while longer. The makers of Red Dead Redemption don’t want to throw all that money out in the world until more bugs get…

It Is Awfully Difficult To Catch A Boat With A Helicopter In GTA V

As you can see in this video from Rooster Teeth, it is actually quite difficult to catch a ramping boat with a helicopter in GTA V. Which, naturally, makes it all the more satisfying when you finally do. (Skip toward the end to get to the good part.)

GTA V Is Actually About Loneliness

Look, Franklin, you really need to sort your life out. Taking your dog for a nice, serene walk is all well and good. But randomly murdering some poor innocents outside of Taco Bomb is just wrong. You’re letting your “friends” get the better of you. But it’s not your fault. It was all preordained. Wish…

Downloading the “GTA V PC Torrent” is 18GB Worth of Bad Ideas

About the only thing I can see that’s wrong with this diabolical plot is the fact suckers have to download an 18GB torrent before the malware is unleashed. Otherwise, there’s a bogus torrent of Grand Theft Auto V‘s nonexistent PC version that’s claimed several victims of late. It bears mentioning one should not download this.…

GTA Girl Shows Too Much Skin (Fixed)

“GTA Girl”—as in, the girl you see on the disc of Grand Theft Auto V—sports typical beach attire. A bikini. Problem is, that get-up might show a bit more skin than some are comfortable with… Welp. Problem solved!

Creepy Suspect Blamed for Electronics Going Haywire

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. leads Slender in suspicious Man sighting MASON, Mich.—Cops responding…

Politician Out to Scare Parents Makes a Great Pitch for GTA Instead

I don’t know where to begin with this, but it’s hilarious. The state’s attorney for a southern Chicago suburb on Thursday gathered middle school parents to urge an “economic boycott” of Grand Theft Auto, which has already made, like, a billion dollars. It sounds like a scared-straight lecture straight out of 1958. The assembly took…

New GTA V Patch Claims to Fix Missing Vehicles, Many Other Problems

The latest title update for Grand Theft Auto V goes up today and it’s supposed to do away with one of the game’s most annoying bugs. Hopefully, players won’t have to worry about cars and other vehicles disappearing from garages. Here’s the list of issues that Rockstar says should be resolved with the new update:…

This Is What Car Battles Look Like In GTA Online… In Mid-Air

I guess this is, like, jousting on helicopters? Chicken with helicopters and cars? Whatever this is, it’s amazing. And it’s all thanks to the crazy minds at Achievement Hunter What you do is, basically: lift your best cars up, meet your friends in mid-air and start ramming each other. This would probably make even less…

That was probably a bad idea. These silly GTA V mansions. Although there are several solutions for this, lifting it out with a cargo helicopter and not dropping it into the pool would be the funniest. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

Everything Wrong With A Ten-Minute Movie Inside Grand Theft Auto V

Now playing in Los Santos theaters, The Loneliest Robot in Great Britain is a thrilling (and somewhat NSFW) animated tale of sex, machines and murder. Though the film is only ten minutes long, Cinema Sins manages to spend two explaining everything it got wrong. Spoilers follow! As if it weren’t cool enough that Grand Theft…

Original Grand Theft Auto Designer is Remaking Liberty City in 3D

One of the creators of the first Grand Theft Auto—whose top-down perspective bears little resemblance to the series since 2001—is revisiting Liberty City to re-render that map in 3D. Michael Dailly is carrying out the project in GameMaker: Studio, which is made by Dailly’s current employer, YoYo Games. USGamer reports that Dailly had to code…

GTA V Demolition Derbies Are Better On Skyscrapers

What’s needed for a GTA Online skyscraper battle royale, like the one above, is only a few friends (and their cars), a cargo helicopter, and the biggest building in the game. The fun, shared by YouTuber Kyoto-Moto, starts around the 3:00 mark in the video below. And yes, they fight until only one car remains:…

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…