Grand Theft Auto

If Grand Theft Auto Took Place In Breaking Bad‘s Albuquerque

I have a good time picturing a Breaking Bad video game: Basically, nothing would go according to plan and you’d keep losing more, and more, and more. So how would a GTA-style game built around Breaking Bad work? Surely we’ve all been thinking it over the last week. After all, GTA V and Breaking Bad…

Want to listen to the Grand Theft Auto V soundtrack when you’re not in front of a console? Rockstar’s just announced that three albums collecting tunes from the hit game are up on iTunes now. And you can listen to portions of each station on the web, too.

Data Leak Hints At Microtransactions In GTA Online

The upcoming Grand Theft Auto Online may let you buy in-game money with real money at some point—files found on a Rockstar server hint at the possibility, and it’s an interesting one. A Redditor says he found the files, which you can read here, by trying to access the store section of the game’s pause…

Rockstar Warns GTA V Players To Avoid Using Garages Until Bug is Fixed

This past weekend in GTA V, my buddy Franklin finally made some real money on a heist. The guy loves to drive, so I decided to buy him a nice new sports car. But when he got back to his house and checked the garage, the car was nowhere to be found. Had master car-thief…

No, These Aren’t Vacation Photos. They’re GTA V Screenshots.

This isn’t a postcard or a promotional shot for the Union Pacific Railroad. It’s a picture taken within Grand Theft Auto V by a professional photographer looking for the beauty of Los Santos and Blaine County instead of taking crass selfies and vulgar crotch-shots. Phil Rose, a photographer with more than two decades’ worth of…

I Sold Too Many Copies of GTA V To Parents Who Didn’t Give a Damn

Dear Parents… We need to talk. There is something that has been eating at me for awhile, and I have had enough. I have been working in video game retail for almost 10 years now. I love my job. Some of my best memories begin with loving, bewildered parents walking into our store, naïve to…

Cool Short Film Puts Ryan Gosling Inside Two Grand Theft Auto Games

What’s the mystery connection between Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V? It might be Ryan Gosling’s no-name character from Drive. Gamebill Studio’s Nabil Ayari captured footage from GTA IV and GTA V and stitched them together with shots from the 2011 miniimalist action thriller. The result? A moody, well-edited clip that throws…

What a time to be alive! Thanks, GTA V! Now let’s wait till someone does this with a forklift—or puts it on a truck, tows it with the tow truck and lifts the whole thing with one of the larger cargo helicopters. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

Towing Cop Cars, Stabbing Sharks and Other GTA Myths Put to the Test

YouTube’s DefendTheHouse put out a Mythbusters-style video for Black Ops 2 earlier this year, and now returns with some sage advice for managing Grand Theft Auto V‘s bigtime threats—from sharks to police choppers. My favorite protip is lighting a gasoline trail with your turbocharged sedan’s backfire. It’s such a passive-aggressive way to blow up a…

Users of Older Xbox 360s Say Grand Theft Auto V Crashes Their Console

It seems the launch week of a hotly anticipated game can’t pass without a problem keeping some folks from playing. Several tips and complaints we’ve received, and a long forum thread backing them up, allude to a specific problem facing Grand Theft Auto V: the game appears to crash on older models of the Xbox…

Grand Theft Auto V GIFs Are Here To Destroy The Internet

Thanks to the deep and immersive world of Los Santos and the hysteria surrounding Grand Theft Auto V, people are already having a ton of fun with the game online, including using our favorite format: the GIF. It’s still early and GTA V has a massive open world, so this is possibly only the tip…

Why Rockstar Released GTA V For Current-Gen Consoles

Can’t do this with a next gen-only game in 2013 (probably not in 2014, either), because there just won’t be enough next-gen consoles out there for quite some time… Grand Theft Auto V® Worldwide Sales Surpass $1 Billion In First Three Days Fastest entertainment property in history to reach significant milestone* NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sep. 20,…

Don’t Kick Conan Out of a GTA V Strip Club

Conan O’Brien checks out Grand Theft Auto V, steals cars, and hangs out in a strip club. Make that, he hangs out in a strip club a lot. Just don’t toss the guy out… Clueless Gamer: Conan Reviews “Grand Theft Auto V” [TeamCoco]

Finally, Grand Theft Auto’s Most Elusive Easter Egg Is Found

They said it didn’t exist. They said it couldn’t be found. They said it might just be a myth. Oh, but it exists—out there, in the spoilery land of spoilers. This is your chance to turn back and not be spoiled on one of GTA V’s coolest secrets. Okay, so. For the longest time, Grand…

Here’s How To Make Infinite Money In GTA V

Money makes the world go round, and boy howdy, can you nab a ton of cash in Grand Theft Auto V…if you’re willing to play dirty, that is. Such is the nature of exploits. Here we have a video of SomeFilthyCasuals walking us through how to do a money exploit—it requires going to a specific…

How to Explode a Car with Your Body in GTA V

It was only a matter of time before the dudes at Rooster Teeth found something silly to do in GTA V. In today’s edition: the front flip that can, surprisingly, be used as a weapon. And a pretty powerful one at that. Watch Michael and Geoff goof around with their newfound ability in the video…

The sleaziest thing you can do in GTA V? No, it’s not stealing a Jumbo Jet, but parking like a jackass. Bonus points for Trevor being dressed like a grumpy, bad grandpa. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send…

The Best* GTA V Review Is Now A Catchy Song

There are plenty of serious, lengthy, thorough reviews of Grand Theft Auto V. But one review stands apart—probably because the person who wrote it didn’t even play the game. That person was critic, journalist and sometime Kotaku contributor Leigh Alexander, who wrote a sight-unseen “review” on her website satirizing some of the discussion and controversy…

Pay Attention, GTA V‘s Cell Phones Are Great

Grand Theft Auto V is an incredibly detailed game. How detailed? Well, it features three protagonists: Three men with different lives, different outlooks, different incomes… and different cell phones. Up top, we’ve got a shot of all three phones. At left there’s Michael, the retired bank robber with cash to burn. He owns an iFruit,…

Grand Theft Auto V and Women

If you’re driving north, up the west coast of Grand Theft Auto V, as I did in the 40th hour I was playing the game, you might spot a crashed car smoldering in the long ditch between the northbound and southbound lanes. The car doesn’t appear there every time. The man who was in the…