Grand Theft Auto

Report: Grand Theft Auto V Stars “an East Coast Gangster”

Here are some new details about the eagerly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V. According to website CVG, ShortList Magazine, which apparently revealed the above image on its website, wrote this about the game’s main character: The protagonist is an “East Coast gangster”, who moved to the game’s Los Santos setting (Rockstar’s take on LA and…

Court Rejects Claim that ‘San Andreas’ Hero was Based on Cypress Hill Backup Dancer

Unless he wants to try his luck before the U.S. Supreme Court, a backup dancer for Cypress Hill [not pictured, above] won’t be getting $250 million-or any money-from the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. A California appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling against the dancer’s claim that the character of Carl “C.J.”…

The Faces of Grand Theft Auto Through The Years

Twelve years will have passed between the release of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001 and Grand Theft Auto V in 2013. Those 12 years have seen ten releases of major GTA games and DLC, each putting its own spin on the series’ classic vector art look. The 71 official images pulled from Rockstar’s website…

Here, Two Enormous GTA V Posters

Here, for your wallpaper/viewing pleasure, are two super-sized pieces of Grand Theft Auto V artwork. They were posted on Game Informer earlier today, and at a resolution of 1920×2432 each, you’re free to pick over them and find as many clues as you like. Like, oh, the fact that arrested lady is wearing a Love…

Hurricane Sandy Delays Second GTA V Trailer

From the newest edition of the Rockstar Newswire, the official online newsletter for the makers of Grand Theft Auto: “We are working on a second trailer – unfortunately Hurricane Sandy has derailed our plans somewhat but we will have something to show soon. Its hard to be precise as we have no power whatsoever in…

It’s Official: Grand Theft Auto V Is Coming This Spring

Following a whole bunch of rumors and reports, Rockstar has officially confirmed that Grand Theft Auto V will hit store shelves this spring. “Grand Theft Auto V builds on everything we’ve learned about open world game design,” Rockstar’s Sam Houser said in a press release this afternoon. “We can’t wait to share it with fans.”…

GTA V Spring Release Date Confirmed by European Mega-Chain

The “Spring 2013” posters for Grand Theft Auto V that leaked this weekend were definitely real, as the European retailer GAME went and Tweeted images of the same thing. IGN screencapped a Tweet sent by the retailer. The Tweet has since been taken offline. Platforms for the game are Xbox 360 and PS3. No sign…

Supposed GTA V Posters Promise Spring 2013 Release Date

A Polish website has posted images of what they say are real promotional posters for Grand Theft Auto V. The posters peg the game for a spring 2013 release date for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. We can’t verify their authenticity but have asked a Rockstar rep if he will. This post will be updated…

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Comes To iOS And Android This Fall

To celebrate the upcoming 10th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (on October 29!), Rockstar will re-release the popular game on mobile platforms this fall. “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City gave players the freedom of a massive open-world in one of the most iconic and vibrant settings ever realized in a game,” Rockstar founder…

In Da Club: A Musical Moment Few Video Games Get Right

Games take us to all manner of fantastical, unlikely places. But as good as video games have gotten at accurately recreating a space-marine shootout or a mountaintop dragon battle, there’s one thing developers are still learning how to create: A dance club. Many games try to create thriving urban environments for players to occupy, and…

This Grand Theft Auto V Artwork Promises “Pest Control” in the San Andreas Sunshine

The art style that Rockstar Games uses to promote its Grand Theft Auto games has been almost as important as the gameplay in the open-world series. Over the years, the publisher has doled out hints as to the sex, drugs and hi-jinx players would get into via posters and other graphic design images, long before…

Kotaku Timeline: Grand Theft Auto V

All video games have a history… a history of rumors and official statements, of leaks, of screenshots, of trailers and other things that excite us, confuse us or do both. So how do we get from the smallest hint of a new game to the real thing? What’s the journey? Today, we’re debuting something a…

Kotaku Gallery: Grand Theft Auto V

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Looks Like Grand Theft Auto V Is Ready To Be Shown To The Press

Grand Theft Auto V is in playable form, and at least one reporter is getting his hands on it today. Game Informer editor-in-chief Andy McNamara wrote on Twitter today that he’s at Rockstar, checking the next Grand Theft Auto game out for the magazine’s December cover story. This means we could see a release date…

Rockstar’s Releasing One Hell of a Compilation Disc

While the cover art appears to be predictably awful, there’s little disputing the quality of the contents of this compilation of Rockstar games that’s turned up on retail sites. Called “Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1”, it bundles Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City and Midnight Club Los Angeles: Complete…

Pretty Sure This Will Up Your GTA Wanted Level

I hear the cops, even those in Liberty City, frown on never-ending loops of vehicular homicide in stolen taxi cabs. GTAIV [neogohann]

Liberty City is One Million Times Larger Than a PS3, and Other Great Mysteries of the Universe

NASA scientist Rich Terrile has a neat way of explaining stuff that you or I should, by all rights, not be able to understand at all: he uses Grand Theft Auto IV as a means of explaining how we might all be living our lives in a giant galactic simulation. Speaking with Vice, Terrile details…

The History of Rockstar’s Game Intros

Similar to companies like LucasArts, Rockstar have always sought to mix things up when their games first boot up. Which is why so many of them, even today, feature their own unique intro sequences, where the company’s logo is either introduced, lit up or blown up. The video above runs for over nine minutes, so…

After a delay, 2001 PS2 classic Grand Theft Auto III is finally available for download on the PS3. File-size: 4.35GB!

GTAIV Brings the Curtain Down on Gangnam Style Videos

OK, I think we’ve all had just about enough of this Gangnam Style business. So let’s tie it all off neatly with what really should have been the first video game parody of the lot: Grand Theft Auto IV’s. GTA IV – GANGNAM STYLE [YouTube, via Rockstar]