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The Weird Art of the Video Game Massacre

We’ve all done it. Anyone who’s played an open-world game, from Grand Theft Auto III to Fallout 3 to Red Dead Redemption, has gone on a murderous rampage. Those civilians. They’re all just… sitting there. You know what else is sitting there? Your dark, murderous id. Time to go to town. The number of video…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012

Uncovered Vehicle List in Max Payne 3 Reads a Lot Like a Grand Theft Auto Fleet

Someone on GTAForums.com pried apart the files inside Max Payne 3 and found a vehicle list shot through with callbacks to past makes and models from the Grand Theft Auto series. There is an enormous thread going on both there and on NeoGAF, about the subject. Noting that this isn’t the first time Rockstar Games…

By Owen Good Published May 17, 2012

Kotaku East

This Nightmare Car Crash Looks Like a Video Game, But It’s Real and Awful

It looked like Grand Theft Auto, but it was very real—and almost very deadly. Last week, a Hyundai YF Sonata pulled out of traffic and went tearing down the street, weaving through traffic, and piling into a stopped car. Ten people were injured (the driver broke ribs, while the passenger’s vertebrae was damaged), and the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

The 1970s Movie That Looks Just Like a Video Game

In 1976, a short film called C’était un Rendez-vous was released in France. It ran for ten minutes. And if you’ve ever played a driving game you’ll probably want to watch it. There’s no real plot or anything to it, at least not until the end. It’s just a guy driving a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 30, 2012

Stuntmen Turn GTA Into Trials, Jackass

Give this compilation video a few minutes to warm up and get past the credits. Or, if you’re impatient, skip to 1:21. From then on in, these guys aren’t even playing Grand Theft Auto any more. They’re playing something else Fan-Made “GTAIV Epic Stunts” Video (Vol. 5) Is Full of Win [Rockstar]

By Luke Plunkett Published April 27, 2012

Crash-Testing The Hell Out of GTA IV‘s Most Lovely Automobiles

Because, well, that’s what you do in Grand Theft Auto IV. You wreck cars. YouTuber InsaneGaz has one heck of an enjoyable channel, featuring hundreds of videos in which he takes modded cars and crashes the living hell out of them. He even hits the Optimus Prime mod! Some highlights are above, but you can…

By Kirk Hamilton Published April 18, 2012

Launch Your Friends Off Helicopters in Grand Theft Auto IV

I love Gav and Geoff from Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunter. They always find the most pointless, yet hilarious things to do in games. In today’s edition of pointless, yet hilarious things to do in games, the duo launches their character into the air in Grand Theft Auto IV. GTA is known for some wacky glitches…

By Tina Amini Published April 5, 2012

Jenna Jameson Had No Problem Faking Sex in Front of Her Dad

Back when Jenna Jameson was still doing porn, she appeared in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as blue movie actress Candy Suxxx. As recount in the new book Jacked, Jameson showed up to the recording session with her father. For the session, Jameson was motion captured as she was on her back, feigning intercourse. Vice…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2012

An Unauthorized Look at the Enigma Behind Grand Theft Auto

During the mid-1990s, I spent my summers in L.A. I was still in high school and answering phones at a film agency on Wilshire. And in the mid-1990s, super producer Don Simpson ruled Hollywood. Everyone in the movie business had a Don Simpson story. Along with Jerry Bruckheimer, Simpson was the force behind high-concept hits…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2012

It’s GTAIII, Running on GTAIV’s Engine

Similar to the Vice City Rage project (and the San Andreas Rage project), here’s an undertaking bringing the world design of Grand Theft Auto III’s Liberty City to the more robust engine of Grand Theft Auto IV Why bother? Same old classic game world you know and love, only now the cars drive better and…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 25, 2012

Your Grand Theft Auto V Multiplayer Experience Begins With Max Payne 3

The friends you make in Max Payne 3 this May can be the same friends you roll with in Grand Theft Auto V thanks to Rockstar’s Crew mechanic, a new multiplayer feature that keeps your camaraderie and rivalry alive even after you’ve moved on to a different game. The multiplayer clan is a close-knit group…

By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2012

When Transformers Attack Grand Theft Auto IV‘s Liberty City

Here’s one of the best Grand Theft Auto IV mods I’ve ever seen: a look at what happens when Transformers hero Optimus Prime invades Liberty City. Optimus fits right in. You could almost call it… Grand Theft Autobots GTA IV – Optimus Prime (Transformers Mod) HD [YouTube — thanks, Shashwat!]

By Jason Schreier Published March 22, 2012

Rockstar Games’ Co-Founder Spent $12.5 Million for Crime Writer’s Brooklyn Home

Dan Houser must really, really like In Cold Blood. According to The New York Observer, one of the minds behind the best-selling Grand Theft Auto just dropped a mob-boss-worthy load of cash on the one-time abode of Truman Capote. Capote’s perhaps best known as the writer of the legendary true-crime non-fiction book In Cold Blood.…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 21, 2012

First-Person Grand Theft Auto is Kicking Everyone’s Bananas

While this clip showing Grand Theft Auto from a first-person perspective is a little slower – and less explosive – than you’re probably accustomed to, it at least gets the spirit of the series less scripted moments right. Except for those hands. Not really sure what’s going on there.

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012

Grand Theft Troll Turns Online Asshole Into Liberty City Murderer

I don’t know what’s creepier, the face leering at everyone with the knife, or the wonky stick-figure body casually strolling around the streets. [thanks Jonathan!]

By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2012

Retailer Shoots Down Grand Theft Auto Vita Rumors

Earlier this week, we reported a rumor that retailer Play.com had accidentally leaked the existence of a Grand Theft Auto for Vita and three other games. In a statement to Eurogamer today, Play.com confirmed that this report was false. [Eurogamer]

By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012

Grand Theft Auto Would Be Much More Exciting if the Carjacking Victims Sought Revenge

Every day millions of innocent people are ripped violently from their vehicles, left sprawled out on the street as a gruff anti-hero with a twisted sense of right and wrong makes off with their ride. No more, says internet movie maker Freddie Wong. In his latest special effects-laden spectacular, Freddie Wong takes on an issue…

By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2012

Grand Theft Auto IV Mod Turns 2008 Graphics Into 2012 Graphics

Grand Theft Auto IV’s iCEnhancer series of mods and tweaks takes a Rockstar PC game that looked pretty good already and turns it into – relative to the scale and size of GTAIV – the prettiest video game on the planet. At least, if realism is your thing. And if your PC can handle it.…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2012

The Week in Unbelievably Gorgeous Screenshots: Grand Theft Auto IV

Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy “video game photographer” behind the website DeadEndThrills, I’ve been sharing some of his work each week here. This week Harris brought in some great shots from a modded version of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV. Let’s take a look! (Small note: This week, the full…

By Kirk Hamilton Published February 10, 2012

This GTA IV Terminator Mod Says ‘Hasta La Vista, Bellic’

When you play Grand Theft Auto games, do you ever feel a bit like The Terminator? Walking forward in an ungainly way, absorbing more bullets than a human ought to be able to absorb, shooting cops in the knee with reckless abandon? YouTube user taltigolt has uploaded this video of the “Terminator T1” mod for…

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 11, 2012