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The GTA V Trailer Song is a 1968 Tune by The Small Faces

The song featured in Grand Theft Auto V is the title track on the 1968 album called Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake by the British band The Small Faces. You can listen to it right here. (Or watch the trailer.) Click here to visit our Grand Theft Auto V timeline!

By Stephen Totilo Published November 2, 2011

Grand Theft Auto V’s First Official Trailer

Here it is: The official Grand Theft Auto V trailer. Was it worth the wait? The minute, 24 second trailer shows a game set in a Rockstar take on Los Angeles and perhaps other parts of California. The video has a narrator who talks about moving to the city to retire and being a father.…

By Brian Crecente Published November 2, 2011

Here’s How We Were Introduced to GTA IV Four Years Ago

So, the day is upon us where we’ll finally get the first glimpse of the next entry in the storied Grand Theft Auto series. It’s been more than four long years and, since then, the bittersweet saga of Niko Bellic has become a fond, distant memory for most gamers. Still, the trailer that introduced the…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 2, 2011

Happy GTA V Day

Don’t forget, Rockstar said today’s the day they plan to reveal the official Grand Theft Auto V trailer. Will it give us a glimpse of the game’s stars? What city the game is set in? Why the V in the logo looks like money? Were our sources right about the game? We’ll know soon enough.…

By Brian Crecente Published November 2, 2011

Taiwanese Animation Offers WTF Take on Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

The folks at Next Media Animation—who’ve become infamous for presenting bizarre CGI takes on the news—speculate on what the teaser for Rockstar Games’ just announced upcoming sequel will look like. Honestly, while it apes some of the visual signifiers of the GTA games, the silent clip makes close to no sense whatsoever. Does the kid…

By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011

Will There Be a Grand Theft Auto First-Person Shooter?

For your typical Western game developer, first-person shooters are bread and butter. Rockstar Games is not your typical Western game developer. “We’re deliberately avoiding that right now,” Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser told Japanese game magazine Famitsu. “It’s in our DNA to avoid doing what other companies are doing.” So, while other companies were making FPS…

By Brian Ashcraft Published October 31, 2011

In Honor of Grand Theft Auto V, Here’s a Liberty City Walkathon

Grand Theft Auto V is official. And while it’s not set in Liberty City, what better way to honor the game’s announcement than by pounding the iconic digital city’s virtual pavement. YouTube user GermanScientistTV and pal Scotty decided to tour Grand Theft Auto IV‘s Liberty City on foot. The ensuing result (and footage) is hypnotic,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published October 31, 2011

Don’t Worry, Rockstar’s Already Thinking of Mobile Ports for Vice City and San Andreas

Two weeks ago Rockstar said it was bringing its seminal hit Grand Theft Auto III to state-of-the-art mobile platforms. Yes, they already know what you’re thinking. Bringing over Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas would be a “technical challenge,” the studio told Digital Trends, but they’re already thinking in that…

By Owen Good Published October 28, 2011

If a Woman was the Lead Character in Grand Theft Auto…

Women in Grand Theft Auto games have had many roles. Mom. Girlfriend. Nightclub manager. Criminal. Lots of roles. Just never the main one. On the eve of the release of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, and with no inside knowledge about who will be the star of this new game, I find…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011

What Game Handled Weather Changes the Best?

Whipping rain that dots your screen in a firefight. Fog that hides lingering zombies. Sheets of ice that cause you car to spin out of control. Weather can be an important part of video games. Over the years there have been some amazing takes on gameplay-impacting weather. In this, our inaugural “NeoGAF Asks” story, Gaffer…

ScOULaris Published October 28, 2011

GTA III‘s Fake News Turns 10, Still Funny and a Bit Demented

A decade ago, Rockstar Games was trying to be funny. Starting in February of 2001, all the way to the 18th of October, just before the most important game release in their company’s history, they were trying to make people laugh about Grand Theft Auto III. They did it with a fake online newspaper chronicling…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2011

Grand Theft Auto V’s Logo Has Some Real History

And I don’t mean the iconic “Price is Right” font. I mean the way the latest game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, has a rather interesting employment of antique US currency. As spotted by a Reddit user, the “FIVE” at the end of the game’s logo is lifted almost directly from an old…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011

Seagulls, Cool Jazz, and Megadeth: 5 Favorite Tunes From Grand Theft Auto

With Rockstar about to announce the release of Grand Theft Auto V, we’re all abuzz theorizing, postulating, and prognosticating about things that the game will or won’t have. Totilo’s looked at what systems the game might be on, Crecente guessed about possible settings. And then, Stephen got a tip that the game will indeed be…

By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2011

5 Questions the GTA V Trailer Will Hopefully Answer

Above is the first trailer for GTA IV. Remember that? It came out at the end of March 2007 and answered questions about the next GTA, even as it raised a bunch of new ones. It showed graphics that shamed its contemporaries, revealed Liberty City (aka New York City) as the location and introduced us…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011

Grand Theft Auto V Will Be Set in Los Angeles, May Star Multiple Characters

Strengthening long-standing rumors for years that the next Grand Theft Auto would be set in Los Angeles or a fictional version thereof, a source familiar with the game told Kotaku today that those rumors are true. GTA V will be set in some version of L.A., bringing the famous franchise to a place that last…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011

These Are the Best Cities For the Next Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto is a franchise driven by stories, with a massive cast of characters and nearly endless replayability. But the thing that most distinguishes one Grand Theft Auto from the next is Rockstar’s glorious, subversive take on each of the games’ settings. The cityscape of a Grand Theft Auto is often the game’s most…

By Brian Crecente Published October 25, 2011

News of GTA V‘s Trailer Hit On Unhappy Anniversary for GTA Foe

Jack Thompson, active nemesis of any video game that he believes causes real world violence, was disbarred on September 25, 2008. Website GamePolitics notes that his disbarrment kicked in Oct 25, 2008 and that, three years to the day later, we get an announcement of GTA V. Jack hates GTA

By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011

The Huge Hardware Implications for Grand Theft Auto V and the Future of Video Games

In a year full of headlines about Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, it’s possible to think that the forces that shape the future of what we’ll play and where we’ll play it is now solely in the hands of the people who make plastic and metal boxes. Or maybe it’s in the hands of the…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011

Grand Theft Auto V To Be Revealed Next Week

On November 2, Rockstar will release the debut trailer for the fifth main game in the Grand Theft Auto series, according to the developer’s site With the title previously unconfirmed, the above logo is our first official glimpse of anything to do with the game, though there have been strong rumours for a while now…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2011

Here’s the First Dumbass Thing the Mainstream Media Said About Grand Theft Auto III

Ten years ago today, Grand Theft Auto III released for the PlayStation 2. It became, in the words of Time “a national obsession.” In the mainstream media, it has since served as the No. 1 scapegoat for the corruption of youth through violent video games. Rightfully considered an epochal entry in video game design, the…

By Owen Good Published October 22, 2011