Tag: Grand Theft Auto
All Grand Theft Auto games ranked and rated
What are the best GTA games? Grand Theft Auto is one of the most commercially successful series in the industry, shipping over 350 million copies over numerous instalments since its humble inception in 1997. Originally released as an isometric adventure from DMA Design, the first GTA introduced the...
News GTA Online's 10th Anniversary Recognised with Free GTA 5 Threads
Main character energy
GTA Online, the never-ending multiplayer success story from Rockstar, will celebrate its tenth anniversary this weekend. And in order to commemorate that milestone, the developer is giving away a trio of outfits inspired by the protagonists of GTA 5 – Michael, Franklin, and, of course, Trevor. All you need to do is login by...
Guide GTA Online Weekly Update: 15th September, 2023
All the latest offers and additions in Los Santos
What are the GTA Online Weekly Bonuses? Every week, Rockstar Games rolls out an update for its online sandbox, adding new activities and content for Los Santos. These events typically include GTA$ and RP multipliers for select modes, as well as discounts on vehicles and clothes. There are also...
News Rockstar Hires Team of Previously Banned GTA 5 Modders
The ultimate heist, that of the mind
Rockstar Games has taken to X to announce the hiring of Cfx.re, the team of modders behind Grand Theft Auto 5's popular
Guide GTA Online: All Cars and Vehicles Compatible with Hao's Special Works Tuning Upgrades
Supercharge your fleet with HSW's new-gen upgrades
What are all cars and vehicles compatible with Hao's Special Works tuning upgrades in GTA Online? One of the new features in the PS5 version of Rockstar's sandbox is Hao's Special Works, which allows you to add unique tuning upgrades to select vehicles in order to make them perform even better than...
Guide GTA Online: How to Work As a Taxi Driver
Crazy taxi
Looking for how to work as a taxi driver in GTA Online? Fans of the main GTA 5 game will be familiar with the Downtown Cab Co, but may not have realised you can work as a taxi driver in the multiplayer mode as well. On this page, as part of our GTA Online guide, we'll explain how to work as a taxi driver. GTA Online: How to Work As a...
Guide GTA Online: Fastest Cars
Speed demon
What are the fastest cars in GTA Online? If you want to navigate Los Santos at speed or compete in races, then you're going to want to invest in the fastest cars. We've already introduced the Best Cars and Vehicles to Buy and Own, but in this GTA Online guide we're focusing purely on acceleration and
Guide GTA Online: Best Hangar to Buy and How to Get Rich from Smuggling
Aerial operations
What's the best Hangar to buy and how do you get rich from Smuggling in GTA Online? Hangars have two primary purposes in Los Santos: they provide a place for you to store your Personal Aircrafts and also allow you to launch the Free Trade Shipping Co app, which enables you to get rich from Smuggling. In this GTA Online guide, we're...
Guide GTA Online: How to Start the Los Santos Drug Wars and Access The Freakshop
And how to get the Acid Lab
Looking for how to start the Los Santos Drug Wars and access The Freakshop in GTA Online? The latest update for Rockstar's ever-expanding online multiplayer experience features a fresh storyline featuring Ron Jakowski from the single player campaign. But are you wondering how to start the Los Santos Drug Wars and access...
News GTA 6 Speculation Further Inflamed After Rumored Voice Actor Returns to Tease a Reveal
Zampella up to his old tricks again
The ever-glowing embers of GTA 6 speculation have once again caught flame after a recent Instagram live session got tongues wagging. Once again, it's veteran voice actor and presumed protagonist-to-be Bryan Zampella and his continued costumed antics that have drawn attention. During the Instagram live session,...
Guide GTA Online: How to Make Money Fast
Get rich quick
Looking for how to make money fast in GTA Online? While there's more to Los Santos than the size of your bank balance, Rockstar's crime sandbox is infinitely more enjoyable when you can fund the kind of lifestyle you want. Whether it's deciding upon the Best Cars and Vehicles to Buy and Own or purchasing the Best Guns and Weapons to...
News Fans Think GTA 6's Imminent Reveal Is Being Teased in GTA Online
Get the red wool out
The wait for Grand Theft Auto VI has been a long one indeed, with only a general idea of when it might release. Major updates like the recent Mercenaries expansion help (as does the fact they finally modernised sprint co
Guide GTA Online: How to Unlock GTA Protagonist Outfits
Look the part
Looking for how to unlock GTA protagonist outfits in GTA Online? As part of the San Andreas Mercenaries update, it's now possible to dress as classic characters from the GTA franchise, including Claude and Niko Bellic. On this page, as part of our GTA Online guide, we're going to explain how to unlock GTA protagonist outfits. GTA...
Guide GTA Online: Vinewood Car Club Explained
Location and all information
Looking for Vinewood Car Club explained in GTA Online? Vinewood Car Club is a new addition to Los Santos, and a perk for GTA+ subscribers. It includes a rotating fleet of free cars which you can test drive and purchase at a discounted rate. On this page, as part of our GTA Online guide, we're going to tell you everything...
Guide GTA Online: How to Replenish Health with Snacks
Life-saving Sprunk
Looking for how to replenish health with snacks in GTA Online? There's a good chance you're going to come underfire while you're out and about in Los Santos, so you're going to need to eat plenty of snacks to replenish your health. On this page, as part of our GTA Online guide, we're going to explain how to replenish health with...
Guide GTA Online: How to Equip Body Armor
Bullet proof
Looking for how to equip body armor in GTA Online? Body armor is an essential item if you're hoping to survive the harsh streets of Los Santos. Bulletproof vests will protect you from gunfire, thus invaluably extending your lifespan. On this page, as part of our GTA Online guide, we're going to explain how to equip body armor. GTA...
Guide GTA Online: How to Start San Andreas Mercenaries
Take on Merryweather in Project Overthrow
Looking for how to start San Andreas Mercenaries in GTA Online? This Contact Mission chain sees you contacted by hot-shot mercenary Charlie Reed as part of a new storyline involving Merryweather named Project Overthrow. On this page, as part of our GTA Online guide, we're going to explain how to start San...
Guide GTA Online: How to Change the Sprint Controls
Run before you can walk
Looking for how to change the sprint controls in GTA Online? If you're tired of mashing the X button to reach top speed in Los Santos, then Rockstar has finally implemented a solution. As part of our GTA Online guide, we're going to explain how to change the sprint controls. GTA Online: How to Change the Sprint Controls:...
News GTA Online Update Will Enable You to Track Your Criminal Rise Through the Ranks on PS5
Part of Rockstar's effort to tidy up multiplayer hit
There’s so much to do in GTA Online these days that it can be borderline impossible for new players to wrap their heads around – unless they’re using our GTA Online guide, of course. Fortunately, a new update incoming next week will streamline your criminal career, allowing you to observe...
News There's an Ounce of Ace Combat to This GTA Online: San Andreas Mercenaries PS5, PS4 Trailer
Top gun
Announced last week as GTA Online’s big summer update, here’s your first taste of the San Andreas Mercenaries, which is coming on 13th June for PS5 and PS4. It all looks rather Ace Combat, doesn’t it? The press release adds: “Join up with expert pilot and skilled merc Charlie Reed to lead his new outfit – the Los Santos Angels –...
News After 10 Years, GTA 5 Will Finally Fix Its Sprint Controls on PS5, PS4
Run it back
Do you know what absolutely sucks about GTA 5? Having to mash the X button like an absolute maniac in order to sprint. Every other developer figured out that holding a single button, or popping in the left analogue stick, is the best way to handle fast-paced on-foot locomotion in games – apart from Rockstar, apparently. But a new...
News GTA Online Adds Enormous San Andreas Mercenaries Update on PS5, PS4 from 13th June
And other major improvements
The ever-expanding world of Los Santos will grow once more from 13th June, with the announcement of an all-new update: the San Andreas Mercenaries. The big summer content for GTA Online, this expansion – free for all existing owners – will see you “take flight alongside a team of elite pilots and ex-military...
News GTA 6 Team 'Seeking Perfection' with Long-Awaited PS5 Sequel
Aspirational words to live by
While few, if any, will ever weep for Rockstar Games, having to deliver a follow-up to something as monumental as Grand Theft Auto V has to be among the most daunting tasks in all of modern game development. CEO Strauss Zelnick apparently knows this and is shooting for the moon anyways, stating that Rockstar Games is...
News Is GTA 6's Rumoured Real-Life Star Teasing or Trolling?
You decide
As if the wait wasn't already bad enough, the actor rumoured to be playing one of Grand Theft Auto 6's protagonists, Bryan Zampella, appears to be teasing fans (or trolling them) on Instagram. Chronicled by Mors Mutual Insurance and Gaming Detective over on Twitter, Zampella absolutely knows what he's doing, recreating th
News GTA 6 Might Release on PS5 Before the End of Next Year
Many "groundbreaking titles" are coming
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two could be lining up the franchise's sixth mainline entry for a PS5 release between April 2024 and March 2025, if hints dropped during the company's yearly earnings report are anything to go by. A press release says the firm has been preparing to release a number of games over...
News 50 Cent Teases Something Vice City Related, 'I Will Explain This Later'
Curtis Jackson, remember the name!
Rapper and producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has teased his involvement in something Grand Theft Auto: Vice City-related on Instagram, though what form this mysterious project takes remains to be seen. Posting a picture of a neon pink Vice City logo to his Instagram page, Jackson wrote, "I will explain this later...
News GTA 5's 1.64 Patch Notes Are Ginormous for PS5, PS4
New story content for GTA Online, raytracing, and more
Grand Theft Auto 5’s colossal 1.64 patch is available to download now for approximately 5.3GB, and it brings a bunch of new content, features, and quality of life updates to Rockstar’s unstoppable sandbox release. Most notable is the addition of new story content in GTA Online, and you can...
Guide GTA Online Guide: Your Ultimate Wiki and Walkthrough Resource
Everything you need to know about GTA 5's mulitplayer mode
Welcome to our GTA Online guide, your ultimate wiki and walkthrough resource for Rockstar's enormous open world multiplayer game. In our GTA 5 PS5 review, we awarded the release an 8/10 and concluded there's "nothing quite like the crime caper". In this guide, we'll help you get your Los...
News Sell Psychedelics in GTA Online's Los Santos Drug Wars Update on PS5, PS4
Start a new business enterprise with Nervous Ron
GTA Online will be getting jacked with a new dose of story content next week, as the Los Santos Drug Wars descend on PS5 and PS4. Teased last week alongside a slew of gameplay improvements – including raytracing – the new content will see you travel to Blaine County to team up with Nervous Ron and...
News GTA 5, GTA Online Getting Graphics Upgrade in PS5 Patch
Shark Cards get juiced, too
Los Santos will look lovelier than ever before later this month, as Rockstar adds raytraced reflections to the Fidelity Mode of Grand Theft Auto 5’s sumptuous PS5 remaster. This feature will be available across the single player campaign and multiplayer mode GTA Online, which is also getting a raft of quality of life...
News We Were Denied a Grand Theft Auto Movie Starring Eminem, Proof the Earth Is a Cold, Dead Place
This looks like a job for me
In what should be considered definitive proof we live in the objectively worst timeline, Rockstar actually rejected a pitch for a Grand Theft Auto movie starring none other than Marshall Mathers, Eminem himself. Worse, it was during the height of Slim Shady's powers, in 2001, fresh off the success of both the...
News Take-Two Reiterates GTA 6 Leak 'Won't Have Any Influence on Development'
Plus, GTA 5 speeds past 170 million units sold
Following the high-profile leak of more than an hour of still-in-development GTA 6 footage, developer Rockstar vowed the incident would not affect development and that the team would exceed players' expectations. Parent company Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has reiterated this stance during an earnings...
Guide GTA Vice City Definitive Edition: All Cheats
All cheat codes for GTA Vice City Definitive Edition
Looking for all cheats for GTA Vice City Definitive Edition in the GTA Trilogy? Rockstar's cult classic gives you the keys to an 80s open world, and just like any Grand Theft Auto game, the release is packed full of cheat codes for you to fool around with. As part of our GTA Trilogy guide
News 17-Year-Old GTA 6 Hacker Reportedly Arrested in London, UK
Police issue statement
Update: The City of London Police has confirmed that it's arrested a 17-year-old on suspicion of hacking. It's being reported that this is (one of) the same individual(s) behind the recent Rockstar incident. The individual is currently in police custody. Original Story: While developer
News GTA 6 Leak Won't Disrupt Development, Rockstar Vows to Exceed Expectations
"We'll introduce new game when we're ready"
As you’ve no doubt already seen, an unprecedented leak over the weekend exposed an enormous amount of confidential footage from GTA 6 in frankly staggering fashion. Game developers from all around the globe, including Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, have already spoken out in support of developer...
News Gigantic GTA 6 Leak Confirmed Real as Devs Show Support for Rockstar
"Everyone loses"
Update: Rockstar itself has now also commented on the leak. Read more through the link. Original Story: In case you somehow missed it, GTA 6 was unceremoniously leaked to the public with about 90 video clips of early, mid-development footage. There was some question as to whether this was the real deal or an extremely elaborate...
Rumour Massive GTA 6 Leak Posts 90 Videos Online
Take Two copyright strikes footage from YouTube
Update: Take Two has had the GTA 6 videos removed from YouTube. As you'd expect, however, multiple mirrors of the footage already exist. Unfortunately for the team at Rockstar, the Internet does not forget. Original Story: A plethora of footage claiming to be early, work-in-progress clips of Grand...
News New Cayo Perico Race Events Wave the Chequered Flag in GTA Online on PS5, PS4
El Rubio's raceway
Until today, GTA Online’s tropical Cayo Perico Island had been solely leveraged for heists – until now. As part of the latest GTA Online Weekly Update, developer Rockstar has added an entire new series of races all around the idyllic resort – and there’s double GTA$ and RP rewards up
News GTA 5 PS5 Players Are Buying More Shark Cards Than Those on PS4
Free willy
If you’re a PS5 owner playing the upgraded GTA 5 on your new console, you’re part of the problem. As part of an earnings call, Rockstar’s overlord Take-Two revealed that new-gen owners are “monetising at a rate 36 per cent higher than players on the previous generation” in GTA Online. In other words: new console owners are...
News GTA 6 Will Set 'Creative Benchmarks' for All Entertainment
Puff your chest out
At some point, you have to wonder how Rockstar can possibly follow GTA 5. Take a step back and think about this for a second: the fifth instalment has sold 170 million copies – the pressure to improve upon that must be unfathomable. Nevertheless, we know the label is effectively all hands on deck right now, with rumours of a...
News You're All Wrong! GTA 6 Won't Have the Franchise's First Female Protagonist
It's been done before
Earlier this week, we got our first insight into the development of GTA 6. The game – due out in a couple of years thanks to a more tolerable working culture at developer Rockstar – will apparently plot a Bonnie & Clyde-style story in modern Miami, marking the franchise’s “first female protagonist”. Except it’s...
News GTA 6 Has a Female Protagonist, New Report Claims
Will be a second playable character
Grand Theft Auto 6 will have two playable characters, one of which is a female of Latina origin, a new Bloomberg report claims. Penned by Jason Schreier, the game's story is said to be influenced by bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. Rockstar is being careful not to "punch down" to marginalized groups of society as...
News GTA Online's Next Story Update Sees Gas Prices Soar in Los Santos
All playable in Invite Only sessions
Rockstar promised we’d get word of a major GTA Online update soon, and here it is: The Criminal Enterprises is coming on 26th July. For the most part this is promising new activities for existing business owners, and some quality of life improvements – like the ability to finally run y
News GTA Online Dialling Down the Effectiveness of the Oppressor Mk 2, Increasing GTA$ Payouts
Finally allowing Sell Missions in Invite Only lobbies
If you’ve ever played GTA Online, then you’ll know all about the Oppressor Mk 2. The frighteningly mobile flying motorcycle, complete with homing missiles, has been a source of frustration in Los Santos for years – but it’ll be getting nerfed as part of an impending update. In fact,...
News GTA 6 Is Rockstar's Focus as Red Dead Redemption, GTA 4 Remasters Reportedly Shelved
Kotaku corroborates reports
Rockstar has put development of remasters of Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto IV on ice according to a new report from Kotaku. This is so the developer can put all of its efforts into Grand Theft Auto 6. Rumours of such a move had been swirling over the past couple of days because of a
News GTA 5 on PS5 Sells Even Better Than Expected
Tiny Tina, WWE also do well
Grand Theft Auto V is such a big sales juggernaut that it's now even outpacing the sales estimates of publisher Take-Two. Relating to the new current-gen version (PS5 and Xbox Series X|S) specifically, EVP of finance Hannah Sage told GamesIndustry.biz it "exceeded expectations". However, the site also notes that overall,...
News GTA 5 Patch 1.56 Further Improves PS5 Loading Times, Here Are All the Patch Notes
Motion blur slider added to PS5
GTA 5 may be nearing its tenth anniversary (!!!), but Rockstar is continuing to optimise the title. A new update for the PlayStation 5 and PS4 has deployed this week, and it bundles in a number of optimisations and improvements, including a motion blur slider on Sony’s new-gen console and even faster loading times...
News GTA 5 PS5 Will Lift a Physical Release This Month
For those who prefer boxes
The excellent next-gen version of GTA 5, already available digitally at a discounted price, will hot-wire a retail release from 12th April. Rockstar confirmed the news in its weekly GTA Online update, so all those of you who prefer physical games will be able to snap that up, either from the Rockstar Store or selected...
News GTA Online Adding Paid, Monthly Subscription on PS5
Inspired by the GTA$
Like many of its live service peers – including the likes of Fortnite and Minecraft – the ever-popular GTA Online is getting an optional monthly subscription. Imaginatively entitled GTA+, the membership – which will be exclusive to the new-gen version of the game, including PlayStation 5 – will cost $5.99 per month, and...
News GTA 5 Hotwires PS5 Specific Features Trailers
Promo work
Sony’s big money marketing deal with GTA 5 has prompted several PlayStation 5 specific trailers to be published, each delving into some of the new-gen improvements of Rockstar’s long-running open world game. The first of the series spotlights near-instant loading, and showcases a vehicle from Hao’s Special Works, which is a new mod...
