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News Lowriders: Custom Classics Update Bounces into GTA Online Today
Adds three new cars and Sumo adversary mode
Grand Theft Auto Online, despite being over two years old, is still getting regular free updates, and this month isn't any different – the Lowriders: Custom Classics update adds plenty of new content to Rockstar's online world, including new cars, clothes, weapons, and a new mode. The all-new Dundreary...
News Will Red Dead Redemption 2 Be Announced at E3 2016?
BioShock? Borderlands? Take Two's going big
Take Two, the company in charge of 2K Games and Rockstar, has hinted that it will appear at E3 2016 in a "big way". Strauss Zelnick, the organisation's head honcho, teased the tidbit in the latest issue of MCV, stopping short of revealing which titles it will have on display. It currently has three games...
News Grand Theft Auto Veteran Exits Rockstar North
Leslie Benzies departs Scottish studio
Rockstar North, the uber-secretive Edinburgh-based developer behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, is going through a bit of a shake-up at the minute. Leslie Benzies, one of the key figures behind the aforementioned sandbox series, has departed the company after over 15 years of service. He originally joined...
Rumour Could Max Payne Dive onto PS4?
It's about (bullet) time
After re-releasing eight PlayStation 2 games on the PlayStation 4 last week, it seems that Sony isn't going to stop digging up old classics and giving them a new lease of life. On the ESRB website, it appears that Remedy's excellent shooter Max Payne could be one of those games being brought to the platform, with R
News Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hijacks PS3 with Trophies
Daylight robbery
Well, well, well. While we all wait eagerly for Sony to officially announce PlayStation 2 titles for the PlayStation 4, it looks like Rockstar has decided to remain its contrary self – by finally deciding to bring its updated version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to the… Well, PlayStation 3. You may remember a
News Grand Theft Auto Online: Lowriders Pimps Your PS4 Next Week
Baller
Grand Theft Auto Online sports a pretty self-contained community these days, which we carelessly forget about at times. While we'd have probably preferred Rockstar Games to expand Los Santos with new single player content, it seems that supporting its multiplayer component has become a priority. And thus, Grand Theft Auto Online: Lowriders is...
News There's a BBC Drama About Grand Theft Auto
And it's got Harry Potter in it
BBC dramas tend to go one of two ways: they're either really good like Sherlock or awful like The Gamechangers appears to be. This forthcoming feature starring Daniel Radcliffe promises to plot the rise of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games, with Harry Potter himself filling the role of London-born chief Sam...
News Red Dead Redemption Gallops to 14 Million Sales
Gold rush
Red Dead Redemption may be as old as the hills, but the PlayStation 3 title continues to sell. Released all the way back in 2010, publisher Take-Two has announced that the Rockstar San Diego developed escapade has just crossed the 14 million units milestone. These are shipped numbers, but are still outrageously impressive. A sequel has...
News Grand Theft Auto V Has Made More Bank Than You Can Imagine
Sequel surpasses 54 million sales
Franklin, Michael, and Trevor should jack in their thug lives and learn to become game developers instead – after all, Grand Theft Auto V proves that there's more money in this industry anyway. As revealed by Rockstar's parent company Take-Two during a financial call overnight, the fifth instalment in its sandbox...
News PS4, PS3 Versions of Grand Theft Auto V Get a New Radio Station in July
The Lab
The Lab, a Grand Theft Auto V radio station that was PC exclusive, is coming to consoles next month. It consists of songs from the game's original soundtrack, but remixed and repurposed by a slew of musicians from a variety of genres. Basically, if you've ever wanted Freddie Gibbs and Wavves on the same station, this is for you. We're big...
News Grand Theft Auto Online Expands with Slick New Content on PS4, PS3
Ill as dope
While it's clear that Rockstar Games could charge for additional content in Grand Theft Auto Online, it's adopted a different model entirely, flogging optional Shark Cards for those who want them, while allowing everyone else to earn its riches of content for free. And starting next week, Los Santos will be taking delivery of a brand new...
News Red Dead Redemption Studio Targeting State of the Art PS4 Graphics
Straight to the Wild, Wild West
It's been a whopping five years since John Marston... Well, yeah, we won't spoil what happens – but you really should have played Red Dead Redemption by now. A sequel from Rockstar San Diego has always seemed likely, and fortunately, it looks like the studio's really knuckling down now with its next release...
News Rockstar Games Is Suing the BBC Over a TV Drama About Grand Theft Auto
Game changer
BBC's planned television drama, currently titled Game Changer, is about the controversy surrounding Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series. The plot follows the long dispute between Sam Houser, Rockstar's president, and Jack Thompson, the outspoken lawyer and critic who says that video games cause real world violence. Rockstar has now...
News Take-Two CEO Denies That There Were Ever Plans for GTA V to Get Single Player DLC
But the executive apparently misspoke
So, remember back when Rockstar Games said that Grand Theft Auto V would be getting some story-based DLC? Yeah, like a super long time ago? Turns out that never happened. Crazy, right? But when Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick was asked about any upcoming content in a recent earnings call, he seemed a bit dazed,...
News Grand Theft Auto V Has Sold Five Million Units in the UK
Crime wave
We wonder how many hours UK gamers have spent hammering the X button to sprint in Grand Theft Auto V – it's got to be quite a lot, right? We may have reservations about the controls in Rockstar Games' open world opus, but there's no denying the title's overall quality – it's a stunning release that puts almost all other sandboxes to...
News Time for Your Close Up! Grand Theft Auto V's Video Editor Expanding to PS4
You're a tiger
You may have been jealously eyeing the various video clips and machinima that PC players have been creating for Grand Theft Auto V, and pondering whether you'll ever be able to join the fun. The good news, then, is that Rockstar Games is busy beavering away on a simplified version of the movie editing suite for the PlayStation 4 –...
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Now Looks Like It's Supposed To
Fixed you up
Cut the guys at Rockstar some slack: Grand Theft Auto V is arguably one of the most complex releases on the PlayStation 4, so it's easy to imagine how it could have accidentally turned off the odd graphical effect or two. And that's exactly what it did last week, resulting in an outpouring of irritation from people who understand the...
News Grand Theft Auto V's Graphics Haven't Been Intentionally Downgraded on PS4
It's just a bug
Alright, who mucked up Grand Theft Auto V's graphics? There'll be some nervous glances at Rockstar North today, as the developer has admitted that this week's "downgrade" story is actually due to a bug. Eagle eyed Reddit users were in uproar a few days ago when it emerged that the title's latest patch had stripped back several visual...
News Grand Theft Auto V's Online Heists May Steal a Chunk of Your PS4's Hard Drive Space
Trophies also out for anticipated update
Rockstar's being predictably cagey with regards to Grand Theft Auto V's forthcoming online Heists, so we're working with a bit of speculation this evening. Nevertheless, reports are rampant that the free update – due out on 10th March on the PlayStation 4 – will weigh in at around 4.8GB on the Xbox One,...
News Grand Theft Auto V's Online Mode Is Getting More Than Just Heists
Come out to play
Grand Theft Auto V's forthcoming Heists update will add more than just multi-layered missions to the online component of Rockstar Games' incredibly popular open world. The developer has announced that three new competitive playlists will be added to the release, which will unlock as you progress through the abovementioned...
News Rockstar Keeping Red Dead Redemption PS4 Holstered for Now, Reckons Pachter
Studio won't jump the gun
Outspoken industry analyst Michael Pachter doesn't believe that you'll be seeing a new Red Dead Redemption release on the PlayStation 4 anytime soon, despite publishing overlord Take Two's incessant hints. Speaking with Gaming Bolt, he suggested that developer Rockstar Games would have announce
News Grand Theft Auto V's Online Heists Finally Make a Getaway Next Month
Dollar bills, y'all
After what seems like an absolute eternity, Rockstar Games has finally revealed a – hopefully – concrete release date for Grand Theft Auto V's highly anticipated online heists. Grand Theft Auto Online's most ambitious project yet will launch next month, on 10th March. The four player co-op activities promise to be thrilling...
News Just the 45 Million Units Sold for Grand Theft Auto V Now
Taking BAWSAQ by storm
Publishers must look at Grand Theft Auto V and weep, as the blockbuster sandbox game has now sold an absolutely staggering 45 million units. To be clear: this statistic is accurate as of 31st December, and represents the number of copies offloaded to stores, not necessarily in consumers' homes. Of course, it's still a...
News UK Sales Charts: Grand Theft Auto V Sits Pretty at Summit
Déjà vu
Zzzzz. Forget about the Green Day song Wake Me Up When September Ends, we're writing a new version, and it's called Wake Me Up When the UK Sales Charts Change. There are no surprises in this week's update, with Grand Theft Auto V, FIFA 15, and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare all finishing at the top. Ubisoft trio Far Cry 4, The Crew, and...
News Hopefully This Canis Canem Edit Video Will Bully Rockstar into a PS4 Sequel
Graphic design student schools the pros
While the mere prospect of going back to school is enough to give us nightmares, we could handle one more term if it meant that we got a Bully sequel. Rockstar's scholastic satire may not have been a commercial smash, but it offered a scathing commentary on dorm room life – and if this video by graphic...
News UK Sales Charts: Grand Theft Auto V Holds Up Top Spot
Zzz
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has fallen from its perch atop the UK sales charts, with Grand Theft Auto V throwing it from its throne. Rockstar Games' sublime sandbox has enjoyed a resurgence of late due to the release of its PlayStation 4 port, and is likely to maintain momentum later in the month when the PC version is unleashed. To be...
News Christmas Will Last Longer in Grand Theft Auto Online on PS4, PS3
The most wonderful time of the year
We hope that you enjoyed it, because Christmas is now more or less over for another year. While there's still New Year to look forward to, though, Rockstar Games is prolonging the seasonal spirit in Grand Theft Auto Online due to the ongoing PlayStation Network outage on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. Aw,...
News Grand Theft Auto V Says Happy Holidays with Festive Surprise on PS4, PS3
Seasonal fear
Christmas is a time of coming together, sharing, and... Well, shooting each other in the face if Grand Theft Auto V’s recently released ‘Festive Surprise’ is anything to go by. Available now for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, developer Rockstar Games’ surprise seasonal update adds a bunch of wintery content to multiplayer...
News Grand Theft Auto V's Online Heists Infiltrate PS4, PS3 in Early 2015
The crew
The heists were the undeniable highlight of Grand Theft Auto V’s single player campaign, so it’s little surprise that Los Santos citizens have been screaming for this feature to make the jump into multiplayer. Fortunately, Rockstar Games has finally announced that the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto Online missions will launch in...
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Cell Phone Cheat Lets You See Los Santos in Slow Motion
Michael in molasses
If you’re finding life in Los Santos a little fast paced, then Rockstar Games has embedded a brand new cheat in Grand Theft Auto V’s recent PlayStation 4 re-release which will allow you to slow things down. Much like the Skyfall secret, dialling the number 1-999-756-966 (or 1-999-SLO-WMO) will bring the shady city to its...
News Rockstar Chops Grand Theft Auto V Gear Prices for Black Friday
Cut and shut
Black Friday may be mainly about loss leaders, late nights, and bar room-esque brawls, but Rockstar Games is aiming to keep things both simple and civil on its online store. A bit of a hidden treasure, the developer’s personal plaza includes various pieces of gaming-inspired gear, from a Gr
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Scores Stealth Stability Patch
More stable than Trevor
Rockstar Games is pushing out patches for Grand Theft Auto V at a record setting pace. Despite the recently released PlayStation 4 remaster launching in a reasonably solid state, the developer has been battling some connectivity mishaps in its online component. It’s no surprise, then, that this latest update deals with...
News Arrange a Heist to Snatch This Personalised Grand Theft Auto V PS4
Weazel Newsflash
You may want to give your buddy Lester Crest a call, as you’ve got a heist to arrange. No, you’re not going bank robbing this time – instead, you’re infiltrating Rockstar Games’ head office in order to snatch one of these custom PlayStation 4 consoles. Constructed as part of a giveaway on the developer’s official...
Review Grand Theft Auto V (PlayStation 4)
It's Always Sunny in Los Santos
A return trip to Los Santos on the PlayStation 4 was inevitable, given Grand Theft Auto V's gigantic success on Sony's previous home console. An open world with real attitude, the game's sprawling American state is still its greatest achievement – it's full of life, it's incredibly dynamic, and it just feels like...
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4's First Cell Phone Cheat Is Pretty Silly
Let the sky fall
Remember when cheat codes were all the rage? We used to enjoy flipping through those free books that came with magazines, pondering how we could get even more life out of our collection of games. Unfortunately, since the advent of the PlayStation 3, this archaic inclusion seems to have gone out of fashion a little – but Grand...
News UK Sales Charts: Grand Theft Auto V Is Britain's Best-Selling Game Ever
Crime and party time
Chart-Track has opted to lump sales of Grand Theft Auto V’s recently released next-gen version in with its last-gen predecessor, making it Britain’s best-selling game of all time. The previous record was held by Call of Duty: Black Ops, but seeing as Rockstar Games’ criminal opus is going to continue moving units for a...
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Patch Deployed to Address Online Connectivity Errors
Quick fix
Rockstar Games has launched a brand new patch for the PlayStation 4 port of Grand Theft Auto V, which is designed to fix “intermittent online connectivity errors”. The update is available now, and weighs in at approximately 300MB. It should download automatically if you leave your system in Rest Mode. There are more details on how to...
News Grand Theft Auto V Has More, Er, Grass on PlayStation 4
Mow way
What happens when format face-offs get really specific? Digital Foundry starts comparing the density of grass in a game, that’s what. Grand Theft Auto V was thought to be largely identical on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but new evidence shows that Sony’s system has been drizzled with an extra drop of Miracle-Gro, as it’s capable of...
News You Can Poop on People in Grand Theft Auto V on PS4
Have you got the gull?
Rockstar Games, you wily bunch. We thought that we knew everything that there was to know about Grand Theft Auto V on the PlayStation 4, but the developer couldn’t resist cramming in one last secret feature. Throughout the city of Los Santos, you’ll now encounter peyote plants, which cause the cast to hallucinate when...
First Impressions Coming Home to Grand Theft Auto V on PS4
The city of sinners
There’s nothing quite like coming home – or so they say. In truth, this editor has spent the last couple of decades living in the exact same sleepy city, so wouldn’t really know what it’s like to return after several years away – but we imagine that it’s a little like playing Grand Theft Auto V on the PlayStation 4...
News You'll Be Cruising Around Los Santos to These New Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Songs
Leave the radio playin'
Yesterday, we brought you a partial list of all of the new songs included in Grand Theft Auto V on the PlayStation 4 – but you didn’t think that we’d pass on the opportunity to publish the full soundtrack, did you? As part of our ongoing re-release milking session – hey, you keep clicking on these stories – we’ve...
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Patch Problems Preventing Online Access
CE-32937-4 causing headaches
Picture the scene: you’ve just picked up Grand Theft Auto V on the PlayStation 4, and you’re ready to play – but the release’s monstrous day one patch just won’t download. This is what's happening right now, as we’ve just taken our copy of the title for a test drive, and have been confronted with an error...
News Oops, GTA V Online Transfers Won't Work if You've Not Logged in Since 2013
Here we go again
Remember when AAA games released totally bug free? No, neither do we. The latest addition to this dubious trend is the next-gen rerelease of Grand Theft Auto V, which won't let players transfer online characters from their last-gen games. Specifically, the much-touted feature, which would even accept transfers from the Xbox 360...
News What New Songs Are in Grand Theft Auto V on PlayStation 4?
Not a word from your lips
You can’t have a Grand Theft Auto game without a licensed soundtrack. While it’s the part of the package that often gets overlooked, it’s usually the icing on the cake as far as we’re concerned – after all, we daresay that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City got a few of the younger among you into eighties music in the...
Round Up Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Reviews Extort Super High Scores
Franklin amazing
We already know that Grand Theft Auto V is amazing, so there was never any real danger of it deploying on the PlayStation 4 with poor review scores – unless, of course, it winded up being broken like every other major next-gen launch of late. Fortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the case, as critics are already pinning high...
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Pre-Load Live, but Prompting Problems
Not-so-smooth sailing
Grand Theft Auto V’s pre-load has gone live on the PlayStation 4 prior to the re-release’s launch next week, but a handful of users are complaining about problems tied to the early download. Apparently, for some, the file is prompting error codes ‘CE-37700-7’ or ‘CE-36249-4’, though we can’t seem to find a...
News Grand Theft Auto V PS4's Launch Patch Will Steal a Load of Your Bandwidth
Hand it over
Very few retailers seem to abide by street dates these days, so it’s no surprise to see Grand Theft Auto V’s next-gen port already being streamed around the web. This early access means that information about the game is also beginning to trickle out – including details about the size of its day one patch. According to an image...
News Grand Theft Auto V Heists to Raid PS4, PS3 Following Next-Gen Launch
Daylight robbery
Well, it may have taken an incredible seven months, but Grand Theft Auto V’s online multiplayer mode will finally be getting its hotly anticipated Heists shortly after the title’s PlayStation 4 release. Don’t worry if you’re sticking with the PlayStation 3 version of the game, as both of Sony’s systems will be furnished...
News This Grand Theft Auto V PS4 Trailer Will Sell You on the Sandbox Again
Red carpet release
Rockstar Games should probably be tried for extortion on the basis of this Grand Theft Auto V video – after all, it’s convinced us to double dip on the title’s PlayStation 4 re-release. The company always manages to cut a good trailer, but with sweeping vehicle shots and some solid sound bites, this clip will practically...
Poll Will You Be Returning to Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V on PS4?
Baby, please come home
The year of the re-release has turned into an inevitable reality. This smug editor predicted that we’d be seeing plenty of ports during the PlayStation 4’s first year on store shelves, and between Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Metro: Redux,
