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News GTA 6 Leaks Allegedly Go Viral on Social Media Days Prior to Full Reveal
So close
A few seconds of GTA 6 footage have apparently appeared on social media, days prior to the game’s big unveiling. The images – which we won’t share here for obvious reasons – show a city skyline which matches up with some of the buildings glimpsed in previous leaks. While this doesn’t outright confirm its validity, it’s one of...
News As GTA 6 Enthusiasm Mounts, GTA Online Is Getting a New Business
Scrappers
A large part of GTA Online’s ongoing fun is its inclusion of various illicit businesses you can run in order to earn money to fuel your Los Santos lifestyle. But while all eyes will be fixed on the announcement of GTA 6 this month, Rockstar isn’t planning to neglect its decade old sandbox – in fact, it’s plotting a new update this...
Random Yes, Netflix Really Is Getting GTA for Christmas
The most wonderful time of the year
We reported earlier in the year that Netflix had big-brain ideas for the oft-overlooked gaming arm of its business, and here’s the bombshell: the streaming subscription will add all three entries from Rockstar’s remastered GTA Trilogy on 14th December. While not strictly PlayStation news in the purest sense,...
News GTA 6 Will Not Be Delayed if Voice Actors Eventually Strike
Sequel "completely protected" whatever the outcome
With much of Hollywood out of action and SAG-AFTRA video game actors negotiating with publishers over a new union contract, the legitimate possibility of a voice actor strike continues to loom. But it’s not something that’s keeping Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick awake at night, as he confirmed...
Poll Do You Think GTA 6 Will Release on PS4?
Please god no
Well, it's finally happening. The rumours can finally end, the rabid fans can finally know peace, and we can all just sit down and patiently await the Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal trailer, which has been confirmed to drop at some point in December. But now that Rockstar's massively anticipated project is about to step out from the...
News GTA 6 Could Be Announced Later This Week for PS5
Well, we're waiting
The most anticipated game in eons could be announced later this week, as Bloomberg reports that Rockstar is plotting an imminent reveal of GTA 6. According to reliable journalist Jason Schreier, citing sources familiar with the publisher’s plans, a trailer will follow in early December to celebrate the company’s 25th...
News GTA 6's Innovative PS5 Animation Engine Promises to Be Highly Dynamic and Realistic
Patent teases potential tech
Rockstar rarely ever rests on its laurels from project to project, and considering it’s been over ten years since GTA 5, we can surely expect GTA 6 to be a revolutionary experience. But while the label is keeping its cards close to its chest regarding the project, one eagle-eyed Reddit user has discovered a patent...
News A Fake GTA 6 Age Rating Had Fans Salivating Over a PS5 Release Date
But it's not real
The wait for an official update on GTA 6’s release date goes on, as fans thought they may have stumbled upon some top-secret information earlier this month. PCGamesN discovered an age rating for the hotly anticipated open world game on the Australian Classifications Board’s website, but it’s since learned that this wasn’t...
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...
News GTA 6 Release Window Seemingly Narrowed Down to Fiscal Year 2024
It's all adding up
Take Two, the mega publisher behind Rockstar, is expecting big revenue between April 2024 and March 2025 — otherwise known as fiscal year 2024. This is according to the company's latest earnings call, as reported by Stephen Totilo — who goes on to make the fair point that this is probably when Take Two expects Grand Theft Auto...
News Accused GTA 6 Leaker Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial by Psychiatrists
Faces 12 charges for various computing no-nos
In one of the biggest bombshell moments of this generation thus far – and there’s been no shortage of them overall – a catastrophic leak saw dozens of work-in-progress GTA 6 videos and screenshots emerge online. Now the accused perpetrator of that crime, 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj, has been deemed...
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 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 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...
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 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...
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 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 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 6 Needs to Exceed Players' Expectations, Rockstar Admits
"It needs to be the best it can possibly be"
It’s been almost a decade since GTA 5, and developer Rockstar is perhaps beginning to feel the pinch. The studio – which admitted this week it’s effectively abandoning Red Dead Online – said that it understands “more than ever the need to exceed players’ expectations and for [GTA 6] to be the...
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 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...
News GTA 5 PS5 Promos Can Only Be Claimed on a Console
No stock, no deal
Struggling to find PS5 stock but hoping to snag a free copy of GTA Online and take advantage of the introductory offer for GTA 5? Sorry, you can’t. As has been pointed out by a number of readers, you’ll need to physically own a PlayStation 5 console to download your free copy of GTA Online and purchase the single player...
Review GTA 5 (PS5) - Rockstar's Los Santos Is Still One of the Best Open Worlds Ever Assembled
Four stars
It’s staggering to think that GTA 5 got its start on the PlayStation 3. Even today, almost a decade since it first debuted, Los Santos feels more lived in than virtually any other open world. In fact, compared to its urban contemporaries, like Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City, it’s startling just how believable the Hollywood-inspired...
News GTA Online to Nerf Los Santos' Deadliest Vehicles
Oppressed
With the release of GTA 5 and, by extension, GTA Online on the PlayStation 5 this week, players are in a particularly irritable mood. While we found the community had mellowed a lot over the last few years on the PS4, we’re getting blown to pieces within seconds while minding our own business in Los Santos right now. We wouldn’t...
Guide GTA 5 Cheats: All Cheat Codes in Grand Theft Auto 5
Criminal code
What GTA 5 cheats are in Grand Theft Auto 5? Cheat codes are sadly a bit of a rarity in this day and age. There was a time when virtually every game under the sun launched alongside a list of convoluted button prompts allowing you to unlock secret costumes, exciting items, and, if you were really lucky, brand new gameplay mechanics...
Guide GTA Online: How to Upgrade Cars at Hao's Special Works
Unlock some impressive PS5 tuning improvements
Looking for how to upgrade cars at Hao's Special Works in GTA Online? Hao's Special Works, or HSW, is a new addition to the LS Car Meet which allows you to upgrade select cars with special HSW Tuning Upgrades that are exclusive to the new-gen version of the game, including the PS5. As part of our
Hands On Is GTA 5 PS5 Worth It?
One night in Los Santos
Aw sh*t, here we go again! Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the greatest selling games of all time, shifting over 160 million copies in the decade or so since it debuted. First released on the PlayStation 3 in 2013, the game was a mainstay on software sales charts throughout the entire PS4 generation, and now it’s launched on...
Guide GTA Online: Best Career Builder Business, Vehicles, and Weapons to Pick
Start your criminal empire the right way
Looking for the best Career Builder business, vehicles, and weapons to pick in GTA Online? GTA 5's multiplayer now includes a revamped onboarding experience called the Career Builder. As part of our GTA Online guide, we're going to make some recommendations on the best Career Builder business, vehicles, and...
Guide GTA Online: How to Transfer Your Character from PS4 to PS5
Migrate your GTA Online profile from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5
Are you wondering how to transfer your character from PS4 to PS5 in GTA Online? If you've spent the past near-decade building your criminal empire in Los Santos, then you may be curious how to transfer your character from PS4 to PS5. It's worth noting that this is different from How...
Guide GTA Online: How to Start The Contract
Solve celebrity issues with Franklin's new agency
Looking for how to start The Contract in GTA Online? The latest addition to GTA 5's online multiplayer mode sees you working alongside single player protagonist Franklin Clinton, helping him to establish his new "celebrity solutions agency". The word on the street is that Dr. Dre's lost his phone and...
