Tag: Rockstar Games
News Developers Not Nailing Down Release Dates Due to GTA 6 Launch Window
They want to stay "far, far away" from GTA 6
Developers aren't willing to commit to release dates that could clash with the Fall 2025 launch window GTA 6 has set up for itself, a new Bloomberg report claims. The outlet states (via Jason Schreier) teams want to wait as long as possible to see whether the next Rockstar game does indeed release at the...
Random Impatience for GTA 6 Reaches New Heights with Grand Taking Ages on PS Store
Parodying a parody
Grand Theft Auto 6 is on its way, but while Rockstar Games takes its sweet time with 2025's hottest game, anticipation and impatience have reached such fevered heights that it's bleeding onto the PS Store. What does that mean? Well, try looking up Grand Taking Ages VI, a recently listed game on Sony's digital storefront that...
News Remedy Is Aiming for Excellence with Max Payne Remake
Rockstar an "esteemed partner"
Remedy Entertainment has a fair number of projects on the go, and one we've yet to hear much about is its Max Payne 1 and 2 remake. Announced in 2022, the developer is bringing back the first two entries in the action shooter series. While publishing and marketing will be handled by Rockstar Games — which still owns...
News PS5 Pro Probably Won't Run GTA 6 at 4K 60FPS, Tech Expert Claims
Digital Foundry pours cold water
For months now, it's been speculated and theorised how the PS5 Pro will really start to justify its power (and price) once GTA 6 lands next year. As the biggest game of the generation releases, people will be looking to experience it in the best possible way. It still sounds like the PS5 Pro will be the console...
News Bully Receives New Taiwanese Rating for PS5, PS4 Ahead of Imminent GTA+ Release
School's in
Rockstar's beloved boarding school adventure Bully has been awarded fresh ratings in Taiwan. With new ratings for numerous modern platforms, including PS5 and PS4, they've sparked conversation online about what they could possibly be for. While a remaster or remake would be very welcome, it's much more likely these ratings are referring...
News Sony Seemingly Leaks PC Port for Red Dead Redemption in PS Store Listing
Okay then
News can be sourced from practically anywhere, but it's not too often that one gaming platform will leak information about another. Today, though, Sony's digital storefront PS Store appears to have revealed that Rockstar Games is planning to bring Red Dead Redemption to PC at long last. Earlier today, the PS Store page for Red Dead...
News GTA 6 Not Affected by Current Union Strike Over AI Issues
Not a struck game according to SAG-AFTRA
Next year's Grand Theft Auto 6 won't be impacted by the decision to call a SAG-AFTRA union strike — effective today — over concerns surrounding AI replacing video game performers, like voice actors. Confirming to Kotaku, a spokesperson for the publishers included in negotiations said GTA 6 "is exempt"...
News Classic GTA Game Now Part of PS Plus Extra on PS5, PS4
Another bonus from Days of Play
As the Days of Play initiative from Sony continues, so too do the bonus game additions for PS Plus Extra. Next in line is GTA: San Andreas - Definitive Edition on PS5 and PS4, which is available to download now for all active members. The game is playable on the service for as long as it remains part of the...
News GTA 6 PS5 Release Window Narrowed to Fall 2025
Aiming for September-November next year
Take-Two has announced in its financial earnings for the end of Fiscal Year 2023 that Grand Theft Auto 6 will release for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S during the Fall of calendar year 2025. Therefore, the open worlder from Rockstar Games could release anywhere between September and November of next year. After...
News Rockstar's GTA+ Membership Putting Its Price Up
As new offers and games are bundled in
Rockstar Games has announced it's joining EA in raising the price of its GTA+ subscription service, from £4.99 / $5.99 per month to £6.99 / $7.99. Representing a 40 per cent increase in the UK, new users will immediately be charged the new price while existing members will begin paying extra from 11th June...
News L.A. Noire, Bully Both Coming to GTA+ Subscription Service This Year
Plus extra cash for GTA Online players
Rockstar has announced its GTA+ subscription service will be further bolstered later this year with the inclusion of L.A. Noire and Bully. The £4.99 / $5.99 per month membership is primarily for GTA Online players, handing them more cash and bonus items. However, with the PS4 version of the original Red Dead...
News Red Dead Redemption Is Now Included with Subscription Service GTA+
Darn tootin'
Good news, everyone — our favourite subscription service has recently received a brand new perk. That's right: GTA+ now includes Red Dead Redemption, John Marston's tragic Western tale, alongside the other games in the collection. In all seriousness, we have a suspicion not everyone will know what GTA+ is, so let's go through it...
Rumour GTA 6 Could Slip as Far Back as 2026 Due to Development Issues
Spring 2025 is the target right now
Rockstar Games could be forced to delay GTA 6 as far back as 2026 if production problems continue due to a mandate forcing remote workers to return to the developer's physical offices. A new Kotaku report says employees are struggling with the "unwanted return-to-office mandate", which could invite crunch. Having...
News The First Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Patch in Over a Year Isn't What You're Hoping For
But it does fix a stable glitch
With more than 61 million copies sold, Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the best-selling titles of all time, but good luck getting it to run on your PS5 any better than the resolution and frame rate designed for its original PS4 edition. For years now, fans have been begging Rockstar to give the open worlder an update...
News GTA 6 Trailer Pulls 90 Million Views in 24 Hours, Sets New World Records
Most viewed video game reveal in 24 hours
The official GTA 6 trailer upload from Rockstar Games is sitting at over 110 million views at the time of writing, and it's set multiple new world records along the way. Guinness World Records has officially recognised three world records set by the GTA 6 trailer, covering its first 24 hours of availability,...
News Arthur Morgan Actor 'Certain' Rockstar Will Make Red Dead Redemption 3 Someday
One last job
While the long-awaited reveal of Grand Theft Auto VI is the big Rockstar story of the week, some select comments from Arthur Morgan actor Roger Clarke have given us hope for a return to the world of Red Dead Redemption. All eyes were on the GTA VI reveal yesterday, in
News GTA 6 Skips Last-Gen PS4 Version for PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Phew!
And now you can breathe a sigh of relief: if the 2025 release window did not make it obvious enough, GTA 6 will be a current-gen-only game. It's not getting a PS4 version; the game is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at launch. That also means it's not releasing on PC day and date with the console versions. In a press release from Take-Two,...
News GTA 6 Trailer Out Now, 2025 Release Window Revealed
Leaked details all confirmed to be real
Update: Just minutes after the trailer leaked, Rockstar Games has gone and officially posted the trailer itself. So, here it is: GTA 6 releases in 2025. Catch the reveal trailer above. <related ids="159214"> Original article: Ahead of one of the biggest gaming trailer drops of the PS5 generation, the...
News GTA 6 Trailer Debuts on Tuesday, 5th December
Get all the reveal times here
Rockstar Games has revealed the debut GTA 6 trailer will be posted online on Tuesday, 5th December 2023 at 9am ET / 6am PT / 2pm GMT. Confirmed in a Twitter post featuring a sunny background, palm trees, and the Rockstar logo, now we know exactly when to tune in for the big reveal. Please see below for all the...
News GTA 6 Reveal Trailer Debuts in Early December, Rockstar Says
It's official
Following a Bloomberg report overnight suggesting Rockstar Games will debut the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer next month, the team has confirmed that is indeed the plan. In a series of Twitter posts, the official Rockstar Games account said: "We are very excited to let you know that in early December, we will release the first...
News Max Payne 1 + 2 Remake Seems to Be Remedy's Next Big Release
Now in the production readiness stage
Alan Wake 2 is less than a week old and already is Remedy providing updates on the other four projects it currently has in the works. Speaking to investors, it appears the studio's Max Payne remake project is next in line for release, claiming it has "progressed into the production readiness stage". The same...
News Red Dead Redemption Runs at 4K, 30FPS on PS5
PS4 port tested
If you're wondering how Rockstar's just-released port of Red Dead Redemption runs on current-gen hardware, the answer has arrived pretty swiftly. The 13-year-old open world Western is now available for PS4 via PS Store, and is of course backwards compatible on PS5. Prior to launch, the publisher provided little information about the...
News Red Dead Redemption Out on PS4 This Month, Not a Remaster
Port costs $50
Rockstar Games has today announced Red Dead Redemption is coming to PS4 later this month on 17th August 2023. Its DLC Undead Nightmare will be bundled in, but this is a mere port of the original game. Whilst it was rumoured, this new version is not a remaster or a remake. There is a new trailer, which you can view above. This is al
News New Red Dead Redemption Logo Fuels More Remake Rumours
Also a new RDR codename
Suggestions a Red Dead Redemption remake or remaster is in the works from Rockstar are doing the rounds again as Internet sleuths have uncovered a new logo for the PS3 title recently uploaded to the developer's website. First spotted by Twitter user Tez2, a site update from earlier today included a new reference within the...
News Red Dead Redemption Revival Looking More and More Likely as Evidence Mounts
No smoke without a fire
Recent whispers around the web have suggested Rockstar Games is on the verge of announcing the resurrection of its PS3 classic, Red Dead Redemption. While we could initially write this off as little more than a rumour, we're now seeing signs from several places that give it more and more legitimacy. Things really got started...
News New Korean Rating for Red Dead Redemption Has Fans Hoping for a Remaster
Or a remake, or even just a port
The Korean ratings board for video games is notorious for letting things slip, and it looks like it's happened again. This time, though, it's a newly posted rating for a game that's over 10 years old — Red Dead Redemption. Over on the website, the listing is available to view, and the English translation certainly...
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 Jack Black Calls for Red Dead Redemption Movie, Story 'Even Better Than The Last of Us'
We just need money, Arthur
We're in a pretty positive space with video games being adapted to movies and TV shows. The Uncharted movie, while critically panned, did very well at the box office, Sonic the Hedgehog and its sequel broke records, and HBO's The Last of Us show has been extremely well received. The latest doing the rounds is the
News Red Dead Redemption 2 Fans Still Hoping for a PS5 Patch
But Rockstar has moved on
Red Dead Redemption 2 is currently trending at the top of the official PS5 sub-Reddit as fans continue to hope Rockstar Games will throw them a bone with a PS5 patch. Nearly 6,000 users have handed the post an upvote, which notes how the company's share price has dramatically increased, how many employees it has on staff,...
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 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 #RedDeadFuneral Trends as Red Dead Online Fans Mourn Its Death
R.I.P cowboy
The Twitter hashtag #RedDeadFuneral has begun trending across the social media website as Red Dead Online fans pay their respects to the forgotten multiplayer mode. Players are being invited for beers in Valentine and the graveyard in Blackwater, where they're taking screenshots next to graves and dressing in black garments. Fans are
News Red Dead Online Fans Are Hosting a Funeral for the Game
#RedDeadFuneral
Red Dead Online fans are coming together to host an in-game funeral for the forgotten — and seemingly abandoned — multiplayer mode of Red Dead Redemption 2. Next week, on 13th July 2022, those still playing are invited to "dress up in your best funeral attire, get your friends to join", and tag the @RedDeadRDC Twitter account as...
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 Max Payne 1 and 2 Remakes Coming to PS5
In partnership with Rockstar Games
Remedy has announced it will be remaking PlayStation 2 classics Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne for PlayStation 5 in partnership with Rockstar Games. The two remakes will be shipped as a single product, with the project currently in the "concept development stage". Remedy will use its proprietary...
News Rockstar Apologises for the State of GTA Trilogy on PS5, PS4
PS5, PS4 buyers don't get access to original versions
Rockstar has today apologised for the launch state of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition in a post on its official website. The studio writes: "We want to provide an update regarding the unexpected technical issues that came to light as part of the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The...
News GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Gameplay Shared Online
Footage from all three games
Update: Hours and hours of GTA Trilogy footage is now beginning to appear online. This stream embedded above is based on the PlayStation 5 version of GTA San Andreas, and we can see it running in 60 frames-per-second with all of its bells-and-whistles. The game definitely does look sharp, although it is ultimately still...
Soapbox Please Don't Let GTA 4 Rot on PS3, Rockstar
Liam wants to go bowling again
By the end of this week, every mainline Grand Theft Auto game still worth a playthrough will be available on PlayStation 5 and PS4 — except for one. The badly named Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition remasters III, Vice City, and
News GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Release Date and Pre-Order Info Revealed on Rockstar Website
Lay down some cash
Rockstar's anticipated collection, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition, is now on the company's website for pre-order. The game is also now listed on the PS Store. There has been much speculation about the price of the trilogy, but now we have the answer. Both the PlayStation 5 and PS4 ve
News Rumoured GTA Trilogy Remasters Get Age Rating in Korea
Definitive Edition, apparently
Following on from strong speculation and reports last month, the rumoured remastered collection of PlayStation 2 Grand Theft Auto titles has now received an age rating in Korea. The listing calls the bundle Grand Theft Auto: The Tr
Soapbox Where's My Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 Version, Rockstar?
Liam wants to return to the wild west
Rockstar Games is reportedly on a roll with remasters at the moment, as the confirmed re-release of Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 5 is heavily rumoured to be joined by a trio of remastered GTA titles from the PS2 era at the end of the year. If that package sells well — and let's be honest here, it...
News Rockstar Marking Grand Theft Auto 3 20th Anniversary with 'Fun Surprises'
Many for GTA Online
Grand Theft Auto V will be coming to PlayStation 5 on 11th November 2021, but a few weeks before then, Rockstar has a big anniversary to celebrate. 22nd October 2021 marks 20 years since the launch of PS2 classic Grand Theft Auto III, and the studio is already putting plans together to commemorate the occasion. Some of them will...
News Red Dead Online Gets Standalone Version From Next Week
Introductory price of $4.99
Starting next week on 1st December 2020, you'll be able to purchase Red Dead Online as a standalone product, separate from Red Dead Redemption 2. From then through until 15th February 2021, it'll cost an introductory price of $4.99 on the PlayStation Store before the price is raised to $19.99. The download will eat up...
News Yachts Finally Have a Purpose in GTA Online Update
Yachts spree
GTA Online’s luxury yachts have generally been considered a Dock Tease by fans, ever since they were introduced several years ago. The cruiseliners certainly look the part, but at around $6 million apiece, they proved to be primarily vanity items for the elite. A new update due out on 11th August, however, will add brand new co-op...
News GTA Online Gets Exclusive Content on Next-Gen Consoles, GTA 5 Will Be 'More Responsive'
Coming in 2021
We've all had a good laugh about the fact that Grand Theft Auto V will now be launching on a third console, but what will this port actually do for a game that still has its roots buried in 2013? Well, as part of its latest earnings call, Take Two states that it will come packaged with a number of technical improvements which make it...
News GTA Online Fans Want One Thing for the PS5 Version
And that's to get into the game quicker
If you’ve played GTA Online at all, you’ll know that it can take minutes to get into the game. And when we say minutes, we mean minutes – like, four or five of ‘em at least. It’s no surprise, then, that with all the talk of the PlayStation 5’s uber-fast SSD hard-drive, fans are hoping it’s a bit...
News Is GTA 5 Getting a VR Mode on PS5?
LinkedIn post suggests so
An updated version of Grand Theft Auto V is confirmed to be coming to PlayStation 5 next year, but could one of the upgrades it sports over the current-gen edition be a VR mode? That's the current speculation as the studio who put out L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files states that it is hiring for a "AAA open world VR title for...
