A nostalgic clip of rainy Liberty City from GTA 4 reminded us that the game's writer was unhappy living in New York
A short clip of rainy, nighttime Liberty City with a caption claiming the series will never capture that atmosphere again suddenly caught the attention of the community. The discussion quickly moved past nostalgia into a...
Athlete proves the reality of the controversial backflip from the GTA 6 trailer
In last month's extended GTA 6 trailer, fans found a moment that has been dissected frame by frame and turned into a meme. The scene shows Jason doing a running backflip off a pier and...
Gamers laugh at fans of realism in GTA 6 who will need sun visors on the windshield
The desire for realism in open-world games has long crossed the line where immersion ends and simulation of daily chores begins. First it's filling the tank with gas, then turn signals and seatbelts, and it's...
Rockstar taped up office windows after drones started filming employees at work
Rockstar Games published its opening note ahead of the employment tribunal hearing in Glasgow, where the fate of 31 dismissed employees is being decided. In the document, the studio detailed the security measures surrounding GTA...
An enthusiast placed all the regions of the Red Dead Redemption duology on a real map of America – from Montana to Cuba
Rockstar never builds exact copies of real places – the studio assembles America as a collage of recognizable details. Snow-capped peaks sit next to swamps, and you can gallop from windswept plains to a cactus-dotted...
Player completed Red Dead Redemption 2 a second time and realized they had missed half the game the first time
A player going by bushGiant shared thoughts after replaying Red Dead Redemption 2, noting how much his perception of the game shifted the second time around. The first playthrough happened on a borrowed PS4, and...
In GTA 6, the minimap shows in advance which buildings can be visited, and aloe contains liters of water
Open worlds stopped impressing players with size alone a while back – now everyone wants to know what in the environment actually works and what is just there for show. Rockstar apparently found a simple...
Rockstar changed the sprint button in GTA 6 after almost 25 years of tradition
Grand Theft Auto has kept one of its most recognizable control quirks for almost 25 years – sprinting by tapping a face button on the controller. Starting with GTA 3, players had to mash X...
Rockstar promises that vehicle handling in GTA 6 will combine the best elements from GTA 4 and GTA 5
Driving has always been one of the defining elements of the Grand Theft Auto series, right alongside stealing cars and causing chaos in the streets. That is why vehicle handling physics remain one of the...
Players are still unhappy that Arthur from the Red Dead Redemption 2 artwork doesn't resemble his in-game version
The cover art for a big game is almost always drawn while the game itself is still unfinished. Artists get their hands on intermediate models, marketing designers get a deadline, and years later players squint...
GTA 6 on PC may be released earlier due to hardware shortage
The PC version of GTA V from Rockstar Games arrived more than a year and a half after the console release. Rumor has it GTA VI might not make PC players wait nearly as long....
A frame with flip-flops from GTA 6 and Vice City shows 24 years of graphics evolution
One of the most talked about GTA 6 images this week contains no new locations, characters, or story hints. The top half of the picture shows a foot in a flip-flop from GTA Vice City,...
GTA 6 fans measured oxygen levels near Rockstar's office – and the studio confirmed it
Italian YouTuber Mike ShowSha visited Rockstar offices ahead of the GTA 6 showcase on Netflix and shared a strange detail from the trip. According to him, studio employees confirmed that particularly dedicated fans really did...
GTA 4 transports you to a world that no longer exists – that's its whole magic
Some games simply age, and some turn into time machines. The difference is simple: the first kind just look technically outdated, while the second kind accidentally capture a moment in history so precisely that every...
17-year-old GTA IV looks like a next-gen game thanks to DLSS5
Modders keep proving that old-game graphics are limited less by hardware and more by the year they came out. The moment a new rendering technology shows up, someone drags it into a decade-old title just...
Court allows Take-Two to obtain personal data of Discord users who may be involved in the GTA 6 leak
Judge Andrew L. Carter has granted Take-Two Interactive request for a new subpoena, one that would require Discord to hand over more detailed information about users tied to the GTA 6 leak. In his ruling,...
You won't be able to freely switch between Jason and Lucia in GTA 6 in all story missions – only in some
Rob Nelson, co-studio head and head of development at Rockstar North, told Japanese outlet Famitsu how the character-switching system works between the two protagonists in GTA 6. Depending on the situation, players will either be...
Players promised to kill the GTA 6 streamer in every possible way over the next 20 years
The NPC streamer from the trunk, shown off in the half-hour GTA 6 demonstration, has spent the past few days turning into the most wanted target among future players of the game. A thread promising...
26 screenshots of GTA 6 and GTA Vice City show how the city has changed over 24 years
Rockstar has finally shown off full gameplay from Grand Theft Auto 6, dropping a roughly 26-minute-long video. It is the most detailed look at the game so far, and it also gives fans a reason...
Fans found Dexter Morgan's house in GTA 6
Fans have been picking apart the 26-minute GTA 6 gameplay video frame by frame, and one discovery ties directly into a cult classic show. Players believe Rockstar recreated the apartment complex where Dexter Morgan lived...
