Author: Aaron Trueman

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser’s new studio has hired veterans he worked alongside for many years. His new endeavour, “Absurd Ventures”, has also teased when some some big announcements will be happening. On top of that, new trademarks have been uncovered which may have given us the name of upcoming projects. After he created headlines when he left Rockstar Games in March 2020, the storied games developer joined NFT/web3 studio Revolving Games as an adviser and investor. Then back in June, Mr Houser announced Absurd Ventures. The company said in a press release “Absurd is building narrative worlds, creating characters, and…

GTA Online has been nominated for an award in The Game Awards. The Game Awards is the most popular ceremony that celebrates games in the past 12 months. This event also reveals new games, trailers, updates and more. Over thirty categories are part of this year’s awards show which takes place on December 7th. Fans have been able to vote in these categories for a couple of weeks. Both the fan vote and jury vote are combined to find the winner. The jury is made up of over a hundred ” jury of over 100 global media and influencer outlets”. These…

Red Dead Redemption 2 just hit a new peak player count as the game continue to sell well. Despite releasing over 5 years ago, Rockstar’s western masterpiece has seen another resurgence in terms of the amount of players playing at the same time. And this is only counting Steam players, no consoles or other PC versions. Following a discount on Black Friday in 2022, the game hit a then record of 66,492 players on Steam at the same time. This actually continued to grow through the new year. We reported in the early days of January 2023 it surpassed 69,000…

Rockstar Games have shared their feelings which have put an end to a blog by a ex-developer at the company. This might not come as much of a surprise based on previous actions taken by Rockstar and its parent company. Last year, the creator of GTA posted his prototypes before they were hit with a copyright claim. Over the past few days, we’ve been reporting on the fascinating insights provided by former technical director at Rockstar North Obbe Vermeij. Many community members have shared their love for Obbe’s blog posts which have revealed some very interesting and fun info from…

It’s another big week in GTA Online! From Thanksgiving to Black Friday and community challenges, it’s all happening. Find out if we have unlocked new GTA Online content and more in Los Santos below. Black Friday Discounts Rockstar Games have announced their Black Friday sale inside of GTA Online. Starting on November 24th through the 28th, you can save big on these items: 70% off: Benefactor Terrorbyte 50% off: Benefactor BR8, Buckingham Luxor, Buckingham Luxor Deluxe, Buckingham Swift, Buckingham Swift Deluxe, Imponte Ruiner 2000, Mammoth Avenger, Ocelot Stromberg, TM-02 Khanjali, Progen PR4 40% off: Galaxy Super Yachts and its Upgrades…

An ex-Rockstar Games director has revealed some GTA San Andreas development secrets. These include early decisions made on the map and how their own confidence became an issue. The former technical director at Rockstar North, Obbe Vermeij, started a blog this month titled, “inside rockstar north”. He is sharing memories and reasons behind some of the ways Rockstar made their classic games. During his spell at the Scottish studio from 1995 to 2009, Obbe worked on several big titles at Rockstar. GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, and GTA VI are just a few of the games he has been…

GTA Vice City was supposed to be an expansion to GTA III. This is just one bit of information covering the development of on GTA Vice City which has been recently revealed. We also learned about some of the glitches and other quirks found in these classic games. All of this fantastic info is coming from a former Rockstar Games employee that started a blog, “inside rockstar north”, this month. Obbe Vermeij, a former technical director at Rockstar North, worked there from 1995 to 2009. Obbe had quite a career spanning several big titles at Rockstar. Some of the games…

New details on Agent, a cancelled title by Rockstar Games have emerged. We also have learned more about a zombie survival game too. These new bits of info come from a former Rockstar Games employee who has shared a lot of inside stories on the development of several games. This month, Obbe Vermeij, a former technical director at Rockstar North, started a blog and X/Twitter account about his time at the studio. He worked there from 1995 to 2009. Obbe has had quite a career spanning big games at Rockstar. Some of the games that he’s credited on include GTA…

The Rockstar Games and the Rockstar Social Club websites have been updated with a new look to be more integrated. Launched on Monday, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption have issued some changes ahead of the GTA 6 trailer. There also appears to be a rebrand of the Rockstar Games Social Club. The end of Rockstar Social Club? Many community members have noticed a lot of references to Rockstar Social Club on their website have been removed. Some text that used to say Rockstar Social Club now reads Rockstar Games Platform. Select webpages still have the…

A huge GTA V leak just happened and it has revealed a lot of cut content for GTA Online along with Story DLC, and a Bully 2 mention. However, this leak also poses huge risks for cheating in GTA Online. What we know so far will be all shared in this article. What is this leak? Late on Sunday, word began to spread that GTA V’s PDB has been leaked. PDB stands for Program Debug Database. This is a system that keeps debugging information about a program, such as GTA V. This is all leftover data when they were debugging…