Rockstar’s co-studio head shares some stories from the GTA III days It has now been been over 21 years since Grand Theft Auto III was released and the stories of even the older games are still as fascinating. In a recent interview with Game Informer Rockstar North’s co-studio head, Aaron Garbut, shares some inside stories about GTA III’s development. Garbut started at DMA Design in 1996 as an artist on the original Grand Theft Auto game. He’s raised through the ranks from art director on almost every GTA game from III to V to now where he is the co-studio…
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Aaron Trueman
As a fan of Rockstar Games and part of the GTA community, Aaron used his passion to co-found and run GTA Online News / RockstarINTEL.
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GTA 6 won’t release in 2023 but we can still take a look at what we can expect from Rockstar Games in the next 12 months. The new year will mark the fifth year since the release of the last new Rockstar Games title and fans have grown restless as they await the next leap in open-world gaming. Following on from our Rockstar Games 2022 year in review, we will now look ahead at what we can expect. GTA 6 logo and trailer finally? This year was finally the year in which Rockstar Games confirmed they were deep in development…
New Content The electric Western PowerSurge is now available from the Legendary Motorsport website for $1,605,000. New Years content has come to GTA Online this week! Rockstar have awarded all players that log-in this week New Years items: Gold New Years Glasses, Silver New Years Glasses, Rainbow New Years Glasses and Yellow Holly Beer Hat. Plus 20x Firework Rockets, Full Snacks, Full Amor, 25x Sticky Grenades, 25x Grenades, 5x Proximity Mines and 10x Molotovs. The snow is also still active through January 11th 2023 along with other festive themed events such as The Gooch. Out of stock Annis The Annis…
It’s not time for GTA 6 yet even though its cover has been blown. From major GTA Online content drops to the official confirmation of Red Dead Online’s developmental death, the past year has been full of highs and lows for the Rockstar Games community. We’ll be taking a look back at what 2022 gave us ahead of that is expected to be another big year for fans of the storied game studio. 2021 ended with the release of the best GTA Online updates featuring Franklin and Dr. Dre but GTAO fatigue has been kicking in for many. Starting the…
New Content Christmas has come to GTA Online this week! Rockstar have awarded all players that log-in this week festive items: Plus the Firework Launcher, 20x Firework Rockets Full Snacks, Full Amor, 25x Sticky Grenades, 25x Grenades, 5x Proximity Mines and 10x Molotovs. Two new festive-themed random events are live in GTA Online: The Gooch and Weazel Plaza Shootout. The Gooch allows you to unlock the “Gooch” mask and Weazel Plaza Shootout grants you the “WM 29 Pistol” plus the “Season’s Greetings” livery for Pistol Mk2. Tez notes the Gooch event requires 2 players or more and begins after 48…
The game might be over 9 years old but it is once again hugely successful as a livestreamed game. It has been revealed by a new report from StreamElements via Rainmaker.gg that Grand Theft Auto V was the second most watched game in 2022 on Twitch. This chart is done by ranking Twitch categories based on watch time hours from January to November 2022. A lot of this success can be attributed to GTA RP streams and new GTA Online updates. Down from first to second In 2021, GTA V was by far the most viewed game on Twitch in…
Rockstar Games’ titles might be several years old now but they continue to be some of the best selling and most played games ahead of Christmas. Xbox’s official charts reveal how well Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption II as well as their online components are doing. Let’s take a look at where they are placing in the week of Christmas. Most played game chart At the time of writing, December 20th 2022, GTA 5 is the 5th most played game on Xbox. Despite not topping the charts, more recent games are ahead of it so this is…
In the latest GTA V update, GTA Online Los Santos Drug Wars, Rockstar Games added ray traced reflections to the game. In this article we will share some of the best comparisons that really show off this new graphics effect. Whilst GTA V for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 already had some ray tracing effects, reflections offer the greatest difference and improvement to the game’s graphics. Here’s the official note from Rockstar’ patch notes for the update about ray-traced reflections: “Ray-traced reflections have been added to Fidelity Mode for both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, adding detail and contrast…
Yes you read that right, you can now play Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online on your Tesla. We have all the details on how this has come about below. Throughout 2023 there has been a lot of talk and Tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk about playing games on Teslas. A new major milestone hit this week as the company announced Valve’s Steam platform can be downloaded and installed on the company’s Model S & X vehicles. So you can drive a Coil Raiden in GTA V whilst you sit in your Tesla Model S. This is all…
In a surprise turn of events, Rockstar Games have released a second patch for GTA Online in a week for the month of December. Following the release of the highly anticipated December update with gameplay improvements and the Los Santos Drug Wars content, this new patch is to just fix major game breaking bugs. Download size It has been made available to download on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. You’ll be required to download this update in order to play GTA Online. The patch comes in at around 662.mb on Xbox Series X|S. Meanwhile on PS5, it is…