Author: Aaron Trueman

Rockstar Games have kicked off their Lunar New Year celebrations with a special competition for the GTA Online community in China alongside events for everyone inside of GTA Online. The lucky winners of the prize will own an extremely rare Rockstar Games collectable. Over the past year or so, we’ve seen Rockstar Games host region specific events in relation to GTA Online. For example, a Pizza community challenge took place in Italy and the Japanese community smuggled cargo and watched their favourite streamers for rewards. Today’s new competition continues Rockstar’s support for regional communities. We look forward to seeing even…

Take-Two Interactive have just issued a copyright claim blocking the incredible GTA Vice City: The Next-Gen Edition. Rockstar Games’ parent company took the action ahead of the fan-made remasters release and following talk in the community that it won’t be removed. Despite the developers sharing updates on the project over the past few years, there has been a lot of fanfare for GTA Vice City: The Next-Gen Edition this past week. The team working on this stunning GTA IV-based mod shared a release date of January 25th alongside a trailer which led to it gaining popularity fast. We reported on…

It’s a big new content Event Week in GTA Online! To celebrate the Year of the Snake and Lunar New Year, there are several new reward, events and bonuses live in the game. This week runs from January 23rd through January 29th. New Stunt Races Rockstar Games have added brand new Lunar New Year Stunt Races to the game. These are not your typical Stunt Races as they come with a festive twist including the moon changing. You’ll also earn double money and RP from completing them this week. Overtime Rumble has been disabled this week following their inclusion. There…

Valve, the creators of Steam, have just blocked everyone’s ability to see new GTA Online updates before Rockstar Games announces them including DLC drops. For many years now, a website ran by enthusiasts, SteamDB, has allowed us to view new game patches being prepared for release. This excites players of various games including Rockstar Games titles from GTA V to Red Dead Redemption 2. If Rockstar were testing and preparing a new GTA Online update for release, we’d know days before it came out. Most recently we saw Rockstar begin testing a new update for Bully: Scholarship Edition this way…

Pre-release versions of Rockstar’s iconic PSP title Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories have leaked. First spotted by Rockstar Games community member MGgames100 on Twitter (currently known as X), a user uploaded a few pre-release beta versions of GTA LCS for PSP to the GTA Wiki before swiftly being deleted. That said, some people did grab them and have since reuploaded them elsewhere. Another GTA community member Vadim M also commented on the matter with additional information. The builds were dated July 26th 2005 and 1st September 2005. The final game released on October 24th so they are from a…

Following a tease at the end of last year, Rockstar Games are set to begin Lunar New Year festivities in GTA Online this week. Details of what will come to the game on Thursday have been published to the game’s loading screen messages early revealing some of the surprises. In the previous tease from Rockstar, we learned about new stunt races with a Lunar twist. Now we know they will arrive on Thursday as spotted by Tez2. According to the loading screen message, Rockstar’s Lunar New Year Event Week will begin on January 23rd and last through the 29th. To…

Rockstar Games have just released a new GTA Online update. This is the first downloadable patch since the Agents of Sabotage update although Rockstar did push server side patches to fix issues in the past few weeks. First spotted by ApokalyptYT on Twitter (currently known as X), this new patch is a small one focused on fixing issues across the current gen platforms. We also have the download sizes for this patch and the patch notes below Download Sizes The GTA Online January 2025 Update comes in at around 700MB on Xbox Series X|S and around 281MB on PS5. The…

In the past few days, a single slide on a presentation has led to outrage across social media regarding GTA 6. Talk of the game costing more than $70 at launch, $100 in fact, has led to many people expressing their discomfort with such an increase. In contrast, others state they will pay whatever the cost to own and play the next iteration of Grand Theft Auto. There are two sides to this debate and there’s a lot of context, for both, missing from the headlines or Tweets doing the rounds. I wanted to do a deep dive into why…

Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 on Thursday after months of rumours and leaks. Little information has been revealed so far about the next generation hybrid console but combined with other bits here and there is still enough to talk about when it comes to Rockstar Games. The successor to one of the best selling consoles of all time is highly anticipated. It probably is one of the most anticipated console releases of all time. Not as much as GTA 6 is however. Given the improved hardware expected to be found inside the machine and Rockstar’s support of the previous…

Talk of a GTA IV remaster or the official implementation of the game’s NYC-inspired setting in a newer GTA game has been sparked by Rockstar’s recent and slightly different takedown tactics. Late on Wednesday, we learned that the highly popular GTA V mod called the “Liberty City Preservation Project” was to immediately stop development and remove download links. This was the conclusion of talks the mod creators had with Rockstar Games. Members of the GTA community were angry and took to social media to share their feelings with Rockstar. However, some fans think there might be a positive to come…