Author: Aaron Trueman

As a fan of Rockstar Games and part of the GTA community, Aaron used his passion to co-found and run GTAOnline News / RockstarINTEL.

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Following their Free Online Multiplayer Weekend at the start of December, PlayStation have announced another free event for GTA Online. Where the previous removal of the PlayStation Plus requirement lasted just a couple of days, this event is far longer. In a Tweet posted on December 15th via the official PlayStation Twitter account, the company state “Owners of GTA Online can play without PlayStation Plus until 00:00am Pacific on Dec 29”. This means anyone who owns GTA Online can play GTA Online without having an active PS+ Membership for the next two weeks. We did wish online multiplayer access on…

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A new vehicle has been released in GTA Online by Rockstar Games and it is free for all players for a limited time. The Declasse Tahoma Coupe is a retro style muscle car that is being given away for free as the GTA Online community completed a challenge. We’ll be showing you how you can get this new car for free during its limited time period. Why is Rockstar giving us this new car for free? Back in November, Rockstar put out the The Heists Challenge to the community. We had to earn GTA$ 2 Trillion from heist finales as…

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All of the currently unreleased vehicles part of the GTA Online Los Santos Drug Wars update have been revealed by highly reputable community member TezFunz2. Below are all the vehicles that will be drip-feed content over the course of the next few weeks and months. All of the work below was done by TezFunz2. Unreleased vehicles Ocelot Virtue – $2,235,000 – $2,980,000 Credit: @TezFunz2 Tez says to get the Ocelot Virtue trade price you must “Complete “Last Dose – BDKD” Toundra Panthere – $2,170,000 Credit: @TezFunz2 Classique Broadway – $925,000 Credit: @TezFunz2 There is also a Downtown Cab Co. Taxi…

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A new GTA+ Month has begun, with new free items and bonuses for people paying $5.99 / £4.99 / €5,99 a Month. starting from December 13th 2022 to January 18th 2023. This month’s GTA+ Exclusive items Los Santos Drug Wars Benefit The MTL Brickade 6×6 is a new vehicle part of the Los Santos Drug Wars update. GTA+ members will be able to upgrade the MTL Brickade 6×6 with an Acid Lab and Maibatsu Manchez Scout C motorcycle for free. Free Vehicle – SuperVolito The SuBuckingham Alpha-Z1 is the free vehicle for GTA+ members this month, the vehicle is normally worth $2,121,350.…

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The GTA V December update containing the new GTA Online Los Santos Drug Wars content along with gameplay improvements is now live. To detail everything in this update, Rockstar Games have posted the patch notes on their support site. Below is everything included in the new update for the game from new content to bug fixes. Update 1.64 Notes – December 13th 2022 New Content in Grand Theft Auto Online The Los Santos Drug Wars update adds new Story Missions, Freemode missions, a new business for players to manage as well as a range of experience improvements — including visual,…

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The latest GTA Online update has released on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC bringing us six new story missions for our online character. But that is not all the content has planned for this Blaine County-based update. In their latest newswire article, the studio has confirmed a huge variety of new content. To quote their post “Beyond psychedelic trips and crop-dusting runs, Los Santos Drug Wars will continue over the coming weeks and months to deliver new vehicles, world events, and gameplay updates — beginning with new festive encounters and collectibles starting next week.”…

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