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.

Grand Theft Auto IV released in 2008 but that has not stopped Rockstar Games from ever so slightly supporting it into its second decade. The company released an update for the Steam version on Thursday. Some fans were worried this update would remove songs from the game as we’ve seen before. However, this patch is likely a security focused update which Rockstar tend to do for older titles from time to time. In terms of download size it is 158mb in size so not a huge download. Over the past few weeks and months we have been tracking Rockstar’s work…

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New content added The Classique Broadway has been added to GTA Online and you can purchase it for $925,000 from Southern San Andreas Super Autos. If you take on 50 Taxi Work jobs and complete them all you will unlock the Downtown Cab Co. livery for the Classique Broadway. As part of of the GTA Online Los Santos Drug Wars update, the drip-feed clothing is now live and able to be purchased. Rockstar’s newswire post says “Stand out from the crowd by donning new clothing including new Denim Jackets, Trucker Caps, Canvas Shoes, and Designer Jeans.” Valentine’s Day content returns Log…

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There has been a major update in the ongoing legal battle between Take-Two Interactive (Rockstar Games’ parent company) and a group of GTA fans who modded older titles in the series. It appears the lawsuit is coming to an end after 18 months. What led to this lawsuit? We first reported on this case back in September 2021 when Take-Two filed a civil action lawsuit against 5 individuals. Originally, this group of fans filed a counterclaim on GitHub a few weeks after Take-Two Interactive sent a takedown notice removal of the reverse engineering projects for GTA III and GTA Vice…

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During Take-Two Interactive’s Q3 2023 quarterly earnings presentation, CEO Strauss Zelnick discussed the success of Rockstar Games’ titles over the past three months. From GTA V to Red Dead 2, we go over all of his statements in this article. Grand Theft Auto V goes big for Take-Two Take-Two Interactive revealed that Grand Theft Auto V sold over 175 million copies, up from the “over 170m” in November. Grand Theft Auto V normally sells an average of 5 Million every month. The total sales of the Grand Theft Auto series is now at over 395 million copies worldwide, up 10…

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Removed content There is no new car this week but the Weeny Issi Rally has been removed from being purchased. Gun Van Contents Bonus rewards For limited time you can unlock a variety of exclusive awards during the Hard Mode Event by completing the First Dose missions on Hard Difficulty. You have until February 8th and the rewards will be delivered before February 17th. The rewards and the criteria are as follows: Podium Vehicle This week at the Casino, take your daily spin with the lucky wheel for your chance to win the Grotti Stinger GT, which normally costs $875,000 from Legendary Motorsport.…

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A few weeks ago we reported on a new GTA Online exploit that hackers were using to ban and corrupt your character data on the PC version of the game. It has been unsafe to play this version of GTAO since then but thankfully you can now return back to Los Santos. Rockstar Games responded a few days after the exploit went viral in the GTA Online community noting an update would release to stop this exploit. They have now released the security patch intended to stop the major issue affecting players. It comes in at around 350mb in size…

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Over the course of the last couple of months, Rockstar Game’s Red Dead Redemption 2 has continued to gather steam and rise up the charts as one of the most played games around. At the start of January 2023, we reported that the game had just shy of 70,000 concurrent players on Steam which beat the previous record it had done at the tail end of 2022. Despite the lack of recent, major content updates and confirmation Rockstar are no longer focusing on Red Dead Online, new players are discovering the wild west every week. The game peaked at 70,914…

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New content added The Weeny Issi Rally has been added to GTA Online and you can purchase it for $1,835,000 from Southern San Andreas Super Autos. It also has a HSW upgrade which costs $650,000. Rockstar say both of these is only available until February 1st. Taxi Work Rewards Rockstar have revealed there will be new special rewards for Taxi work. From now through February 8th, you can earn rare items for completing jobs. These clothing rewards will be added to your account on February 17th and GTA$ rewards will be delivered within 72 hours of completion: Additionally, PS5 and…

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Rockstar Games have finally responded to the recent mod menu exploit that has allowed cheaters to ban and corrupt anyone’s data in GTA Online. We reported a few days ago on the new hack that began causing destruction in the PC version of GTA Online. Since then, it has been quiet on Rockstar’s front despite the situation worsening. As a community, we’ve seen plenty of security issues with GTA Online on PC over the years and yet this one tops them all. The lack of communication from Rockstar Games on social media over the weekend has certainly upset a lot…

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Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition on Valve’s Steam platform last week to a mixed response. Despite the three classic games having major issues that Rockstar have not addressed yet, it hit 8th place in the Steam charts last week. Despite only being on sale for four of the seven days and at a 50% discount, it was the 8th highest grossing game in terms of revenue as per SteamDB. GTA V did sell well too coming in 7th place last week. You can also see Red Dead Redemption 2 snuck into the charts…

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