Author: Aaron Trueman

GTA V was the best selling game during August in the UK and Europe. Plus the game fought new blockbuster games to maintain its place in the most downloaded PS5 game charts. Sony and UK & Europe chart data has just been released showing where Rockstar’s titles such as GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 keep doing. GTA V surprises in PS5 chart PlayStation have shared their monthly game charts on PS5, PS4, PSVR and F2P games for June this week. GTA V was the second most downloaded game in July. Then in August we saw big hitting titles like Black…

Alongside the introduction of Battleye anti-cheat in GTA Online, Rockstar Games are now taking unban requests. The company shared a new article on their support site titled “Rockstar Games Online Suspension and Ban Policy”. The article goes into detail on how suspensions and bans work in their games such as GTA Online. For example, breaking Rockstar’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service will result in an immediate suspension. Continued violations lead to an immediate ban. These are no expiration date. Plus, this covers ALL Rockstar Games’ Online Services. Everything part of your GTA Online career such as progress, cash and…

It has been a turbulent few days for GTA Online players on devices running Linux such as the Steam Deck. After 9 years, Rockstar Games finally implemented a third party anti-cheat which surprised the entire GTA community. Whilst it was met with joy for the most part, it came with a major side effect: no more Steam Deck or Linux support for GTA Online. As we mentioned in a previous article, it is possible to use the BattlEye anti-cheat Linux-based devices with Proton. It is up to the developer to contact BattlEye to enable it for their game. BattlEye say…

GTA Online just got a new Content Event Week! Running from September 19th through 25th, it celebrates Oktoberfest with reward, bonuses, discounts and more. Check out everything happening in GTA Online this week down below! Log-in rewards Rockstar Games are celebrating Oktoberfest this week in GTA Online. Log into the game this week to receive several items: Anti-cheat Added Rockstar Games officially confirm they’ve implemented an additional anti-cheat solution to more accurately prevent, detect, and react to cheaters on PC. Learn more here. Returning and Removed Modes Rockstar Games have begun removing several modes from GTA Online over the past few weeks.…

GTA 6 is still targeting a Fall 2025 according to Rockstar Games’ parent company. Take-Two Interactive held their Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Wednesday. It included an online meeting with the board plus a detailed report that shared a lengthy overview into what the company is up to. Inside that report, we can see the same statement they gave to investors in May 2024: “Rockstar Games continues to invest in the franchise and plans to release Grand Theft Auto VI in the Fall of calendar 2025.” Take Two also note how “We are dependent on the future success of our…

A new batch of details from one of the infamous leaks in video game history has been shared online. We also have potentially learned another piece of information that tells us the sheer size of GTA 6. It was 2 years on Wednesday since teen hacker Arion Kurtaj leaked 90 videos of GTA 6 gameplay before the game had even been formally announced. This was just one of several cybercrimes committed by Kurtaj over the course of a couple of years. Ultimately, this string of activity led him to an indefinite hospital stay after being found guilty earlier this year.…

The introduction of a new anti-cheat for GTA Online on PC was met with surprise and excitment by the community. Rockstar Games stunned players on Tuesday by adding a 3rd party kernel level anti-cheat to the PC version of GTA Online a short 9 years after launch. Whilst some fans were overjoyed, there was a decent amount of scepticism given how cheaters have prevailed for nearly a decade. There truth of how GTA Online is now lays somewhere in the middle. Let’s start with some positives. Free Mod Menus Ending According to a Discord message sent by someone on behalf…

This week, Rockstar Games released a major new update for GTA V and GTA Online on PC. It has been 9 years since the blockbuster launched on PC and cheating has been an issue since the start. In a bid to combat cheating and even perhaps test for GTA 6, Rockstar added anti-cheat BattlEye. Whilst surprise has made many GTA Online players very happy, it has come at the cost. GTA Online is no longer playable on Valve’s Steam Deck or any Linux device for that matter. The worst part is various games that use BattlEye are still playable on…

Rockstar Games have just leaked their GTA 6 folder on PC. They also once again leaked the long-awaited Red Dead Redemption PC port. Plus, GTA Online PC players who have been waiting over 2 years for current gen features to come to PC will also be excited to learn upgrades may finally be coming. Earlier on Tuesday, Rockstar Games updated GTA V on PC and the Rockstar Games Launcher. Included in these updates are more hints the studio are still working on these fan requested releases whilst they finish GTA 6. Renowned Rockstar Games insider, Tez2, shared on Twitter that…

On the 11th anniversary of GTA V’s release day, Rockstar Games have just added a new anti-cheat to GTA Online. It is set to bring effect measures that stop cheaters in GTA Online. This will be a huge surprise to GTA Online players who have had to endure a decade of cheaters. We also have the patch notes of today’s update below. Seriously, 9 years after GTA V released on PC, Rockstar have given it a third-party anti-cheat: BattlEye. Rockstar have made some changes to their own anti-cheat as recent as last year. Now some issues should be harder to…