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November 8, 2023

At Long Last, Rockstar Officially Confirms GTA 6 Is Coming

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GTA V has served as the “newest” Grand Theft Auto for a full decade now. Putting that in perspective, when it came out Obama was not only still president, he had a good three years left to serve. On the day of its release, it was possible to rent it from Blockbuster in some locations. What happened and how did we get here? What happened was Rockstar Games found a way to turn GTA V into a perpetual money-making machine. GTA Online was introduced not long after the GTA V base game, and by charging fees and keeping it steadily updated, the financial need for a new game was eliminated. So they didn’t start work on GTA 6 — they just kept re-releasing GTA V. It now exists across three generations of game consoles and, more by consequence than anything, ranks as one of the biggest-selling video games ever. In the meantime, the long, long wait for Rockstar to say anything about GTA 6 has been a bumpy ride. The

September 16, 2015

Rockstar Not Planning Any Story DLC For GTA V

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While Rockstar have done an excellent job of keeping Grand Theft Auto V fresh and updated with a variety of new content since it was released, it has failed to deliver on a request from many fans who want story-based DLC. The studio even teased news about story mode content in April, leading many fans to believe that new missions were on the way. However, that DLC never arrived and it now appears that the game might never see any additional content focused on the story. Speaking to IGN, Rockstar has confirmed that its sole focus is on GTA Online and on creating new content for the multiplayer portion of the title. “Right now our focus is on GTA Online which has exceeded our expectations,” Sarwar said. “We currently have all key members of the team that launched Grand Theft Auto 5 focused on supporting GTA Online in every capacity. The community we’ve been able to foster is massive, growing each day and we have so many ideas that have

July 23, 2015

Rockstar Has Fixed GTA V's Framerate Issues, Game May Still Have Mod Problems

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There’s been issues with GTA V on PC since the update 1.28 launched. Mainly, there’s been many framerate issues and problems supporting mods. Well, on their support page, Rockstar noted that the framerate issues have been fixed. Unfortunately, people running mods may still have problems. “We also received some reports linking decreased performance when using Story Mode mods to TU 1.28,” said Rockstar. “As mentioned previously, we are not actively targeting players using mods in Story Mode, nor are we explicitly implementing protections against them in-game.” The statement added: “Our primary focus is on protecting GTA Online against modifications that could give players an unfair advantage, disrupt gameplay, or cause griefing. However, as a reminder, mods are still unauthorized and as such, Title Updates may cause Story Mode mods to behave in unexpected ways because they are not supported or tested, and players run them at their own risk.” It seems someone is not very supportive of mods. You can understand why because Rockstar never intended this game to be modded like it

May 18, 2015

GTA V Has Sold 5 Million Copies in the UK

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Milestones in sales don’t just refer to certain numbers it reaches, but also the areas in which it reaches them in. The three main regions that people look at sales in are the US, Japan, and the UK, and being able to determine how well a game or console is doing or has done there can be very important in determining how a future game or console will do there. For Grand Theft Auto V, IGN reports that it has recently passed an impressive milestone in the United Kingdom, selling over 5 million physical copies of the title there. Note that I said physical copies because digital copies weren’t in the total from Chart-Track. This is but the latest in a very long line of milestones for Grand Theft Auto V, as it has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, made billions of dollars, and just recently released the PC version of the game, which featured the Rockstar Editor. Rockstar Editor is a movie maker that can only be used

May 1, 2015

GTA V PC Patch Fixes Bugs…But Prevents Mods From Working?

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Yesterday, Rockstar released GTA V PC patch 350.1. With it came a bunch of bug fixes, but it came with an unexpected side effect. One in particular caught many gamers off guard once it was installed. The patch apparently prevents certain mods from working. This comes straight from the GTA modding community, who have noted that mods do not work after the patch is downloaded. Now if you’re thinking, “how can one patch affect every mod,” you’re right. It can’t. However, it can affect a piece of programming that is required to run mods on GTA V for PC. More specifically, it renders the Script Hook V tool useless. Without that? No mods. Rockstar has not commented on this issue, so it’s honestly hard to tell if this was an intentional issue or an unintentional one. Modding is a big part of the PC community, especially for open world games like Grand Theft Auto, Elder Scrolls, etc. So it would be kind of odd if Rockstar decided to target the community.

April 16, 2015

GTA V breaks Steam record for concurrent players

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GTA V is proving to be incredibly popular on PC as it has broken the concurrent player record for a non-Valve game, with more than 300,000 users playing the game at the same time. According to Gamesindustry.biz, this new benchmark has taken the record away from the immensely popular Skyrim, which has held the record for several years with just over 280,000 concurrent players. The record is made all the more impressive from the fact that this is actually the third release of GTA V. The title originally launched for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in September of 2013 and saw a next generation release on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on November 18, 2014. It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise though as Rockstar’s hit game has become notorious for breaking records, including being the quickest entertainment product to reach $1 billion in sales and the best-selling game in 24 hours, while released sales figures for the game show that it has sold more than 45 million

March 31, 2015

Coming up in Gaming – April

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Although April is traditionally a fairly sparse month for gamers, with very few high profile releases before the fall and winter months, this year has seen an even more thin group of titles releasing. Many of the games that will hit store shelves during the upcoming weeks will be lower budget releases, often not even for home consoles but rather portable consoles such as the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita. There are still a few larger games to get excited about though, as well as a collection of high quality titles made available to download for free across various platforms. Big Releases One of the biggest releases for April will be Darks Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. This version of the role-playing game that released last year for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is an upgrade on the original title, including all of the released DLC, better visuals, additional content and lore as well as new enemies. It is set to release on April 7 for Xbox

December 31, 2014

Coming up in Gaming – January

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With the holiday period coming to a close it is time to look at the games that are due for release in January. Traditionally, as we leave the busy release schedules of November and December in the run up to Christmas, the lineups for January and February tend to be a little bit bare. However, there are still some crackers to look forward to over the next 31 days so let’s jump straight into the bigger releases for the month ahead. Big Releases The latest Saints Row instalment hits store shelves January 27. A joint venture between Volition and High Voltage Software, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell is a standalone expansion to Saints Row IV. The new expansion contains far more content that previous DLC for the title. It includes a number of new concepts, including angelic flight and a distinctive progression style that differs from the more open story of its predecessors. It will be released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 via digital distribution on the

December 4, 2014

GTA V Pulled From Some Australian Shelves

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As of this week, the Australian versions of Target and K-Mart have pulled all copies of Grand Theft Auto V from their store shelves. Why would such a thing happen? Well, the image above might give you an idea. On the left is Barbie, in the middle is a pig plush and on the right is GTA V. GTA, as usual, is an over-the-top satire of organized crime in a corrupt cityscape. This version includes the option to play as a crazy psychopath named Trevor and there is a scene that forces the player to torture someone. It’s been a while since I saw the belief that video games are only made for kids in action, but somewhere in the world, it reared its ugly head again. So why can’t they just put the game on the shelves designated for adults, which every store seems to have a lot of? Welllll…..this particular movement makes it hard to sell the game anywhere. It started with a Change.org petition demanding that the

June 9, 2014

Grand Theft Auto V coming to new generation consoles and PC

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Update: Rockstar Games have provided more details as to how GTA V will take advantage of the power of the new consoles. GTA V will have graphical and technical improvements and will deliver stunning new levels of detail. On top of that, increased draw distances, finer textures, denser traffic and enhanced resolutions which all come together to bring new life to Los Santos. The upgrades also extend to GTA Online where current players will be able to transfer their characters and progress to their choice of PlayStation 4, Xbox One or PC. Lastly, GTA V for PC will also have a video editor designed for advanced movie-making.