Five years ago today, on September 17, 2013, the biggest game of all time launched: Grand Theft Auto V. It’s kind of wild to think about how long it’s been since the game first debuted on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. When GTAV hit shelves, it was nothing short of revolutionary. The world Rockstar had created was open in a way no other game had yet achieved and ran well even on what was...
Normally when we’re talking about someone peaking, there’s a veiled suggestion that they’re on an inevitable downslide. When it comes to Rockstar Games, though, it’s nothing of the sort. They just happened to climb the highest peak in history and it seems like there aren’t any mountains left for the studio to climb. Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz says that even if Red Dead...
The trouble with photorealistic mods in PC games is typically that they come at the expense of performance. Sure, they look beautiful, but when your PC runs the game like it’s on a carousel slide tray from 1952, it’s not really worth it. Enter NaturalVision Remastered, a mod done up by modder Razed. This photorealistic mod for Grand Theft Auto V makes the game gorgeous, and supposedly...
Usually, when someone pulls off a heist, it’s only a matter of time before they get caught. Four years after the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online, though, Rockstar Games is still making out like a bunch of bandits – the free online mode to the company’s blockbuster game is more profitable than ever. Take-Two reported its first-quarter 2018 results, and both GTAV and GTA Online...
Behold, the magic of what players can achieve if they are allowed to mod our favorite video games. Grand Theft Auto V, which recently reopened for business on the mod scene after a scuffle with the publisher, is launching one of its most ambitious fan projects to date. Grand Theft Space. This project takes players to the furthest reaches of our solar system, and yes, allows them to...
We know Grand Theft Auto VI is in development the same way we know the sun is going to come up each day. It isn’t formally scheduled, but it’s gonna happen. But now we have what looks to be some confirmation that it’s pretty far under way. Actor Tim Neff’s resume says that not only is he providing motion capture for the announced and highly-anticipated Red Dead Redemption 2, but for ...
I hope you enjoy or enjoyed GTA Online, the multiplayer arm of Grand Theft Auto V. It’s made Rockstar and Take-Two, the studio’s parent company, heaps of cash. As of April 2016, GTA Online pulled in more than $500 million in microtransactions. We know that information thanks to a lawsuit. That insane profit will essentially plot Rockstar’s course until it stops making the company money...
It’s easy to say a game is big. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, despite the goofy name, is big. But it’s hard to say just how big until it hits some milestone. Like say, surpassing one of the biggest games of all time. Again, your support of @PUBATTLEGROUNDS astounds me! We just surpassed GTAV & achieved the 4th highest peak player count on @steam_games <3 pic.twitter.com/...
The popular modding tool OpenIV, used for Rockstar games like Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3, is now back in distribution after a little spat between Take-Two and its fanbase. The publisher stated that it would back down from its legal threats against the tool, leading the download option to return on OpenIV’s official website. A week after sending out a cease-and-...
Members of the Grand Theft Auto modding scene lashed out last week over Take-Two’s cease and desist order to the creator’s of the popular modding tool, OpenIV. Obviously, this will become a hot topic of conversation these days as publishers, like Bethesda, move to monetize their modding communities. Rockstar, the developers of Grand Theft Auto, issued a statement over the weekend, more...