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Rockstar has kicked off a new GTA+ cycle, and Month 53 is now live for subscribers. Running from August 6th through September 9th, this month's lineup includes a free vehicle, a fresh paint job, member-only discounts, and the usual list of standing perks that come bundled with the $7.99 (£6.99 / €7.99) monthly subscription. The Headline Freebie: Gallivanter Warden The marquee giveaway this month is the Gallivanter Warden, handed out for free exclusively through The Vinewood Car Club. Members ca

A new GTA Online Weekly Update has arrived, and this time Rockstar is turning two of Los Santos' most iconic fictional beverage brands into rival factions. The Brand War Event Week runs from August 13th through August 20th, and it's stacked with free cosmetics, a new prize vehicle, bonus payouts, and a two-week Twitch Drops promotion tied to the Sprunk-versus-eCola rivalry. Pick a side: Sprunk or eCola The centerpiece of this week's update is a soda-fueled brand war between Sprunk and eCola. Pl

Grand Theft Auto VI hasn't even launched yet, and it's already rewriting the rules on what players are willing to pay for a pre-order. According to Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick, more fans have pre-ordered the $99.99 Ultimate Edition of GTA 6 than the $79.99 Standard Edition — a notable result given the backlash that greeted the pricing structure when it was first revealed. Zelnick Confirms the Premium Skew The revelation came during Zelnick's now-routine post-earnings press tour. Fre

Grand Theft Auto Online players are opening their wallets more than ever, even as sales of the base game GTA V show clear signs of slowing down. That's the picture painted by Take-Two Interactive's latest quarterly earnings presentation, delivered to investors on Friday morning. Shark Cards Keep Selling, Even as GTA V's Growth Stalls According to Take-Two, recurring spending in GTA Online — the category that covers Shark Card purchases and other in-game transactions — grew by 3% during the quart

Take-Two Interactive doesn't usually sound surprised by its own business. On Friday, it did. Speaking on the company's Q1 Fiscal Year 2027 earnings call, CEO Strauss Zelnick described early Grand Theft Auto VI pre-order activity as "unprecedented and astonishing," a phrase he doesn't reach for lightly. GTA 6 pre-orders were only live for five days during the reporting quarter, which ran from April through June, yet Zelnick said the response was strong enough to catch even his own team off guard.

Rockstar Games has released a fresh piece of key art for Grand Theft Auto VI just weeks ahead of the game's next major reveal, giving fans their first proper look at protagonists Jason and Lucia together outside of a gas station. The artwork, officially titled "Jason and Lucia: The Heist" (with the underlying file named "Jason and Lucia Robbery"), depicts the pair standing in front of a petrol station and arrives alongside confirmation of what is effectively GTA 6 Trailer 3 — though Rockstar is

Rockstar Games has finally broken its silence on the next major look at Grand Theft Auto VI, confirming both a date and a genuinely unexpected venue for the reveal. Rather than dropping the footage straight to its own channels, Rockstar is handing the exclusive premiere to Netflix — a first for the studio, and a sign of just how far its marketing partnerships have expanded ahead of the game's launch. An Extended Look, Streaming First According to a newswire post on Rockstar's official site, the

Rockstar Games has rolled its GTA Online weekly update into the second half of the Summer Heist Event, and this stretch — running August 6th through 12th — is shaping up to be the more lucrative of the two weeks. The headline draw is the return of the Panther Statue, one of the rarest and most valuable finds in the game, alongside a guaranteed million-dollar giveaway for anyone who simply logs in. The Panther Statue Is Back For players chasing big paydays, this is the week to run The Cayo Peric

Rockstar Games has pushed out yet another server-side update for GTA Online, this time targeting a fresh batch of bugs plaguing The Kortz Center Heist finale. The fix arrived alongside the Cayo Summer Special Event Week, which runs through August 5th and includes an End of Summer Giveaway, and lands just days after the previous round of finale-focused hotfixes. This is now the second background patch in short succession aimed at cleaning up issues introduced with the Kortz Center Heist update, p

Rockstar has kicked off a new GTA Online Weekly Update, and this time the spotlight is firmly on Cayo Perico. Running from July 30th through August 5th, the "Cayo Summer Special" event week reshuffles several recurring modes and sweetens the payouts on the island, while also setting up a bonus stretch for players once the week wraps. Motor Wars Gets a Cayo Perico Twist The headline change this week is the boosted payout structure for Motor Wars, which is running exclusively on Cayo Perico and p

Rockstar Games has quietly drawn a line under an era of its mobile catalog, confirming that its titles on iOS now require iOS 17 or later to receive updates and official technical support. The change was outlined in a new support notice on Rockstar's customer service site and first reported by RockstarINTEL. What's Changing According to <cite index="2-1">Rockstar's own support page, support for its games on iOS now requires iOS version 17 or greater, and devices still running iOS 16 or bel

Rockstar Games appears to be taking a more hands-on role in the FiveM modding scene, according to a report from RockstarINTEL. The outlet reports that Rockstar has been supporting community-made projects for use on FiveM servers, based on information shared with FiveM content creators. A Push Beyond GTA Roleplay Rockstar and Cfx.re, the organization behind FiveM, are reportedly working to elevate "Non-GTA RP" projects within the platform. While most players associate FiveM almost exclusively wit

Rockstar Games has quietly cut off access to GTA Online's gambling-style minigames for players in Australia, a change that's already generating frustration within the game's community. Players logging in from Australia who try to use features at the Diamond Casino & Resort are now met with a simple "This feature is not available for you" message. According to dataminer and community member Tex2, the affected features include: House 3 Card Poker Inside Track The Lucky Wheel Blackjack Rou

Grand Theft Auto 6 appears to still be tracking toward its November 19 release, and fans may not have to wait much longer for fresh details. According to a gaming insider, news on the game should surface next month, though some fans remain uneasy about the release timeline given the long stretch of silence since pre-orders opened. What the insider is saying The claims come from insider NateTheHate, who has built a reputation for reliable Rockstar-related leaks. In a recent post, he reiterated hi

Rockstar Games has pushed out yet another behind-the-scenes patch for GTA Online, this time targeting lingering issues from The Kortz Center Heist update. The fix arrived alongside this week's Event Week content, which introduced the new Pegassi Ignus Pursuit vehicle, and follows an earlier round of server-side fixes the studio issued shortly after the heist update first launched. Since The Kortz Center Heist DLC dropped this summer, Rockstar has been steadily cleaning up a string of bugs that f

For most of its history, the Grand Theft Auto franchise has treated modders as adversaries rather than allies. Rockstar has a long track record of sending cease-and-desist letters to third-party modding platforms, and GTA 5 — nearly 13 years into its life cycle — still doesn't have so much as a Steam Workshop page. On paper, that history makes betting on GTA 6 modding support look like a losing wager. But dig past the surface-level pessimism, and the evidence starts pointing the other way. While

A fresh GTA Online Weekly Update has kicked off in the wake of The Kortz Center Heist content drop, rotating in new vehicles, heist targets, and bonuses for the week running July 23 through 29. New Vehicles Two new rides anchor this week's update. Law enforcement roleplayers and pursuit-vehicle collectors can now pick up the Police Pegassi Ingus Pursuit/Interceptor for $4,376,250 at Warstock Cache & Carry. Meanwhile, the Grotti Veleno GT has opened up to the general player base, priced at $

The group of current and former Rockstar Games employees seeking formal recognition as a union has reached a significant milestone in their campaign, announcing their first official meeting with Rockstar management. The Rockstar Games Workers Union (RGWU) shared the update in a social media post, revealing that the sit-down took place shortly after the group solidified its position as the largest video game studio union in Europe. Its membership reportedly spans several dozen former staff who we

With GTA 6 now out, one lingering question fans keep circling back to is whether cheat codes will make the cut. Rockstar's growing emphasis on GTA Online and user-generated content has some wondering if the classic cheat system still has a place in the series — or whether it's being quietly phased out in favor of a more curated, monetized experience. There's no official confirmation either way. But the franchise's own track record gives us plenty to work with. The Case for Cheats Returning Cheat

Rockstar Games has quietly rolled out a server-side patch for GTA Online, addressing a string of bugs that surfaced after last week's launch of The Kortz Center Heist update. The fixes, dated July 16th and 17th, arrived without requiring players to download anything — Rockstar pushed the changes through a background update, which the studio typically uses to resolve issues discovered shortly after a major DLC drop. What's Been Fixed The patch tackles several problems that had been frustrating t

After more than a year of near-silence, the team behind FiveM has confirmed that the Enhanced-edition version of the popular modding platform is about to launch. Cfx.re, the group that develops FiveM, shared the news in a development update posted to its official forum this week, ending months of speculation from a community that had grown increasingly restless waiting for concrete details. FiveM for GTA V Enhanced will enter early access on Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. The "early access" label is

Grand Theft Auto 6 may have already banked a quarter of a billion dollars before a single copy has shipped, according to new analysis from games industry research firm Newzoo. The report, which projects the title's first-week digital pre-order haul and models what launch week could look like in November, paints a picture of the most anticipated release in gaming history backing up its hype with real money. The Pre-Order Numbers Newzoo, an analytics firm that counts major publishers like Take-Two

Arion Kurtaj, the hacker responsible for the massive 2022 GTA 6 gameplay leak, has been transferred from a secure psychiatric hospital to a standard prison ahead of a fresh criminal trial. Kurtaj was convicted on multiple counts of hacking and fraud after infiltrating Rockstar's internal systems and leaking 90 clips of early GTA VI footage years before the game's release, alongside GTA V's source code. Because of his autism diagnosis and doctors' concerns that he posed a continued risk, he was h

Rockstar Games appears to be listening. Just days after sweeping payout cuts across GTA Online's heist roster sparked a wave of community anger, the studio has made an unannounced adjustment to The Doomsday Heist that partially walks back the reductions — a sign that player pushback is already having an effect. The Backlash That Started It All The trouble began with the launch of The Kortz Center Heist update, which arrived alongside a broad economy overhaul that quietly slashed cash rewards acr

Rockstar Games isn't done with GTA Online yet. In the wake of The Kortz Center Heist update, the studio used its latest Newswire post to drop a string of hints about what's still to come for the nine-year-old online mode — including a fresh seasonal Mission Series, more dripfed vehicles, and a Halloween refresh that's arriving within weeks. A Heist Update That Wasn't the Finale Plenty of fans assumed The Kortz Center Heist would be the last major content drop before GTA 6 arrives. That theory ma