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Mosjo, the enthusiast behind an unofficial Nintendo Switch port of GTA 5, has revealed that the project has now made it past the prologue and no longer gets stuck at the main menu. Even more impressively, the game is running on a modded Nintendo Switch OLED rather than through emulation, making the current state of the port far more promising than many expected.
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July 24, 2026

Former Rockstar Games employee Rob Carr, who worked at the studio from 2007 to 2016 and contributed to GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption, has criticized the way the modern gaming industry operates. According to Carr, the developers behind some of the industry’s biggest hits often receive no share of the profits, even after spending years working under intense crunch conditions.
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July 24, 2026

Kodansha Game Creators Lab's Sweet Hamster Days launched on July 17 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and creator Katayama says Grand Theft Auto V helped inspire its odd premise through its three-protagonist switching. The live-action romance sim takes that mechanic in a very different direction.
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July 21, 2026

Former Rockstar producer John Ricchio said Rockstar's next open-world release will likely be GTA 6 on a truly huge scale — "monstrous" in size, or at least far more detailed — and he believes that ambition will make the game especially difficult to build. Speaking in a Kiwi Talkz interview, he said he can only imagine how big the project will be.
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July 19, 2026

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI really are shattering every conceivable record — nobody disputes that. Analytics firm Newzoo estimated that the game could pull in anywhere from $3.25 to $5.2 billion and sell between 37 and 51 million copies in its first week alone. The industry has never seen a pre-order campaign like this. But that same report quietly buries the biggest sensation of the past few weeks — the one that spread across every social network.
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July 17, 2026

Rockstar Games has released the The Kortz Center Heist update for GTA Online and, at the same time, made major changes to the game's heist economy. Several high-paying heists now reward significantly less cash, while a new weekly bonus applies to first-time completions.
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July 15, 2026

Set at Los Santos' Kortz Center art museum, the new mission sends players on a multi-stage robbery with scouting, planning, and escape as Rockstar adds the first full heist to Grand Theft Auto Online in six years. The update turns the museum into the center of a new operation built around gathering intel, picking an approach, and getting away with the goods.
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July 14, 2026

The newest KytyPS5 release brings a small but telling milestone: version 0.0.3 can now boot GTA 5 on a PC, and the emulator can even open the game's menu and settings. The developer says the update also improves performance and stability, but the project remains a long way from being a finished PS5 emulation solution.
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July 13, 2026

In a Kiwi Talkz interview, former Rockstar producer John Riccio said the studio's release order reflects how it allocates resources, with console versions taking priority before PC ports are built out later. He made the point while discussing delayed PC releases at Rockstar Games.
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July 13, 2026

Rockstar Games has announced that The Kortz Center Heist update for Grand Theft Auto Online will launch on July 14, 2026, across all supported platforms.
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July 9, 2026

Rockstar Games is signaling a major shift for GTA 6 Online, as new job listings reveal plans for fully customizable dedicated servers and expanded community features. These positions, centered on the company's Creator Platform, describe technologies that would let players create, publish, and manage their own game modes and servers. Grand Theft Auto 6 is scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026, for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and already has a PlayStation Store and Xbox Store page.
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July 3, 2026

Steven Ogg, the actor best known for portraying Trevor Philips in Grand Theft Auto 5, has shared a new photo on social media that quickly caught the attention of Rockstar Games fans.
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June 29, 2026

Rockstar very recently unveiled the official cover for Grand Theft Auto 6, and the community, as tradition dictates, immediately set about dissecting it pixel by pixel. The sensations didn't take long: within just a couple of days, a theory spread across the web that the striking girl on the cover has a real-life prototype. Internet detectives pointed to a specific person — and off it went.
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June 20, 2026

If the game of your dreams is taking agonizingly long to come out, why not just make it yourself? That, apparently, is the logic of a developer who goes by Ziwen, who has taken it upon himself to single-handedly cobble together his own version of GTA 6. And the audacity doesn't stop there: he genuinely intends to release his creation before Rockstar does.
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June 17, 2026

Former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij revealed the team regretted adding stealth to GTA: San Andreas, leading to major feature cuts in GTA IV.
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June 5, 2026

The hacking group ShinyHunters, which breached Rockstar Games via the analytics service Anodot, demanded a $200,000 ransom — roughly ₽18.4 million. Rockstar refused to pay. In response, the hackers released the stolen data for free. The outcome turned out to be the exact opposite of what they intended.
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April 15, 2026

Rockstar has landed in another major scandal: a massive 8 GB archive of internal files has leaked online. Based on what’s already circulating, it includes 25 CSV files covering 2018–2026, tied to GTA Online, Red Dead Online, internal analytics, support systems, and anti-cheat tools. If authentic, this leak is especially damaging — not just numbers, but a look into the company’s internal workings.
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April 14, 2026

Rockstar has greatly changed the marketing strategy of Grand Theft Auto 6, when compared with the last part of the series. Seven months before the release of the new game, gamers received suspiciously little information about it. This may be due to both layoffs and fear of leaks, according to The Gamer.
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April 13, 2026

Even working on GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption, and Overwatch 2 no longer guarantees a stable future in the games industry. Rockstar and Blizzard veteran Rob Carr (Rob Carr) admitted that, despite 20 years of experience, he still cannot find a job.
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April 6, 2026

The main character of the game Agent, a cancelled Rockstar project, was found in the leaked source code of Grand Theft Auto 5. In any case, that's what dataminers who have studied the character model deeply think.
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April 6, 2026

According to analytics firm Circana, 62% of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth players in the U.S. are over 35, and if you include everyone aged 30 and up, that share rises to 77%. It is yet another sign that gamers are “getting older.”
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March 24, 2026

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U are now retro consoles. GameStop, a major retail chain, has put an end to the disputes that have been going on for the past few years. The retailer has officially put these platforms on a par with the Sega Saturn and the Nintendo DS.
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March 17, 2026

According to a new large-scale study of the gaming industry, Roblox and Minecraft audiences are becoming less and less interested in traditional AAA blockbusters. If this trend continues, the future of video games may lie not in expensive single-player hits, but in free-to-play live-service games and viral formats.
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March 16, 2026

Modder Andy Nguyen, known online as theflow0, has ported Linux to the PlayStation 5 and effectively turned the console into a full-fledged gaming PC. As a demonstration, he launched GTA 5 Enhanced Edition, running at 1440p and 60 FPS with ray tracing enabled. According to the modder, 4K HDMI output, audio, and all USB ports are working.
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March 9, 2026

Rockstar’s GTA+ subscription has received an unexpected addition: the service’s library will soon include NBA 2K26. This marks the first major title from publisher 2K to appear in Rockstar’s subscription, potentially hinting at broader plans from Take-Two to expand the service.
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March 6, 2026

Remakes and remasters are one of the most important aspects of the gaming industry. Last year, updated versions of old games were downloaded 138 million times. This is reported by GameSpot with reference to the research.
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February 27, 2026

A new dark survival mod called The Exclusion Zone by author VelyXCore has transformed GTA 5 into something far more dangerous. Los Santos and Blaine County are no longer threatened solely by gangs and police — now, the map itself becomes the enemy. Certain locations are turned into radioactive zones where your character gradually suffers poisoning.
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February 23, 2026

Digital retailer Loaded has accidentally revealed alleged pricing for GTA 6. The standard console edition could cost $100, while the PC version may be £29 cheaper. Players are already panicking over the potential implications for the industry.
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February 23, 2026

Gamers don't fully understand how hard times the gaming industry is going through. It gets to the point where Rockstar developers with a track record that you can only dream of can't find a job for years. This was stated by journalist Reece "Kiwi Talkz" Reilly.
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February 20, 2026

Lately, it may seem that almost everyone knows about the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto 6, and this is not a game that needs advertising. However, the Take-Two management has other views on the situation. The head of the studio Strauss Zelnick said that GTA 6 will not go on sale without marketing support.
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February 16, 2026

Enthusiasts have unveiled an experimental build of GTA 5 that reduces the game’s size from roughly 120GB down to just 2.5GB, making it one of the lightest versions of the project to date. To achieve such a drastic reduction, the mod creators had to remove a significant amount of content, including story missions, a large portion of audio files, major sections of the map, and many environmental details.
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February 15, 2026

Grand Theft Auto 5 was released in 2013, but still continues to show impressive sales. According to the latest Take-Two Interactive report, 225 million copies of this game have been sold.
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February 4, 2026

Take-Two Interactive has published its financial report for the third quarter of 2026, once again confirming the release date of Grand Theft Auto VI — November 19, 2026. Moreover, the publisher announced that Rockstar Games will launch the game's marketing campaign this summer, marking the first concrete statement about the project's promotional rollout.
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February 4, 2026

Former Rockstar Games employee Mike York believes the studio may have already begun development on its next major project — whether that’s a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series or a continuation of Red Dead Redemption.
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January 16, 2026

The case concerns an ongoing legal dispute in the UK that began after more than 30 employees were laid off, most of them from Rockstar North’s Edinburgh office. All 31 dismissed workers were members of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which filed a lawsuit against the company. Rockstar, in turn, claims the layoffs were caused by leaks of confidential information about unannounced features of the game.
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January 15, 2026
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