VP of writing at Rockstar Games says farewell to the studio after 16 years.

The vice president of writing at Rockstar Games, Michael Unsworth, has left the developer after 16 years. An update to his personal profile on LinkedIn is the source of this departure news. ...

Plus several other titles out now or coming very soon.

Microsoft shared the list of upcoming titles that will be added to Game Pass in the first half of July. This includes several titles coming to Game Pass for Xbox consoles, PC, and even the cloud. A couple of the new additions are out today while the rest will show up throughout the first couple of weeks in July.

Available right now is none other than Grand Theft Auto 5. That's right, the game that has been released...

The past decade saw a lot of significant developments in terms of new games and trends in the gaming industry. There have been a lot of new games made in a variety of genres, such as AR and VR, which have given players an incredible experience. Video games have improved so much in terms of gameplay, graphics, sound effects and stories and that is because of technological advances. However, an industry that is taking full use of technological advances is the online gambling industry, this...

An option to remove motion blur is just one of many additions made.

Today's Update 1.56 for Grand Theft Auto V includes some of the more highly requested features from fans. This update, mainly targeting the next-gen release of Grand Theft Auto V includes new options for players to adjust, fixes some smaller bugs, and makes other tweaks here and there.

Some of the improvements offered in Update 1.56 include even shorter load times on the newer platforms. Music will now...

The Skyrim of carjacking games is now available on another generation of consoles.

Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive Software have just released Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online for the latest generation of consoles. These two titles are now available for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S with several visual and gameplay enhancements.

You can get both titles for just $9.99 (USD) on the PlayStation 5 through the PlayStation Store. GTA Online on its own is technically...

Pre-loads are also now available for this next-gen release.

Rockstar Games says that pre-loads for the next-gen release of Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online are now available for the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X|S. This release will happen one week from today on March 15, 2022. Here is what you can expect from that release along with details on the pricing for these releases.

If you are a PlayStation 5 owner, you will be able to get both GTA 5 and GTA Online for...

GTA Online is also getting some new content.

Rockstar Games confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online will get the next-gen upgrade treatment on March 15. This update, having already been delayed for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, will bring some new graphics modes and features to these games.

The games will now support up to 4K resolutions, up to 60FPS, improved texture quality, improved draw distance, HDR options, and ray tracing. This release will also...

Contrary to popular belief, not everything was delayed in 2021.

Once again, Valve employees have poured through the data over the course of hundreds of hours to produce a list of the biggest and best-selling games available through Steam in 2021. It's either that, or they just had a program compile all of the data for them, but the alternative sounds more thrilling.

Valve has broken down Steam's "Best of 2021" into several categories. They have listings for the...

Rockstar is feeling particularly giving. Tis the season.

Though it has been updated with at least one major patch, the current state of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition still isn't particularly great. As a way of apologizing to fans, at least those on the PC, Rockstar Games offered up free copies of the older, non-definitive editions for each game to those that purchased The Trilogy.

I guess that wasn't enough because Rockstar is now offering all...

The new GTA Online content includes new missions and a slew of new music.

Last week, Rockstar Games announced that GTA Online would be getting some fresh content called "The Contract." Unlike the addition of a heist or new vehicles, this content focuses on a new series of story-related missions involving Franklin from the single player campaign. Not only will we get to interact with Franklin, but we will be assisting famed rapper Dr. Dre with a little problem.

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Remember him? From the single player campaign? Yes, there's a single player campaign for Grand Theft Auto.

Rockstar announced a new expansion for GTA Online that will arrive on December 15. It's called "The Contract" and it will feature Franklin from the single player campaign of Grand Theft Auto V. This content will be set years after the events that took place in the main game's campaign.

Franklin is working with his new celebrity solutions agency, F. Clinton...

Keep waiting.

The next-gen upgrade for Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online will now be released in March 2022, as revealed today during the PlayStation Showcase. ...

Big sales for Rockstar and lots of games in general are coming over the next three years from Take-Two.

Financial results are always a fun time for finding out things that we previously did not know. For instance, Take-Two Interactive shared their financial results for the fiscal year 2021 today, which ended on March 31, 2021. What did we learn?

Well, we found out that Grand Theft Auto V has now shipped 145 million copies to retailers. This is up from the pitiful 140 million...

There are a lot of eagerly anticipated games coming out in 2021. We’ll see the releases of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and Far Cry 6; of Halo Infinite and Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga; and of new Pokémon action and the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. Among all these titles it’s difficult to say which is the most anticipated of the year.

It might be easier, however, to say which is the most anticipated game in general. Even though it almost certainly...