Grand Theft Auto

Steam News · Aug 4

Rockstar's great Midnight Club racing series was killed off for one simple reason, and you can probably guess what it was

Every few years or so I find myself idly wondering whatever happened to Midnight Club, Rockstar's arcade street racing series. I quite liked Midnight Club 2 back in the day, although I fell away from the series after that because, in fine Rockstar fashion, subsequent games weren't released on PC. The series as a whole ground to a halt in 2008 with Midnight Club: Los Angeles—despite going over well...

Steam News · Jul 25

Modding wizard creates Grand Theft Auto multiverse that lets players travel instantly between Rockstar's first three games: 'We got inter-GTA portals before GTA 6'

s a series, Grand Theft Auto has spent decades cycling between the same three locations, with each variation of Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas being more detailed than the last. But players haven't been able to explore all three locations at once since the release of the original... Read more.

Steam News · May 18

Take-Two's CEO says AI's not in the business of making hits, 'datasets by their very nature are backward looking', but that doesn't mean AI can't be 'super helpful'

Tech CEOs and other Silicon Valley sickos like to present AI as a gift that levels the playing field, making activities accessible to those who'd previously never have been able to rise to the occasion. But what if I told you that making things easier and making things accessible aren't always the same thing... Read more.

Steam News · Mar 17

GTA Wiki goes indie as it slams 'terrible' Fandom ad plague: 'Intrusive, unavoidable for most viewers, and huge'

The GTA Wiki—a spot you've almost certainly ended up at if you've ever Googled anything Grand Theft Auto—has moved homes. It's no longer one of the Fandom cabal of wikis. It's now independent and has, as it boasts on its new homepage, "officially migrated from Fandom. Freedom!".. Read more.

Steam News · Feb 8

A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working perfectly on modern PCs and Steam Deck, and it's a joy to behold: 'I wanted pick up-and-play GTA on Windows with the best possible compatibility without classic installation'

In the most welcome of news, you can now play the original Grand Theft Auto—the 1997 top-down, chaos-in-a-shoebox crime simulator that started it all—on modern PCs and Steam Decks without cursing at your screen and tearing your hair out. As a long-suffering bald man, I'm not sure I can confidently pin my lack of follicle fullness on being unable to reliably run the OG GTA on modern hardware until ...

Steam News · Dec 30, 2025

Former GTA dev congratulates "bold" Larian Studios for stepping away from Baldur's Gate 3

Why take a risk? With development cycles and budgets ballooning in recent years, a flop of a game could spell doom for a studio. If you're the size of Bethesda or CD Projekt Red, you can spend years rebuilding trust with a series of updates to Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077, but for smaller studios commercial failure could be a death sentence. That's why former Grand Theft Auto developer Obbe Vermei...

Steam News · Dec 23, 2025

Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'

Outside of a trip to London in 1997, Grand Theft Auto has always stuck to fictional analogues of American cities for its settings. But there is a reality where Rockstar's hugely successful crime epic is as globetrotting as Assassin's Creed. According to Rockstar North's former technical director Obbe Vermeij, the company toyed with numerous international locations at various moments in its history...

Steam News · Dec 23, 2025

GTA Tokyo "almost actually happened," but former dev claims it wouldn't have been made by Rockstar

Videogames and Japan, name a better pairing. From the big guns like Nintendo and Sony, to all the classic titles that have been made in the country, to memorable games set there, the country is synonymous with gaming. There's always excitement when major franchises head to its shores - Assassin's Creed did so this year with Shadows, and Forza Horizon plans to next year. A former Rockstar director ...

Steam News · Nov 24, 2025

GTA veteran's new studio is "dabbling in AI," but it's not as great as "companies would have you believe"

There have been a few high-profile departures from Rockstar Games during the development of GTA 6, but arguably the biggest involved Dan Houser. One of the studio's co-founders and one of the main creative forces behind the GTA series' tone, storylines, and direction, Houser left Rockstar in 2020 and later formed Absurd Ventures, a multimedia entertainment company producing podcasts, comics, novel...