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A date has been set for the unveiling of the Washington Football Team’s new name, if they could only set a date to stop being a clown show

It took some years but the Washington Football Team is finally going to have a name that is neither a racial slur nor the name a middle schooler would choose in create-a-franchise mode, if forced by parents to play Madden instead of Grand Theft Auto. Washington announced today that on Feb. 2 its new name […]

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Rockstar servers down for nearly a day amid remastered GTA Trilogy launch

Comparison images provided by Rockstar Games. The servers for the Rock-star Games Launcher on PC have been down for nearly 24 hours now, and PC versions of Rockstar’s games have been removed from sale on the company’s website. The timing of the outage is particularly tough for the company, coming amid Thursday’s launch of the […]

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We suggest you don’t buy the $60 Grand Theft Auto Definitive Trilogy

Comparison images provided by Rockstar Games. (Rockstar didn’t clarify what these were captured on, so we’re assuming PC. ) [credit: Rockstar Games ] The PlayStation 2-era Grand Theft Auto trilogy is now available on modern gaming devices and comes with across-the-board aesthetic touch-ups. That should be good news. The series’ shift from top-down 2D to […]

Entertainment

Video Captures Moment Florida Man Jumps Off Bridge After Leading Police On A High-Speed Chase In Stolen Van

A man attempted to ditch the police during a high-speed chase by jumping from the top of a bridge into the river below. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, it reportedly all started on October 29 when deputies attempted pulling over the Bryan Gray‘s vehicle in Fort Myers, Florida, and the 34-year-old driver “sped […]

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You have 72 hours to buy the original, moddable GTA III trilogy on PC

Enlarge After months of rumors that Rockstar was cooking up revamped versions of the original Grand Theft Auto 3 trilogy for modern hardware, the publisher confirmed Friday its plans to do just that—and if you’re interested in playing your own custom-tailored version of these classics on PC by installing mods, you have three days to […]

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Kim Kardashian Posts Amazing ’90s Throwback & Accuses Older Sis Kourtney Of… Grand Theft Auto?!

Kim Kardashian has never done anything wrong! Not even in her angsty teenage years! That’s what she wants us to think, anyways, after publishing a HIGHlarious series of pics on her Instagram account on Sunday afternoon. Seriously, we can’t get over the incredible ’90s vibes in these throwback photos! Related: Debra Messing Is NOT A Fan […]

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Github reverses takedown of reverse-engineered GTA source code

Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. [credit: RockStar Games ] The reverse-engineered source code for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City is back online today, months after it was originally posted and then quickly taken down via […]

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Developers to update GTA Online to address poor load times after community fix

Enlarge / Now you can do all of these things but faster. (credit: Rockstar Games) A couple of weeks ago, we reported that a Grand Theft Auto Online player sick of the game’s notoriously long load times took matters into his own hands, broke out the disassembler, and crafted his own fix. The long load […]

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Hacker reduces GTA Online load times by roughly 70 percent

Enlarge / You could spend less time looking at loading screens like this with a new DLL fix. A hacker going by the handle T0st says he has figured out a core issue that caused longer-than-necessary load times in Grand Theft Auto Online for years. The hacker has released a proof of concept DLL fix […]