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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 […]

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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 […]