Joe Donnelly

Deputy Editor, PC Gaming Show

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What does GTA Online 2.0 even look like—and, more to the point, what do we even want from Grand Theft Auto 6 multiplayer?

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Loading 2.0 So much remains unknown about the future of GTA 6's inevitable multiplayer offshoot

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A prison bus in GTA 5
'GTA 6 needs this': This GTA 5 prison mod turns one of roleplay's most enduring staples into a game within a game

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News With flavours of Shawshank , this player-made masterstroke is a world unto itself.

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Stardew Valley screenshot next to Eric Barone
'I'm in this whole new world': Here's what Eric Barone had to say about the life-changing Stardew Valley 10 years ago this month

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News Looking back at Stardew Valley's four-year journey to overnight acclaim.

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Ghost City bridge
A piece of GTA modding history that was considered lost has been rebuilt from scratch and fixed 22 years later

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News Ghost City is back and it's hauntingly beautiful.

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This gorgeous and ambitious Grand Theft Auto 4 total conversion swaps Liberty City for a Fargo-style slice of rural Wisconsin, featuring backroads and a pizza delivery job gone wrong

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Big country Shot to the Heartland.

Big country
This GTA 5 filmmaker is livestreaming every step of machinima production, from location scouting to live debugging when the game inevitably crashes

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news The good, the bad and the totally expected.

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An image of Lester from GTA 5, surrounded by computer hardware.
I thought text-only Grand Theft Auto roleplay sounded too intimidating—but GTA World is showing me why players are slowing things down

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Role with it Text-only GTA RP is a different beast, but with patience it's oh so rewarding

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GTA Online Boiler Room rave
GTA roleplayers built a secret Boiler Room rave beneath Los Santos, complete with DJs, club photographers, biker security, and a custom party drug

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Party time With nearly 100 players packed into an underground bunker.

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I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 for a Call of Duty zombie mod mash up and came away wondering how the heck I got this old

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News New York state of (losing my) mind.

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As it celebrates its 5th birthday, New Day RP might be GTA roleplay's most accessible server—proving the scene doesn’t need to be intimidating to be rewarding

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News It's a new dawn, and a New Day.

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Dedicated nature watchers are combing every millisecond of GTA 6 trailer footage to exhaustively catalogue all of its animals

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🔎🐊 Welcome to the jungle.

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A man gets kneed in the face.
Broken bones, bodyslams and brutal executions—my no-guns return to GTA 5 story mode took an unexpected twist with this must-have melee murder mod

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news A no-guns run executed with Flair.

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GTA Online community event
GTA Online's first-of-its-kind community showcase offers a glimpse of what's to come in GTA 6—and might just answer a big question facing the multiplayer offshoot

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News Back to Cali.

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From a 'single save-passing exercise' to an 'international community': How GTA’s world-hopping Chain Game has endured through hundreds of rounds—and how it's preparing for its biggest test yet with GTA 6

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Pass marks To me, to you, to me, to you.

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A tow truck
I spent 6 months saving up for a banged-up truck in GTA RP and now I know exactly what I want from GTA 6's multiplayer

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Living medium Two worlds are yours.

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GTA roleplay’s latest craze has players risking their cars in tense bouts of high-stakes hide and seek

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News Don't leave me this way, sweet Rusty.

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Squid Game mod
After 4 years, I'm pleased to report I've inadvertently discovered Squid Game mods for GTA 5 are actually really good now

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News The journey from red light to green light is one worth taking.

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The Exclusion Zone
'Critical: Organ failure imminent!': GTA 5's newest survival mod turns an irradiated world against you with shadows of Fallout, Stalker and 28 Days Later

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News Gasp for air in this genuinely terrifying twist on a map so familiar.

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GTA 1997
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'

By Joe Donnelly Published

GTA-OK Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1997

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GTA5 V4EVER mod
A mega-mod is kicking GTA 5 into 2026 thanks to one hobbyist creator and roughly 20,000 aggressively placed trees and street props

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News Modder Pluma_1980 definitely deserves their props.

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Police RP
There's been an influx of players applying to the LSPD in GTA roleplay like it's a real police force—except the crimes are fake, the paperwork is real, and everyone appears to be shouting codes they found on Google into their headsets

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News King Kong ain't got sh*t on… these dedicated GTA police officer roleplayers

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Niko riding a bike
After 17 years the most sophisticated bike mod has landed in GTA 4, and it wasn't easy: 'I wanted it to feel like GTA 4 always meant to have bikes—not like some clunky workaround'

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News A lovingly over-engineered fan mod finally gives Liberty City the bike it never knew it needed.

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Forget the GTA 6 delay, one modder is quietly building an entire Grand Theft Auto multiverse inside GTA 5

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News Turns out you don’t need GTA 6 when one person keeps gluing whole new countries onto Los Santos.

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Blue & Blood mod
Inside the GTA mod that was so well-written its creators axed it to make their own game—and then returned to finish the job due to public demand

By Joe Donnelly Published

Here we go again Blue & Blood: Two Modders, 20 years, and the enduring soul of San Andreas

Here we go again
GTA cop from Blue & Blood mod
GTA San Andreas modders tease fully-fledged standalone indie game inspired by Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Mafia and Schedule I

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News The creators of the much-anticipated Blue & Blood are cooking up something special.

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