Someone has made a Tony Hawk's Underground 2 mod that allows you to skate Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' East Los Santos locale like it's a skateboard game. Sure, you can BMX in GTA: San Andreas without the need of any mod, but it's not quite the same as skateboarding, is it? Getting it all to work is pretty simple. You'll want to download something called THUGPro. Technically, that's a mod-extension to THUG 2, but in practice, it's a community project that allows everyone to add levels and feat...

July 27, 2020 The fan-made trailer has been taken down following a copyright claim from Rockstar's parent company Take-Two Interactive The creator of the fan-made trailer, Arcadia Squad, has updated the community section of its YouTube channel to explain the disappearance of the video. Original story follows: We're currently in an era of remakes and remasters, from larger-scale recreations like Resident Evil 2 to graphical tweaks like Final Fantasy 8 (you know, the one that's not quite as good a...

Joining the likes of Blizzard and Ubisoft, Rockstar has created its own games launcher allowing players to access its PC games from one place, regardless of what digital store you bought them from. The Rockstar Game Launcher is available to download right now, and also lets fans buy games directly from the developer via its shop. For a limited time, as an incentive to install the launcher, you can claim a free copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas when you download it, which will be permanently ...

Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency channel has returned to the world of video games for the first time in a couple of years with the release of Queer Tropes, a new three-part miniseries. This trio of episodes sees host Carolyn Petit examine the ways video games have portrayed queer and trans characters over the years. As you might expect, there are plenty of awful examples from the past which portray LGBTQ characters in a negative light because of their sexuality or identity - and use queer s...

There is a familiar pattern to media coverage whenever Rockstar publishes a game. There is talk about how the developer has used its newest game to iterate upon and redefine the open world genre. There are almost always articles on how various Hollywood films influenced Rockstar's development process. And there are at least one or two polemics that attack the developer for transgressing established norms about what can and cannot be done in video games. This last type of essay inevitably conclud...