The GTA 6 Switch 2 Rumor Just Fell Apart
There is a particular kind of chaos that only happens when the insider ecosystem starts eating itself, and this week provided a textbook example. R...
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Ray Ampoloquio
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Ray Ampoloquio is a GTA BOOM editor and news writer who began playing the series with San Andreas around 2006 before going back to GTA III and Vice City. GTA IV became his favorite after he built his first gaming PC in 2010, and he has followed every mainline release since. He covers GTA 6 announcements, trailers, characters and setting, Rockstar Games and Take-Two business news, GTA Online updates, editorials, explainers and franchise history. Ray prioritizes official Rockstar and Take-Two sources, including Newswire posts, trailers, investor calls and earnings reports. He labels leaks and fan theories as unconfirmed, traces claims to original sources and distinguishes verified facts from speculation.
- Playing GTA since
- 2006
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
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Former Rockstar Developer Accidentally Reveals a GTA 6 Feature and Scrubs It Within Hours
Somewhere inside Rockstar Games, between February 2020 and April 2023, a graphics programmer spent their working days making glass in Grand Theft A...
The Fortnite Creator Who Called His Game a Free GTA 6 Alternative Just Blinked
Two weeks ago, JOGO Studios brazenly launched Grand Heist City inside Fortnite Creative with press coverage, key art that referenced Grand Theft Au...
Rockstar North Just Got Fined by the UK Government
Rockstar Games UK Limited, the legal entity behind Rockstar North and therefore Grand Theft Auto 6, was named on the UK government's 2026 HMRC empl...
Rockstar Is Hiring a Wave of GTA 6 Testers at the Exact Same Studio That Scaled Up Before the Last Delay
Rockstar Games is actively hiring Associate QA Testers at its Bangalore studio, with fresh listings appearing across LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Hitmarker...
Spider-Man Just Destroyed the GTA 6 Trailer Record
For roughly 10 months, Grand Theft Auto VI held the record for the biggest trailer launch in history, but as of today that record is gone. Sony con...
Someone Got GTA V Running on an iPhone Before GTA 6 Came Out
Grand Theft Auto V just went mobile. A Reddit user going by Thisisyouracc0un-t posted a video this week showing GTA 5 running locally on an iPhone ...
Zelnick Says Every Adult With a Console Will Play GTA 6 in November
Confidence in Grand Theft Auto 6 sure is riding high over at Take-Two Interactive. Strauss Zelnick really looked directly into his webcam during an...
Take-Two's CEO Promised No Ads in GTA 6 but Left an Opening Big Enough to Drive a Shark Card Through
In the same interview where Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick dismissed AI as a threat to Rockstar, he made another statement that drew slig...
Strauss Zelnick Calls AI Making GTA "Laughable" and He's Right
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick sat down with The Game Business this week and delivered what might be the most confident dismissal of AI's...
Rockstar Pushes Huge GTA V PC Patch With A Single Line of Notes
Rockstar has rolled out a 450MB PC only GTA 5 patch for both GTA V Legacy and GTA V Enhanced under Title Update 1.72, with notes reduced to a singl...
GTA 6 Rival Shows Rockstar How to Make Early Physical Copies Completely Useless to Leakers
Crimson Desert has completely locked down its physical copies so that players who receive the disc early cannot play, stream, or spoil the game bef...
The Story Behind This GTA V Song Started With a Tap on the Shoulder at a Party
"Sleepwalking" by The Chain Gang of 1974 is one of those tracks that became permanently fused with the identity of a game, the kind of song that yo...
GTA Vice City Stories Is Finally Coming to PC After 20 Years
Modders have announced a PC port of GTA Vice City Stories, the only GTA game from the PS2 era that Rockstar never brought to PC.
PSA: GTA Online Still Works Without ID Checks in Australia
The deadline came and went. As of March 9, 2026, Australia's Age-Restricted Material Codes officially require online games rated R18+ to implement ...
GTA 6 Scared Every Major Game Out of Releasing This Holiday 2026
Take a look at the 2026 video game release calendar and something becomes obvious very quickly: January through September is packed, but October th...
Take-Two Appears to Have Already Killed the GTA Clone Trailer
Grand Heist City was built to fill the gap left by Rockstar Games' silence. It was always going to get attention, and now it has: The Grand Heist C...
GTA 6 Hacker Claims the Source Code Is Still Out There
Arion Kurtaj, the teenager who pulled off one of the most significant security breaches in gaming history when he leaked roughly 90 clips of early ...
