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...
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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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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.
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...
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...
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...
Rockstar Pushes Huge GTA V PC Patch With A Single Line of Notes
Rockstar released a 450 MB PC-only GTA V Title Update 1.72 patch for Legacy and Enhanced with one-line notes mentioning only stability and security.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Someone Hacked a PS5 Into a Steam Machine and the First Thing They Did Was Run GTA V
Of all the games you could use to prove that a hacked PS5 running Linux actually works, Andy Nguyen chose Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced Edition.
A Free GTA Clone Is Launching Inside Fortnite and Daring Rockstar to Charge $100 for GTA 6
Eight months before Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives, someone has built a GTA\-inspired open-world heist game inside Fortnite, and it is free.
Rockstar Is Quietly Helping Sony Test a System That Could Change How You Pay for GTA 6
For months, the biggest unanswered question about Grand Theft Auto 6 was, and still is, how much it will cost.
Rockstar Added NBA 2K26 to GTA+ and Now Everyone Thinks Basketball Is Coming to GTA 6
It took twelve hours for a subscription promotion to become a full blown conspiracy theory, and honestly, the evidence isn't as thin as you'd expect.
