If you want the GTA 5 news highlights of the past week without having to scour through previous posts, our weekly news roundup posts are for you. Published every Friday just before (or after) City of the Week, we'll collect everything worth knowing that happened in the past seven days in one neat post.
The massive RDR2 hype had quieted down a bit by this week, though it still made the news and is continually captivating community discussion. News was pretty frantic this week actually, with the biggest splash having been made by the absolutely draconian crackdown on GTA Online hackers dished out by Rockstar.
The first piece of news following our City of the Week post looking at the urban region of Hampton Roads was the reinstatement of that one video on YouTube showcasing the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 sticky bomb mod. It was taken down by Samsung with a DMCA copyright claim, only to be later put back right up by YouTube following the refusal of the claim.
Incidentally, this was followed by our scheduled Top Videos of the Week post, wherein we notably featured the above mentioned video just to spite the humorless manufacturer that slammed with with a claim. Obviously, there were many other entertaining and high quality GTA themed fan videos on the list — take a look for yourself.
We also addressed some concerns voiced by the community over the predictable death of GTA Online at the hands of Red Dead Redemption 2's multiplayer mode. Now, we elaborate on this in the post at length, but there are several reasons why Online isn't going away just because RDR2 is eating resources and manpower. Don't worry, you'll be frolicking about Los Santos for a good long time yet.
