Summary
- Players can claim exclusive gear and clothing in GTA Online to celebrate Rockstar's 25th anniversary and the tenth year of GTA Online. Limited-time items include hoodies featuring the Rockstar NY logo, Go Go Space Monkey t-shirts, and The Retired Criminal outfit.
- The latest updates to GTA Online include enhancements for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S players, such as a new Vehicle Organization option and a streamlined Interaction Menu. The game also introduces new daily and weekly challenges and updates to weapon pickups.
- Rockstar Games recently unveiled the highly anticipated GTA 6, targeting a 2025 release. Excitement for the upcoming installment is already high, with the trailer breaking YouTube records with 90 million views in the first 24 hours.
Players can claim new gear and clothing in GTA Online as part of Rockstar’s 25th anniversary celebrations. Founded in New York in 1998, Rockstar Games has been responsible for some of the most memorable video games including Bully, Red Dead Redemption, and the highly successful Grand Theft Auto franchise.
GTA Online was first released in 2013 as the multiplayer counterpart to GTA 5, although in the decade since its first release, the game has spun off to become a standalone MMO game. Thanks to a dedicated community of players, Rockstar has consistently supported the game in the last 10 years with a recent update allowing players to obtain police cars in GTA Online. The next update, however, aims to give players something special in celebration of the two major anniversaries.
Tying into both Rockstar’s 25th anniversary and the tenth year of GTA Online, players can claim several clothes via the in-game shop. The items range from Hoodies featuring the Rockstar NY logo, Go Go Space Monkey t-shirts, and The Retired Criminal outfit. Gamers can also add the Knuckleduster Sport livery for the Grotti Itali GTO Stinger TT at no additional cost. Any player can claim these exclusive new items by logging into the GTA Online servers and adding the items to their stash. These items are only available for a limited time as the offer runs from December 18, 2023, until January 3, 2024, so fans won’t have long to claim them before they disappear.
Along with the Rockstar-themed gear, the developer is introducing several new updates to GTA Online. Based on feedback from the community PS5 and Xbox Series X/S gamers have a new Vehicle Organization option that allows vehicles to be moved between owned garages without the need to drive them to each location. Rockstar has also streamlined the Interaction Menu, grouping options to create a simpler system, as well as adding the New Daily and Weekly Challenges to the front of the menu.
The latest updates to GTA Online come at an interesting juncture for Rockstar. Not only are the developers celebrating 25 years of creating games, but the team recently unveiled the long-awaited GTA 6. Despite the game targeting a 2025 release, excitement for the up-and-coming installment is already at an all-time high. In the 24 hours since it was released, the trailer for GTA 6 broke YouTube records as it amassed 90 million views in the first 24 hours.
GTA Online Anniversary Items Available December 18, 2023 - January 3, 2024
- Knuckleduster Sport livery for the Grotti Itali GTO Stinger TT
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Hoodies
- Go Go Space Monkey
- Rockstar NY
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Tees
- Bugstars
- Go Go Space Monkey
- Heist (Michael, Franklin, and Trevor)
- Los Santos
- Rockstar Lion Crest
- Rockstar Says Relax
- Rockstar Silver Jubilee
- San Andreas Republic
- STD Contractors
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Outfits:
- The Groupie
- The Homie
- The Retired Criminal
GTA Online Enhancements
- PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S players have a new Vehicle Organization option located in the Manage Vehicles section of the Interaction Menu, allowing them to move their vehicles between their owned garages without the need to enter properties or drive them to each location.
- Explore the updated Interaction Menu — simplified and improved with similar options now grouped together for better ease of use. The Easy Way Out option has also been moved from the Interaction Menu to the Online section of the Pause Menu.
- New Daily and Weekly Challenges can be found under the Challenges section of the Interaction Menu.
- Weapon pickups have been updated with newer weapon options and more natural placements around the map.
- Custom names can now be added to each floor in the Eclipse Blvd Garage.
Creator Updates
- New props and track-smoothing tools
- Ability to preview the set weather while in the Creator’s Ambient Settings menu
- Catchup in Races can now be customized to be Classic, Advanced (with incremental drag applied to all players based on position), or Boosted (incremental speed given to players based on their position)
- You can now disable Catchup and Slipstream on specific checkpoints in Races, making it less likely that racers will unintentionally overshoot or undershoot jumps
- A new option to disable boost at the start of a Race is also now available.
- Released
- October 1, 2013
- ESRB
- m
- Developer(s)
- Rockstar North
- Publisher(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Engine
- rockstar advanced game engine, euphoria
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto Online is a dynamic and persistent online world for SIXTEEN players that begins by sharing gameplay features, geography and mechanics with Grand Theft Auto V, but continues to expand and evolve with new content created by Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto community.
Grand Theft Auto Online takes the fundamental Grand Theft Auto concepts of freedom, ambient activity and mission-based gameplay and makes them available to multiple players in a detailed and responsive online world. In GTA Online, players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, come together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes with the larger community, all with the personality and refined mechanics of Grand Theft Auto V.
Players can invest in their character through customizing their appearance, improving their stats, owning customized vehicles, purchasing personal property, and taking part in missions, jobs and activities to earn reputation and cash to open up new opportunities to rise through the criminal ranks.
The world of Grand Theft Auto Online will constantly grow and change as new content is added, creating the first ever persistent and dynamic Grand Theft Auto game world. Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with every retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V.
