In 2014, Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games, claiming that a trashy celebrity character in Grand Theft Auto V named Lacey Jonas was clearly an “unequivocal” representation of her. Lohan’s suit went into detail about the character’s clothes, saying the character’s “hats, hair…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Next time you’re traveling through Lithuania and find yourself needing a haircut, we’d recommend stopping by Red Light Barbers in Vilnius. Not only can they do a mean fade, but they also offer a special service where they make shot-for-shot remakes of classic mid-2000s video games. Or maybe they just do that for their…
Earlier today, Donald Trump woke up and did what most Americans do upon waking up: He reached for his phone and immediately started posting about shit that made him angry. Today the object of his ire was CNN, who recently retracted a thinly sourced story alleging collusion between a Trump-adjacent hedge-fund manager…
Mario has entered the real world! With the recently announced Super Mario Odyssey, the lovable plumber has finally proceeded beyond the eponymous Lands, Worlds, and Galaxies of previous games, breaking through the fourth wall and entering a weird facsimile of New York City called New Donk City. The sight of a doughy…
What does the consumer get when her or she enters the words “Grand Theft Auto” into the App Store’s search engine? Well, the first few results look promising enough: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto III, etc. But after that, there are still rows and rows of search results.…
It’s no secret that the fun in playing Grand Theft Auto titles is more than just completing the game’s narrative. Gamers enjoy hanging around and exploring the open world and design, shooting and blowing things up along the way. And like sport of basketball before it, where a whole separate game of H-O-R-S-E was…
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Here’s what would have happened to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air if he never left West Philadelphia. This recreated TV intro uses Grand Theft Auto V and its main character Franklin Clinton to create the gun-toting Fresh Prince of Rockford Hills.
Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, have filed a suit against the BBC over the Grand Theft Auto docu-drama the network began filming last month. According to a statement Rockstar provided to IGN, the developer has not been involved in the film and claims Game Changer, the creatively named…
Not since 1986’s Aliens has Bill Paxton had such a prime opportunity to yell, ”Game over, man. Game over!” as Deadline reports that the actor has joined the cast of a BBC Two drama about the rise of the Grand Theft Auto video game series. When last we reported on this story to announce Daniel Radcliffe’s casting as…
Famous little boy Daniel Radcliffe is finally old enough to buy Grand Theft Auto—and has been for about eight years—and it looks like he might celebrate by starring in the BBC’s drama about the history of the prostitute murder-based video game series. That comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says Radcliffe is in…
If there’s one thing more exciting than running around shooting people, stealing cars, and mercilessly assaulting random passers-by, it’s watching a couple of guys sit in a dimly lit room typing code that enables people to do that. That’s what the BBC is hoping, anyway, as IGN reports that the British network is…
For a bit of that old ultraviolence, some turn to the milk bar while others plug in to Grand Theft Auto. Based on this overlap, a group of enterprising artists known as GTA Video Series have recreated multiple scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange by using the open-world video game. Luckily there’s no…
Gameologerinos, we’ve compiled this Inventory into a YouTube playlist, and we encourage readers to nominate your candidates to the list in the comments (with a YouTube link if you can find it, please). We’ll choose our favorite nominations, add them to the YouTube playlist, and present the final collaborative…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
