Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

Illinois politician wants to ban Grand Theft Auto after a rise in Chicago carjackings

February 23, 2021 The ESA has issued a statement on the proposed Illinois legislation.

A rash of carjackings in Chicago over the past year has, of course, led some to point fingers at violent videogames. Now, an Illinois lawmaker wants to amend a state restriction on selling violent games to minors so that it would ban the sale of violent games to anyone - and would define depictions of motor vehicle theft as violence.

Following the original publication of this article, a representative of the Entertainment Software Association, the US game industry's largest trade association, reached out with the following statement: "While our industry understands and shares the concerns about what has been happening in Chicago, there simply is no evidence of a link between interactive entertainment and real-world violence. We believe the solution to this complex problem resides in examining thoroughly the actual factors that drive such behaviors rather than erroneously ascribing blame to videogames based solely upon speculation."

Illinois's criminal code of 2012 restricts the sale of violent games to minors, with a fine of $1,000 USD as punishment. Democratic State Representative Marcus Evans Jr. has introduced HB3531, which would ban sales of violent games outright. The bill would also modify the definition of 'violent' to "include psychological harm and child abuse, sexual abuse, animal abuse, domestic violence, violence against women, or motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present inside the vehicle when the theft begins."

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xQc banned from NoPixel GTA V roleplaying server

By now, Felix 'xQc' Lengyel should be pretty used to the word 'ban'. He's no stranger to controversy and is a frequent rule-bender, which has landed him with plenty of suspensions in the past throughout both his professional esports career and since turning to streaming full time.

xQc's latest comes from the land of roleplaying. Over the last few weeks, there's been a spike in popularity for GTA V roleplay content on Twitch, and 2020's most watched streamer wanted in on the action. xQc has been recently streaming in the popular and well-renowned NoPixel server, tearing around the open world and bumping into other roleplayers in the process, all in front of his usual massive audience.

However, on trying to access the server during his February 22 stream, the former Overwatch pro was met with a message informing him he had been permanently banned. This was due to breaking one of the NoPixel servers golden rules: No ramming other players with vehicles without reason to do so.

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GTA Online weekly update brings back peyote plants and a new quad bike

It's Thursday in the real world which means it's reset day in the online version of Los Santos. As such, GTA Online players are mulling around to see what's new ahead of Rockstar's more official roundup on its newswire.

While the GTA Online weekly update's main thrust is usually which mode is paying out the most, sometimes other things grab players' attention. Namely, peyote plants. There are typically 76 of them scattered around Los Santos, and eating one will turn you into an animal for a brief stint (it's a hell of a trip). They're back this week, so if you need a break from making some dosh, you can go and be one with nature, maaaaan.

We've also got another new vehicle this week. This time it's the Dinka Verus, a quad bike you may recognise from the Cayo Perico update. If you fancy adding it to your collection, head to Warstock Cache and Carry and pick it up for GTA$192,000. If you're looking to raise some funds this week, open-wheel races and contract missions are paying out double, whereas bodyguard and associate missions are dishing out triple their usual rewards. Nice.

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At last you can fly PUBG's C-130 plane thanks to a new GTA 5 mod

Modding communities are wonderful things, aren't they? Not only do they make new - and often silly - things possible in some of the best PC games around, but they often make some cross-game mash-ups we might never have thought of come to life, too. Take a new Grand Theft Auto 5 mod, for example, that brings one of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' planes to Los Santos.

Modder Jamessays has posted a new add-on version of their recent PUBG C-130t plane mod for GTA 5 on the open-world game's 5 Mods site. In case you need a refresher, the C-130 plane is the vehicle used to drop the battle royale game's 100 parachuting players into PUBG's island map - and, as such, it's non-useable. Well, until now.

Jamessays' mod uses modder Hi2142's 'Philippine Air Force C-130T 1.0.2' GTA 5 mod and re-skins it to add a skin accurate to PUBG's version, as well as "20x more health than [the] regular titan". As you can see when you compare the mod's images to those of the PUBG craft on its Gamepedia page, it looks like a really faithful rendition, from the colour down to the symbol on its rudder.

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