When GTA V released on PC, it brought with it the Rockstar Editor: an astonishingly powerful video-creation tool that allows you to make films using the world of Los Santos as a set and the characters of GTA as actors. It's Machinima at its most accessible.
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In the first weeks of being available, the Rockstar Editor was being predominantly used to make a variety of quick slapstick skits, embracing the silliness of GTA's sandbox world in a caught-on-camera style. Months on, and the scene has radically changed. Now a collection of aspiring Nicolas Winding Refn's are making astonishingly cool crime flicks, and the film obsessed are creating shot-for-shot remakes of Hollywood's finest.
We've collected together the best GTA Rockstar Editor videos on YouTube right here for your viewing pleasure.
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After a two week absence, GTA Online's weekly update has brought some new goodies for us to mull through. Rockstar Games typically reveals the full rundown in a blogpost on its Newswire later on in the day, but players dip into Los Santos beforehand to see what's new - it goes live on the weekly update, so why wait?
This week we're getting seven new Deadline modes to bring some freshness to our playing routines. We had an idea these were coming, though we didn't know when. Earlier in May, Rockstar revealed that GTA Online's summer update plans included new Deadline modes alongside more races. You're also getting triple the usual rewards on Deadline adversary modes if you needed a wee bit of extra incentive to try the new content out.
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GTA Online isn't the most hospitable of places. The public servers tend to be unruly, with every step you take from your apartment inching you closer to a rocket from someone else, which is why plenty flock to GTA RP to live out their performance fantasies. However, one player decided to go against the trend by bringing some live art to the public servers, and it cost the poor lad dearly.
Content creator Rustic Mascara had several goes at performing Hamlet in GTA Online's public servers (thanks, Kotaku). Why? To reappropriate "the world of GTA as a space for meditative existentialism through performance and poetry". It mostly doesn't go well, and he dies a bunch.
He starts by performing Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be while standing in a lake sporting an undercut and a tank top. It goes pretty well, and he carries out the monologue in the lake free from passers' eyes. Once he takes to the beach, though - the issues begin. He tries to perform another of Hamlet's monologues but is interrupted by several rockets from other players. He does get there eventually, though not to a great deal of fanfare.
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