Grand Theft Auto V was announced by Rockstar on October 25, 2011, a few days after the tenth anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III. Every web page on Rockstar's network (even the old Vice City and San Andreas web pages from 2002-2004) was replaced with a Grand Theft Auto V logo and a release date for the game's first trailer. The page also promoted the Twitter hashtag #GTAV.

The one-and-a-half-minute trailer revealed that the game is set in the city of Los Santos - Rockstar's take on Los Angeles, California. Soon after, Grand Theft Auto V was officially announced in a Take-Two Interactive press statement. Rockstar confirmed in the statement that "Grand Theft Auto V heads to the city of Los Santos and surrounding hills, countryside and beaches in the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar has yet created." Rockstar also asserted that Grand Theft Auto V is "a bold new direction in open-world freedom, storytelling, mission-based gameplay and online multiplayer [..] focusing on the pursuit of the almighty dollar in a re-imagined, present-day Southern California", indicating that money will play a huge role in Grand Theft Auto V.

The Release Date

Assuming that there are no delays, Grand Theft Auto V will be released in in spring 2013. (between March and June)

New, Dynamic Features

• You can flip off other characters in the game, and see interesting results dependent on who you're flipping off.
• Vehicle physics have been updated. "The cars hold to the ground a bit better". It now feels more like a racing game, compared to GTA IV where they felt "big and boatlike".
• After a hiatus in GTAIV, Ammu-Nation is back!
• A lot of new side activities, including yoga, jet sking, base-jumping, tennis and golfing on a full golf course!
• Rockstar felt that dating wouldn't fit in this game and have stripped this feature.
• Bowling, Strip Clubs, Live comedy, Internet cafes and in-game TV make a return.
• Mobile phone will return, but friends won't be calling as often as they did in GTAIV. It will be more streamlined and used for things like emails and Internet browsing.
• Random character encounters throughout the map, much akin to those in GTAIV - but this time there's a greater variety and they're fully motion captured.
• Dynamic missions, similar to Red Dead's "Random World Events" make a return. Examples include characters with broken down cars, a hitch hiker, or two parked cars with dead bodies around them - which you can investigate to initiate dynamic missions.
• Dynamic "state machines" were coded in the game, allowing non-playable characters to go about their daily lifes. For example, you may see gardeners and cleaners waiting at the bus stop in the morning, and then find them tending the gardens and houses in the game's fictional Beverly Hills later on in the day.

Rockstar Games have officially announced that Grand Theft Auto V would be debuting on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. Rockstar have also stated that the PC version is at this current time, not a priority and are just working on the console versions of the game.

... For those asking about the PC platform, we're currently focused on the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game and don't have any details to share about a PC version at this time.

The Grand Theft Auto Series

Grand Theft Auto V is the fourteenth game in the series and, if it can replicate the success of its predecessors, there should be many more to come in future. The Grand Theft Auto series began in 1997, at which time its developer, Rockstar North, was known as DMA Design. The table below lists all of the Grand Theft Auto releases to date.

Title	Setting	Release Date
Grand Theft Auto	Liberty City, San Andreas, Vice City	October 1997
Grand Theft Auto: London 1969	London (1969)	April 1999
Grand Theft Auto 2	Futuristic	October 1999
Grand Theft Auto III	Liberty City (2001)	October 2001
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City	Vice City (1986)	October 2002
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	San Andreas (1990-1992)	October 2004
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories	Liberty City (1998)	October 2005
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories	Vice City (1984)	October 2006
Grand Theft Auto IV	Liberty City (2008-2010)	April 2008
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars	Liberty City (2009)	March 2009
Grand Theft Auto V	Los Santos (Present Day)	Spring 2013