- Forget GTA 6, Take-Two's CEO just gave us a hint of an L.A. Noire sequel - 29 April 2026
When it comes to Rockstar Games, all eyes are on Grand Theft Auto 6, counting down the days to its release later in 2026. At Take-Two, however, thoughts are still wandering back to past glories, with CEO Strauss Zelnick confirming that a follow-up to the incredibly popular L.A. Noire isn't off the table, giving fans like me a glimmer of hope to hold on to. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Forget GTA 6, Take-Two's CEO just gave us a hint of an L.A. Noire sequel RELATED LINKS: We might not get GTA 6 this year, but at least this hefty sale gives you Rockstar's finest at prices too low to ignore Gears of War veteran would take LA Noire 2 "over any other game in the world," and he's already thought of a plotline Grab this underrated Rockstar title and other VR games for cheap before GTA 6
- We might not get GTA 6 this year, but at least this hefty sale gives you Rockstar's finest at prices too low to ignore - 25 January 2026
As part of the PC crowd, I'm pretty resigned to the fact that, even if its initial November release date sticks, we won't be getting GTA 6 over here in 2026. Rockstar Games will want to let its console version sit for a while, whether that's to ensure the PC version is as polished as possible, or simply to entice you to shell out for a PS5 or Xbox copy knowing that you'll probably buy it again when it comes to the Steam shores. If you need something to take your mind off that temptation, a new Rockstar Games sale is just the ticket. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Bully Online lead says a "legal threat" forced its shutdown, but insists the mod "never posed any threat to anybody" Promising Bully mod, which mirrored GTA Online multiplayer, gets axed just one month after launching You could be playing Bully Online before GTA 6, but it's not Rockstar making it
- Gears of War veteran would take LA Noire 2 "over any other game in the world," and he's already thought of a plotline - 6 January 2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: L.A. Noire is, in my opinion, the greatest videogame ever made. Sure, it's janky by modern standards, and its open world is perhaps a little less open than a lot of people expect from a Rockstar-backed game. But, for me, its story, soundtrack, and then-ground-breaking visual performances bring it to vibrant life. All these years later, nothing quite has the same aura as Team Bondi's rusty detective game (pun entirely intended). Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab this underrated Rockstar title and other VR games for cheap before GTA 6 L.A. Noire dev "working exclusively on projects for Rockstar" Rockstar Games has a "triple-A open-world title in VR" in the works
- GTA 6 developers buy L.A. Noire director's studio, rename it Rockstar Australia - 3 March 2025
GTA 6 developers Rockstar Games have announced the acquisition of Video Games Deluxe, the Sydney-based team who collaborated with them on the 2017 re-release of L.A. Noire , virtual reality spin-off L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files and, most recently, post-launch updates for Grove Street's Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition . The studio will now be known as (drum roll please) Rockstar Australia. Read more
- Grab this underrated Rockstar title and other VR games for cheap before GTA 6 - 11 December 2024
While Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption usually headline Rockstar's iconic catalog, you shouldn't forget about the excellent game L.A. Noire . This 2011 title hasn't received word of a sequel yet, but the detective experience lives on with the L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files game, which is now available at a huge discount, alongside other VR titles, thanks to a new sale. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: If you love Balatro, these seven deck-building card games are 88% off Here's how to grab Kingdom Come 2 and MH Wilds cheaper, and get eight free games Grab these eight great Steam Deck games for just $11.99, and save over $229
- L.A. Noire dev "working exclusively on projects for Rockstar" - 7 July 2024
Sydney-based developer Video Games Deluxe, best known for its work on L.A. Noire , says it is "working exclusively on projects for Rockstar" after an Instagram post suggested it was in development of a new project titled Sowden House. The studio, founded by Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara after the original team's closure, also worked on virtual reality spin-off L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Rockstar Games has a "triple-A open-world title in VR" in the works L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is evidence that VR can make games even better Forget Call of Duty and Battlefield, L.A. Noire is the most authentic war game
- Bully 2 may have been killed by stretching resources too thin, layoffs – report - 31 December 2021
Game Informer’s Blake Hester published a detailed report all about the Bully 2 that might have been and what led to the studio developing the sequel’s downfall. In short, Rockstar New England was pulled in multiple directions to the point where Bully 2 was no longer the focus of the developers who worked there. Rockstar New England, which was purchased by Rockstar when the former was Mad Doc Software and was responsible for the next-gen remaster of the first Bully at the time, had ambitious plans for the sequel, a bigger, more characterized game that could stand alongside L.A. Noire and Grand Theft Auto 4 as a grand tentpole release worthy of the Rockstar name. It was not to be, though, as the studio got pulled in multiple directions, called on to assist with projects like Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3 and immersed in the crunch culture that came with working on those games. This…
- Every DLC for Max Payne 3 and L.A. Noir is now free on PC - 21 April 2021
It sure has been a week for the Rockstar games vault. After accidentally pulling a bunch of their games off Steam on Monday, then bringing them back, some other older Rockstar games got a treat. The PC versions of Max Payne 3 and L.A. Noire now include all their DLCs for free. A nice little treat for the back catalogue. Read more
- Rockstar issues surprise updates for LA Noire and Max Payne 3 on PC, throws in all the DLC for free - 20 April 2021
Rockstar has issued surprise updates to LA Noire and Max Payne 3 on PC, throwing in all the DLC for free. Both games have also seen support for 32-bit operating systems "deprecated". Of note: the LA Noire changes do not apply to LA Noire: The VR Case Files versions of the game. These updates were quietly issued yesterday, 19th April - the same day Rockstar somehow managed to delist its entire PC catalogue on Steam before relisting it again ( Midnight Club 2 was briefly available to buy for the first time in three years ). Perhaps someone somewhere at Rockstar fell on a load of PC publishing buttons or something? Read more
- Police games: the best cop games on PC in 2021 - 5 June 2020
What are the best police games? We have all considered life as a cop, super sleuth, or detective, for a brief moment. Whether drawn in by the position of authority, the puzzling case work, or even the hard drinking: police games deliver plenty of action and intrigue. However, cop games are not all about John Woo-esque shootouts and high-speed car chases, and in fact, the best police games often see you digging through crime scenes for evidence and carrying out routine procedures rather than pursuing perps, gun drawn. To help you find the right police games for you, we have assembled a list that encompasses every aspect of the job, from hard-boiled detective games , to cop simulations that immerse you in life on the beat - not to mention a sprinkling of unconventional picks to keep things interesting. We come back to our lists often to add new games and ensure you're getting the very bes…
- Looks like LA Noire's VR version is headed to PS4 - 13 August 2019
The virtual reality version of LA Noire looks set to launch for PlayStation VR. That's according to a PEGI ratings board listing for LA Noire: The VR Case Files on PS4 spotted by Resetera user Toumari. This version of the game previously launched for PC back in 2017. Read more
- Rockstar's history of America - 7 November 2018
There is a familiar pattern to media coverage whenever Rockstar publishes a game. There is talk about how the developer has used its newest game to iterate upon and redefine the open world genre. There are almost always articles on how various Hollywood films influenced Rockstar's development process. And there are at least one or two polemics that attack the developer for transgressing established norms about what can and cannot be done in video games. This last type of essay inevitably concludes that video games are bad, and lead to an increase in interpersonal violence as well as the downfall of civilisation. What's interesting about this pattern of coverage is how often it overlooks Rockstar's own development and publishing habits, most notably the company's steady development and publication of games set in the past. Indeed, if we were to remove the typical narrative surrounding Ro…
- Nvidia releases a hotfix GPU driver to correct stuttering and stability issues - 14 August 2018
Nvidia has made available a GeForce hotfix driver (version 398.98) to address a couple of issues gamers have been experiencing. One of them is a stability issue when running LA Noire VR with the latest GeForce driver. The hotfix is supposed to correct that, along with a separate stuttering issue for "some configurations in the Call of Duty Black Ops 4 beta ." It's not clear exactly which hardware and software configurations are experiencing trouble. In a related thread on Nvidia's GeForce forum, a customer care representative says the hotfix also addresses a stuttering issue in Windowed G-Sync mode after upgrading to the Windows 10 April 2018 update. Nevertheless, some users in the thread have voiced frustration at still experiencing issues with G-Sync. "So this doesn't fix the G-Sync bug for certain Fullscreen games like Euro Truck Simulator 2 (running the DX11 x64 versi…
- What's the most disappointed you've been by a game's ending? - 7 April 2018
Each weekend, the PC Gamer writers are asked a question about PC gaming, and provide their answers in two or three short, sweet paragraphs ( find previous editions here ). We then invite you to join in, via the comments below. This week: what's the most disappointed you've ever been by a game's ending? Spoilers follow, naturally.  Jarred Walton: Shadow of the Beast This one goes way, way back to the late '80s and early '90s on the Commodore Amiga, which probably predates most of our readers. I was in high school and Psygnosis became renowned for amazingly smooth 'parallax' scrolling graphics, with Shadow of the Beast being the prime example of the studio's work. (Yes, I'm aware there was a remake for PS4 in 2013.) For the time, the game looked beautiful, and it was punishingly difficult. My friends and I spent months learning the game an…
- Daily Deal - L.A. Noire, 65% Off - 17 December 2017
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- Night and the City - 15 November 2017
Editor's note: This week sees the re-release of L.A. Noire on PS4, Xbox One and Switch, and to mark the occasion we thought we'd return to Chris Donlan's piece on playing through the game - still one of the very best things ever published on Eurogamer, he'll hate me for saying - which first went live back in 2012. Enjoy! Today, I'm going to tell you about the time my grandfather shot a man in the ass. The year was 1949. The place was downtown Los Angeles. The occasion was a robbery with violence. A small store, I think: a tailor's, or maybe a family-run grocery market? History has not recorded all of the details. Read more…
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming - 10 November 2017
THE HIGHS Samuel Roberts: LA redux I enjoyed reading Tim's piece on LA Noire's upcoming VR offshoot this week, not least because I can empathise with his sweaty chronicles of punching a man in the face using VR controllers. That aside, the way interacting with other characters works in this revamped game sounds effective, and it's nice to hear they've redone hundreds of objects to make the world feel more vivid. The original is starting to show its age, as nice as the faces look.  LA Noire is one of those games that games journalists love to talk about: it has a rich historical setting, cinematic aspirations and is flawed in a bunch of interesting ways, despite reaching so high. I'm all for another way to experience it.  Phil Savage: IO, IO, it's off to work they go Right, yes, fine. With almost tedious inevitability, I am excited about the confir…
- L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files shows that VR needs to focus on humans - 9 November 2017
Three years ago, with the commercial release of VR headsets looming on the horizon, it was possible to imagine that the world was about to change. And it was about to change, but not in the way that I had imagined. Virtual reality hasn’t had the impact I’d hoped, in other words. No one I know owns a headset, and it hasn’t even caused a moral panic in the mainstream press, which is the true indication that something has arrived. I’m not cynical about the current state of VR or its software. I think we’re doing ok. I understand baby steps, I understand how risk averse most publishers and developers need to be, and how foolhardy it would be to pour millions into VR development this early in its life. It all makes sense, but that can’t snuff the disappointment I feel in VR’s general lack of presence, its seeming inability to make me forget th…
- Punching people on the VR streets of LA Noire is way more fun than I expected - 9 November 2017
Late last week I knocked a guy out in Los Angeles. Two in fact, and my girlfriend was watching, as were a couple of colleagues. I couldn't see their reactions, but I have to assume it was mostly embarrassment on my behalf, because I'm a man the wrong side of 40 and haven't thrown a punch in anger since high school. Still, I can confirm that despite my fire-engine red face and slightly strained shoulder, punching dudes feels good in VR.  Going into my playtest of LA Noire: The VR Case Files, I assumed that Rockstar would've just stripped out all the action-y stuff and stuck with the interrogation scenes. Not quite so. There's driving, punching, and shooting (though I don't try the gun stuff) in this slimmed down Vive version, which is due out in December following a slight delay . It'll cost $30 via Steam, and there are a couple of new features to…
- LA Noire: The VR Case Files has been delayed - 8 November 2017
Initially slated for a November 14 release , LA Noire's new VR component will now launch in December, according to Take-Two's most recent earnings report . In case you didn't know, Take-Two is Rockstar's parent company. After discussing the imminent release of new versions of the base game for PS4, Switch and Xbox One, the statement offers this: "Following these in December, 2017, comes LA Noire: The VR Case Files, featuring seven select cases from the original game rebuilt specifically for a virtual reality experience on the HTC VIVE system." A specific date for December wasn't given. But in other, less surprising, news from the earnings report, 2K has a new blockbuster game coming out next year: whether it'll be Bioshock or Borderlands or something entirely else, is yet to be seen.
