Although Amazon listed a PC version of the game earlier in the year, it’s been all quiet on the GTA-V-on-PC news front until today.

Two seperate German retailers have put up PC listings for the title, including Amazon’s German outlet, and a store called GamesOnly. The GamesOnly listing (complete with box art!) seens to be removed for now, so here’s a Google Cache version.

A listing for a special edition also briefly showed up on GamesOnly, revealing that the edition would contain a SteelBook with exclusive artwork, world map, stunt-planes challenges, online-store concessions, bonus outfits, bonus tattoos, special abilities booster, and exclusive weapons.

Source: Gematsu

Rockstar have released a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, the game that has even die-hard PC elitists considering console purchases just so they can get it sooner (since it will probably be announced on PC some time in 2014).

This trailer actually consists of three smaller, separate trailers — you can download those individually from our file library. Here’s the one for Franklin, here’s the one for Trevor, and last but not least, here’s the one for Michael. Alternatively, you can watch them all together, below!

While Grand Theft Auto V still isn’t officially announced for PC (although this petition is still going strong with 163,000 signatures) that doesn’t mean it won’t be coming eventually — and more than a few people have expressed their willingness to pick up a console just to play it as soon as possible. So! If you’re one of these people, please enjoy these ten new screenshots, fresh out of Rockstar.

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Let’s kick off with the biggest news of the day (or for some, the entire week) — Grand Theft Auto has announced a release date of September 17, also known as “forever away”.

“We know this is about four months later than originally planned and we know that this short delay will come as a disappointment to many of you, but, trust us, it will be worth the extra time,” reads Rockstar’s statement. “GTA V is a massively ambitious and complex game and it simply needs a little more polish to be of the standard we and, more importantly, you require.”

“To all Grand Theft Auto fans, please accept our apologies for the delay, and our promise that the entire team here is working very hard to make the game all it can be. We are doing all we can to help ensure it will meet if not exceed your expectations come September – we thank you for your support and patience.”

Meanwhile, over on their official site, Rockstar are dealing with a torrent of abuse from commenters outraged about the delay, and have reassured customers that no conspiracy theory exists to delay the release.

“To those of you saying or seeing various conspiracy theories about there being some other ulterior motive for this delay, rest assured that they’re all nonsense – literally the only reason we’ve delayed the release is because we want the game to be as good as it needs to be.”

There is of course still no word on if or when GTA V will make it to PC, but Amazon France recently created a listing for a PC version, much to everybody’s excitement.

Hold your horses, my friends: there’s very little to know here and all of it highly likely to change. But for now, we know that Amazon France has listed GTA V for Windows, citing support for XP through 7.

So is it just a mistaken listing, or is the site leaking stuff it shouldn’t again? Amazon France has a history of leaking all sorts of delightful things up to and including the existence of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, so you can never really know.

As we speak, the GTA V on PC Petition is now at 143,642 supporters, edging ever so closer to 150,000. Fingers crossed, everybody!

Source: VG247

You guys like PC gaming, right? And you’re probably excited about the next installment in the GTA franchise, right? Wouldn’t it be great if it were coming out on PC?

Well, don’t get your hopes up, but there is a petition going to try and convince Rockstar to release on PC. Started by one Mike Julliard, the petition has reached nearly 45,000 signatures in just over a week, with their first 10,000 overnight. While this is just under half of the required signatures, the counter has gone up nearly a thousand names in the time I’ve been writing. There is definitely some inertia behind this one.

But what will this mean? 100,000 people say they want a game, but will all this petition signing make a difference? Well, there’s a chance. As Julliard points out in his first post on the petition, Dan Houser has said that they will go wherever there is a market. “We can do what we want wherever there’s the appropriate business opportunity and chance to find a market.”

So while there is no official word as to whether Houser is watching with bated breath, there is every chance that this will be the impetus Houser and Rockstar need to release GTA V to PC. Either way, there is no hurt in trying, right? Houser isn’t going to see the petition and say, “WELL. No chance of GTA V on PC now, suckers!” So give it a shot, sign your name, be the change you want to see in the PC gaming world.

Source: Change.org (Thanks, Cale!)

By now, we can all agree that one of the greatest tragedies of our time is the fact that Grand Theft Auto V isn’t coming to PC. And unfortunately, that’s not about to change — but in an interview with IGN, Rockstar’s vice-president Dan Houser wouldn’t quite drive the final nail into the coffin.

“Everything else is up for consideration,” said Houser, when asked about PC and Wii U support. “That’s all I can give you. The main thing is we are not… we are a third-party publisher. We’re not Nintendo, we’re not Sony, we’re not Microsoft. We love all of them in different ways. But we can do what we want wherever there’s the appropriate business opportunity and chance to find a market. If that’s on Apple we put something on Apple.”

“Wherever it might be. I think that’s the fun in what we do. We see ourselves as a content company that uses technology. We don’t make it; we use it to make the most fun stuff.”

Source: IGN

No matter what else happens today, the biggest news of the next 36-48 hours is right here: the second Grand Theft Auto V trailer is out, and it’s mad as hell. Enjoy two minutes of solid in-engine footage, introducing the three main characters we heard about last week and showing off a bit of how they’ll interact, it seems like GTA V is set to (again) rival the Saints Row series with dangerous level of sass and wisecracking. Get in.

If watching it on YouTube isn’t your thing, you can always download it in HD from our file library, too. Just sayin’.

Colour me surprised: the previously-revealed “leaks” about Grand Theft Auto V were in fact wrong — although not so wrong as to make me wonder if they weren’t based on an earlier version of the game.

Here, now, are the correct GameInformer Super Exclusive™ facts, revealed overnight from the latest issue of the magazine. Let’s take a look.

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Got your grains of salt ready? A user on the GameFAQs board has posted what they claim to be a summary of the upcoming issue of GameInformer Magazine, which (as is Standard Industry Practice™) has the GameInformer Super Exclusive™ preview.

The same thing happened with The Elder Scrolls Online a while back, and everything then turned out to be literally 100% accurate, so maybe you won’t need a grain of salt. In any case, here’s the facts (slight spoilers may follow):

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The leaked pictures were true — as they inevitably are, really — and Rockstar have just emailed us through confirmation this morning that Grand Theft Auto V will be launching here in Australia and New Zealand in Autumn 2013.

Autumn is a big release window (March to May), so we’re hoping for something more specific soon. In the meantime however, the theory that GTA V would be skipping the PC on launch has been confirmed: it’ll be launching only on PS3 and Xbox 360. There is no word of an expected PC release date.

Pre-orders are now available at all of your favourite retailers.

Source: Press Release

The pre-order artwork for Grand Theft Auto V has been leaked, narrowing down its release window to some time in Spring (Autumn here, presumably) 2013. What is interesting to note though, is that the only platforms logos that are listed on the poster are Xbox 360 and PS3.

While this is all speculation based on a leaked image of the posters — not an official artwork release, even — does this mean that GTA V won’t see release on the PC at launch? More actually official news is anticipated for November, so watch this space for more details.

Source: IGN via GTA-five.pl