A file discovered on the servers for Rockstar Games' website suggests microtransactions allowing players to purchase in-game money could be a part of GTA Online, the soon-to-be-released multiplayer component of GTA 5. [1]

A user on Reddit has found that the Store section of the pause menu requests a file on Rockstar's servers. That file has listings for the Atomic Blimp (a bonus included with early copies of the game) and content from the Special Edition and Collector's Edition of the game, which it unsurprisingly seems will be made available for purchase at some point.

What does come as a surprise are the listings for four different "Cash Cards" ranging from $100,000 to $1,250,000. These are accompanied by images (seen here) and the following description: "Cash is king in this town. Solve your money problems and help get what you want across Los Santos and Blaine County with the purchase of cash packs for Grand Theft Auto Online. All purchased cash is automatically deposited into your character's bank account. Spend wisely, cash therapy is fleeting."

Rumors and leaks of GTA 5 details have slowly began to fill the vacuum of information surrounding GTA 5. This page collects unconfirmed -- but plausible -- Grand Theft Auto 5 rumors, along with appropriate sources for each.

Map Leaked for GTA 5

The GTA 5 map has been faked repeatedly, but a recent leak claims to show a map that's nearly identical to well-researched fan maps and has been identified widely as the actual GTA 5 map.

There was recently a map made by fans. Of course this map was near to the actual map above before the real map was shown by rockstar games.

There is also a YouTube video which was also made by fans and shows how this map was put together.

November 2012 Rumor

On November 7th, GamingIllustrated claimed to have leaked information from the December 2012 issue of Game Informer. The information supposedly included Albert DeSilva (a half-American/half-Puerto Rican 42 year old) and Dougie Vejo (a youthful criminal) as playable characters in addition to a mission called Alimony. [2]

The rumor was quickly debunked by Game Informer staff, including senior features editor Matt Helgeson, who said on Twitter "there's a supposed 'leak' of info from our GTA V cover story going around that is total bulls***." [3]

Actual news and details about Grand Theft Auto V will be available on IGN the week of November 12th, including a live rewind theater of the second trailer on November 14th. [4]

On May 15, 2012, it was discovered that the Max Payne 3 disc may have information on Grand Theft Auto V's vehicles buried in its source code. This has happened before with Bully and Red Dead having source code that contained Grand Theft Auto information.[5]

A full list of vehicle names has been extracted from the code and posted below.

Cars

BENSON

BIFF

BOBCAT

BOBSLEIGH

BOXVILLE

BUCCANEER

BURRITO

CARGA

CASCO

CADGE

CARGA

CAVALCADE

CHAVOS

COGNOSCENTI

CS2000

DUKES

FEROCI

FLATTY

FORKLIFT

FUTO

FURZEN

FXT

GANT

HAULER

INFERNUS

MINIVAN

MULE

PATRIOT

PHANTOM

PRAIRIE

POLICE

RAILMU

RANCHER

TAXI

TRASH

SCHAFTER

SEINOVE

SKIMOBILE

SNOWPLOUGH

VANPONY

WILLARD

CABLECAR

SUBWAY

MONORAIL

MONORAIL2

MONORAIL3

TRAIN_CARG

LIGHTY

DUNE

RHINO

APC

CAVIERAO

CAVIERAO_VAR

CAR_BRZHATCHPLC

CAR_BRZSEDANPLC

CAR_BRZHATCHJNK

CAR_BRZSEDANJNK

CABLECAR

CHAIRLIFT

SUBWAY_LO

SUBWAY_HI

TRAIN_CARG

TRAINF_CARG

TRAINR_CARG

TRAIN_INT

LIGHTY

WINKY

Bikes

Z75

JZ125

ENDURO

FAGGIO2

SPIKE

BOATS

SQUALO

MARQUIS

REEFER

TROPIC

DINGHY

TUG

CONTBO

BASSBOY

BAYER

CHIKA

FISHER

FISHBOAT_A

FISHBOAT_B

FISHBOAT_C

FISHBOAT_D

GUNBOAT

SABS_BOAT

BOAT_CHASE

DRUG_BOAT

SMALL_GB

MARQUIS

MINI_ORIG

MINI_BOAT

SKIVVY

PH_BOAT_S

PH_BOAT_L

SPORTO

TINNY

WHALER

WOODY

SMUG

EDSBOAT

BOAT_RS

FISHBOAT

BOTSAB

SPORTO

HELICOPTERS/PLANES

ANNHIL

MAVERICK

PH_HELI

ANDROM

FIGHTER

AUTOGYRO

HIND

NAPALM

SCAMP

BENTHAM

HELI_LUXURY

HELI_VCPF

HELI_CP

HELI_TFE

HELI_UFE

HELI_CS

HELI_REBEL

PH_HELI

DODO

CUBAN800

FIGHTER

BCHOPPER

Release Date Rumors

A release calendar leaked by "a major UK High Street retailer" suggests an Autumn 2012 release window. [6]

Sterne Agee financial analyst group predicts that GTA V will arrive in early 2013 to allow Rockstar extra time to polish the game. [7]

A picture of a flyer from Canadian retailer Future Shop (taken by IGN reader Antonio LaRosa [8]) displays a release window of Winter 2012.

A listing on GameStop's UK site shows a 01/03/2013 release date. [9]

Machinima.com director Olli43 uploaded a video to Youtube with a picture he had taken at his local Blockbuster. He searched for Grand Theft Auto V in the catalog of the store and the release date was set to 10/26/2012:

Map Leaked for GTA V

But could be a Fake.

There was recently a map made by fans. Of course this will not be the real one, but we do expect this to be somewhat close to the real map.

There is also a YouTube video which was also made by fans and shows how this map was put together.

Ex-Rockstar Information Leak



An Examiner article publicized a large chunk of GTA5-related rumors, stating the following:

"It has recently been brought to our attention that a poster over on the official GameSpot forums have posted a massive list of unreleased information about the future title, Grand Theft Auto V. Through a post, that has since been deleted by the forum moderators over on the GameSpot forum, along with the poster, a user by the name of Gloggle has revealed that he is a friend of an ex-RockStar employee that was fired for misconduct. Now, it seems that the ex-RockStar employee now has the intentions of leaking information on GTA V."[10]

As for the information that was listed, you can find the post as a whole below or you can view a Google cache version here.

Warning: Number 8 on the list contains spoilers of past Rockstar titles (RDR and L.A Noire).

1. The protagonist will be one character, and one character alone. His name is (as some rumours said) Albert De Silva. He's a half hispanic man who was once part of a crime family in Vice City. He decided to settle down and have kids in Los Santos. He has one son called Kevin De Silva who is your stereotypical CoD player. He's lazy, useless and shouts racial abuse online and is really into FPS games. Kevin does admire his Dad though.

2. Multiplayer will hold 32 people on the Xbox and PS3. I wasn't told how many were able to be on the PC. Just like in RDR, players will be able to form Gangs. These gangs are not ranked through XP anymore, but via Reputation. Instead of gang hideouts, you can do jobs that range from robbing a launderette to breaking into a military base and stealing state-of-the-art weaponary. The Gang leader has much more control over his or her gang by being able to rank members of their gang and setting more specific objectives to specific members of their gang. Gangs can have their own terratory but this only applies to areas inside the city of Los Santos.

3. The map is about 5x as large as the GTA IV map and the City of Los Santos takes up just under half of this area (so it's a bit bigger than 2 GTA IV Liberty Cities). The map is (like most GTAs) seperated into three different sections.

4. Planes are flyable, they range from World War 2 fighter planes to Private Jets.

5. Cars and guns are customisable to an extent, for example, you can customise a gun to have a supressor on it and you can install nitrous into cars.

Here's some stuff you might like:

1. The protagonist is the "rich guy" from the GTA V debut trailer. You get to learn more about this man in the second when he talks about his troubles. You only see the protagonist twice in the trailer. First time is the side of his face and second time is when he is driving a Deceptor (Audi R8). The people robbing the jewellery store are just with the protagonist. He is driving the van ready to get away.

2. Gunfights are more realistic. When you are shooting a gun out of a window of a car, depending on how fast it's going you will have troubles aiming due to shaking cameras.

3. The game is due in May 2013. A more specific date has not been decided because the game is still needing 6 months to be fully developed. They will have a playable demo at E3.

4. Police chases are now way more than either running or driving. Depending on how wanted you are, police may bring out riot shields and flash bangs.

5. When someone reaches 4 star wanted level, there will be a radio warning on some stations.

6. Radio stations now do traffic reports that are actually correct. So if you don't know what route to take, you can check the traffic reports on your phone or the radio.

7. The in-game TV now has many more channels.

8. The protagonist DOES NOT die unlike in Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire.

9. The underworld actually has a working economy that you can contribute to by buying and selling drugs, weapons and illegal cars in single player.

10. The protagonist can take drugs which will have some effects. But smoking weed on the streetwalk will lead to getting a one star wanted level.

11. Police cars will go after you if you're obviousely breaking the speed limit. Having high speed crashes will also damage your health.

1 star - police follow you on foot and try to make an arrest. No sirens, no car chases (unless you are speeding).

2 star - police will still attempt to make an arrest. If a weapon is drawn then the police will begin opening fire. Police will use stun guns if a weapon is not drawn.

3 star - Chases begin and the police don't care how they stop you, they just want to do it.

4 star - road traps, radio stations and much more hostile police.Even when you have evaded them, they will still search for 24 in-game hours for someone matching your description.

5 star - shoot to kill, arrest only if it's made very possible. Even when you have evaded them, they will still search for 48 in-game hours for someone matching your description. Few missions become unavailable if you are wanted.