GTA Online introduces Deathmatch and Race Creators update

Aiming to bring new attention to Grand Theft Auto V during the critical holiday season, Rockstar Games has just launched a free update that lets players fight each other in new multiplayer modes on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The release shows that Rockstar, a division of Take-Two Interactive, is serious about continuously updating GTA Online, its online multiplayer world set inside of Grand Theft Auto V. The update is one way to extend the life of GTA V, which sold more than $1 billion in its first three days of sales in September.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.