The best-selling game ever made - GTA 5 - is coming back to Game Pass

Surrounded by other brilliant games, Grand Theft Auto is driving by those with a Game Pass ubscription.

Grand Theft Auto 5 - the best-selling game of all time - is coming to Game Pass starting today. Those with an Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S can grab this game with their standard Game Pass subscription.

The game, having recently passed 160 million units sold earlier this year , has obviously found its way into the hands of countless players across the world. However, if you don’t count yourself among that astronomical crowd, you can grab courtesy of Microsoft’s subscription service.

It launches on Game Pass alongside a small and heartful Sword and Fairy: Together Forever, which for the cost of a Game Pass subscription is well worth grabbing alongside Take two’s gargantuan open world criminal enterprise simulator.

GTA 5 remains the game that just keeps selling… one way or another. It remains a top spot holder in annual sales figures year over year, and even saw a significant bump in sold copies following the disasterous launch of GTA: The Trilogy . No matter how far we get away from its initial launch, the game can’t be kept down when it comes to generating cash.

It’s getting constant updates too - thanks to its multiplayer component GTA Online. Weekly updates bring improvements to the remaining criminals roaming the streets of Los Santos , while quality of life patches recently fixed one of the games longest lasting gripes .

Have you yet to pick the game up? At this point, you’ve got to wonder just how many people there are left for it to win over. Speaking personally, I believe the people who are gonna jump in must have done so already. Oh well - can’t hurt to have a big hitter on Game Pass I suppose!

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It only took a decade for Rockstar to let you just hold a button to sprint in GTA 5

But will they let us do that in GTA 6?

GTA 5 might have been released almost a decade ago now, but Rockstar has finally added the option to just hold a button to sprint.

Most games generally offer one of two ways to let you sprint in a game: you can either hold a particular button down, or press it once and it’ll do it for you automatically. Some games even let you choose one or the other! For some reason, though, GTA 5 decided to go with the secret third option, one that was always just kind of annoying at best, and outright bad for accessibility at worst: you mash the button. Thankfully, though, after a literal decade (which is wild for a game to still be receiving updates this long after it was released), an update is coming that will finally let you just hold the button.

As spotted by TheGamer , the latest Rockstar Games Newswire post shared some of the updates that will be coming to GTA Online, with the usual affair of more missions, more cars, that kind of thing. Notably, though, the post also shares that “an alternate sprint control option (hold to sprint) will be added to the Settings Menu.” Mashing was always a bit of a silly thing to have to do, so it’s a welcome change - though it would be good if they could add the ability to simply press the button once, so that there are a broad range of options available.

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