GTA 5 keeps getting updates despite its age. Even now, 8 years later, it still has a stable and growing player base. The game has been re-released 3 times at this point over multiple generations of consoles and earns over $6 billion a year. GTA 5 receives a DLC update in July and December each year. These DLCs are long-awaited updates and include new vehicles, missions, properties, business outfits, and more. The first GTA 5 DLC of 2021 is coming and players are excited. This article covers all known details about the new GTA 5 DLC.
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GTA 5 New DLC: Release date rumors and details:
The first GTA 5 DLC of the year is due to release between July and August each year. The July DLC, however, is expected to be smaller than the December DLC. This has been the norm in almost all previous GTA 5 updates. The July 2020 DLC was the Los Santos Summer Special, which was quite small and didn't include a lot of content. The July 2019 DLC The Diamond Casino and Resort was also smaller compared to the year's next DLC, The Casino Heist. Most fans expect the DLC for July this year to also be smaller and with less content.
Yesterday was the first event week of the month. This event week has been revealed to last 11 days instead of the usual 7 days (until July 19th). This event week ends on a Tuesday instead of the regular Thursday. This only happens when Rockstar releases DLC after the event week, as well as the event week before the Los Santos Summer Special, which also ended on a Tuesday. Additionally, Rockstar Insider TezFunz2 tweeted that the release date for the next DLC is July 20th.
Rockstar also announced that it will be adding new Stunt Races, Deadline modes, and Survival modes before releasing the next DLC. Yesterday, as part of the Week of Events, 7 new survival modes were added. Stunt Races and Deadline modes have already been added in previous event weeks. All of this points to new DLC dropping around July 20th.
Not much information is known about the new DLC. However, Rockstar hinted that the new DLC was related to automotive culture in Los Santos and that there would be new opportunities to boost the cars and hold illegal underground car races and fairs. This is good news for most fans, as GTA 5 undeniably has one of the biggest car fandoms in gaming.
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GTA 5 Event Week for July 8, 2021
