Grand Theft Auto V has been available and trending for over a decade thanks to content creation, sequel anticipation, and its beloved GTA Online services, which let players explore the city of Los Santos in a spin-off storyline from the main game.
After creating your own avatar and going through an introductory mission, you’re free to wander the state of San Andreas just like your regular GTA V playthrough, with the possibility to join public servers or experience a private lobby with your online friends.
Once you’re set in your new apartment, the world is your oyster with street racing, convenience store arm-robberies, and all your vanilla activities across the open world map, including freshly scripted missions like the latest DLC release.
The 2013 entry got what seems to be the last DLC before turning a new leaf this upcoming year, as Rockstar Games released “A Safehouse in the Hills”, a title update for all current platforms available for Enhanced and Legacy versions.
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On December 10th, 2025, five new Story Missions were made available for parties of 1-4 players, featuring original content, dialogues, and gameplay. This, plus world-building additions, has gotten everyone’s attention, but was it the right time for an update like this?
The biggest headline from the release was the return of Michael De Santa, the iconic criminal-turned-family-guy protagonist, who is confirmed to have aged in real time within the Grand Theft Auto universe.
The now 60-year-old lawbreaker cameos with an updated model in a couple of the new missions as an acclaimed Vinewood film producer alongside his infamous wife, who are exploring real-estate options after becoming "empty nesters with too much time on their hands."
It’s a feel-good moment and a nice callback to see Michael return to action, considering his 12-year-long hiatus. Still, something feels off about a beloved character returning in a throwaway GTA Online update released two years after the announcement of GTA 6.
As “Deathwish”, the third ending and official canon finale to the GTA V storyline, left the field wide open for all three protagonists to jumpscare our screens and immediately go viral within the first weeks of release, it feels underwhelming to waste a bullet like Michael in GTA V.
This, on top of new features like purchasable Mansions and the self-driving car app KnoWay, both introduced in “A Safehouse in the Hills”, all start to lend validity to conspiracy theories that developers are testing features in GTA Online, sounding less crazy by the day.
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Everyone always wanted to have a mansion and ride as lovely as Michael’s, and as anticipation grows more with each passing day, it feels like GTA V's new features are trumping the search for tiny details in GTA 6 in November 2026.
Comparing new safehouse sizes, car models, in-game actions, and even activities like weightlifting should’ve been saved for the next instalment. This hype for great features is being wasted on a decade-old release, and for what? For a romantic last hurrah and a couple thousand more copy sales?
We are more than ready to see how this next instalment fares after 13 years with much sink-or-swim speculation. Unless GTA 6 is dead set on blowing our minds with its attention to detail and insightful real-life satire, riding the Waymo parody could’ve definitely waited until release day. We forget a thousand things every day, let’s make sure this update is one of them.
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