Everything on this site is written by a named editorial process rather than a named person, so this page is where the accountability lives. It describes exactly how a claim gets onto GTA Playbook, and what has to be true before it does.
Sources, and only these
Five sources, all published by Rockstar Games:
- Trailer 1 (December 2023) and Trailer 2 (May 2025)
- the Extended Look, 26 minutes 47 seconds of gameplay footage
- the official press pack, 99 screenshots at 3840 × 2160
- the cover art
We do not use leaked builds, datamined files, or the 2022 development footage that was stolen and published. That material may well be accurate. It is not ours to republish, and a site whose value is that its claims are checkable cannot rest half of them on a source it will not show you.
From footage to a claim
The footage is cut into contact sheets and every sheet is looked at by eye. Anything identifiable is logged as a sighting: what it is, which frame, the timecode, the camera angle. A sighting is an observation, not yet a page.
Then the part that takes the time. For each sighting the subject is measured — a box placed over the frame on a coordinate grid, recorded as a proportion of the image so it stays correct at any resolution. That box is what you see on the page, and it is why a crop here lines up with the thing it claims to show.
Measuring is not a formality. Early on, three crops were estimated by eye instead of measured. All three were wrong. That is a 100% failure rate on a sample of three, which is small but was enough: nothing is published from an estimate now.
The measurement also catches misreadings that a glance never would. Rendering the crops for the press pack turned up a “police car” that was the rear of a dark saloon with its brake light on, a “pump-action shotgun” that was a carbine with a ribbed box magazine and a flat-top rail, and a “motor yacht” that was a speedboat up on the plane. All three had been logged by someone looking at a full frame. All three were corrected by looking at the crop.
The principle that came out of it is short enough to remember: a note on a frame is a suspicion, a note on a crop is an observation.
Names
A vehicle or weapon gets a name on this site when one of the following is true:
- the game puts it on screen — a pickup prompt, a badge, a tailgate, a sign
- Rockstar names it in the press material
- the community database GTABase has it, in which case the name is theirs and is credited as theirs
Otherwise the page is titled with what is visible — a red mid-engine supercar, a box truck in gold livery — and says the name is unknown. When the real name appears, the page moves to it and the old address redirects.
There is one deliberate exception in the other direction. Characters and places need a proper noun before they get a page at all, because “man with a beard in a boat” is not a description anyone can search for and will never be corrected into something better.
We audit ourselves, and we publish what it found
The measurements have been re-checked in full at least once. Of 205 crops from the trailers and the Extended Look: 193 were correct, 8 were mismeasured, 4 were named wrongly, and 1 recorded something that was not in the frame at all. The worst single case was a helicopter filed as a boat.
All of it was fixed, and the audit is written up in the repository rather than quietly absorbed. A site that never reports finding its own mistakes is either not looking or not telling.
Dates and corrections
Every page carries the date it was last checked. When something changes — a name confirmed, a crop corrected, a claim withdrawn — the page is updated and re-dated rather than silently edited.
If you can show us that something here is wrong, send it over. Evidence beats seniority; if your frame is better than our frame, your frame wins.
What we will not do
- publish a name we guessed
- use AI-generated imagery, or present a render as a screenshot
- fill a gap with plausible text because the page looks thin without it
- repeat a claim because other sites are repeating it
- state a release-window rumour as fact
Pages on this site are often shorter than the competition’s because of that last group. That is the trade, and we would make it again.