GTA V

As we inch closer to the GTA V release date (September 17, for the fresh-from-the-coma fans) we're going to see an uptick in the GTA V spoilers being given to fans. There are currently a TON of new GTA V spoilers floating around the world wide web, including GTA V spoilers about the map reveal, the soundtrack and radio stations, dogs and other animals and, of course, the tantalizing mystery shed we saw in the gameplay trailer that came out on July 9. For a refresher, let's take a look at that GTA V gameplay trailer and feel that warm, fuzzy feeling from seeing a game that looks EPIC:

Mmmm ... delicious open world mayhem. Sept 17 can't get here fast enough. But, in the meantime, let's devour the GTA V spoilers feast that has been laid before us from the info in the gameplay trailer, interviews, screenshots and more.

GTA V Spoilers: The Mystery Shed

This isn't really THAT much of a spoiler, but it's enough of a GTA V spoiler for me to want to talk about it here. The Shed. I'm capitalizing the "S" in shed because The Shed is becoming important. Over on Reddit, where basically the whole internet happens, gamers have been going cray-cray over The Shed. In case you missed it, here's a pic of The Shed resting atop the enormous mountain in the above trailer

Uproxx put together a nice piece on The Shed and followed the Reddit frenzy rather nicely. Redditors speculated that The Shed is either full of parachutes, a ski lift stop or the storage unit for a jetpack. Among the funnier theories: The Shed is offering Edward Snowden asylum, it's the location of Half-Life 3 and it's the destination for the blimp.

The great thing about The Shed isn't what IS inside, it's what COULD be inside. GTA V is looking to be a MASSIVE game (more on its massive giganticness below) and The Shed has given thousands of gamers a Day One destination. I plan on trekking Skyrim-style to the tip of the mountain and trying to find out what's inside. No matter what it is I'll turn around, enjoy the breathtaking view, and then hurtle myself into a massive freefall that hopefully ends with me crushing a hooker. (the way every great freefall ends, right Eliot Spitzer? #greatreference)

So, why am I considering this a spoiler? Because it basically ruined (i.e. spoiled) any chance I have of organically enjoying my first few hours with the game. Flimsy definition of a GTA V spoiler? Sure. But it was a fun little detour, wasn't it?

Moving on!

GTA V Spoilers: Newest Map Reveal Shows Massive Giganticness

GTA V will be the biggest game Rockstar has ever produced. How big? Last year, Kotaku reported on how Rockstar was bragging that GTA V will be bigger than Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV and San Andreas COMBINED. They even ran an article with a helpful math book style graphic to give you a sense of what that scale means. But the helpful graphic from Kotaku has been outdone by the GTA V spoiler map reveals created by dedicated fans. The first map I came across in my months of following GTA V spoilers was this fan-made one that attempted to recreate the map by using screenshots and locations found in real life Los Angeles (the city Los Santos is based on).

Pretty nifty. Especially when you take a look at all the work that went into creating that early GTA V spoiler. But then fans stepped up their cartography game and decided to work on a map that showed the topographical layout of the GTA V world:

And NOW, another intrepid GTA V fan on Reddit has taken an updated version of the fan-made GTA V map and placed the GTA: San Andreas map over top of it to give gamers yet another visual representation for what's become common knowledge: GTA V IS F-KING HUUUUUGE!!!