These Grand Theft Auto screenshots are fake!

The Sprunk sign is classic GTA, making this one of the more faithful fakes. Look closer and you can see the mail truck is run by a company called She Mail. Nice.

We're just getting silly now - is there anyone, anywhere, who'd be fooled by this?

This is one of our favourites, as it's clearly been made by someone cunning enough to realise two things - a) a fake is so much more believeable if it's just blurry enough so you can't actually see any detail, and b) explosions are always convincing.

Some people fake action, but one forumite over atGTA-Worldmodsfaked GTA IV's whole map. Which, inevitably, led toknee-jerk postsfrom gamers dismayed that Rockstar's latest crimeathon might be set in a location smaller than the tri-city area of San Andreas. Sigh.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.