2022

Events concerning the Grand Theft Auto series in 2022.

Real World Events

• Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition was scheduled to be released for Apple iOS and Android in the first half of the year, before being rescheduled to release before April 2023.
• The Patriot Mil-Spec Week event ran from December 30, 2021, to January 5, 2022, in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Comet S2 Cabrio Week event ran from January 6 to January 12 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Double Down Week event ran from January 13 to January 19 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The I-Wagen Week event ran from January 20 to January 26 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Granger 3600LX Week event ran from January 27 to February 2 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Reever Week event ran from February 3 to February 9 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• February 4: Grand Theft Auto VI is confirmed to be under development by Rockstar Games, and soon to be announced on Rockstar Newswire.
• The Valentine's Day 2022 event ran from February 10 to February 16 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• February 11: The physical version of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch is released.
• The Imani Tech Week event ran from February 17 to February 23 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (February 2022) event ran from February 24 to March 3 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (March 2022 Part 1) event ran from March 3 to March 9 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (March 2022 Part 2) event ran from March 10 to March 23 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• March 15: The Expanded & Enhanced editions of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online are released on the new generation consoles.
  • The standalone version of Grand Theft Auto Online is released, available for free exclusively on PlayStation 5 through to June 14, 2022, and at a discounted price for Xbox Series X|S players through to June 14, 2022.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (March 2022 Part 3) event ran from March 24 to March 30 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• March 25: The GTA+ subscription service for Grand Theft Auto Online is announced on the Rockstar Newswire.
• March 29: GTA+ launches exclusively for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of GTA Online. It is priced at $5.99 a month.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (March 2022 Part 4) event ran from March 31 to April 6 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (April 2022 Part 1) event ran from April 7 to April 13 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• April 12: The physical versions of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S are released.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (April 2022 Part 2) event ran from April 14 to April 20 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (April 2022 Part 3) event ran from April 21 to April 27 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (April 2022 Part 4) event ran from April 28 to May 4 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (May 2022 Part 1) event ran from May 5 to May 11 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (May 2022 Part 2) event ran from May 12 to May 18 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (May 2022 Part 3) event ran from May 19 to May 25 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• May 26: Ray Liotta passed away from respiratory and heart failure.
• The Vespucci Job (Remix) Week event ran from May 26 to June 1 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (June 2022) event ran from June 2 to June 8 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Dewbauchee and Överflöd Spotlight Week event ran from June 9 to June 15 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Import/Export Bonuses Week event ran from June 16 to June 22 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Los Santos Tuners Bonuses Week event ran from June 23 to June 29 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Independence Day 2022 event ran from June 30 to July 6 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (July 2022) event ran from July 7 to July 25 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• July 26: The Criminal Enterprises update for Grand Theft Auto Online is released.
• The SM722 Week event ran from August 4 to August 10 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Cayo Perico Series Week event ran from August 11 to August 17 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Ruiner ZZ-8 Week event ran from August 18 to August 24 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Brioso 300 Widebody Week event ran from August 25 to August 31 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Vigero ZX Week event ran from September 1 to September 7 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Nightclub Bonuses Week event ran from September 8 to September 14 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Community Series Week event ran from September 15 to September 21 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• September 18: Over 90 development videos of Grand Theft Auto VI were leaked online.
• The Kanjo SJ and Postlude Week event ran from September 22 to September 28 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Junk Energy Skydives Week event ran from September 29 to October 5 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Halloween 2022 (Week 1) event ran from October 6 to October 12 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Halloween 2022 (Week 2) event ran from October 13 to October 19 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Halloween 2022 (Week 3) event ran from October 20 to October 26 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Halloween 2022 (Week 4) event ran from October 27 to November 2 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Heists Event (Week 1) event ran from November 3 to November 9 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Heists Event (Week 2) event ran from November 10 to November 16 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Heists Event (Week 3) event ran from November 17 to November 21 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Heist Challenge 2022 event ran from November 22 to November 30 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• November 28: The Grand Theft Auto franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (December 2022 Part 1) event ran from December 1 to December 7 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The GTA Online Bonuses (December 2022 Part 2) event ran from December 8 to December 12 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• December 13: The Los Santos Drug Wars update for Grand Theft Auto Online is released.
• The Festive Surprise 2022 event ran from December 22 to December 28 in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• The Powersurge Week event ran from December 29 to January 4, 2023, in Grand Theft Auto Online.

Game World

HD Universe

• The events of The Contract update for Grand Theft Auto Online still take place.
  • January 22: Dr. Dre's previously stolen songs are officially released. All 6 songs are broadcast by Radio Los Santos.
• The events of the Expanded and Enhanced version's exclusive Career Builder introduction for Grand Theft Auto Online take place.
  • March 15: Hao's Special Works is established in Los Santos.
  • The GTA Online Protagonist is released from prison after being arrested during a failed heist and all of their assets seized by the LSPD. However, the protagonist managed to hide away $4,000,000, and they entrusted Lamar Davis with that money to help rebuild their career, either becoming an Executive, a Gunrunner, a Nightclub Owner or a Biker once again.
  • The GTA Online Protagonist kills a few Ballas gang members in Davis for Lamar Davis.
  • Hao contacts the GTA Online Protagonist to promote Hao's Special Works.
• The events of The Criminal Enterprises update for Grand Theft Auto Online take place.
  • An unexpected ferocious heatwave is gripping the state of San Andreas, breaking records for the hottest temperature since the previous summer.
  • Gasoline prices have been heavily increased, leading the IAA to suspect the corrupt Duggan petrochemical family are rigging the system in their favor.
  • The events of the Operation Paper Trail mission series take place.
    • Agent ULP hires the GTA Online Protagonist as a sworn-in IAA special agent for the "Operation Paper Trail" to investigate the Duggan Crime Family.
    • The Duggan family sets up a deal with the FIB in exchange for their collection of seized assets (backup drives containing part of Cliffford neural network tech), as part of their strategy to keep profits high.
    • The FIB Headquarters is raided by the GTA Online Protagonist, sending the agency into a full-scaled crisis mode.
    • The FIB surveillance drones are hacked by the GTA Online Protagonist, who traces the operator to a motel in Downtown Vinewood.
    • The FIB captures the GTA Online Protagonist and locks them in an unmarked IAA vehicle with a time bomb in order to disposed of them while also making it look like a failed IAA field operation. The GTA Online Protagonist defuses the bomb and delivers the bomb to the IAA as evidence to incriminate the corrupt FIB agents.
    • IAA Undercover Agent Johnson is captured by the Duggan family.
    • Agent Johnson is rescued by the GTA Online Protagonist.
    • The Duggan family attempts to move their hardware to a safe location. They are traced down by the GTA Online Protagonist, and their hardware is seized by the IAA.
    • IAA's investigation of the seized hardware confirms that the Duggans have been buying backup drives of disused Cliffford neural network from the FIB to control the gas prices.
    • Mason Duggan is killed by the GTA Online Protagonist, and Cliffford backup drives are confiscated by the IAA.
    • Remaining Cliffford data remnants are seized by the IAA from Avon Hertz's abandoned silo in Mount Chiliad.
    • The GTA Online Protagonist's relation with the IAA ends, as their status as an special field operative is placed on indefinite hold by Agent ULP.
  • The GTA Online Protagonist becomes affiliated with Ammu-Nation as a weapons supplier through their Gunrunning business.
  • Lupe and other four unnamed people begin working at the GTA Online Protagonist's Warehouse.
  • August 4th: Luxury Autos reopens.
  • August 11th: A dead body of a treasure hunter, carrying a Metal Detector and a Cayo Perico map, appeared in Los Santos at a random location.
  • Juan Strickler's compound in Cayo Perico is still getting occassionally robbed by the GTA Online Protagonist and Pavel.
  • Buried Stashes could be found on Cayo Perico by the GTA Online Protagonist by using a Metal Detector while scoping for The Cayo Perico Heist.
  • A delivery of exotic cannabis buds from Liberty City went missing. 100 bags of LD Organics product are strewn about the greater Los Santos area.
  • JUNK started a high altitude skydiving project in Southern San Andreas to promote their energy drink brand.
  • Unidentified flying objects were spotted by locals flying over certain locations around Southern San Andreas, eventually revealed to be Merryweather Security drones.
  • Omega acquires photographic "evidence" for the existence of extraterrestrial life.
  • Local residents of Southern San Andreas have reported being chased and terrorized by a rogue Apocalypse Cerberus truck.
  • A doppelgänger of the GTA Online Protagonist is spotted around Southern San Andreas.
• The events of the Los Santos Drug Wars update for Grand Theft Auto Online take place.
  • The Fooliganz take over Trevor Philips Enterprises' former turf in Sandy Shores almost a decade after Trevor Philips went away with his Union Depository heist earnings.
  • The Fooliganz start a major gang war between The Lost MC in Blaine County.
  • The events of the First Dose mission strand take place.
    • Dax's Journey II is stolen by The Lost MC and retrieved shortly after by the GTA Online Protagonist.
    • The Freakshop is established in Mirror Park, Los Santos.
    • The Lost's weed supply is stolen by the GTA Online Protagonist from their clubhouse in East Vinewood.
    • Stab City is attacked by the GTA Online Protagonist under orders of Dax, and all of their vehicles, weapon supplies and tankers are destroyed.
    • The Lost meth supply is stolen by the GTA Online Protagonist from their underground drug lab in Millar's Fishery.
    • The GTA Online Protagonist passes the Fooligan initiation test and officially joins the gang as "Freshmeat".
    • The GTA Online Protagonist destroys the Hippies' acid lab equipment and delivery vans.
    • Blacklisted chemicals are stolen by the GTA Online Protagonist from the Humane Labs and Research facility for Labrat.
    • A Brickade 6x6 is stolen by the GTA Online Protagonist from Merryweather.
    • The stolen Brickade 6x6 is turned into a mobile acid lab by Mutt and the GTA Online Protagonist.
  • Three bank robbers are killed in a shootout on top of the Weazel Plaza building.