GTA Online's new subscription service is surprisingly expensive

Rockstar Games is rolling out a new GTA Online membership program for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S players, offering exclusive bonuses, in-game cash, and extra rewards.

Titled GTA+, the subscription service will go live on March 29 and costs $5.99 a month, which is about £4.54 / AU$7.98. For that price, you’ll get access to a handful of rotating in-game bonuses, including vehicles, properties, liveries, upgrades, discounts, and GTA$500,000 (the game’s primary currency) in your character’s bank account each month.

For the first month, you can nab a car, a new property, a yacht upgrade, a bunch of bonuses, and more. Find the details of everything the first month of GTA+ includes below:

The rewards offered to subscribers will rotate each month. You’ll need to claim them through the GTA Online web browser before the month is up to permanently add them to your online profile.

Rockstar says the GTA+ benefits will be provided on top of regular GTA Online events, which will continue rolling out as normal.

Coming in at $5.99 a month, the rolling cost of GTA+ won't break the bank, but an annual subscription will set you back just under $72 / £54 / AU$95. That's not cheap.

The recently released PS5 and Xbox Series X editions of GTA Online usually cost around $19,99 / £17.99 / AU$ 30.95, although you can currently pick up these editions for just $9.99 / £8.99 / AU$ 15.47 thanks to a three-month, post-launch discount period. If you’ve played GTA 5’s multiplayer on PS4, you can also claim the PS5 version of GTA Online for free until June 14.

That means a 12-month subscription to this new premium service will cost more than triple the price of the base GTA Online game. Given it only includes additional in-game bonuses and perks, rather than fresh features, that's comparatively pretty expensive. GTA Online obsessives might lap it up but regular players will probably only dip in for a couple of months at a time.

This unbelievable Xiaomi camera phone feature will make you regret your iPhone

People often call iPhones the best camera phones out there. I don't necessarily agree, which is why the Galaxy S22 Ultra tops our rankings, but Apple's mobiles are definitely in the conversation. However, Xiaomi phones have one photography feature that's so cool, I can't stop using it.

It's called Sky, and it's an editing mode that you use for pictures you've already taken. Basically, the phone uses AI to work out what the sky looks like in the picture - and then it lets you choose between loads of different alternative skies that it edits in.

Some of these are general daytime ones, such as clear skies, different cloud formations and different weather effects - there are also twilight skies, with different sunsets and sunrises, and night-time skies with stars, cosmic bodies, the aurora borealis and more.

Not only does the phone change the sky in the image, but it also provides tweaks to the rest of the snap to fit with these edits - for example, if you're adding in an orange sunrise, the snap will be given a warm color hue to fit.

This feature is hard to explain, and when I'm telling people about it, I usually just have to show them - so let's do that right now.

The edit

Here's a picture I recently took on the Xiaomi 12 :

Admittedly it's not a great picture - I was trying to capture the blossom on the tree, but the brightness of the sky blew out the tree too harshly for it to look clear.

But it's a useful way to show the Sky mode - it has lots of sky area, but also a close subject (the tree), a medium background (the houses) as well as lots of gaps in the tree that could trip up a lesser AI tool.

Let's look at some samples

I love this feature

Sometimes camera phones have in-depth features for serious photographers. However, lots of us love to take pictures, but aren't interested in spending ages fiddling with things like the ISO, aperture and shutter speed.

Much of the time, taking a great photo isn't just about the hardware, but simply being in the right place at the right time - which is hard to do for most people who aren't professional photographers.

Lots of TechRadar's staff are based in photogenic locations like India, Scandinavia or the US. But if you're a phone tester based in an English metropolis, you rarely have the opportunity to take incredible photos.

Tools like this Xiaomi Sky mode are great for people who want to keep up a busy 'Gram presence without dedicating their whole lives to photography.

Plus, it's just fun to spin between the different modes and see how they look. These pictures are dramatic, stark, sometimes silly and sometimes stupid - but given how different they look from my normal snaps, it's exciting just to jump between them and try them out.

Ever since I first tried this feature on the Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro , I've loved using it in phones from the company, and miss it when we test devices from other brands.

This isn't the only mode that offers the ability to take incredible pictures - I've really enjoyed Samsung's Portrait mode, Oppo's microscope mode and Xiaomi's telemacro mode for taking pictures you wouldn't be able to on other devices.

Simply put, when photography modes are exclusive to certain brands, it makes them more interesting to test out, than if you can just run them on any old device. I recently tested the iPhone 13 Pro , and was shocked by how few fun or useful camera app modes there were.

Does it look fake?

Some of you may have found the above camera samples really impressive. Others are probably shaking their heads, muttering "no, they look terrible - so fake!".

For some of the pictures, I'd agree with you, and I didn't even include some of the goofier-looking ones (there's no way you're seeing the Milky Way that clearly!). Sure, they're mostly silly fun, and now and then they look bad.

But when the Sky mode works, it really works. How can we tell? Well, because the original camera sample we shared above - that's not the original image .

This is the actual original:

Yep, we pulled an ole' switcheroo. The first picture shared was actually captured using the Sunny sky mode, and we never really see skies that bright in the UK.

You had no reason to doubt me, and I'm sorry for lying to you, but I think it proves my point - some of the edited images are passable for genuine photographs.

This sunny mode dramatically brightens the shot, both the sky and the details in the trees and buildings. But if you pull it up in full screen compared to the real shot, you can see that the AI has made some mistakes - the ends of twigs have been cropped out, especially around the left building on the background trees, and the TV aerial on the central building has gone.

But even I only noticed this when putting both images on full screen next to each other, and wouldn't have been able to tell if I didn't know the twigs were meant to be there. If you're just sharing these snaps on social media, no-one's going to notice.

I'm not sure if the authenticity of the pictures is the most important thing if I have fun playing around with the mode anyway, but I'm constantly surprised by how genuine the snaps too. It's a fun - or scary - indication of how smart AI already is.

Moon Knight may kick off a mini MCU franchise, star says

Moon Knight star Ethan Hawke has teased the possibility that the Marvel show could spawn a miniseries of spin-off projects.

Speaking to IGN , Hawke – who plays the antagonistic Arthur Harrow in the upcoming Disney Plus show – hinted that Moon Knight may follow Iron Man's lead in setting up future Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) productions.

Starring Oscar Isaac as the titular superhero, Moon Knight is being positioned as a six-episode series that has no ties to previous Marvel projects. However, Hawke suggested that Moon Knight could be the catalyst for other superhero movies and TV shows – like Iron Man was – if it resonates with audiences.

Asked if Moon Knight is a truly standalone story or not, Hawke responded: "The good news is that it’s possibly both. It lives and breathes on its own merits, it functions as a limited series – and if people are engaged and excited by it then it could be the origin story of a larger thing."

Right now, we don't know if Moon Knight will actually tie into Marvel productions that precede it. This is the first time, though, that anyone associated with the TV series has suggested that we may be in line for more Moon Knight-esque offerings in the future.

What we do know is that Moon Knight will premiere on Disney Plus on Wednesday, March 30. Subsequent episodes will release weekly after that point, too.

Analysis: what Moon Knight spin-offs could be in development?

Hawke may be the first individual to officially suggest that Moon Knight could spawn a small-scale supernatural universe as part of Marvel's Phase 4 plans. However, some fans will already know that one such Moon Knight spin-off is already in the works.

According to multiple outlets, including The Wrap and The Cosmic Circus , Marvel Studios is developing a Disney Plus Halloween special, which is based on its Werewolf by Night property. The one-off special, which is reportedly being directed by The Batman and Spider-Man: No Way Home composer Michael Giacchino, is tied to Moon Knight.

Well, in the comics at least. The duo clashed in Moon Knight's first comic book appearance in August 1975 so, putting two and two together, Moon Knight's live-action debut could sow the seeds for Werewolf's MCU arrival. Gael García Bernal has reportedly been cast as the titular lycan (per The Wrap ), with production rumored to be underway ahead of an October 2022 release on Disney Plus.

That project, then, seems to be moving forward – but what other MCU projects could Moon Knight be leading towards?

One of the more obvious ones is a Midnight Sons movie. In the comics, this superhero group specifically tackles supernatural threats, which is a corner of the MCU that Moon Knight's TV show is very much set in. Marc Spector/Steven Grant's superpowered alias has been part of the Midnight Sons' roster, as have the likes of Doctor Strange and Blade. The latter of those is getting his own standalone movie sometime in 2023, while the MCU's version of Doctor Strange could certainly be of use to the team following his multiverse exploits in May 2022 . Add in Kit Harington's Black Knight from Eternals , and you've already got the makings of a top-tier Midnight Sons line up.

And what about a live-action version of Marvel Knights? This unnamed superhero group has comprised characters such as Moon Knight, Daredevil, and Shang-Chi in the past. The last of that number is already established in the MCU, while the Man Without Fear is said to be getting his own Disney Plus show (per Production Weekly ) following his cameo role in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Daredevil's supposed reboot is coming off the heels of Daredevil's Netflix series – and other Netflix Marvel shows – migrating to Disney Plus on March 16 . None of those TV series are available to stream in 4K yet but, much like a potential Daredevil/Moon Knight team up, watch this space.

For more Marvel-based content, check out how to watch the Marvel movies in order . And be sure to check back with TechRadar leading up to Moon Knight's release for more on the show, including our spoiler-free review and exclusive interview coverage.

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