Rejoice, friends and fans! “Grand Theft Auto V”, Rockstar’s mind-numbingly popular 2013 open-world game, whose online component sports hundreds of thousands of online players across the five systems it’s been released on, is finally getting new DLC that’s going to be adding the long-awaited casino features to both singleplayer and multiplayer… at least according to an article by The Inquisitr. The article cites a leak from Funmw2, a notable user from the GTA V community who has, repeatedly, leaked information about upcoming releases within the game, most of which have turned out to be absolutely correct. According to him, the casino DLC is going to add several new modes to both online and offline play, including slots, poker and blackjack, but interestingly excluding roulette, which, for the record, was included in the previous game to offer a casino – “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas”.

This is big news because, as some of you may know, while you can get money in the singleplayer easily through cheats or just through story progression (I myself saw the end credits with several million in my bank account and nothing to spend them on), in multiplayer it’s a lot harder, and Rockstar are actually giving players the option to purchase in-game currency with real money that they can spend on clothes, weapons, vehicles and even real estate within the game. The addition of casino games (which will function the same as they do in real life – you either win or you lose your bet) is surely going to shake up the in-game economy, making certain players rich and depriving others of their virtual savings. Still, best case scenario, gamblers everywhere are going to be able to play as much as they want and reap very real (well, virtual, but real within the game’s world) rewards. That’s a great middle ground between playing casino games for free and paying for the privilege.

While there’s no information on when the DLC is going to be released, chances are we’ll see it in the next few months, if Funmw2 is right on the money (he he). The first quarter of 2016 ends in early April, so it’s very likely that we’ll get to play casino games in our favorite virtual world before then.