The GTA+ subscription plan is getting a new, surprising addition: A sports game from 2K. Is this a random corporate crossover or a sign of bigger plans for Rockstar’s subscription service?
Most of you reading this probably know, but GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games is owned by Take-Two Interactive, a large video game company that also owns Borderlands and sports game publisher 2K. If you simply follow Rockstar’s social accounts and play its games like Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Redemption 2, you might not really be aware of that fact. Rockstar Games usually stays mostly separated from its parent company and siblings. But on Thursday, this corporate structure was impossible to ignore as it was announced that NBA 2K26 was being added to the GTA+ subscription plan for a limited time.
On Thursday, Rockstar Games revealed that on March 10, NBA 2K26 would be added to the GTA+ Games Library on console for a “limited time.” It also comes with a bonus “content pack” that includes 5,000 VC, skill boosts, and more. NBA 2K26 isn’t sticking around for too long as it will leave the GTA+ library on April 20. If you want to keep the game past that, active GTA+ subscribers will get a 20-percent discount on NBA 2K26.
We’ve partnered with @NBA2K to bring the world-class basketball action of NBA 2K26 to the GTA+ Games Library on console for a limited time.
On Mar 10, Members on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S get access to the entire game + a special NBA 2K26 GTA+ Content Pack: https://t.co/IpJA597tnO pic.twitter.com/vhqS8PhR2R
— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) March 5, 2026
To further celebrate this odd bit of Rockstar corporate synergy, GTA+ subscribers will get some basketball-themed outfits in GTA Online as well.
Launched in 2022, GTA+ started life as a bonus monthly subscription plan for GTA Online members, offering free cash each month, more car storage, exclusive test drive options, increased XP, and other small services and bonuses. But starting in 2023, GTA+ expanded to offer members access to a library of Rockstar-developed and published games, including GTA 3, Vice City, Bully, LA Noire, and Red Dead Redemption. In 2024, the monthly price of GTA+ was raised from $6 to $8.
I’d suspect that GTA+ has been doing pretty well, and Take-Two sees an opportunity to take an already popular subscription service and expand it to include non-Rockstar Games published by other Take Two–owned companies. Perhaps it wants to more directly compete with what Ubisoft and EA offer? Or maybe this is just a one-off and a strange bit of corporate crossover. I’m not sure, but it is odd and not something I would have expected from the usually siloed-off Rockstar Games.