Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony is the second of two episodic expansion packs for the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was first released for the Xbox 360 on 29 October 2009 as a downloadable add-on for owners of Grand Theft Auto IV, and simultaneously on disc alongside Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned in the standalone compilation Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, which does not require the base game. Both the downloadable version and the compilation were released for PlayStation 3 and Windows on 13 April 2010 in North America, and on 16 April in PAL regions. Microsoft added the compilation to the Xbox One backward‑compatibility program in February 2017.

Set concurrently with the events of Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned, the game follows Luis Fernando Lopez, a Dominican‑American former drug dealer who now works as bodyguard and business partner to nightclub impresario Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince. The narrative centers on Luis’s efforts to help Tony survive drug abuse, mounting debt, conflicts with Mafia families, and repeated assassination attempts, while also concluding the trilogy's "diamond" subplot. The game received generally favorable reviews from critics, with particular praise for the depiction of its titular LGBT character.