Thankfully, the worst part of the wait seemed to be over as more info about Grand Theft Auto 6 started to drop pretty quickly soon after. While a few more leaks and rumors would arise in the next two years, it wasn't until February 2022 that Rockstar sent out a press release announcing that development on the next GTA game was “well underway.” A decade’s worth of smoke had finally led to a very real fire, and we had official confirmation from the studio. The report also mentioned a possible decrease in scope to help alleviate crunch, with larger title and map updates to be released at a future date. While this report was primarily focused on Rockstar’s workplace culture, it mentioned that the next GTA game was “early in development," something confirmed to IGN by an anonymous source close to Rockstar Games. But we first heard reliably that GTA 6 was in development from a 2020 Kotaku report, published only a few short months after the departure of Dan Houser from the studio. That simmering turned into a slow boil when co-founder of Rockstar Games and brother to Sam, Dan Houser, spoke about the difficulty of satirizing the then-present day, stranger-than-fiction landscape: “ really unclear what we would even do with, let alone how upset people would get with whatever we did.”ĭan Houser’s (probably very honest) deflections aside, with the abundance of rumors and insider reports, it’s safe to assume some version of GTA 6 was always in at least pre-production at Rockstar since the release of Grand Theft Auto V. Between hypothetical comments from the newly-departed former president of Rockstar North, Leslie Benzies, in interviews with Digital Trends in 2012, and a TechRadar report in 2016 claiming that GTA 6 was in development, there’s been a quiet simmering of GTA 6 rumors in the background ever since the launch of Grand Theft Auto V. While we didn’t get any concrete details about GTA 6 until a report from Kotaku in 2020, there have been murmurings about GTA 6 for over a decade - before GTA 5 was even released. All for an announcement of an announcement.īut how did hype for the next entry in the vaunted series reach such a fever pitch? Let’s take a look at everything we know about Grand Theft Auto 6. Another saw a picture of a penis appear.In just a few hours, the tweet had nearly a hundred million views, almost five hundred thousand retweets, and over one million likes. The prosecutor described “hallmarks” of the teenage hack as “automated words ‘f**k me daddy’ to appear on websites. Kevin Barry, Prosecutor via The Daily Mail Life savings taken, sometimes amounting to tens of thousands of pounds… These were real-world losses suffered by individuals. The consequences of that fraud were that they found their lives turned upside down, accounts ransacked and drained. Customers had their data stolen and had their sims swapped and used by criminals including, the prosecution say, the defendants. There is no suggestion that these were victimless crimes – quite the opposite is the case. Joe Tidy of the BBC said that the majority of the time today was spent discussing the “mental wellbeing and debating how much harm to people and businesses” Arion Kurtaj had caused. The reason behind this is “there was no serious harm” in doing the GTA VI hack and it is “insignificant compared to the game’s overall anticipation/production.” Kurtaj’s legal representatives requested the judge to be lenient. That determination is undimmed by spending time in custody over the last year. Mr Kurtaj is determined to commit further offences if he gets the opportunity to do so. He published some of the stolen footage taken during the hack on online forums and blackmailed Rockstar Games that he would release the precious source code which forms the building blocks of the game unless they contacted him – presumably to discuss ransom payment. This material was highly confidential as the game is a billion-dollar franchise and the latest instalment is hotly anticipated. The Daily Mail have also reported statements made by Prosecutor Kevin Barry regarding the GTA VI leak.
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